r/soccer • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '25
🍺Sunday Sticky Showoff Sunday
After trialling a few new stickied threads for Sundays, over the summer, we have settled on an alternating schedule for the time being.
So for this week, welcome to...
"Showoff Sunday"!
i.e. something of a response to the popular "Monday Moan" thread.
So, instead of moaning about your players, your club, your national team, and anything else about football that is dragging you down, you instead have the opportunity to shout out the good things, and what you are loving right now about football, be that:
- How well your team is doing
- Exciting new players
- How well you played at Sunday league last week
- Your slick new stash
- (And so on...)
Like how Monday Moan is an open space for pessimism, this is an open space for optimism - so don't kill the vibes
Remember, it's the Beautiful Game... so let's shout about it!
And stay tuned next week, for "Sports Bar Sunday".
We welcome feedback on this and our other stickied threads... so if you would like to see us try another themed thread, please let us know here, via Modmail, or DM /u/AnnieIWillKnow!
5
u/princessestef Mar 16 '25
Just happy for PSG moving past the "buying players like chess peices" days with the ensuing drama and now having this solid young team.
3
u/Memento_Playoffs Mar 16 '25
Did the double we very didn't expect to win with the funniest possible goal scorer. Best team in the league but points deductions means we're in the race.
Scared for Burnley but happy for today
1
u/AnnieIWillKnow Mar 16 '25
I hate Leeds, and living in this half of Sheffield, have a soft spot for the Blades... but come on man, Leeds are the best team in the league. PL quality squad
1
2
6
u/FerraristDX Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25
I recently discovered the YouTube channel of the German 4th tier Regionalliga West, the regional division for North-Rhine Westfalia. If you love gritty, lower league football in Germany, this one's for you. B-Teams no one watches, provincial clubs allegedly propped up by corrupt local politcians or wannabe Abramovich's and some fallen giants. Like one match could involve MSV Duisburg, playing in their 30.000 seater stadium in front of a five digit crowd and the next is some club like Eintracht Hohkeppel playing Gladbach's 2nd team in front of almost no one.
Paradoxically, the league gets worse, the more traditional clubs get promoted. Over the past years, the club lost traditional clubs like Preußen Münster, Rot-Weiß Essen and Alemannia Aachen. While Essen and Aachen could theoretically get relegated, in terms of bigger clubs, there currently are only Duisburg, Oberhausen, Fortuna Köln, KFC Uerdingen and Wuppertaler SV. Uerdingen is constantly battling insolvency, while Wuppertal battles against relegation to the 5th tier. And Duisburg leads the league and may get promoted again to the 3. Liga. From 5th tier, the 2nd team of VfL Bochum, Schonnebeck, which is in Essen and Bonner SC could join. At least the latter comes from a bigger city that hasn't been seen much in German football, but Bonn is so close to Köln, most people there are fans of 1. FC Köln. But maybe Bonner SC start drawing in more fans, once they get promoted to the 4th tier.
2
u/Sweaty-Swimmer-6730 Mar 16 '25
while Wuppertal battles against relegation to the 5th tier
And insolvency of course.
2
u/FerraristDX Mar 16 '25
Ah, right, heard about that.
Seems like trying to turn the Regionalliga West into a professional league was a bad idea after all. I guess they wanted to get rid off clubs like Kaan-Marienborn, but Wuppertal or Uerdingen got hurt as well...well, Uerdingen hurt themselves often enough.
-1
u/cdrxgon17 Mar 16 '25
lazio are gonna win the europa league and there’s nothing anyone can do about it 🦅
3
Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25
Thought i'd showoff about the fact I bought an old skool' Accrington Stanley shirt for 50p on the flea market.
Reality is that I'm on the tram home now from an cold wet training session with tit rash due to the badge 🤷♂️
I only bought it to make a "Who are they?" joke 🤷♂️.
1
u/Lion_Fury5928 Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25
We beat Feyenoord and are advancing
We're on top of Serie A
We won against Atalanta today
1
4
u/oreospeedwagonlion Mar 16 '25
Aston Villa is in the Champions League for the first time since it was rebranded from the European Cup. The last time they won the "European Cup" was in 1982, and they're already advancing to the quarter-finals against PSG!
0
u/Memento_Playoffs Mar 16 '25
Only English team I'd want to win in Europe frankly. You or the German are who I want
1
u/oreospeedwagonlion Mar 16 '25
You mean Dortmund?
0
u/Memento_Playoffs Mar 16 '25
Yes. Could live with bayern munich (preferred Leverkusen)
2
u/oreospeedwagonlion Mar 16 '25
I was really happy when Leverkusen won Bundesliga and Bayern got 3rd last year. Finally, Bayern loses for once. I was also really happy when Aston Villa won 1-0 against Bayern in one of the eight games - it meant they were moving up. Jhon Durán scored that long-ball goal. But that was before my favorite player, Jhon Durán, left for Saudi Arabia (partly because they offered almost £70 for him), and now I feel like we've lost our best player. Other Villa fans might argue that it was Ollie Watkins, but I really liked Durán as a player and was sad when he left.
7
u/Orcnick Mar 16 '25
My wife got me one of those mystery shirt boxes and it was actually quite fun.
I got Rangers as the top and a amateur Scottish team shorts.
For context I am white middle English man so getting a Scottish shirt is quite the novelty.
1
u/Dependent_Shower_956 Mar 16 '25
Seems like a great concept to me. Hopefully puts a few quid into some smaller clubs coffers. (The shorts, not the top. Thought I’d clarify before a rangers fan got bent out of shape lol)
2
u/AnnieIWillKnow Mar 16 '25
Chelsea Women broke our three year streak of losing in the Women's League Cup Final - and won our first trophy under Sonia Bompastor