What's the daftest football thing you've ever had to explain to someone you thought was a football fan?

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

47 minutes ago, Joey J J Jr Shabadoo said:

I once had to explain to a Falkirk fan, I worked beside, that hitting the crossbar or post is not a shot on target.

 

I've had that argument before too. 😄

[Joey J J Jr Shabadoo]

11 minutes ago, Stupid Sexy Flanders said:

 

I've had that argument before too. 😄

I asked him if he aimed for the wire in darts. Didn't get an answer.

[Batistuta87]

The "clear and obvious" VAR thing.

People completely misinterpret it.

 

[GinRummy]

4 minutes ago, Batistuta87 said:

The "clear and obvious" VAR thing.

People completely misinterpret it.

 

People or refs? 😁

[Bull's-eye]

Telling Hearts supporters with season tickets that they will get a ticket for semi and cup finals if they want one.

[Joey J J Jr Shabadoo]

Explaining to Huns how it is impossible to win 55 championships in only 11 years.

[Canscot]

On 01/04/2024 at 22:50, N Lincs Jambo said:

Sort of on-topic but the difference being I would have had to sign up to a Rangers forum to put a Hun dickhead right. That didn't happen but here's the story anyway.

 

December 1972 and Hearts famously beat Rangers 1-0 at Ibrox. In the lead up to our goal, one of our players sat on the ball before passing it to Jim Brown who crossed for Donald Ford to head home.

 

One obviously bigotted hun frother on Bears Den recanted the story with his seethe getting bigger by every word he typed. Words such as "Taig" were being used as well as the more frequent descriptions for those of an RC background. He finally went into full overdrive and his anti-Taig conspiracy resulted in him naming the "F", "Taig" barsteward as none other than Bobby Prentice. I was tempted to sign up for the site to tell him that the person who sat on the ball was actually Tommy Murray and that Bobby Prentice didn't play for us that day as he was still at Celtic.

 

Amazingly enough there wasn't a single Rangers fan pull him up about this matter of fact afterwards....

And right after that Mick taking incident the Beaks in Glasgow made it an offence to sit on the ball. 
“How dare anybody make a Rangers player look foolish by doing that!”

Melts!

[Fort Vallance]

3 hours ago, Bad Religion said:

So the free kicks awarded when he touches the ball. He’s not actually offside in his own half.  

Yes. Maybe I didn't explain properly in the first place. 

[Fort Vallance]

3 hours ago, Bad Religion said:

So the free kicks awarded when he touches the ball. He’s not actually offside in his own half.  

Yes. I maybe didn't explain it very well. But a lot of people around me couldn't get it when the free kick was given in our own half.

[Des Lynam]

That Mo Salah isn’t a woeful footballer. 

[Bring Back Paulo Sergio]

7 hours ago, Fort Vallance said:

If the player is in an offside position in his opponents half when the ball is played. He comes back into his own half and plays the ball. The offside free kick is given from where he touches the ball. ie his own half. Not from where he was when the ball was played.

👍 He's still offside because he was in the opponents half when the ball was played.

[tian447]

4 hours ago, Des Lynam said:

That Mo Salah isn’t a woeful footballer. 

 

Took longer than I expected tbh. 

[RobNox]

Sorry if already posted, haven't had time to read the whole thread, but for me it's trying to explain to Hibs fans why we are the big team in Edinburgh.  It's not even an opinion, it's a fact backed up by statistics.

 

Won more trophies, won more derbies, including winning more derbies at their place and a 100% record in Hampden derbies.  Larger fan base, higher average attendances, higher turnover, more money donated by fans.

[Byyy The Light]

That summer football would still have shit weather 

[Doctor FinnBarr]

7 minutes ago, Byyy The Light said:

That summer football would still have shit weather 

 

Posted in the wrong thread methinks.

[The White Cockade]

12 hours ago, Batistuta87 said:

The "clear and obvious" VAR thing.

People completely misinterpret it.

 

yes mostly VAR officials!

[The White Cockade]

On 02/04/2024 at 07:42, BelgeJambo said:

Not so much trying to explain something, but when I lived in Denmark, I had the auld man on the phone and he was watching Bulgaria vs Germany 3/4 place playoff.  Told him it finishes 3-2 Bulgaria.  How do you know that son?  Am an hour ahead here dad!!

low and behold, it finished 3-2.

you clairvoyant then?

[BelgeJambo]

19 hours ago, The White Cockade said:

you clairvoyant then?

Aye

do you need the lottery numbers?

[jamboozy]

On 04/04/2024 at 00:23, The White Cockade said:

you clairvoyant then?

He knew you were going to ask that 😁

13 hours ago, BelgeJambo said:

Aye

do you need the lottery numbers?

I’m good at picking the wrong ones 😟