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Was looking for an old thread to bump recently and came across...old threads, which reminded me of a lot of the one's I had forgotten about, anyway, now we're in no man's land, in between a World Cup and the new season, I thought this would be a good idea for a fred.
1.The xtranormal era 2011/2013 - videos made about forum posters, most were very comical, from memory the Money Tree and Alex’s 250/1 lay video in particular - a big shame this site ended and we can no longer see them, however there was a thread made on some of the one’s made, the mug calmug misspelt my name. http://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/29103239/xtranormal-clips?origpost_id=519403583&pg=1
2.Keys and Gray sacking from Sky early 2011 - videos were being drip fed on to youtube with off camera recordings of these two making disparaging comments about women, cue several dozen related threads and amusingly, the forum suddenly awash with pictures of T-shirts and mugs and whatnot with Keys’s face emblazoned with the words WOULD YOU SMASH IT
took about a year before that died down.
3.Hornets suicide tweet threads “bombing through Horsham in the betfair ambulance” and “HE DOESN’T HAVE THE METTLE TO TOP HIMSELF” the subsequent videos he posted on youtube were disturbing, think dawsey offered to threaten to fight him in the end.
http://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/28222921/your-mgic-moments-fro-the-hornets-fred?origpost_id=505673879&pg=1
4.Man United being KO’d of the CL by Real Madrid 2013 - the height of the ABU era, top 100 threads had a 5-6 minute gap with Anti United thread after Anti United thread and Roy Keane in the studio in meltdown over the Nani Red card, the forum r0ykeane disagreeing with the real Roy Keane was another highlight, I think that resulted in an identity crisis and has never been seen since.
5.The New pope betting thread that served up the best thread title I can remember by vive el presidente “anyone else balls deep in the next Pope” followed by the comment from redundant punter“I got a massive price on the fav. just worried the bookies might claim a papal error”
6.Devlin / Horseracineire15 - Irish autistic poster, bullied by people for being different - served up the best insult I’ve read when he called Dawsey “a ham sandwich” - so lame it was funny, you had to of been there tbh
had a different username every week (literally) and always signed off posts with "I'm outta here". The spats between him and Rod Hull/revengeofpaddy in particular were hilarious.
7.Calmoan exposed - the most bumpable thread there has been, made up bets on prices that were never matched and then dug a bigger hole with “I bet on the daq you fackwits”
8.zeze’s tipping thread, very rarely will you ever see a tipping challenge completed, think it was something like 1k to 10k, maybe I’m doing him a disservice.
9.The Derek McGovern threads, Over 2.5, joe39 and myself have recorded these, he posted 1 a day in the Mirror before eventually being given the boot, the worst tipster in a national outlet I’ve ever seen. The best thing about his column was the sorely missed joke of the day before finishing it off with “get on…..” many believe he moonlights on this forum by the name of Charwell, a fellow Liverpool fan.
10. Alex Towr laying Ryan Giggs to win SPOTY at 250/1.
11. The Special One (original one) 13 laptops.
I’ve probably forgotten some obvious one’s but they’re off the top of my head, feel free to add. Kind Regards.
1.The xtranormal era 2011/2013 - videos made about forum posters, most were very comical, from memory the Money Tree and Alex’s 250/1 lay video in particular - a big shame this site ended and we can no longer see them, however there was a thread made on some of the one’s made, the mug calmug misspelt my name. http://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/29103239/xtranormal-clips?origpost_id=519403583&pg=1
2.Keys and Gray sacking from Sky early 2011 - videos were being drip fed on to youtube with off camera recordings of these two making disparaging comments about women, cue several dozen related threads and amusingly, the forum suddenly awash with pictures of T-shirts and mugs and whatnot with Keys’s face emblazoned with the words WOULD YOU SMASH IT
took about a year before that died down.3.Hornets suicide tweet threads “bombing through Horsham in the betfair ambulance” and “HE DOESN’T HAVE THE METTLE TO TOP HIMSELF”
the subsequent videos he posted on youtube were disturbing, think dawsey offered to threaten to fight him in the end.http://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/28222921/your-mgic-moments-fro-the-hornets-fred?origpost_id=505673879&pg=1
4.Man United being KO’d of the CL by Real Madrid 2013 - the height of the ABU era, top 100 threads had a 5-6 minute gap with Anti United thread after Anti United thread and Roy Keane in the studio in meltdown over the Nani Red card, the forum r0ykeane disagreeing with the real Roy Keane was another highlight, I think that resulted in an identity crisis and has never been seen since.
5.The New pope betting thread that served up the best thread title I can remember by vive el presidente “anyone else balls deep in the next Pope”
followed by the comment from redundant punter“I got a massive price on the fav. just worried the bookies might claim a papal error” 6.Devlin / Horseracineire15 - Irish autistic poster, bullied by people for being different - served up the best insult I’ve read when he called Dawsey “a ham sandwich” - so lame it was funny, you had to of been there tbh
had a different username every week (literally) and always signed off posts with "I'm outta here". The spats between him and Rod Hull/revengeofpaddy in particular were hilarious.7.Calmoan exposed - the most bumpable thread there has been, made up bets on prices that were never matched and then dug a bigger hole with “I bet on the daq you fackwits”
8.zeze’s tipping thread, very rarely will you ever see a tipping challenge completed, think it was something like 1k to 10k, maybe I’m doing him a disservice.
9.The Derek McGovern threads, Over 2.5, joe39 and myself have recorded these, he posted 1 a day in the Mirror before eventually being given the boot, the worst tipster in a national outlet I’ve ever seen. The best thing about his column was the sorely missed joke of the day before finishing it off with “get on…..” many believe he moonlights on this forum by the name of Charwell, a fellow Liverpool fan.
10. Alex Towr laying Ryan Giggs to win SPOTY at 250/1.
11. The Special One (original one) 13 laptops.
I’ve probably forgotten some obvious one’s but they’re off the top of my head, feel free to add. Kind Regards.
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the night chelsea lost to barcelona when they should have had about 4 penalties and iniesta scored in the last minute. think first page of threads was 3 minutes from top to bottom
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Ha, I remember quite a few of those threads.
 The good ol' days of this forum. |
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mesmerised 16 Jul 18 01:27
When did the football forum peak ? You would need to go back about 15 years to have witnessed that. |
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funniest thing i read on this forum was a couple of days ago when you said that you did not think george best would be able to cut it in todays football.you are hilarious mesmerised
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Over a decade ago... didn't read or post very often but there were some quality regulars. Off the top of my head, thinwhiteduke, maverick, nashwan, cgull, Oosoul, awishaway, miguelmcfc, keanerolemodel to name just a few.
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I thought the peak was from about 2005/06 to about May 2010. I joined March 2008 but from the archives we used to have you could tell it was at a similar level of activity for at least a couple of years before.
A regular Barca or Real match against Getafe or someone would be a guaranteed 350 posts, same for a mid table PL game. 1,000+ threads common for big games. The forum changed in May '10 and a lot of people were pissed off with it and quit. The posts were taking 20+ seconds to load and it rather screwed up match threads which never recovered to near same level as before, though things did get better in terms of loading. But it was absolutely instant load with old basic forum. Of course though from May 2010 the same numbers of newbies were still joining as they did not know any better, so posting levels were perhaps just as high after the initial disruption caused by the change. What killed the forum was the Bob Vegas era in first half of 2012. As he and some others were able to continually create new forum accounts (itself a flaw of the 2010 'upgrade'; it was tricky to get back on for banned people before that) Betfair's solution was to stop people joining altogether. They did eventually allow new members after about 6 months but the process to join is absurd and involves months of waiting and then months of emails and of course we may have 200 newbie accounts since 2012 when it was at least 50 new posters a month before. So many have left and not been replaced. I did a study a year so back which found that posting levels were 15% of what they were in August 2012. Of course many of the lesser forums have basically died. As for it being at it's best 15 years ago I don't know. I did ask the old timers and they said it took a good few years to pick up from the founding in 2000. |
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think to revive it ,needs a fresh input of lunatics.
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i think zeze's was 200 euros to 20 k , all in every bet.
memorable stuff |
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it was good when you could change your user name by logging on incorrectly
when betfair fixed the bug some folk got left with odd user names ... |
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none of them will load for me
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what was the story about someone who had some sort of syndicate of forumites but wasn't actually putting the bets on?
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Think his name was foot soldiers Die Linke....apologies if i'm wrong
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the Xtranormal video's mad my gut hurt, and I didn't really know the posters at the time. Hearing the words ''dead cert alert'' and ''code: kerching'' out loud. The one where Dawsy(?) and some other kid go to Wrestlemania?
''papal error'' |
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*made*my gut hurt
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I assume the 15% is probably on actual # of posts. I suspect though you have much less than 15% of the users now, probably like 10%, just those that are left will post more. The forum moving to a live format makes people more inclined to post more, and you get much more reg chat threads now than you used to because gradually people know the people they are talking with more as it's virtually the same crowd day after day for 6 years.
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‘5.The New pope betting thread that served up the best thread title I can remember by vive el presidente “anyone else balls deep in the next Pope” Laugh followed by the comment from redundant punter“I got a massive price on the fav. just worried the bookies might claim a papal error”
^ Glory days indeed. There was another thread by a guy called RS1 who hadn’t quite distinguished the difference between the back and lay buttons and royally did his conkers. |
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JC1326 • July 16, 2018 4:48 PM BST
the Xtranormal video's mad my gut hurt, and I didn't really know the posters at the time. Hearing the words ''dead cert alert'' and ''code: kerching'' out loud. The one where Dawsy(?) and some other kid go to Wrestlemania? ''papal error'' Pretty sure it was "Dawsy and Calmoan go to Wrestlemania" I cracked 2 ribs when i fell off a stool laughing so fkin much!! |
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I can confirm IDWM's recollection that thinwhiteduke was a great poster, sadly the rest of the people he names were all utter fools
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Especially nashwan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBzMZ4833m0
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2002-2003
This was around the time that everyone realised the wonder of the Next Manager market on an exchange - the unofficial World Betting Championships. Knowledge of football not required Particularly notable was the Next Republic of Ireland Manager market which ran for a few months and had probably a dozen odds-on favourites with the likes of Aldridge, Houghton, Robson, O'Neill, Reid, O'Leary attracting an apparently endless supply of lemming money. Much of it was driven by the most relentless and shameless (and very funny) ramping the football forum has ever seen. By the end, there were more runners in the market than the site could practically cope with at that time - I've a vague recollection that someone even managed to get himself added and laid. It was such a shame when it finally ended and they appointed the youth team coach |
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money saving experts invasion here in the goal scorer market.
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was that to do with league cup final ? remember some recommendation in the final, was it boro v bolton ? fundamentally flawed whatever it was.
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cant remember thinkinh I remember Henry being one of the players involved.
The sheer mayhem when they had negative balances from what they thought was easy wins. |
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cant remember thinkinh I remember Henry being one of the players involved.
The sheer mayhem when they had negative balances from what they thought was easy wins. |
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let off the negative balances apparently
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Most of these will still be out there? Just needing ''ttt''...ing
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wasnt it something to do with goalscorer betting and aomeone who didnt play?
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aye, dont think it factored in people who didnt play .
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They went by the percentages at the top of the screen. They thought they were laying the field to make tuppence, but when the non-runners were removed it turned into reds of many thousands. Remember I got Ballack fgs at 120.0. Not sure who scored first though.
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league final thread was a cracker people were laying the first goal scorer not realising that non-runners would be removed. There was even a thread on money supermarket.
Kofi and benefits was also a cracker. |
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league final thread was a cracker people were laying the first goal scorer not realising that non-runners would be removed. There was even a thread on money supermarket.
Kofi and benefits was also a cracker. |
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The MSE thread is awesome.
Baffling though how a thread that is nothing to do with the Betfair forum is always voted the best thread we have had on here  |
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The football forum had it's darker days, particularly over Hillsborough. Thank God for the Hillsborough campaigners who fought for the truth and now it's only a few total bitters who persist with the Sun's version of events. Man united supporters complain about ABU's but imagine having to constantly defend your position in the face of vile hurtful lies. The forum is now a calmer place and banter has returned, only problem is the lack of numbers.
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