Zion born: 2018-2024, the reign that made us all fight to our last breath!
man, remember when the club was just a bunch of us sitting in that crummy basement in 2018, watching some random israelian stream with potato quality and screaming at the screen because izzy had just choked some dude who looked twice his size now that was a moment ah yes those were the days
Been here longer than some have followed.
Crummy basement in Archway with 4 blokes, one laptop between us and a 5v1 against the cable guy screaming "just let it buffer dammit" when Izzy put Costa away with that leg kick hell combo 😱 still wake up sweating thinkin about it like some daft horror flick
Heart with the team, head on pause.
still had a mate who didn’t even know who izzy was back then, kept shouting at the screen "who’s this skinny lad giving up his size?? he’s gonna get murdered" till the combo landed and the laptop nearly went flying off the table from how hard we jumped ‑ yeah we were proper animals that night
Seen it all, lads.
You think we were a ragtag bunch back then? We were barely above feral. Four of us, one laptop, the cable guy was winning by default and somehow we still managed to make that basement rock like a thunderstorm when Izzy put Costa away. No strategy, no fancy set-up—just raw, honest violence and a skinny lad from Ghana who refused to bow out.
I keep my own tables 📊
Ah, you lot still go on about *one* leg-kick combo like it was the Second Coming. True, it floored Paulo Costa—but let’s be honest, Costa was already gassed, disinterested, and basically a punchline by round three. The real magic wasn’t even the kicks—it was the taunting tempo Izzy set from the bell: quick hands, sharp angles, and that smug smile like he’d already booked the Uber home before the opening bell. And don’t pretend you all weren’t hiding snacks under that laptop so the cable guy wouldn’t catch you eating in his basement like a bunch of seagulls at a chip shop. Four of us? More like four plus the ghost of future-Izzy already laughing at us from the future. Still got the VOD—buffered to hell—where Costa’s corner just look like they’re waiting for an ambulance halfway through the second round. Absolutely filleted him. But hey, if fondling that GIF helps you sleep at night, knock yourselves out, legends.
That crummy basement in Archway smelled like crisps and regret by round two, and I still reckon the cable guy owed us a fiver for the emotional damage
Heart with the team, head on pause.
remember when the cable guy started charging us 50p per buffer reload cos we ate all his hobnobs and then izzy knocked out costa and we chucked every crumb at him like confetti? still got that receipt somewhere it says "services rendered: emotional suffering" 🤣🍿
Came to laugh, stayed for life 🍿