Greatest idea I've ever had · 6:20am Jun 17th, 2013
So the other day I was working at a local soccer(footy) camp for kids, its easy money, I'm basically just babysitting them in the vicinity of soccer equipment. Now, I could write multiple blogs about the problems with American youth soccer and why its a miracle that we can create any decent players, but that's not what this is about.
You see, while I watched these children flail their legs about trying(and failing) to dribble through a line of cones I began to think about ponies, as I have a tendency to do when I'm bored. I began thinking about ponifying various famous players and managers and thought of some names, Mareio Balotelli, Jurgen Clopp, Zlatan Ibrahimarevich, Borussia Dortmane, Trot Guardiola, Jose Mareinho, and Sir Alex Fetlockson just to name a few I came up with. When I got home I decided to look up ponyfied soccer/footy, and came up with very little, there's barely any crossover between soccer and ponies.
You're all smart enough to see where this is going.
Don't worry, I'm planning on writing it alongside ASoIaP and BBDatE, which have been coming along well lately.
The clopfic I started barely got off the ground before I started feeling like writing ASoIaP and BBDatE again, so now instead of my two already published stories being delayed its just my unsubmitted clopfic that you have to wait a long time for. I'm nearly done with it, so I might just finish it on a whim sometime soon, but now that I've gotten back into the groove of writing my actual stories its been put on the back-burner.
Sir Alex Fetlockson is best pony name
But Jose Mareinho is best pony
cool
You missed the fact that what the kids do is exactly what Bocenegra, Beasly and Edu do!!! (WATP!!!)
But yeah sounds' interesting can see the line up now.
Apple Jack
Colgate Big Mac Dr. Whooves Lyra
THUNDELANE
Pinkie Rainbow
Twilight
Derpy Shining Armour.
Manager: Celestia
Coach: Luna
Chairpony: Blueblood
cheerleaders: Cadence and Discord (x5)
1150061 It lost the formatting :( should be a 4-3-3 formation like:
.........AJ.....
C..BM..DW..L
........TL........
..PP........RD
........TS.......
....DD...SA
1150065 Not my first choice eleven for the ponies, I prefer a 3-5-2 in all honesty with the wingers doubling as outside backs and two holding midfielders. Not many teams are still using the 4-4-2 with the diamond midfield anymore.
GK: Lyra
RCB: Fancy Pants
CB: Big Macintosh
LCB: Braeburn
RDM: Applejack
LDM: Rarity
RW: Soarin
LW: Rainbow Dash
ACM: Pinkie Pie
ST: Thunderlane
ST: Shining Armor
Lyra is GK because hands. Big Mac, and Braeburn give you two strong defenders to win balls in the back and Fancy Pants is organized enough to get his positioning down and be a good distributor of the ball. Rarity and Applejack are effectively a distributor and destroyer. Soarin and Rainbow give you the pace down the wings needed to get forward from the back quickly to counter attack and drop into position quickly when possession is lost. Pinkie Pie is the obvious choice for the role of a crafty attacking midfielder. Thunderlane and Shining Armor make a great little man/big man strike force, with Shining Armor big enough to win the ball and hold it up top while Thunderlane could wreak havoc with his speed.
I put some thought into this, being a counselor at this camp is dull work.
Also I was just wondering, who won last time the USA and Scotland played? What was the score again? Who's on top of the North American WC qualifying group?
1150383 You can tell we watch completely different games lol
you are right, the 4-1-2-1-2 wouldnt work well in modern football. So for the Scottish and The greatest Club Team ever tactics 4-5-1. I forgot about the woderbolts, cracking wingers.
If i was using your team, which to be honest is a great team, except rarity she wouldn't play.
Lyra- goals
RB- Rainbow Dash (Allan Hutton Role)
CB- Braeburn (Bocenegraburn!)
CB - Thunderlane (Dorin Goian)
LB - Soarin (Sasa Papac!!!)
RM - Pinkie (Energetic, RD can Overlap)
RCB - AppleJack (solid presence (MO EDU, DU, DU!)
CM - Big Mac (sitting in the Big McCulloch role)
LCB - Snowflake (Rhino Gattuso)
LM - Dr. Whooves (Played football with David Tennant, hes good)
ST - Shining Armour (Kenny Miller Role)
The wing backs, will over lap with the wingers to provide depth, yet due to their stamina and speed, getting back shouldn't be difficult. The Midfield is absolutely solid, and no pony will even dare try and go through the Middle with Big Mac sitting just behhind in a really 4-1-4-1 formation.
Lol I kinda wish I was there, the kids can go for a jog we just get the tactics nailed down. then I teach them Scottish football! Total Domination, no skill, just brute clumsy tackles.
5-1 Columbus Crew stadium, Lanndon Donnoven hat-trick. I was there. You have to remember that Scotland were Unofficial world champs in 2008 after beating France twice (home and away). Anyway I like the Americans Bocenegra will be the captain of the most successful club team in the world next season (unless we sell him). Maurice Edu absolute tank, love the man. Beasley well hes scrauny, hes quick but easily knocked off the ball but he did do this!!
and just cos it was in related videos, the greatest rivalary in the world, the greatest goal.
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P.S. I don't care what you say, but you are now a Glasgow Rangers fan
1150486 Haha, I love Seria A. I think it shows that my team was based off of the league champions.
As for being a Rangers fan, my dad was born in Rome, so I'm an Roma fan till I die, home of the living legend Francesco Totti. I lost my damn mind when they picked up Michale Bradley, me and my dad saved up for a long time to see Roma play live this year.
You should've been in the stadium when that happened, the whole city of Rome went crazy that night. Except Lazio fans, but fuck them.
I'm willing to say Rangers are my favorite Scottish team, because fuck Celtic too.
Dear god I wish I was allowed to teach these kids to tackle, this is the typical "Soccer Mom" type of camp. I'm not teaching them how to play, I'm "teaching them life lessons through soccer". Its bullshit, I learned how to pass, dribble, and shoot by playing street ball with kids who were older than me, didn't speak English, and kicked the shit out of me, the way God intended the game to be learned.
But alas, I can't teach them the game, so I just watch them "learn life lessons" to get a shitty pay check at the end of the week.
As for your team, doubtlessly tough as nails. They could definitely bully teams out of games, but I still think that it needs a midfielder with some finesse like Rarity to control the tempo of the game.
Regarding the American national team, while I respect Mexico, I firmly believe that we've got the best team in North America at the moment. While Chicharito and Dos Santos are good, they're pretty weak everywhere else, I'm calling the USA to take the Gold Cup this year and top our World Cup qualifying group.
P.S. Bocanegraburn is my new headcanon.
P.S.S. You played with Tennant? You lucky bastard.
1149562 Ah, so I take it you're a footy fan?
1150783 naa, but i can always appreciate a good pun
1150786 A storm of puns it shall be, and thus begins the winter of our disco tent.
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1150830
disco what now?
1150840 Well... there's this famous line. Its along the lines of, "And thus begins the winter of our discontent".
So instead I changed it to say disco tent, and posted the first picture that came up when I googled "disco tent" and posted that.
It was a pun. Yeah.
1150864hmm were is that quote from?
1150875 Shakespeare, because I'm fancy I guess.
1150898Damn i wish i was that fancy.
well, an anon can dream
1150901 You can be fancy too, you just need the right pair of pants
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Oh god that's not even a pun what am I doing1150947OH hell yes fancypants adventures FTW
1150782 Haha I can settle for that i don't have an Itailian team so I'll make them Roma. And that goal was a beaut, but its just an Avereage Totti goal tbh
As for Italian football though, well watch this....
Put us out of the Euros, and that was after we scored this!
And then the decline started... sorry about the videos but I promise you, you will laugh at this. It's the commentary more than the miss.
What the actual? You can only learn 3 life lessons in football
1. The best still get criticized
2. Being greedy can also help the greater good.
3. You can walk off any injury.
As for tackling I'm sorry. I used to coach on a Saturday, P5s rugby tackled each other, and played on. Character building. Yeah growing up on the street is the best, you learn touch, and how to play through injury. I play 5s a lot which is almost like street football, except generally i'm the rough house. Been a while since I haven't been booked lol.
Yeah It is your team, and I do like the reason for Rarity, she can thread a pass
(see what i done there). Also if I haven't said already this was a great idea, and I would like to help you write/give ideas if you need them. Or write a Foootball factory style fic, related to your story. I.e. Ponyville F.C. beats Appleoosa Utd and then theres the hard core thugs. That fight, but its based on what you write, so if Rarity gets injured maybe that gets shouted and starts the fight or something.
Also out of curiousity how are gonna do the story? Like Goal?
1152705 If you don't like it, that's perfectly reasonable. But there's no need to call it a "pile of pish". There are plenty of stories much more worth ire than mine.
1152203 I remember that goal, one of the guys I was watching the game with went to the bathroom because he assumed that it was a Scottish freekick(but fucking seriously who can't wait a few minutes to piss?). We were happy when Italy scored, what with Italy's qualification and all, but the call was such bullshit that it sucked some of the joy out of the win.
Oh God I forgot about that miss, that commentary was beautiful
I agree that the Totti goal wasn't his greatest, he's scored tons of amazing goals over the years, but it was the first goal I saw him score live at the Stadio Olimpico. So that goal will forever live in my memory.
"You can walk off any injury"- you have no idea how many players who grew up in the American "soccer mom" system need to learn this. If the elbow doesn't leave a bruise, leave you bloodied, or break a bone, you will live, this is a contact sport.
You stole the line about Rarity I was going to use
As for 1152705, I read that story a while ago and forgot about it actually, I thought it was okay. I was thinking about doing something along the lines of Green Street Hooligans, not a crossover mind you, just trying to capture that sort of feeling. Maybe try to convince my readers that
Elijah WoodTwilight Sparkle knows how to throw a punch.1152837 Eh, while I agree that calling it a "pile of pish" may have been a bit much he is entitled to an opinion. Its not as if he's downvoted the story and started flaming it without reason, he's posted a comment on a blog where your story was relevant, and he said what he thought about it. While I understand that you're upset he's made a negative comment about your story, this isn't exactly what I would call "ire" since his comment is relevant here.
I thought the story was okay back when I read it months ago before the latest chapter came out. I didn't favorite it or anything, but I upvoted it because I thought it was a pretty cool story. I could give it another shot though.
1152885 Nah, it's whatever. Everyone is indeed entitled to their opinion. Though I've never heard something actually be called "a pile of pish" before. As a matter of fact, the only place I've heard "pish" used is in the phrase "pish posh", which I haven't actually heard used in a serious manner in years.
ANYHOW. Yeah. He can have his opinion. I can have mine. We all live in a yellow submarine, all that good stuff. I bid thee farewell.
1152902 Well then, enjoy your submarine.
Just for the hell of it
1153437 YES.
1150955 Best online game? Quite possibly.
1152853 First things first, The Pinyville Dashers comment, was rash and stupid. Shouldn't have commented on it, just brought it to your attention and I'm sorry for criticising it here. Thanks for having my back though.
I hate watching games like with people, though when your drinking and the seal is broken your screwed, nature rules. Yeah Italians cheating. Surprise surprise! JK actually like the Italian style of play. Did cost us a spot in the Euros though.
Yeah the Totti goal was a screamer, but he is a cracker of a player. Ahh the first goal seen live, what a memory! Fillip Sebo(the striker that scores two goals all season) scoring against Chelsea. Bliss.
Yeah, bruises arn't deadly if it's an elbow. Though a boy play with in an amateur team, pulled his hamstring, and that is a f£:):r of a bruise. Beasley couldn't stay up in a breeze let alone a tackle lol. Man them up! Make them play with medicine balls.
Ahh Green Street. I prefer football factory personally. But green street was still good. It's milk wall away! Awesome idea, might be hard setting up rivaliries and causing destruction. Also you need chants! Like 'NO SURRENDER'. 'WE ARE THE PONIES (people)' and personal favourite 'the billy boys (now banned for sectarianism)'
1154418 Don't worry about it, I'll always defend my followers on my blog unless you do some really stupid shit. In all honesty I don't think that he had much to really complain about.
Yes. This.
Actually the kids are getting a lot better, I talked to the person who's in charge about how I didn't like the restrictions I was working with and I can do what I want with them. Now that I don't have to worry about "teaching kids life lessons" I can get them to actually improve, and the kids actually enjoy it more, nobody plays football as a kid and doesn't want to enjoy it. I won't do anything that would hurt the kids of course, but its no more stupid little kid BS. Now that I have them actually playing this one kid named John is phenominal, can pick out a through ball over the backs like its nobodies business and has balls of steel, he could actually go to an Academy team one day. He's got a ton of potential.
Tomorrow the kids are having an end of the week tournament, they all chose different National teams for their team names. One team chose Scotland, and one child is going to wear Braveheart face paint. For real.
As for the story, without giving too much away in this blog post, revolves around the ponies following their team(possibly AS Ponyville), and playing in a local league. They play fans of other teams, hooliganism is involved, and ponies get violent. I want to set it up so the form of the team the team they're following reflects what's going on in their lives(ie. a heartbreaking 1-0 loss reflects missed opportunities). Still needs some planning and fleshing out, but I think it'll turn out well.
I would've replied earlier, but instead I wound up watching The Football Factory for what must've been the 100th time.
1157434 Lol it was kinda stupid, but cheers any way m8 much appreciated
Thats good, yet bad, to hear. (Don'rt want the USA dominating football). Yeah the life lessons are OK for kids but not for the whole camp. Games like 'King of The Ring' and two touch are how they learn. NO PAIN NO GAIN, but i see your point lol. Thats good to hear, kids that stand out at a young age generally do well. And the fact that he is picking out passes is the best way to play than he is a greedy little bleep. Call him McCulloch.
Scotland better win, They have my support!
And that kid deserves a high five, and an extra half time orange.
You need to teach them this lol. COME ON!!
Ahh ok fair enough, I was looking through Union Bears (Rangers hooligans) and was like lol, the paramilitaries involved aswell.
Still a big of Scottish football, though its getting kicked out (I wouldn't watch it all just the first wee bit)
Yeah you have a great idea there, though 1-0 isn't as heart breaking as losing a 2-0 lead, or a dodgy ref call costs you the game. A goal that wasn't a goal type thing.
Love that movie, 'Zeeba-f**king-dee' and 'Have you meet my pal stanely?'
1159308 Well, they had their World Cup today.
Brazil were undefeated until the finals, where they lost to the USA. Brazil's top goal scorer left the field once they started losing, and I had to resist the urge to grab him by the collar of his shirt and start berating him and tell him you're not allowed to leave the field just because you're a pussy.
Scotland got 3rd, one kid wrote Kenny Miller on his face, another painted his face like Mel Gibson from Braveheart. My favorite kid on Scotland nearly punched the Brazil striker in the face.
So Scotland was awesome.
As for the story, I need to think of how the season is going to go for the ponies and AS Ponyville before I set about writing it, and I need to decide what competitions they'll be in(ie. tournaments based off of Seria A, Champions League, Coppa Italia).
Its fun to put line breaks in comments.
1162198 Well thats my excuse for getting too drunk last and getting taken to a hospital. Scotland came third
wont ever happen again. Boy it hurts to think 
Yes hope he cried FREEDOM before each game. and the Kenny Miller one must have played better :P and violence is always good, that kid is now Ian Black :D
So USA won?
think thats a fix! lol hate when kids go in a mood and cry cos they get beat. Its football, if you get played off the park, you kick them off the park. You should just have liberated the shit out of him 
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Why AS Ponyville? what does the A stand for? lol Ahhh so the usual 3 cups up for grabs, guessing AS Ponyville can do the treble? Just a suggestion here but what if the league was like SPL? each team play each other twice, before the league gets split and the top 6 teams play each other and same with the lower league. This could also work cos with Rangers, we have Celtic as the main rivals but Aberdeen as well, so we want aberdeen to get a top 6 finish so we can play them again :P
OHHH you could add a Mo Johnstone player. Mo played for Celtic was great and then left to Italy I think. Then, this is the great part, Celtic announced they were going to resign him and the deal was done BUT the next day he signed for Rangers. which actually caused a bit of an outcry in both sides. Mo was the first Catholic to play for Rangers (before then it was a protestant team, no catholics allowed) which some Rangers fans were like :O and Celtic fans all hated him cause he came to the greatest team ever. So you could have a player like that in the story to mix things up. :P
1163045 Glad to see that you've managed to avoid Liver failure, but happier to see you celebrate Scotland's highest ever World Cup finish
AS Ponyville comes from AS Roma, I had to make them similar to Roma somehow. Don't judge me, we both know you would call your team the Ponyville Rangers. I was thinking about having them win a treble, but that's too happy. I've thought that maybe they should be like Chelsea two seasons ago and win a double when they have a shit year. Or maybe they should be like Chelsea lat season and get knocked out of the CL and win the European Mickey Mouse Participation Cup.
I'm thinking that they won't have a manager either, just a player-coach. It should add to the dynamic a bit.
1164488 Yeah from the stories I'm surprised im still alive, got rejected from an ambulance apparently I was that bad. But didn't get a stomach pumping so its all good. The shots that did it were called the 'loch ness monster'.
Oh yeah forgot that bit about Roma, Makes sense now lol. Thought it was an american thing like Athletic Soccer or something lol. Yeah quite possibly, its a good name lol.
Ahh yeah OK i see what you mean. Keep it football factory/ Green Street and have a mid table team that needs the cup to play rivals so it gets the feeling. The support look forward tot he fight rather than the game.
RHINO GATTUSO style ;) or old rhino style atleast :P