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Dark Side challenges you!

Sunday, 12 October 08, 07:40 PM

Yes you, you lazy git! And the challenge is simple. Find us a player from any league who has a more ridiculous middle name than Kevin Cyril Davies.

You think that was easy? Try these out for size. Found whilst browsing the programme from the England game yesterday (thanks again Dot2Dot, your leather-clad, airplane-like chauffered minibus saved me having to mix with the proles on public transport) these are 5 of the hardest posers I've ever come across (except number 4, I got that before I'd finished reading the question). Get your mates in on this, you'll need them.

1. Four Englishmen currently playing in the Premier League have been transferred for at least £7m, but have not (to date) played for England's senior side. Name them.

2. Who are the two Englands players since 1995 whose surnames begin and end with the same letter?

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Kazakhstan Slade by England

Sunday, 12 October 08, 11:07 AM

Fuck, England are shit... I mean, they shouldn't be, but are.

Nevertheless, a change to 4-4-2 and everything falls into place, why we fiddle about with anything other than this is a mystery beyond even the pesky kids who hang about with Scooby-Doo. But, let it be said, even when stuck in the quagmire of faffing about in the middle of the park with the urgency of a tramp seeking a shower little Theo shone. 

It pains me to say it (Spurs fan) and to be perfectly honest, the guy looked like he couldn't finish his dinner, he was the only man throughout the horror show of indifference that was the first half who played with a swagger. You see it's one thing to respect your opponents, it's a whole other thing to let them make you look like cluesless twats. It's Kazakhstan boys, fucking pile over them, tread them into the fucking turf, they ain't good enough to be on the same fucking pitch. Be arrogant, be pacey,...

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Man United 3 - Others 3 (England 5 Kazakhstan 1)

Saturday, 11 October 08, 11:08 PM

...and it might have been 4-2, if Wayne had put his nut on that OG.

Anyway, some thoughts from Wem-ber-ley. Frank Lampard isn't actually fat. Shocking I know. Shaun Wright-Phillips (anyone found calling him SWP should be summarily shot in the nuts/boobs) IS small. Amazingly so. He is a tiny man. David James clearly spent some of the match thinking about his next hairstyle, usually when the ball was in his area. 

So the nice chaps from Dot2Dot took us there in some style (think leather seats, WiFi [allegedly] and a chatty driver who knew a bit about football) and it was all very nice, especially sitting in the traffic on the way out through the industrial estate. The first half was utter drivel and shall be wiped forever more from my memory. Picked up a bit in the 2nd, couple of goals, a gaffe from 'Gash'ley Cole (which earned him boos from the majority of...

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Dark Side does Wembley

Saturday, 11 October 08, 01:05 PM

In a radical departure from our usual rant at all things Dark, today we're being grown up. It appears that someone has actually taken notice of the stuff we spout and thought we were worth schmoozing. Thus it is that Dark Side of the Ball is today going to Wembley, courtesy of Dot 2 Dot (National Express's door to door minibus service). Getting free tickets to see England woop comprehensively beat play Kazakhstan, chauffered to and from Wembley, wined and dined (?) all for writing this shizzle. Excellent.

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