[FOOTBALL] Weekend Football Thread - 3rd/4th/5th February 2017

[Weaver]

Friday
Wigan 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1 at HT, Sky Sports

Saturday
Chelsea vs Arsenal - 12:30, Sky Sports
Crystal Palace vs Sunderland
Everton vs AFC Bournemouth
Hull City vs Liverpool
Southampton vs West Ham United
Watford vs Burnley
West Bromwich Albion vs Stoke City
Tottenham vs Middlesbrough - 17:30, BT Sport

Barnsley vs Preston North End
Birmingham vs Fulham
Blackburn vs QPR
Bristol City vs Rotherham
Burton Albion vs Wolves
Cardiff vs Norwich
Ipswich vs Reading
Newcastle vs Derby
Nottingham Forest vs Aston Villa - 17:30, Sky Sports

Dortmund vs RB Leipzig - 17:30, BT Sport
FC Porto vs Sporting CP - 20:30, BT Sport

Sunday
Manchester City vs Swansea City - 13:30, Sky Sports
Leicester City vs Manchester United - 16:00, Sky Sports

Huddersfield Town vs Leeds - 12:00, Sky Sports
Brentford vs Brighton

Sevilla vs Villarreal - 11:00, Sky Sports
St Johnstone vs Celtic - 12;30, Sky Sports
Juventus vs Inter Milan - 19:45, BT Sport
Celta Vigo vs Real Madrid - 19:45, Sky Sports

[Shindig]

McClaren's back. DO. NOT. PUNISH US.

[Magic]

Weavers a bit of a MDT don isn't he?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm going to Brentford v Brighton, for reasons best known to myself, expecting a feast of football resulting in a goalless draw.

Chelsea should piss past the deflated gooners.

[niko_cee]

Do they still have a pub on every corner or have they all been turned into flats?

I went to that same fixture over a decade ago and saw Brentford smash Brighton 4-0 in the depths of League One.

[Magic]

I'm going to Brentford v Brighton, for reasons best known to myself, expecting a feast of football resulting in a goalless draw.

Chelsea should piss past the deflated gooners.

For something you're obviously embarrassed about you aren't half going on about it. We get it. Brentford v Brighton lol etc

[Jimmy Floyd]

You of course would be the expert in posting multiple times about things that embarrass you.

[Baz]

Good game for football tomoz. Big game in the morning, then watch Hull beat Liverpool (and win me some money @ 6/1) and then Spurs in the evening.

[Magic]

You of course would be the expert in posting multiple times about things that embarrass you.

Embarrassment is for those who have pride.

[Reg]

Why so down on our fixture, Jim? It should be good. There'll be goals in it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Because Brentford fans are so smug and I'm going to have to pretend to be one. I'll secretly be supporting the mighty seagulls.

[Lewis]

What have Brentford fans got to be smug about?

[John]

Smug about what? They couldn't be any more of a nothing club.

[Lewis]

'We've got the M4. The M4 motorway. I just don't think you understand.'

[Jimmy Floyd]

What have Brentford fans got to be smug about?

Smug in the way all lower league fans are smug, but with the added bonus of being from the shittest part of a generally wealthy area and having Chelsea, Fulham and QPR to be chippy about.

[Lewis]

Somebody tried to get 'WE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL TEAM' going at Hull vs United, but nobody joined in because there were ten thousand empty seats shaming them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That was one of the more lol goals we've ever scored against Arsenal.

[John]

Marcos Alonso goal machine.

Somebody tried to get 'WE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL TEAM' going at Hull vs United, but nobody joined in because there were ten thousand empty seats shaming them.

We get that at Ibrox all the time. Usually alternate renditions of that and 'You're not Rangers anymore', because the vast majority of sides don't actually have any songs of their own.

[Max Power]

Kanté has done his sliding in and coming away with the ball three times already. Makes me wanna fucking cry the brilliant twat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Kanté has done his sliding in and coming away with the ball three times already. Makes me wanna fucking cry the brilliant twat.

He's by far our best player. Costa/Hazard are nothing in comparison. Not really getting the props this year either.

[Max Power]

He's by far our best player. Costa/Hazard are nothing in comparison. Not really getting the props this year either.

He seems to get a lot of praise after the Liverpool game. People bringing up his absurd tackles/interceptions in that particular match. What people never seem to mention with the tackles is that most of the time he comes out of the tackle in complete control of the ball ready to pass the ball forwards and launch a counter. Amazing player.

[Smiffy]

It's difficult not to enjoy him tbf.

[Waffdon]

It'd be great if Thierry Henry could fuck off from being in the studio. Dreadful.

[Smiffy]

That was brilliant.

[John Arne]

Awful, awful defending. 5 of them.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That defending

Coquelin especially.

[Max Power]

Great to see Coquelin attempt a cynical foul about five times and end up on the floor watching Hazard streak away.

[Kikó]

That hazard goal is daft. Take him down.

Chelsea are doing a Leicester with the league. Absolutely running away with it.

[Waffdon]

Costa has been awful today.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fabregas is a fanny for not doing an 'Adebayor'.

[Baz]

Corker of a goal though.

[Smiffy]

Arsenal have just been battered from start to finish really.

[Boydy]

I hope Chelsea are being subjected to plenty of drugs tests this season.

[Waffdon]

Kante would be the best player in the world if he could pass better than he does.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I hope Chelsea are being subjected to plenty of drugs tests this season.

With an Italian manager either that or bribing the opposition/referee is pretty much a certainty. Still, you don't need either against Arsenal. A weak club for weak men.

[Boydy]

With an Italian manager either that or bribing the opposition/referee is pretty much a certainty. Still, you don't need either against Arsenal. A weak club for weak men.

Oh yeah, Arsenal were shit.

But the difference between Chelsea this season and last is unbelievable.

[niko_cee]

I see Lucas is at centre-half again.

[Raoul Duke]

Oh yeah, Arsenal were shit.

But the difference between Chelsea this season and last is unbelievable.

Well, more that the difference between Chelsea two seasons ago and this one highlights the Mourinho 'mind games' shitshow in between.

[John Arne]

I see Lucas is at centre-half again.

Klavan and Lovren are injured. But yeah, Gomez could have played.

[John Arne]

Talksport commentators are doing a shocking job of pronouncing Ranocchia.
How hard is it to go to Wikipedia and check the correct pronunciation?

[Jimmy Floyd]

If Davey Moyes keeps Sunderland up, he'll have earned another crack at the United job imo.

[Gray Fox]

This has been some special collapse.

[John Arne]

4-0 Sunderland

[Jimmy Floyd]

Too many pints of wine last night.

[Max Power]

Everyone down the bottom starting to pick up results now. Except one team.

Never saw this coming from Sunderland though

[Offshore Toon]

Too many pints of wine last night.

I've noticed this pop up quite a bit recently. Is there any reason for it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've noticed this pop up quite a bit recently. Is there any reason for it?

Big Sam was supposedly drinking a pint of white wine in his downfall video, although it looks like a very flat lager to me.

[Gray Fox]

What is it about us and the lower teams? Fair enough you can't include Southampton in that statement, but there's a blatantly obvious way to beat us out there and it's working every game now.

[Max Power]

The colour was a bit off on the blurry video. Clearly a Peroni for the big man.

[Smiffy]

Jesus christ. We're wank.