The Greatest of Pretend HonoUrs – Lesser Sabado Open Thread

King Hippo - January 23, 2021January 22, 2021

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In the Pretend Year of Our LAWD 2081, I achieved the crowning achievement of my life (Pretend or otherwise). Ground is breaking on 140,000 seat Bernard Gilkey Park. That's right, second new stadium of my long Pretend Man City tenure, and they's naming it after ME. Hey, at least now I can't

Kicking Off the Strangest FA Cup and Wild Card 1 of 6 Bitches! Combo Thread

King Hippo - January 9, 2021January 8, 2021

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Good day, imaginary peoples. It's REALLY here. The day we gets a TRIPLEHEADER of Wild Card, Bitches! action. And it happens again tomorrow! We just needed a world-wide pandemic to make it real. [slaps #NuAIDS on the ass, HARD!] But first, we have a wacky Lesser Morning, with pretty much every match on

27 June Lesser Madness Thread

King Hippo - June 27, 2020June 26, 2020

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Tis a strange schedule. You get one Premiership fixture each day, at bizarre times. Saturday has ONLY the early bird special, which features Euro-curious Wolves away to "just happy to be here" Villa (7:30, NBCSN). I feel like a lunatic setting me alarms for this. But I will. Saints at

City Chase Domestic Treble (and Other Lesser Events)

King Hippo - May 18, 2019May 18, 2019

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Man City aren't going to go an unprecedented 4-for-4, thanks to some dodgy VAR decisions in their Champions League quarterfinal with Spurs. But fuck it, they were being stretched depth-wise as is, and it was MOAR important that they keep the fucking Shite from winning the Prem for the first

Slim Pickins Lesser Footy Open Thread

King Hippo - April 6, 2019April 5, 2019

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Welcome back, though the FA Cup semis (nae exactly raging, MOAR LIEK a quarter-chubb, just enough to make you glad you wore jeans). As such, ALL the Prem action on Saturday is in the 10:00 window (Daylight Savings Times are back in alignment). Palace and Newcastle are the featured match (NBCSN),

FA Cup Starts in Earnest, No Everton/Foxy Footy TV??

King Hippo - January 7, 2017January 6, 2017

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Way to go, 2017. As of this writing, Fox Sports Go is all borken (won't let me log in under my cable login or brother-in-law's Dish Network one), so I can't even check for a random secondary feed. I will likely be stuck listening to the terrible radio

FA Cup Final Open Thread

King Hippo - May 21, 2016May 21, 2016

Big Boy Fox has you covered, pre-game at Noon EST, kickoff 12:30. Dunno whether Gus Johnson and his miscast-for-lesser-footy enthusiasm will be announcing again or not. He really drives the ex-pats bonkers, FWIW. The matchup between Manure and Crystal Palace will have a damned strange feel for a final.

FA Cup Quarterfinals/Abbreviated EPL Schedule Preview

King Hippo - March 12, 2016March 11, 2016

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Finally, there is no way around it. I have to talk about the FA Cup. We are now in the quarterfinal round, which is the last played outside London's Wembley Stadium (ie, the stage where Everton will feel they've accomplished something and shit the pitch). It's known as a