Reuben Pinder

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Thousands and thousands of articles about football, each more climactic than the last! Constant, dizzying, twenty-four hour, yearlong, endless football! Every kick of it massively mattering to someone, presumably.

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  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 216

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 216

    They say this is the best quiz. We are hearing great things about the JOE Pub Quiz. We do a lot of quizzes, the best quizzes. Quizzes are one of JOE’s oldest friends, a lot of people don’t know that. They are saying they’ve never seen a quiz series like this one. You just click […]

    5 years ago

  • Sky History axes The Chop after Nazi face tattoo row

    Sky History axes The Chop after Nazi face tattoo row

    “Sky History stand against racism and hate speech of all kinds.” Sky History have announced that no more episodes of reality contest show The Chop will be aired after broadcasting an episode in which one of the contestants, Darren Lumsden, had what appeared to be a Nazi-related face tattoo. The show had already been pulled, […]

    5 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 215

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 215

    I’m back. I hope Wil Jones took good care of you while I was away on leave. I’m sure he did. He’s a great quizmaster. Thank you, Wil. What did I do on my time off, you ask? Well, I went to the gym for the first time in eight months and reminded myself why […]

    5 years ago

  • Full trailer for Season 4 of The Crown shows Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher

    Full trailer for Season 4 of The Crown shows Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher

    Fans are going mad for Gillian Anderson. The full trailer for the fourth series of Netflix hit The Crown has been released, offering fans a first glimpse into Gillian Anderson’s performance as Margaret Thatcher. https://twitter.com/TheCrownNetflix/status/1321814107943772162 Fans are evidently excited to see Anderson – who also starred in The Fall and Sex Education – as the […]

    5 years ago

  • There is an incredibly easy speed glitch in FIFA 21

    There is an incredibly easy speed glitch in FIFA 21

    And it involves just two buttons. FIFA 21 is out and one of the first things gamers have noticed about the new game is that yes, pace is still very important. The likes of Kylian Mbappé and Adama Traoré are once again set to become the most popular players on Ultimate Team as a result, […]

    5 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 212

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 212

    Sponsored by EA Sports FIFA 21 is out now. The day has come. FIFA 21 is out now on all platforms. I don’t know why I’m telling you, you know this already. You’ve taken a ten minute break from playing it while you “work from home” to do this quiz because you can’t not do […]

    5 years ago

  • QUIZ: Match the quote to the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia character #2

    QUIZ: Match the quote to the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia character #2

    Wish it was always sunny in Ireland, eh?! It’s Always Sunny is a show about five terrible, borderline psychopaths doing and saying terrible things. It’s one of the best and longest-running sitcoms in history due to its creators’ rare ability to innovate and write new timely storylines. But the one constant throughout the show is […]

    5 years ago

  • Boris Johnson announces new measures to suppress Covid-19 in England

    Boris Johnson announces new measures to suppress Covid-19 in England

    New measures are expected to be in place for six months Boris Johnson today announced new measures to suppress the spread of coronavirus in the UK following a surge in recorded cases. On Monday, Patrick Vallance announced that cases were doubling every seven days, and could reach figures as high as 50,000 new daily cases […]

    5 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 209

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 209

    Fancy a punt on the quizzie? Shit a bit of data out of that bunged-up brainbox? I’ll do the answers, you do the buttons. Yes, that’s a Peep Show quote. I have one joke and it’s quoting Peep Show. Let’s quiz.

    5 years ago

  • Someone has made a LinkedIn profile for Mark Corrigan from Peep Show

    Someone has made a LinkedIn profile for Mark Corrigan from Peep Show

    Shitting and washing, those babies are recession proof. LinkedIn is a horrible corner of the internet. It’s like a virtual All Bar One, full of disingenuous people shaming you for not getting up at 4am to neck a smoothie and do some meditation. That’s why your productivity is down, you’re getting too much sleep. Idiot! […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 207

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 207

    We’ve all seen that advert on the London tube, haven’t we? If you haven’t seen it, count yourself lucky. But also look at it, because it’s fu**ing insane. I am, of course, talking about the Dettol advert seen on London Underground platforms. The advert that just listed literally the worst things about commuting to and […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 206

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 206

    It’s the 206th edition of the JOE Friday Pub Quiz and this week we are testing your knowledge of cars, TV, brand slogans, sport and general knowledge

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 205

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 205

    2000s pop music, pictures of bridges, guess the year, sport and general knowledge are this week’s round on the 205th JOE Friday Pub Quiz

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 204

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 204

    Pour one out for Atalanta. Atalanta’s journey to the Champions League quarter-finals this season was one of football’s great fairytale stories, sadly cut short at the hands of a club with a nation state’s wealth behind them. Had Atalanta gone all the way, it would arguably have been on par with Leicester City’s Premier League […]

    6 years ago

  • Twitter delete their own tweet after Manchester United complaint

    Twitter delete their own tweet after Manchester United complaint

    The social media platform issued an apology. Twitter UK have apologised after posting a tweet that appeared to mock Manchester United player Phil Jones. The tweet, which read, “Name a footballer better than Phil Jones,” could appear harmless at face value. But Jones has gained a reputation as a figure of fun over the years, […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 203

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 203

    The Champions League is back, baby I love the Champions League. The latter stages are the pinnacle of football. I don’t think I’ve ever seen late drama in all my time of watching football quite like Tottenham’s comeback against Ajax and Liverpool’s comeback against Barcelona, on consecutive nights. It’s unlikely we’ll see anything quite like […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 201

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 201

    If you like musicals and crisps this week’s quiz is for you This week’s quiz features rounds on movie taglines, crisps and musicals as well as your classic rounds, general knowledge and sport. So if you’re a fan of fried potatoes and entertainment, you’re in luck. Enjoy, tag your mates, share, etc.

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 200

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 200

    It’s the 200th pub quiz. Two hundred! That’s a lot of quizzes, and we’ve got another belter for you today, featuring a round on the number 200

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 199

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 199

    199 Pub Quizzes That’s a lot of quizzes. We’re approaching four years’ worth of pub quizzes. What shall we do to mark the big occasion? Suggestions in the comments please. Would you do a 200 question quiz? Let us know. If you’ve done every pub quiz on this website, which you probably haven’t but if, assuming you […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 193

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 193

    RIP George Floyd. I don’t really know what to write here this week. I want to write about the anger the tragedy of George Floyd’s death evokes in me, but that anger cannot begin to compare to that of the black community. His murder is just the most recent example of countless cold-blooded, racially motivated […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 192

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 192

    Forget all those Zoom quizzes you’ve been forced to endure with your extended family. This is the real quiz. You’re safe here

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 191

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 191

    Get on it. It’s Friday, it’s lunchtime and you know what that means. Five rounds on… General Knowledge, Sport, UK politicians in their youth, TV locations and geography. Without further ado…

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 190

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 190

    All Bundesliga fanatics aren’t we? At a time when almost every news headline makes you want to either cry, put your fist through a wall or scream into a pillow, there was one piece of positive news this week: German football will resume next weekend. Now, there are the obvious caveats that A) there will […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 189

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 189

    Happy birthday to David Beckham. Tomorrow marks the 45 years since one of the most iconic footballers to don an England and Manchester United shirt was born in the appropriately named Whipps Cross hospital. Alas, for the Becks fanatics amongst you, there is no round dedicated to the man once dubbed ‘Goldenballs’ here, but there […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 188

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 188

    I have bleached my hair. Like the countless other men to have done something stupid to their hair during this lockdown out of pure boredom and curiosity, I decided to bleach my hair. If not now, when I can easily get away with hiding it from the public, then when? Well, never, is the answer. […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 187

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 187

    It’s Friday, it’s lunchtime and you know what that means… It’s time for the JOE Friday Pub Quiz, of course. This week, there are rounds on General Knowledge, TV, Sport, Fashion and Geography so let’s get straight to it, shall we? Enjoy the quiz and be sure to tune in to the JOE UK Facebook page later […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 186

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 186

    Weird is the new normal. As we trudge along through the increasingly real and simultaneously increasingly surreal experience of living through a global pandemic, weird is becoming the new normal and normal is becoming the new weird. I find myself reading novels – and finishing them – in less than a week. I find myself […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 185

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 185

    Have you shaved your head yet? You have, haven’t you? You picked up your trimmer and thought, “fuck it, what’s the worst that could happen?” You then found out the answer to that question and have been wearing a wooly hat indoors ever since. It’s alright, mate, loads of other men have made the same […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 184

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 184

    It’s Friday and you know what that means… It’s time for the JOE Friday Pub Quiz is what it means and this week there are rounds on general knowledge, money, sport, pixelated cartoon characters and rap music. Best of luck!

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 183

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 183

    In the words of Troy Bolton, we’re all in this together. From what I’ve gathered from scrolling through social media during this unprecedented time, there are four different types of people during a pandemic. They are as follows: The people who worked at home anyway, and have no time for your ‘day 3 of quarantine’ […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 181

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 181

    It’s Friday. You know what that means, right? We’ve got general knowledge, sport, brand name acronyms and because it’s International Women’s Day this weekend, we’ve dedicated two rounds of this quiz to celebrating it.

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 180

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 180

    Write the quiz, publish the quiz, post the quiz, God life’s relentless. There’s very little to be optimistic about at the moment. The coronavirus is spreading like wildfire. Our summer of sport could be ruined as a result. The weather shows no signs of improving just yet. A no-deal Brexit looks increasingly likely. And Liverpool […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 179

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 179

    Let’s get down to quizness. It’s Friday, you know what to do. The categories in this week’s quiz are sport, general knowledge, side characters from Friends, celebrity ages and the Brit Awards.

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 178

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 178

    Happy Valentine’s Day. If you’re spending this evening with your significant other, enjoy it. Savour them. Spend as much or as little money as you want. It’s up to you. If you’re on your own, missing someone, or just looking for the one, do not despair. At least there’s Premier League football on. In the […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 177

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 177

    The highlight of everyone’s week is here. I’m running out of ideas of what to write here. Very few of you will be reading it anyway. If you are, thank you – I appreciate you wasting 15 seconds of your Friday to swallow this nonsense before tucking into the meat of the quiz.

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 173

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 173

    What a week. What a week for beef in particular. Everyone seems to be beefing. In the world of geopolitics, the US have put the wheels in motion for a nuclear war with Iran by assassinating Quasem Soleimani. In the world of music, Stormzy and Wiley continue to debate online for no apparent reason other […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 172

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 172

    Happy New Year… January is without question the worst month of the year, change my mind. Actually, don’t, because you can’t. Everyone is broke, having spent a fortune over Christmas, trying to make that early December pay cheque last what feels like an eternity. Just when you think you’ve endured the worst of winter, the […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 171

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 171

    IT’S HERE. Welcome to the final JOE Friday Pub Quiz of the year, and the decade. A lot has changed since 2010 – Liverpool went from floating above relegation under Roy Hodgson to dominating both domestically and on the world stage; the United States went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, and most recently, Jordan […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 170

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 170

    What is the meaning of Christmas? It is a question that we ponder every year, a question to which there is no correct answer. One thing we can all enjoy, however, is a quiz. Oh, and just to note, there’s a round on UK Labour politicians as this quiz comes from our JOE friends and […]

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 169

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 169

    A politics free edition of the JOE Friday Pub Quiz, featuring rounds on Christmas songs, the Has Fallen film franchise, music, sport and general knowledge

    6 years ago

  • The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 168

    The JOE Friday Pub Quiz: Week 168

    19 days until Christmas, baby. Is anyone else getting to that point in December where, it’s all getting a bit much? You haven’t started your shopping, you’ve still got to work out where to take your remaining annual leave, you’ve got someone in secret Santa with whom you’ve only ever exchanged awkward pleasantries about the […]

    6 years ago

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