http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35525846
Scottish FA actually managing to fuck up a cup draw and having to start over again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35525846
Scottish FA actually managing to fuck up a cup draw and having to start over again.
Celtic fans must be in uproar at being drawn against a stronger team second time round. @Waffdon
Delighted, lad.
Probably mthe favourite away day now. Scottish cup away day to top it off
They're a shambles. I'm hearing Andy Halliday might end up with a two game ban off the back of it.
There's not much point being so bitter when nobody on this board cares enough about Scottish football to really have an opinion on that incident.
Got yer home draw though, sir. The home:away draws since you boys reformed must be some readingOriginally Posted by John
Seems an odd decision to sack Clement, although Derby are making a bit of a habit of looking the business before promptly turning to shit. Actually, thinking about it, it's a farcical decision.
Apparently his football wasn't adhering to the 'Derby County way'.
Any ideas?
Winless in seven (in the league) would make a better reason.
"The Derby Way" sounds silly but Swansea are comparable in size, history etc and everybody accepts now that they have a way.
Clement is meant to be a very good coach so if he agreed to the "way" then you'd think he would be able to follow it. I haven't seen enough of them to judge.
That post was a joke.
The one the other day about Vardy being cautioned was genuine though, not because I'm bitter about what happened to Halliday, but because I genuinely think he'd have been slammed for it. Everything to do with football in this country is an absolute shambles at the moment, nicely summed up tonight by an inability to correctly do a fucking cup draw.
What is the Swansea way?
Short passing, safe possession.
They still do that, I assume. They certainly did for a good six or so years.
They certainly appointed similar style managers for a bit but I assume that's out the window now with Guidolin.
It's absolute wank in most instances though. Just say you sacked him because you weren't happy with results. You've spent £30m and the early signs are you're gonna bottle promotion again so you've sacked your inexperienced manager.
I would think that's the real reason. With the silly TV money (even sillier) now in the PL, it might turn out to be a cruel but good decision if they go up.
Derby and Swansea are definitely not comparable in size and history. Derby are a much, much more prestigious club.
I'm a bit surprised to see he has been sacked, he is doing an okay job.
Owners don't understand how hard a league the Championship is. They've all got pound signs for eyes looking upwards.
It is such a shit league, filled with plodders like us that don't understand or employ proper tactics. That makes it difficult to beat the shit. We ended Derby's run and they haven't won since.
Sounds awesome. Can't wait.
I loved Championship football. Obviously things are great now for different reasons but for supporters it's better down there. Easy to get away tickets, better (more interesting) places to visit, more home games, more midweek evening games.
If I were watching for the quality of football or tactical ability of coaches I'd have given up years ago.
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“We are very pleased with the outcome: a visual identity which is relevant, modern and flexible that will help us celebrate everyone that makes the Premier League. We look forward to sharing more details of our new positioning in the coming months.”
What is it about any conceivable logo that determines its relevance or irrelevance?
I didn't get to read through fully. Is that the logo or is that 4 alternate logos?
EDIT: Ah I see now.
http://www.the42.ie/new-premier-leag...92857-Feb2016/
Why are those Premier League logos placed asymmetrically on an old Windows logo?
Smallpockets would better suit The United Way, I fancy.
Mourinho should go to PSG, bide his time, have a run at winning the Champions League with them and then wait for the next decent job to come up or for football to trend back towards limited full backs and touchline bans.
He seems to be doing a decent job at Spurs and you could see him as a long term thing at Utd rather than a 2-3 year thing like Moruinho would be. Though I think they'd be better with the latter for a couple of years and see then if the Tottenham thing has fell flat or not. They're always going to be able to get him then if they want him.
Mourinho would descend further into madness at PSG I fear. Who's he gonna fight with? They'd win the league by Feb and he keep going to Man City games to stalk Guardiola.
I reckon Guardiola going to manzhshtsiteh will put ynytid even further off Mourinho because of that contrast. A more turgid style with worse players in such a RIVALRY is no good for their position in the Vietnamese cheesy snack market.
Porto are having a mare at the moment...
How have they calculated that "match price" to make Arsenal's lower than several others? Surely having the most expensive season ticket means they cost the most per match as well?
Ah, includes cup games.
Includes Cup matches and our Carling Cup games are 15 quid.
It's for 26 games.
A new badge has been announced for the Premier League this morning:
Lol.
"Also, we're going to up next season's ST price slightly because you get to watch Barcelona in a couple of weeks."
How does that work? Do they just set the price at the beginning of the season and it's hit and miss regards the cup run, or it the next seasons ST adjusted to make it back?
That video looks like they've just copied Android's adverts.
You get refunded for games which aren't used.
Well I should have said "recent history, current size". It's not really relevant what happened when Clough was there; more important is what they've done in the last decade or so.
More I see it the more I like it, it's clean. Black or dark blue would have done though.
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/pic...ar-worse/63640
I lolled at the head of design saying the process had been to "make something that works for an app icon and worry about the rest later". I saw Creative Review post about it on Twitter and assumed it was them slating it, but it was an actual quote they seemed sort of impressed with.
It does actually look fine when not weirdly cropped as in Guardian image upthread.
Still seems strange not having a main sponsor but I presume they'll just have multiple partners like the NFL does.
It'll be for some horrific reason like 'Brand Clarity'. Actually it's because they have a crap-ton of cash and want all the reflected glory for themselves.
Also lol at the guy who said it's lost its grandeur, get a fucking life mate it's a logo that everyone will forget about by tomorrow (sorry phonics but it's true).
You'd think the trend will swing back away from 'minimalism' and icon-friendly images when the graphic designers realise that anyone with Photoshop and an hour on their hands could design the same stuff for a gazillionth of the price.
Di Maria scored two absolute peaches for PSG at the weekend. We really should have handled him better. Mahow can suck my nuts, he's a great player.
The lion looks like Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.
So Clement was sacked for wanting to be promoted this season and for having a too short-term view of how progress should be made? Erm, ok.
I like that new logo, and I like the fact that they're not replacing "Barclays" with anything in the name.
Is the league not getting another sponsor? Even if you refused to sell it to Arabs they could surely get a monstrous deal these days, and whilst people might applaud the PURITY of not doing so they could give it all away to local football if they wanted to get into gestures.
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