Lets play some football. The five-a-side pitch near the press office. 12:00 on Saturday afternoon.
Assemble a team of five, and come down. Stragglers can turn up and get put into teams.
Bonus points for getting someone famous in your team*!
Who wants to play? And who wants to be on my team? Good players only please, I'm amazing.
*no actual bonus points will be awarded, just social kudos.
^ Fantastic idea
cept I will be out of breath after 5mins of startaling football :(
Being startled by football's does also get your adrenalin up.
They'll counter each other.
are the likes of guntrip, klaire and yes_ considered famous?
given their enormous DiS post counts.
they should form a team together
The people who are going off here with the five biggest post counts.
lol
i have a feeling the aforementioned three don't play soccerball much...
but still, wouldn't that be a great spectacle?
It would be like The Hurricanes!
they have
the champion spirit
...
And a cartoon-like negative goal difference.
Possibly...my mates will be up for some no doubt.
I'm more of a goalie myself.
I plan to be trashed on Friday night
Football just sounds like unneccessary pain.
your choice!
i doubt
i'll even be out of bed, or rather crappy sofabed knowing my luck.
i'm crap anyway so will probably just watch if i am up and about.
^this
^ yep
come on
I know its Sunday, but there must be more people up for this?
Most people going post from the office :)
dont worry they will see it
office weekender!
Can I be a mascot?
considering how TERRIBLE I am at football
* goalkeeper
fuck no
thats like the most brutal position. If you want me to run in the opposite direction to the ball then fiiiine!
the most brutal position
is probably standing off the pitch, not paying attention to wildly sliced shots.
the amount of times last time we played
that we had to play cow gauntlet going to retreive the ball from the adjacent field...
now THAT sounds fun!
you're hired
don't forget your matador's cape.
Did Matador Records ever market a cape?
Not as far as I'm aware..
quick! Patent the idea and sell it to them!
main page bump!
maybe
if i'm not too hungover
I'm a
I'm a 6/10 player. would up for some though.
Im like that really odd player on Football Manager
that will get a series of 3's - 5's and then suddenly get an 8 or 9 for 2 games, then repeat.
My football skills probably rank about 1/10
But sure!
Yes please
Sounds like a great idea. i am like a young Maradona
I don't think I'll be in any condition to be playing football,
but I'll stand at the side drinking lucozade and shouting stuff.
Yes
Yes and yes
^ Our chalet have pretty much already got this title won.
^^^ THIS
with your finishing?
pfff
are you even going?
I'm going to the good ATP
I just want everyone to know the truth
i'll bring my boots
:)
I wish I was going to ATP
I love nothing more than football. I am cultured and classy like Phillipe Cocu.
does anyone have a good ball?
I only have a £2.98 Sports Soccer umbro.
And it sucks!
cant get any curl out of it mannn
now people are back at work (supposedly)
start replying to this with enthusiasm! Or have you all taken the week off?
I SAID
OUR CHALET HAVE PRETTY MUCH ALREADY GOT THIS TITLE WON.
No chance son
You will need to stop me first
William Hill says:
NO
Our team will play the most attractive football. Even Timmy Pontins will leave his office to come and witness a performance full of puissance and panache.
just you wait
i'm teaming up with an ex-DiSer who is bringing along a couple of ringers.
We're going to harang Tim Harrington into going in goal.
I doubt anyone will get near us!
Pssshaw
I havent got a team :( we'll just hide Dans football boots/throw them out of the car on the way there.
actually make it Dan singular
and remove boots :P
i'm actually getting a lift off someone else now!
Liam was being a bit ropey about room so I found another lift. I'm still alright for chalet though yeah?
You should reprise your goalkeeping antics for us - you are like a young Bruce Grobbelaar.
Sounds fun dude, might have to lol
Yea u can still crash in our challet man
^^^ THIS
A strict diet of buckfast
shall see me conquer.
Dan, what do you look like? i want to break your legs
i look like tim harrington!
and will be in goal. Definitely break the legs of the guy that looks like Tim Harrington. I look exactly like him.
I'm still laughing
I mean there's pre match banter, and there's pre match banter.
There's also pre match banter.
You're laughing because
you saw my one-minute hat-trick, which was genuinely brilliant, and thus you know I will CONQUER ALL.
this actually is true
but would have been useless without my pseudo dribble and megs on the keeper to win the damn thing.
I'm well up for this.
^ the only person
anywhere near skilful enough to topple me from my rightful position as Player Of The Tournament.
Settle, petal....
i hope you find it comfy in my back pocket x
:D Haha
Good luck even finding your back pocket. You'll be spending so much time on your arse as I run rings around you that you won't be able to get to it.
there are no back pockets on football shorts
or are you bunch of amateurs gonna be playing in your jeans and loafers?
I could play in a body bag and still beat you.
this has to happen!
Sleeping bag footie tournoi!
I would imagine there would be a few folk cutting about like that
It is a festival populated by a fair few pale, beardy, pretentious folk.
I will be the 7 foot, ginger, tattooed monster with a bottle of buckfast and a sign saying 'whos is Dan_thw?'
oh and shorts with a large back pocket
so YOU are actually Tim Harrington!
go in goal for us?
i will be goalie
can i wear a dress? don't be afraid to kick the ball hard but bear in mind i have no concept of "don't be violent" and will run after you throwing ninja stars at you if you hurt me.
I'm going to do Roberto Carlos run ups
for penalties against you.
*robert rosario
who's bringing the ball?
Mine's a shit Umbro Sports Soccer £2.98. But I spent 10 mins bouncing and feeling up every ball in the big basket, so its the best of a bad bunch.
Sport Soccer balls <3
reminds me of my youth
Oh and also
This will be starting at 12:00 midday on Saturday.
I guess lots of people will be hungover or still in bed. These people are quite at liberty to do this. But they might just miss something incredible (first and foremost, my skills).
Not sure how I'm gonna work it as there will be too many people for just a game. I guess some kind of off the cuffly organised league where everyone plays each other and then something else or something.
I dunno, lets just play some awesome football!