WessexPest

Because we ****ing hate them. Whether they are one division below us, in the same league or playing on the Downs is neither here nor there - I’ve never understood this notion. That your hatred for your rivals waxes and wanes based on comparative fortunes. Things can change very quickly in football. I take enormous pleasure in seeing them lose - their fans are holier-than-thou delusional w@nk3r5, their manager is an absolute coldsore of a human being and they are just generally all around a truly objectionable club. Capiche? EDIT: No sane City fan would describe us as anything approaching “massive”.

Love seeing that putrid excuse for a club in turmoil. Hope they go down. Hudson’s pre-match comments suggested he didn’t exactly see this coming; “I assume the hood at FT were for the officials”. ?

That’s disgusting. Bristol Rovers are the Rent Boys. We trademarked that moniker in the 1990s.

“The Beautiful Game” ?

Buy us a tin of Skoal Bandit, Pete and I’ll see you right on payday. Cheers!

Hopefully that’s dealt a mortal blow to the Gas w@nks’ playoff pretensions.

Yes, they were also glad to get papped out of the FA Trophy at the first hurdle in 2014 because it was full of tinpot teams…

Yes, I’m sure the “boycott” would have been magically forgotten if they’d reached Wembley, the bunch of throbbers. Their league attendances are only four figures anyway so it isn’t much of a boycott. More broadly, it’s plain to see this EFL Trophy boycott hasn’t worked - crowds were always tiny up until the final unless there was a derby pairing and in the U21 participation era we saw a record crowd for the final in Pompey v Sunderland (Take note, Gastards, two teams who know how to fill Wembley). I’m just glad we won it three times before it turned into this travesty of a competition and hoping against hope we don’t become eligible for it again any time soon!

Quelle domage; 2-0 to the Greens, so no big Wembley Sunday out for the Rent Boys. Are we still allowed to call the Rent Boys rent boys after the kerfuffle with Man U fans and Lampard? Okay; sorry for calling you rent boys, Rent Boys. I won’t call you rent boys again, Rent Boys. Rent. Boys.

Plus, the clothes would come out of her laundrette reeking of cigarette smoke, not covered in chewing tobacco. Congrats on your news, BTW! ???

Rovers’ kit woman at Santa’s Grotto yesterday.

@Peter O Hanraha-hanrahanMy dad’s side of the family are all Grecians, and while they are all obviously pretty happy that they won 4-3 after throwing away a two goal lead it’s abundantly clear they don’t regard a win over the Rent Boys as anything remotely special.

Much better fans too.

Exactly - Exeter go to Ipswich in the New Year on League business for the first time since the 1950s. Ipswich, who have domestic and European honours to their name and a very nice stadium. Not the ramshackle p*sspoorial mound with its Punch and Judy pavilions and a team that got papped out of the FA Trophy in the first round. Roasters.

I told that joke to Belshaw but it went right over his head.

Everyone’s cup final…

YESSS! UTGrecians! ?

Yes, we could end up with unscrupulous buyers - if that meant success no one would care. Of course things could get worse, I’m not blind to that. But better under the current regime? Slim to no chance.

Yes, I realise there aren’t exactly a busload of wealthy buyers at hand but the Lansdown family have engineered a slow and steady malaise of our club while making some boneheaded managerial appointments. Yes, Pearson’s time is up - I don’t know what I expected from him but after two years at the helm it was certainly more than this rancid cheesewater - but why would you trust the morons at the head of our club who couldn’t organise their s*** into the pan to get it right next time? The whole rotten lot needs to go. Short term there’s no outcome other than League One football. Unacceptable but sadly the reality.

Bordering on SOD or Pulis, these remarks. Pearson’s a dead man walking. Sally forth and take the helmets who run our club with you. League One incoming.

Get rid. But, until Lansdown finds a buyer nothing is likely to get better.

It would be massively unpopular and would probably have the opposite effect to uniting the UK. Witness the outcry when a Team GB was cobbled together just for football at the Olympics. I was delighted when they lost to South Korea. The four constituent countries of the UK have been moving apart since the advent of devolution, and there’s no bunging that toothpaste back in the tube now. Forcing a combined football team to compete in WCs and the Euros would be plain daft, an outrage to the vast majority of us and thankfully, will never, ever come to pass. On a separate note, we wave goodbye this week to the tense final group matchday where four teams simultaneously decide their fate (and each others’). The 48-team World Cup means teams will contrive results - those of us old enough remember the “Disgrace of Gijon” in 82. 32 teams is optimal for the tournament - not only do exactly half of teams get eliminated at every stage of the competition, but it’s pretty obvious when you get to that number you’re starting to see teams of very dubious quality. There will be a lot of dross in 2026, but you know how FIFA operate - if ain’t broke, pour some petrol on it and light a match.

Thanks for i. The Laugh ii. Reminding me why I wholeheartedly embrace my baldness.

Sort of. Everyone in Great Britain is of mixed genetic stock, though. The Welsh didnt sprout out of the ground from the Rhonda and were “comeovers” themselves albeit earlier (I think from Azerbaijan). The Scotti hopped over from the Emerald Isle and absorbed the Picts. The “native” population of the island is a blend of Romano-British, Saxon, Angle, Norman, Jute, Viking.

Indeed. Centuries of being a nation. Unlike Italy and Germany which are relatively very recent constructs.