I recall moments of wonder of characters and wonderful 1962 violence .Moments of genius . Now its a crock of boring shite . That last effort was an insult to humanity and entertaintment
11 July 2017
Brumbiscuit
Although born in ’61, I can’t properly recall the ’66 triumph. I do remember the ’70 one though. I collected the ESSO coins and have the whole lot somewhere in my mum’s loft – I hope. The Bobby Moore jewellery incident overshadowed the build up, but sold lots of red top papers, no doubt.
11 July 2017
dr desperate
Ooh, my bro and I had sets of those Esso coins – wonder what happened to them? I was more interested in the special issue of ’66 World Cup stamps, the 4d over-printed with ‘England Winners’ (but disappointed that they didn’t do the same with the ‘Goalmouth Melee’ 6d ).
11 July 2017
WARDEN HODGES
First pack of Panini stickers in 78, did get the World Cup (No1) and Don Masson (No 150ish) and 3 others who I cannae remember.. No Kempes, Krankl or Edhino.
11 July 2017
MISTER TUBBS
My first World Cup was 1970, but I was too young, and the games on too late, to remember much about the football. But I do remember collecting the stickers, although they weren’t Panini, these ones you had to stick glue on the back to get them in the album. At the time, I had no knowledge of domestic football, but thanks to the stickers, knew plenty about the top players in Morocco and Israel, so when another kid came to school with some stickers including one of a Chelsea player, I was a bit bemused, but I knew Chelsea must be c**p, if they couldn’t even qualify for a World Cup that had El Salvador in it
11 July 2017
Bobby svarc
I can remember sitting on the steps of my parents new shop listening to the 1966 final but that’s all. First one that I can remember was 1970, I was at Sunday school and the the sermons fell on the evening of the Brazil game and they were brought forward so the parishioners didn’t miss the match. This was the time when practically no sport took place on a Sunday, apart from motorsports.
12 July 2017
paul f
The highlights programme of the Italy-Chile game in 1962 is just wonderful. It starts with David Coleman doing an impressive “disgusted and appalled” monologue before cutting to the action/violence, during which Coleman sounds like he’s quite enjoying himself.
As one of the younger generation on this site (and this site alone!), the earliest World Cup I remember is Italia ’90. So my big memories are of Gazza’s (q.v.) tears; Packie Bonner saving that penalty; and Greavsie’s “Voller’s Volleys v. Gullit’s Bullets” sweater which was modified with gaffer tape after “spit-gate”.
Even the last one had the James Rodriguez screamer; Brazil being humiliated by Germany after they’d fouled their way past Colombia in the previous round… Plenty of dull games too, but I imagine it’s always been that way. Nobody talks about dull group games from the early tournaments because footage doesn’t exist, or because they were indeed dull as ditchwater so don’t deserve to be remembered.
14 July 2017
dr Desperate
Anyone up for a rousing game of HMHB World Cup 2018? Obviously, you’ll have noticed that more than half the teams taking part in Russia, 17 camps of hope, are mentioned in songs: 9 as the name of the country and 8 as a description or citizen (2 as both). Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to name them, and the titles of songs in which they appear.
Intriguingly, only one group from the pool games (A – H) has no Biscuit interest – which one ?
Finally, how about picking one of those teams to follow through the rest of the competition*? Half the groups contain 3 Biscuit teams, so there should be clashes through to the final rounds. My favourite footy team: England.
[*Entries received for teams that have already been sent home will not be counted, but may still be charged the non-existent fee.]
22 June 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
Without looking at teams or songs, 15 camps of hope took me 2 mins, the 16th was a bit of a fight for 20 mins, and then the 17th drove me crazy for a further 32 minutes. I’m sure someone out there can easily beat 52 minutes.
In other news, here’s a backwards Friday quiz. First the answer:
A: they all scored the first goal.
Who’s first to name the HMHB world cup question?
22 June 2018
dr Desperate
Hmm, Wim van Hanegem has put paid to my rather complex question involving the ’54, ’78 and ’98 finals.
23 June 2018
EXXO
You are very much on the right track with ’54 & ’78 and ‘??, which would have been a simple question, but the inclusion now of Wim means the question needs a sort of a rider.
23 June 2018
EXXO
Oh yeah, you’re right with ’98 too, which makes the original question slightly more elegant, but ‘cos I’d forgotten how many Zeds there are in The Referee’s Alphabet, there now needs to be another word added to the question as well as the ‘Wim’ clause. I think that will make it watertight now 🙂
23 June 2018
EXXO
Right, well that Friday quiz didn’t work. It was all based on the remarkable ‘fact’ that I noticed when I wondered the other day how many HMHB-named footballers have played in World Cup Finals. I thought it was just 4 (one of them twice), and that they had all, coincidentally, scored the first goal of the final (one of them twice). However, then I remembered Wim van Hanegem, and then Dino Zoff. So now I’ve checked and it is just 6. So the answer “they all scored the first goal” still works, if the question is: “6 players who have played in the final of the World Cup are named in HMHB songs. Without googling, name them all and the years they played in the final. Apart one (Dutch) player, all the outfield players share what precise distinction in terms of their performance in the final?”
So I’ll leave you with that somewhat rationalised quiz, while I take a break from full-time World Cup action and go fishing for a few days (actually I’ve already had to miss 5 out of the 29 games so far, but it’s certainly felt like full-time)
When you’ve done the quiz, you can name your own 6-a-side team made up of international footballers name-checked in HMHB songs, who would give those 6 world cup finalists a run for their money.
Oh and Dr. D, in a 16-colleague sweepstake I got Belgium and Croatia, so with free off bets placed on Germany and Spain, and £30 of me own on Brazil, do I really have to choose a team to follow? 🙂
24 June 2018
Cathedral juice
Is Bobby Charlton a seventh?
24 June 2018
Paul f
I think you are missing another final appearing, non first goal-scoring, Biscuit song-appearing footballer.
24 June 2018
Paul f
Your succinctness beat me to it CJ.
24 June 2018
EXXO
Doh yes, and believe or not I went through that team in my head and thought “has he? No, I must have imagined that one – he hasn’t been mentioned!”
Sorry, crap quiz. I’ll get me coat and be off with me, to Hereford.
24 June 2018
sideshow bob
I have this sinking feeling that frank skinner will become a celebrity HMHB fan having discovered them in his early 60s
24 June 2018
CaThedral juice
A 7-a-side team to challenge the World Cup finalists:
There’s a concern that the more defensive players have less international experience than the rest of the line-up. There’d be no shortage of keepers in reserve, though.
Perhaps a bigger worry is that the team is dominated by two songs, with the attendant risk of unhealthy dressing-room cliques.
We’d not be short of eligible commentators if the encounter were to be televised: Gubba, Rosenthal, Moore …
25 June 2018
Paul f
That’s got me wondering if goalkeepers may actually outnumber outfield players in the Biscuit oeuvre.
25 June 2018
Cathedral juice
If that’s not worth a thorough survey of the oeuvre, what is? My hunch, in the absence of said survey, is that they don’t, but they figure disproportionately strongly.
I’m sure there are good reasons for this. Jonathan Wilson’s excellent book The Outsider characterizes keepers as exiles and – in the fullest sense of the term – scapegoats. So there’s something appropriate about their prominence in a body of work that so often adopts outsider perspectives in one way or another.
25 June 2018
Cathedral juice
Hang on, Nobby Stiles (Carry On Cremating) makes it eight World Cup finalists. So, Barry Venison to even up the numbers on the opposing side.
25 June 2018
BOBBY SVARC
England have only ever won the World Cup with a Leicester City player in the team.
According to Peter Gandy’s post in the list section, goalkeepers were trailing the other ten positions by 15-11 back in 2010, so I suspect they are still behind, Mart Poom’s elevation to the rather imbalanced squad notwithstanding.
25 June 2018
hendrix-tattoo
It would have been great if the 1966 England squad that won the World Cup were all named Bob or Bobby.
Bobby Banks Bob Cohen Bob Wilson Bob Charlton Bobby Moore Bobby Stiles Bobby Ball Bob Peters Bobby Charlton Bob Hurst Bobby Hunt Bob Ramsey(Manager) Bob Greaves Bobby Paine Bob Eastham Bobby Connelly Bob Callaghan Bobby Flowers Bob Hunter Bobby Byrne Bob Armfield Bob Springett Bobby Bonetti
25 June 2018
Cream cheese and chives
A great book-or short story-relating to goalkeepers is The Goalkeeper’s Revenge by Bill Naughton. It’s one he wrote for kids about lads growing up and the japes and scrapes they got into during the 50s and 60s. Go-karts and tree climbing and back alley gangs abound. If you try to read them with primary kids today they think you are transporting them back to the time of the dinosaurs. I read Stig of the Dump to a class about five years ago and they couldn’t believe the fact that kids were allowed to just go off to play on the tip and the fields without telling their parents. Another great one is The Fib by George Layton in which Bobby Charlton has a pivotal role. The obligatory bully in it is called Gordon Barraclough. A name to strike terror into anyone. Like Gripper Stebson… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGzis1PRVs
25 June 2018
Paul f
I haven’t thought about that book in years. We did it in school.
25 June 2018
parsfan
I bought it for my soon-to-be nine year-old just last week, though I might just read it myself first.
Back on track, The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick was going to be my ‘keeper fiction suggestion. At the last minute I decided to confirm that it was written by Alan Sillitoe.
How hopelessly wrong was I? I suspect the story I’m thinking of is CC&C’s one above, so not just wrong title but author and story as well (I should be on a quiz show). Turns out to be a Wim Wenders film that I can’t for the life of me decide whether I’ve seen or not. I’ll need to hunt it down.
25 June 2018
Eric Olthwaite
A film based on a novel by Peter Handke. Screenplay written by Wenders and Handke. I’ve not read the novel but the film is worth seeing.
25 June 2018
brumbiscuit
There was a kid in that book with a go cart called Egdam, after his heart”s desire Madge, IIRC. It didn’t end well.
26 June 2018
emerging from GORSE
Reasonably irrelevant in the overall scheme of things, but the proliferation of goalkeepers in the songbook is even more noticeable where European Championship finals are concerned. Of the six players namechecked (I stand to be corrected) to play in a European Championship final, five are keepers.
The only other example of a Euro Champs final participant appearing in song, that I’m aware of, is in the Manic Street Preachers’ Mertesacker Emptiness.
27 June 2018
Transit full of keith
Not really Biscuit-related, but those following South Korea vs Germany right now with an eye to the Round of 16 permutations might enjoy this, er, ‘Weltmeisterschaftsqualifikationsmatrix’: https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1011958116894871553
27 June 2018
brumbiscuit
I’d take a look, but I have a terminal case of schadenfreude right now 🙂
27 June 2018
dr Desperate
Of the original 17 Biscuit-referenced teams, 10 will have made it through to the Round of 16 by tonight. According to my wallchart, one of the quarter-finals is guaranteed to feature two of them.
28 June 2018
Rev
@CC&C is that the one where one bloke claimed Bobby Moore was his uncle and another bloke had to eat a shit load of oranges? I’m getting weird flashbacks to a football obsessed junior school teacher
29 June 2018
Cream cheese and chives
Bobby Charlton not Moore. Not sure about the oranges episode. Your teacher wasn’t a fan of auto erotic techniques was he?
29 June 2018
dr desperate
For the literally one person still interested, there are five Biscuit-referenced teams in the last eight. Still a fair chance of an all-Biscuit final (also of an all-Exxo sweepstake final).
5 July 2018
jeff dreadnought
The final could be contested by two teams that are referenced one after the other in the same song (albeit obliquely in the case of one of them).
According to a spokesman, the final in question is more likely to happen than you think.
6 July 2018
dr desperate
Three into the last four…
6 July 2018
EXXo
Marouane Fellaini, like Brazil are dead scared, oh what a frightening world it can be. With that selection I think we can only see a Brazil Croatia final.
6 July 2018
EXXO
Blimey, the Freak from the ‘Beek is having a blinder in the windscreen wiper role. Could see more break goals second half.
6 July 2018
Nigel
And golden Gordon on “yesterday” channel in a few minutes
6 July 2018
EXXO
The long, cold retreat from Moscow:
I’m haunting my colleague who’s got France in the sweepstake by humming or whistling the 1812 Overture softly but surely while loitering round corners and down long corridors, so that when he turns round there’s never anybody there. He’ll be glad when this week’s over.
12 July 2018
dr desperate
Biscuit v non-Biscuit (except for their word for ‘Welcome’) final. Biscuit v Biscuit third place play-off.
12 July 2018
dr desperate
Allez les Biscuits!
15 July 2018
peter mcornithologist
First time I thought that maybe bribes had been eradicated ? penalty my arse ? anyone recall Wilmots perfect goal against Brazil in 2002 ? Fuming Ned From Hartlepool
21 July 2018
Injured buzzard
I see the England game clashes with the Holmfirth gig but if anyone else is interested, there should be time to see Scotland’s match with Moldova before kick off at the Picturedome. The last time HMHB and Scotland played on the same day was 21/03/19, when prior to the Exeter concert, I was forced into watching the embarrassing 3-0 defeat away to Khazakhstan. I do hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
dr desperate
Willy (q v).
11 July 2017
Peter Mcornithologist
I recall moments of wonder of characters and wonderful 1962 violence .Moments of genius . Now its a crock of boring shite . That last effort was an insult to humanity and entertaintment
11 July 2017
Brumbiscuit
Although born in ’61, I can’t properly recall the ’66 triumph. I do remember the ’70 one though. I collected the ESSO coins and have the whole lot somewhere in my mum’s loft – I hope. The Bobby Moore jewellery incident overshadowed the build up, but sold lots of red top papers, no doubt.
11 July 2017
dr desperate
Ooh, my bro and I had sets of those Esso coins – wonder what happened to them?
I was more interested in the special issue of ’66 World Cup stamps, the 4d over-printed with ‘England Winners’ (but disappointed that they didn’t do the same with the ‘Goalmouth Melee’ 6d ).
11 July 2017
WARDEN HODGES
First pack of Panini stickers in 78, did get the World Cup (No1) and Don Masson (No 150ish) and 3 others who I cannae remember.. No Kempes, Krankl or Edhino.
11 July 2017
MISTER TUBBS
My first World Cup was 1970, but I was too young, and the games on too late, to remember much about the football. But I do remember collecting the stickers, although they weren’t Panini, these ones you had to stick glue on the back to get them in the album. At the time, I had no knowledge of domestic football, but thanks to the stickers, knew plenty about the top players in Morocco and Israel, so when another kid came to school with some stickers including one of a Chelsea player, I was a bit bemused, but I knew Chelsea must be c**p, if they couldn’t even qualify for a World Cup that had El Salvador in it
11 July 2017
Bobby svarc
I can remember sitting on the steps of my parents new shop listening to the 1966 final but that’s all. First one that I can remember was 1970, I was at Sunday school and the the sermons fell on the evening of the Brazil game and they were brought forward so the parishioners didn’t miss the match. This was the time when practically no sport took place on a Sunday, apart from motorsports.
12 July 2017
paul f
The highlights programme of the Italy-Chile game in 1962 is just wonderful. It starts with David Coleman doing an impressive “disgusted and appalled” monologue before cutting to the action/violence, during which Coleman sounds like he’s quite enjoying himself.
1978 was the first I recall – tickertape always has me thinking of Kempes. We didn’t have any of the 1970 ESSO coins in our household but did have most of these:
http://cards.littleoak.com.au/197374_esso_top_team_collection/197374_esso_top_team_coins_index.htm
12 July 2017
cardinal richelieu
Unsurprisingly, these stamps never saw the light of day…
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/stamp-designed-mark-scotland-winning-3257691
13 July 2017
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
As one of the younger generation on this site (and this site alone!), the earliest World Cup I remember is Italia ’90. So my big memories are of Gazza’s (q.v.) tears; Packie Bonner saving that penalty; and Greavsie’s “Voller’s Volleys v. Gullit’s Bullets” sweater which was modified with gaffer tape after “spit-gate”.
Even the last one had the James Rodriguez screamer; Brazil being humiliated by Germany after they’d fouled their way past Colombia in the previous round… Plenty of dull games too, but I imagine it’s always been that way. Nobody talks about dull group games from the early tournaments because footage doesn’t exist, or because they were indeed dull as ditchwater so don’t deserve to be remembered.
14 July 2017
dr Desperate
Anyone up for a rousing game of HMHB World Cup 2018? Obviously, you’ll have noticed that more than half the teams taking part in Russia, 17 camps of hope, are mentioned in songs: 9 as the name of the country and 8 as a description or citizen (2 as both). Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to name them, and the titles of songs in which they appear.
Intriguingly, only one group from the pool games (A – H) has no Biscuit interest – which one ?
Finally, how about picking one of those teams to follow through the rest of the competition*? Half the groups contain 3 Biscuit teams, so there should be clashes through to the final rounds. My favourite footy team: England.
[*Entries received for teams that have already been sent home will not be counted, but may still be charged the non-existent fee.]
22 June 2018
CHARLES EXFORD
Without looking at teams or songs, 15 camps of hope took me 2 mins, the 16th was a bit of a fight for 20 mins, and then the 17th drove me crazy for a further 32 minutes. I’m sure someone out there can easily beat 52 minutes.
In other news, here’s a backwards Friday quiz. First the answer:
A: they all scored the first goal.
Who’s first to name the HMHB world cup question?
22 June 2018
dr Desperate
Hmm, Wim van Hanegem has put paid to my rather complex question involving the ’54, ’78 and ’98 finals.
23 June 2018
EXXO
You are very much on the right track with ’54 & ’78 and ‘??, which would have been a simple question, but the inclusion now of Wim means the question needs a sort of a rider.
23 June 2018
EXXO
Oh yeah, you’re right with ’98 too, which makes the original question slightly more elegant, but ‘cos I’d forgotten how many Zeds there are in The Referee’s Alphabet, there now needs to be another word added to the question as well as the ‘Wim’ clause. I think that will make it watertight now 🙂
23 June 2018
EXXO
Right, well that Friday quiz didn’t work. It was all based on the remarkable ‘fact’ that I noticed when I wondered the other day how many HMHB-named footballers have played in World Cup Finals. I thought it was just 4 (one of them twice), and that they had all, coincidentally, scored the first goal of the final (one of them twice). However, then I remembered Wim van Hanegem, and then Dino Zoff. So now I’ve checked and it is just 6. So the answer “they all scored the first goal” still works, if the question is:
“6 players who have played in the final of the World Cup are named in HMHB songs. Without googling, name them all and the years they played in the final. Apart one (Dutch) player, all the outfield players share what precise distinction in terms of their performance in the final?”
So I’ll leave you with that somewhat rationalised quiz, while I take a break from full-time World Cup action and go fishing for a few days (actually I’ve already had to miss 5 out of the 29 games so far, but it’s certainly felt like full-time)
When you’ve done the quiz, you can name your own 6-a-side team made up of international footballers name-checked in HMHB songs, who would give those 6 world cup finalists a run for their money.
Oh and Dr. D, in a 16-colleague sweepstake I got Belgium and Croatia, so with free off bets placed on Germany and Spain, and £30 of me own on Brazil, do I really have to choose a team to follow? 🙂
24 June 2018
Cathedral juice
Is Bobby Charlton a seventh?
24 June 2018
Paul f
I think you are missing another final appearing, non first goal-scoring, Biscuit song-appearing footballer.
24 June 2018
Paul f
Your succinctness beat me to it CJ.
24 June 2018
EXXO
Doh yes, and believe or not I went through that team in my head and thought “has he? No, I must have imagined that one – he hasn’t been mentioned!”
Sorry, crap quiz. I’ll get me coat and be off with me, to Hereford.
24 June 2018
sideshow bob
I have this sinking feeling that frank skinner will become a celebrity HMHB fan having discovered them in his early 60s
24 June 2018
CaThedral juice
A 7-a-side team to challenge the World Cup finalists:
Yashin
Beglin
Zondervan
Zola
Zico
Tangerine Wizard
Mortensen
There’s a concern that the more defensive players have less international experience than the rest of the line-up. There’d be no shortage of keepers in reserve, though.
Perhaps a bigger worry is that the team is dominated by two songs, with the attendant risk of unhealthy dressing-room cliques.
We’d not be short of eligible commentators if the encounter were to be televised: Gubba, Rosenthal, Moore …
25 June 2018
Paul f
That’s got me wondering if goalkeepers may actually outnumber outfield players in the Biscuit oeuvre.
25 June 2018
Cathedral juice
If that’s not worth a thorough survey of the oeuvre, what is? My hunch, in the absence of said survey, is that they don’t, but they figure disproportionately strongly.
I’m sure there are good reasons for this. Jonathan Wilson’s excellent book The Outsider characterizes keepers as exiles and – in the fullest sense of the term – scapegoats. So there’s something appropriate about their prominence in a body of work that so often adopts outsider perspectives in one way or another.
25 June 2018
Cathedral juice
Hang on, Nobby Stiles (Carry On Cremating) makes it eight World Cup finalists. So, Barry Venison to even up the numbers on the opposing side.
25 June 2018
BOBBY SVARC
England have only ever won the World Cup with a Leicester City player in the team.
25 June 2018
paul f
My favourite goalkeeper related book is this one:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goalkeepers-History-Britain-Peter-Chapman/dp/1841150096
Part social history, part psycho-analysis, part autobiography. It’s a great read.
25 June 2018
BOBBY SVARC
This is a good goalie book, Glove Story
https://gotnotgot.wordpress.com/category/glove-story/
25 June 2018
Paul F
According to Peter Gandy’s post in the list section, goalkeepers were trailing the other ten positions by 15-11 back in 2010, so I suspect they are still behind, Mart Poom’s elevation to the rather imbalanced squad notwithstanding.
25 June 2018
hendrix-tattoo
It would have been great if the 1966 England squad that won the World Cup were all named Bob or Bobby.
Bobby Banks
Bob Cohen
Bob Wilson
Bob Charlton
Bobby Moore
Bobby Stiles
Bobby Ball
Bob Peters
Bobby Charlton
Bob Hurst
Bobby Hunt
Bob Ramsey(Manager)
Bob Greaves
Bobby Paine
Bob Eastham
Bobby Connelly
Bob Callaghan
Bobby Flowers
Bob Hunter
Bobby Byrne
Bob Armfield
Bob Springett
Bobby Bonetti
25 June 2018
Cream cheese and chives
A great book-or short story-relating to goalkeepers is The Goalkeeper’s Revenge by Bill Naughton.
It’s one he wrote for kids about lads growing up and the japes and scrapes they got into during the 50s and 60s. Go-karts and tree climbing and back alley gangs abound. If you try to read them with primary kids today they think you are transporting them back to the time of the dinosaurs.
I read Stig of the Dump to a class about five years ago and they couldn’t believe the fact that kids were allowed to just go off to play on the tip and the fields without telling their parents.
Another great one is The Fib by George Layton in which Bobby Charlton has a pivotal role. The obligatory bully in it is called Gordon Barraclough. A name to strike terror into anyone. Like Gripper Stebson…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGzis1PRVs
25 June 2018
Paul f
I haven’t thought about that book in years. We did it in school.
25 June 2018
parsfan
I bought it for my soon-to-be nine year-old just last week, though I might just read it myself first.
Back on track, The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick was going to be my ‘keeper fiction suggestion. At the last minute I decided to confirm that it was written by Alan Sillitoe.
How hopelessly wrong was I? I suspect the story I’m thinking of is CC&C’s one above, so not just wrong title but author and story as well (I should be on a quiz show). Turns out to be a Wim Wenders film that I can’t for the life of me decide whether I’ve seen or not. I’ll need to hunt it down.
25 June 2018
Eric Olthwaite
A film based on a novel by Peter Handke. Screenplay written by Wenders and Handke. I’ve not read the novel but the film is worth seeing.
25 June 2018
brumbiscuit
There was a kid in that book with a go cart called Egdam, after his heart”s desire Madge, IIRC. It didn’t end well.
26 June 2018
emerging from GORSE
Reasonably irrelevant in the overall scheme of things, but the proliferation of goalkeepers in the songbook is even more noticeable where European Championship finals are concerned. Of the six players namechecked (I stand to be corrected) to play in a European Championship final, five are keepers.
The only other example of a Euro Champs final participant appearing in song, that I’m aware of, is in the Manic Street Preachers’ Mertesacker Emptiness.
27 June 2018
Transit full of keith
Not really Biscuit-related, but those following South Korea vs Germany right now with an eye to the Round of 16 permutations might enjoy this, er, ‘Weltmeisterschaftsqualifikationsmatrix’: https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1011958116894871553
27 June 2018
brumbiscuit
I’d take a look, but I have a terminal case of schadenfreude right now 🙂
27 June 2018
dr Desperate
Of the original 17 Biscuit-referenced teams, 10 will have made it through to the Round of 16 by tonight. According to my wallchart, one of the quarter-finals is guaranteed to feature two of them.
28 June 2018
Rev
@CC&C is that the one where one bloke claimed Bobby Moore was his uncle and another bloke had to eat a shit load of oranges? I’m getting weird flashbacks to a football obsessed junior school teacher
29 June 2018
Cream cheese and chives
Bobby Charlton not Moore. Not sure about the oranges episode. Your teacher wasn’t a fan of auto erotic techniques was he?
29 June 2018
dr desperate
For the literally one person still interested, there are five Biscuit-referenced teams in the last eight. Still a fair chance of an all-Biscuit final (also of an all-Exxo sweepstake final).
5 July 2018
jeff dreadnought
The final could be contested by two teams that are referenced one after the other in the same song (albeit obliquely in the case of one of them).
According to a spokesman, the final in question is more likely to happen than you think.
6 July 2018
dr desperate
Three into the last four…
6 July 2018
EXXo
Marouane Fellaini, like Brazil are dead scared, oh what a frightening world it can be. With that selection I think we can only see a Brazil Croatia final.
6 July 2018
EXXO
Blimey, the Freak from the ‘Beek is having a blinder in the windscreen wiper role. Could see more break goals second half.
6 July 2018
Nigel
And golden Gordon on “yesterday” channel in a few minutes
6 July 2018
EXXO
The long, cold retreat from Moscow:
I’m haunting my colleague who’s got France in the sweepstake by humming or whistling the 1812 Overture softly but surely while loitering round corners and down long corridors, so that when he turns round there’s never anybody there. He’ll be glad when this week’s over.
12 July 2018
dr desperate
Biscuit v non-Biscuit (except for their word for ‘Welcome’) final.
Biscuit v Biscuit third place play-off.
12 July 2018
dr desperate
Allez les Biscuits!
15 July 2018
peter mcornithologist
First time I thought that maybe bribes had been eradicated ? penalty my arse ? anyone recall Wilmots perfect goal against Brazil in 2002 ? Fuming Ned From Hartlepool
21 July 2018
Injured buzzard
I see the England game clashes with the Holmfirth gig but if anyone else is interested, there should be time to see Scotland’s match with Moldova before kick off at the Picturedome. The last time HMHB and Scotland played on the same day was 21/03/19, when prior to the Exeter concert, I was forced into watching the embarrassing 3-0 defeat away to Khazakhstan. I do hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
8 November 2021