Comments on: Peter Crouch, Like a Gangly Blackbird, Flies

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:35:14 +0000

Now Portsmouth are talking about signing Shaun Wright-Phillips.

…and the Fantasy Island iconography somehow gets even worse.

By: Fredorrarci

Fredorrarci — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:26:29 +0000

That’s too good, Richard.

The prospect of Crouch and Kanu playing together puts me in mind of the bit in the Mitchell & Webb ‘watch the football!’ sketch which goes:

“The giants of Charlton play host to the titans of Ipswich…making them both seem normal-sized”

By: Richard Whittall

Richard Whittall — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:26:46 +0000

This is bad, but Crouch and Defoe playing alongside one another keeps putting this image in my head:

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Fantasy-Island-Photograph-C10042195.jpeg

By: Em

Em — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:22:02 +0000

I’m all over that shirt, and yes, that hammy use of the word “unveiling” does provide some unintentionally satisfying side imagery. I wonder what pose they made him stand in prior to the painter’s tarp coming off.

By: Fredorrarci

Fredorrarci — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:26:49 +0000

Given that Portsmouth’s first game of the season is at Chelsea (excluding that thingummy at Wembley the week before) I will buy a crate-load of PJCD t-shirts should they win 3-0.

Though I’m loath to believe there’s such a thing as an “intriguing FA Cup title defense”, at least not anymore.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:23:43 +0000

Fixed that, thanks.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:48:45 +0000

I see PJCD and think Peanut (butter and) Jelly Compulsive Disorder.

I think you’ve got another winner there.

BTW, it’s Burnley, not Burnely.