[Football] Weekend Fixtures ft. European rivalries & Man City v Chelsea (2-5 March)

[Reg]

Friday
Middlesbrough 19:45 Leeds - Sky
Dundee Utd 19:45 St Mirren - BT (Postponed)
Porto 20:30 Sporting - FreeSports

Saturday
Burnley 12:30 Everton - Sky
Leicester 15:00 Bournemouth
Southampton 15:00 Stoke
Swansea 15:00 West Ham
Spurs 15:00 Huddersfield
Watford 15:00 West Brom
Liverpool 17:30 Newcastle - BT

Celtic 12:30 Greenock Morton (Cup QF) - Sky
Wolves 17:30 Reading - Sky
Napoli 19:45 Roma - BT
Real Madrid 19:45 Getafe - Sky

Sunday
Brighton 13:30 Arsenal - Sky
Man City 16:00 Chelsea - Sky

Motherwell 14:15 Hearts (Cup QF) - BBC1 Scotland
Barcelona 15:15 Atletico Madrid - Sky Sports Mix
Rangers 16:15 Falkirk (Cup QF) - Sky
Milan 19:45 Inter - BT
Valencia 19:45 Betis - Sky

Monday
Crystal Palace 20:00 Man Utd - Sky

More live http://www.live-footballontv.com

[Kikó]

My Father-in-law is going to continue to be suffering. Another defeat v St Mirren tonight.

[Waffdon]

The games been off since yesterday, mate. Should be fun having to play all these rescheduled games.

[Kikó]

Yeah I was thinking that as soon as I thought about it. Porto - Sporting is the fixture then.

[CJay]

Do we reckon there’ll be any Premier League games called off this weekend?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Called off games should be just that, a point each.

[Giggles]

Yeah that'd work and wouldn't be open to abuse at all.

[Jimmy Floyd]

- Eases fixture congestion
- Is much fairer as some teams don't have to knacker themselves catching up all their games in a week. Rochdale have 6 in hand at the moment.
- Incentive for clubs to get games on/improve facilities as otherwise they'll lose matchday revenue

Can't see the point of having backlogs of crap games.

[Lewis]

I can see why lower divisions call matches off, but what excuse can a cashed-up Premiership team have for not being able to get somewhere?

[Kikó]

Well they should be calling them off because the fans struggle to get to the fixture. The local infrastructure is out of control of the football team.

[Lewis]

And the football team is out of the control of the fans. If they can get there then great, but you can't not play a fixture because most [away] fans can't get there.

[Kikó]

I think it's pretty reckless to have people on the road to watch a fixture (a thing they've paid for).

[Lewis]

The club could presumably offer refunds/ticket swaps. Other than that, having to skip a match can't be any more inconvenient than having to plan for a re-scheduled match on a Tuesday four weeks away.

[Adamski]

The games been off since yesterday, mate. Should be fun having to play all these rescheduled games.

For the other teams, anyway.

Delicious Steven Thompson tears today

[Magic]

Of joy. Might nip in to his local and slap his baldy heid.

[Adamski]

Bet he’s in there morning noon and night since he ruined his dads legacy.

[Magic]

Bet he’s in there morning noon and night since he ruined his dads legacy.

He is. Has his own corner where sad acts vye for his attention.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You a regular, then?

[Magic]

No it is a Dece pub though.

[Giggles]

Modric facing 5 years? Somehow I doubt it.

https://t.co/7u1dCDXVsp

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

More than likely be a big payout and a suspended sentence.

[Magic]

Another truly shocking 45 minutes.

[Magic]

Another truly shocking 45 minutes.

[Magic]

Good job GNev isn't commenting on us.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pulis has turned Paddy Bamford into an unstoppable goal machine. God bless them both.

[Magic]

Not really. Two of his goals were offside and we've been disgusting.

[Giggles]

No Gary Neville on commentary, thank fuck. Haven't seen a match on Sky in ages because of that speech impediment cunt on them all.

[Giggles]

Sigurdsson is such a greedy twat. That was the winning of it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Coleman blocking Pickford

[niko_cee]

That's some of the best marking from a corner I've ever seen.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Michael Keane and Ashley Williams are appalling.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If one of the big three wins the FA Cup, Burnley looking solid for Europe at the moment in seventh.

[niko_cee]

I'm really struggling to understand the logic of that corner from Everton's perspective. Giant centre forward standing in 5 yards of space at the back post (completely in the view of Williams), barely moves and ball lands on his head. Is that Williams just being an idiot, blindly following instructions to keep his zone, or some combination of the two? A fancy foreign manager would be getting lambasted for that sort of shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Well at least Everton wont have to play Williams for a few games.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Williams looked like he was in some sort of trance.

I know he scored today but that Tosun is a ghastly signing. Fat lump with no qualities whatsoever. Ashley Barnes the far superior footballer but you don't see people chucking £27 million at him for a few goals in a league the standard of our Championship.

[niko_cee]

Martina must also be one of the worst players to ever get a game regularly in the Premier League. Do they not have any halfway decent youngsters they could play there instead?

Farmer Barnes continues to impress. I couldn't believe he was only 28 when I read that the other day.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tosun makes a lovely fresh donner though.

[Baz]

Martina must also be one of the worst players to ever get a game regularly in the Premier League. Do they not have any halfway decent youngsters they could play there instead?

Farmer Barnes continues to impress. I couldn't believe he was only 28 when I read that the other day.

He really is shocking.

Remember that pearler he scored past Arsenal though?

Edit:

[John]

Ashley Williams is thick as fuck.

Jamie Redknapp has just asked Thierry Henry to confirm he'd used 'prerequisite' correctly. I'm not sure where we are.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm not sure how I feel about Paddy Power's depiction of a 'youth IT team in Burkina Faso' being some people standing outside a straw hut with a goat bleating in the background.

[Giggles]

I'm not sure how I feel about Paddy Power's depiction of a 'youth IT team in Burkina Faso' being some people standing outside a straw hut with a goat bleating in the background.

Is it only select countries that can get the stereotypes?

[Lewis]

To be sure.

[Giggles]

Innit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is it only select countries that can get the stereotypes?

It's not that, it's that he's not going to be doing much IT from a straw hut, so the premise of the advert is mince.

[-james-]

West Ham are absolutely rancid. They're definitely going to get SUCKED INTO IT at this rate.

[Lewis]

I hardly ever look at the table, but Everton Twitter SEETHING at Big Sam inspired me to do so. What a load of absolute crap we have in the bottom twelve.

[Baz]

I hardly ever look at the table, but Everton Twitter SEETHING at Big Sam inspired me to do so. What a load of absolute crap we have in the bottom twelve.

Aye. City’s lead is crazy too.

They have as many points now as Arsenal finished on last season. With TEN games left.

[Giggles]

Spurs are such a dire team to watch. There's patient and there's fucking glacial.

[Giggles]

Sky pushing the fuck out if RIVALRY WEEKEND next week

Yeah mate, the grand total of one of those actually matters.

[-james-]

I hardly ever look at the table, but Everton Twitter SEETHING at Big Sam inspired me to do so. What a load of absolute crap we have in the bottom twelve.

This gets said every season. Clubs at the bottom of the table in not being that good shocker.