[Macros]

Pish for me

[Tiste Simeon]

Good first UCL game for us. I know it's only The Young Boys, but 3-0 is what a team like United SHOULD be getting against teams like that.

Also, City lost so it was a jolly good evening all told!

[Macros]

City fucked me accumulator again

[Malankazooie]

Liverpool hosts Man. City this Sunday. Both undefeated. I have City taking it 3 to 1. What do you soccer heads think will be the result?

Here's something for a few laughs. Hopefully it isn't blocked regionally.

[Tiste Simeon]

Honestly wasn't sure Mourinho would still be our manager after that game. Getting the three points probably saved him...

[Tsundoku]

I thought this was the case when I saw the first headline but it's been confirmed:

https://www.news.com...b8a9dcc4bf54dd9

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah that's pretty horrible. I can't help wondering if the outpouring of love would be quite so magnanimous of it had been someone like the Glazers or Mike Ashley had died. This guy was a very popular guy who obviously lived his club, the players and the fans and didn't just see it as a cash cow.

[Malankazooie]

Arsenal vs. Liverpool : 1-1 draw. My brother (being an Arsenal fan) will be chuffed about that.

My lads (Tottenham) got a w against Wolverhampton. I'm chuffed about that.

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Man U. face Juve in Champions League action on Wednesday. Should be a donnybrook

[Malankazooie]

Hate on Ronaldo all you want, that goal was pure fire. It takes a level of skill and athleticism to do that. Very few players (past or present) could have done that.



But, where my Man. U fanatics at?! You got the dub. You should be celebratin'.

I thought one of the Juvey players was going to outright haul off and punch Mourinho in his smug face.

[Tiste Simeon]

I think we're in shock at actually winning in a week where Liverpool lost haha

[Malankazooie]

Your lads play Manchester City this Sunday in Premier League action. It's a 'derby'. What precicely is a 'derby'? It doesn't just apply to cross town rivals, does it? Because I've seen the term 'derby' used for other matches.

[Tiste Simeon]

Most generally it means teams from the same locality. So Manchester United and City or Liverpool and Everton. But I guess it gets used for traditional rivalries from a similar region for example Nottingham Forest and Derby or Blackburn Rovers and Burnley - you might hear a "North West Derby" or something

[Malankazooie]

Well, I guess this year's campaign City are the kings of Manchester (put a 3-1 spanking on United). You Man. U. fans pissed or what?

Another question about 'derby'. How come it's pronounced like the house elf from HP (Dobby) and not like Derby - i.e. Kentucky Derby (or dirt + bee; minus the t sound in dirt)?

[Tsundoku]

Try 'Darby', or even better 'dAHHbee' - one word, accent on the 'ahh' and no 'r' sound. Definitely not 'Da Bee'.

As to why it is pronounced like that - NFI. Yet another delightful idiosyncrasy of English.

A quick Google tells me it's because the lower-class affectation became the norm. Heh, there you go.

https://english.stac...rd-derby-evolve

https://www.glossophilia.org/?p=8944

[Gorefest]

Really? I assumed it was called Derby (dAr-bee) after the town of Derby. Which is why you pronounce it Derby. Cuz, you know, that's what the town is called. Derby, in Derbyshire (DAR-Beee-Shuhr), UK.

This post has been edited by Gorefest: 12 November 2018 - 12:31 PM

[Malankazooie]

huh, I'll be damned. So must be a British thing. Just seems odd to pronounce it that way, to me anyway. Especially since the spelling (in my mind) leaves no room for variation.

But I guess it's sorta like - uh-loom-uh-nym vs. al-loo-mini-m. Or sked-jool vs. shhhed-jewl.

Odd chaps and birds the British are.

[Gorefest]

Leicester - Lester
Worchester - Wuster
Mousehole - Mowzuhl
Gloucester - Glosster
Reading - Redding
Greenwich - Grennitch

Logic doesn't come into it. Also, it is of course aluminium. Not aluminum. Alumin-i-um. Which is what the whole world apart from the USA calls it. Because that is the correct name of the element. Just so you know.

This post has been edited by Gorefest: 12 November 2018 - 09:08 PM

[Malankazooie]

[polishgenius]

Gorefest, on 12 November 2018 - 09:04 PM, said:

Leicester - Lester
Worchester - Wuster
Mousehole - Mowzuhl
Gloucester - Glosster
Reading - Redding
Greenwich - Grennitch

The ending of Middlesbrough, Peterborough and Edinburgh are pronounced exactly the same, and it's 'bruh'.


Also, Loughborough- Luffbruh.

[Gorefest]

Damnit!! I really hoped this day wouldn't come. An actual competitive match for a real prize between the Netherlands and England. Nation's League semi-final. Now I'll have to pressure my wife into betraying her homeland. Urgh.