[FOOTBLL] League Cup Semi-Final 1st Legs (10/11 January)

[Reg]

Tuesday
Manchester United v Hull City - 20:00 Sky Sports 1 / Sky Sports Mix

Wednesday
Southampton v Liverpool - 19:45 Sky Sports 1
PSG v FC Metz - Coupe de la Ligue Quarter-Final - 20:05 BT Sport 3

[Reg]

FA Cup 4th Round draw (ties played over weekend of January 28/29):

Tottenham vs Wycombe

Derby vs Leicester

Oxford vs Newcastle/Birmingham

AFC Wimbledon/Sutton United vs Cambridge/Leeds

Plymouth/Liverpool vs Wolves

Southampton/Norwich vs Arsenal

Lincoln/Ipswich vs Brighton

Chelsea vs Brentford

Manchester United vs Wigan

Millwall vs Watford

Rochdale vs Huddersfield

Burnley/Sunderland vs Fleetwood/Bristol City

Blackburn vs Barnsley/Blackpool

Fulham vs Hull

Middlesbrough vs Accrington Stanley

Crystal Palace/Bolton vs Manchester City

[Offshore Toon]

If they give us a good amount of tickets I might try and get to that. If we beat Birmingham, of course, which is a wobbly one because we're shit at home.

[Baz]

What'd be better then? Liverpool vs United megafinal, or a lolfest of Hull vs Southampton?

The final is on Sunday 26th February, which always annoys me. Saturday day sesh would be awesome with a cup final to watch.

[Max Power]

No Checkatrade fixtures Reg? Fucking hell mate sort it out.

What a joke that tournament is :D

[CJay]

Stop the presses - Valencia just used his left foot!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That freekick :drool:

[randomlegend]

That's the second time he's done that on a freekick. I'd be seething my tits off if I was him.

[Ian]

Running wild!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fellainimania :rave:

That's him safe from being sold for another couple of years.

THAT'S WHAT HE'S GOOD AT!

[Lewis]

Paulp Ogba seemingly [also] being mega at free-kicks will end up making 'Zlatan' slamming them into the wall a bit annoying.

[randomlegend]

That's the second time he's done that on a freekick. I'd be seething my tits off if I was him.

And the 6th in total, apparently.

SEETHING I tells ya.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGbKMd_1NYk

[Lewis]

'He's hit that too well.'

[Max Power]

He should try and get it in the goal imo

[John]

Celtic fans turned up at Ibrox the other week in hard hats claiming our stadium was falling down. Bits of Celtic Park have blown away this evening. Posted without comment.

[bruhnaldo]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/celticpark.png?strip=all&w=625

Look at this fucking dickhead:
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/soccer-rangers-113831jpg-js291602696.jpg?strip=all&w=727

And the way this Celtic blog has gone after people for having a go lmao

http://thecelticblog.com/2017/01/blogs/why-are-sevconites-sniggering-at-celtic-park-photos-as-their-own-club-slowly-dies/

This is brilliant stuff.

[Giggles]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/celticpark.png?strip=all&w=625

Look at this fucking dickhead:
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/soccer-rangers-113831jpg-js291602696.jpg?strip=all&w=727

And the way this Celtic blog has gone after people for having a go lmao

http://thecelticblog.com/2017/01/blogs/why-are-sevconites-sniggering-at-celtic-park-photos-as-their-own-club-slowly-dies/

This is brilliant stuff.

:D They seem to be taking it well.

[Waffdon]

Liverpool's shambles of a defence will always fuck them over.

[Waffdon]

Emre Can isn't a very good player, is he?

[bruhnaldo]

Fellainimania :rave:

That's him safe from being sold for another couple of years.

THAT'S WHAT HE'S GOOD AT!

I'm fucking hysterical at the "Fellaini extended one year" notification I just got on my phone bc of this comment. They really extended him lol

[Kikó]

The mania is running wild.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell :(

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nothing more undignified than fans rounding on their own player for being crap (assuming he tries his best).

[Luke Emia]

Daniel Sturridge has to be the least Jurgen Klopp type striker in the world. I include Benteke in that as well, he just offers nothing that he is looking for. Everytime he starts we are awful and it's looking more and more likely that he plays a big part in it. He's just too lazy to ever be effective in this team. Hence why he won't start on Sunday, what's most frustrating though is that he doesn't get that.

[Reg]

Fellaini has a role as a sub. The ridiculous thing was when he was first choice / a major part of the game plan (except for a four-ish game spell including vs Liverpool when United played him as a left-inside-forward-withdrawn-targetman-maestro-hair-trequartista and opposition teams were left wondering what the fuck was going on).

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-38572335

That looks like something from the Third Reich.

Please let us ground share with QPR or something while the fascist spacedrome is being built.

[Reg]

500m for 60k seats, lol.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How long would it take us to make that back at £50 a ticket for 19,000 extra seats?

527 home games, that's how long. 21 years. And that's on the assumption we stay successful and sell the thing out, which is a dubious proposition anyway. Completely pointless waste of time, nothing wrong with the current ground.

[Reg]

You could argue it'd build the brand and make Chelsea games live on telly louder and more appealing...but it'd be a bad argument. 500m could go quite a way if spent on players.

[Lewis]

The modern Big Club requires a sixty-thousand seat stadium (in England at least, where they actually stand to fill it), and economics don't come into it (although it won't be twenty-one years if half of them are 'executive' dealies).

[Shindig]

Took us £43m to expand St. James'. Twice as much as Sunderland spent for their entire Stadium of Light.

[SvN]

£500m? There's no way that's not some sort of con.

[Kikó]

Papy Djilobodji is apparently part of the deal to make it happen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The modern Big Club requires a sixty-thousand seat stadium (in England at least, where they actually stand to fill it), and economics don't come into it (although it won't be twenty-one years if half of them are 'executive' dealies).

Why do they need a 60,000 seater? You could make that up with another couple of energy drink and noodle deals (and if the 'brand' plummets at any point, you won't be able to fill it anyway).

[Lewis]

There probably are sound reasons for packing another ten thousand parasite seats into the place, otherwise Wembley wouldn't have devoted half of the ground to them, but half a billion probably stretches those. In which case it has to purely be about status, which is something that is only going to be more pronounced with somebody like Chelsea who famously have no HISTORY at all (see also: Tottenham making a point of having a thousand more seats than Arsenal).

[Jimmy Floyd]

Well, it's been a roaring success at West Ham I suppose, so we might as well try it.

[Lewis]

Does Stamford Bridge have an obsolete name that commentators can suddenly start using in an attempt to fabricate some pre-move significance?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Of Cleves Ground, pronounced 'Clevs'.

[Giggles]

I love me a bit of Souness, but this is all kinds of :D


https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2017/01/12202432/95a484dc635c651485d618bd25ed8133.png

[Jimmy Floyd]

He knows exactly what he's doing. Triggering United fans all the way around the M25.

[Giggles]

When he's trolling that hard he should have just went all out and threw in Karius.

[niko_cee]

What has happened to Luke '15 years' Shaw?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Probably the least Mourinho player ever. We should probably buy him.

[niko_cee]

As predicted in certain quarters.

[SvN]

Shaw has been worryingly injury prone. But when he's been fit and had a run of games, he's been excellent. That's not happened under Mourinho yet. Perhaps it never will.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's a great player. Probably needs a more arm around shoulder manager though. He'd do well for Arsenal.

[Kikó]

He has no interest to sort his diet out and get fit and would rather eat pizza with his friends than be a footballer. Idiot of a man.

[Lewis]

I remember reading about him hiring his own chef to cook for him and his hangers on. Well done Luke Shaw, sorting yourse... How old are you, mate? Living with your school mates. The club should make him move in with Antonio Valencia until he forgets what banter is.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Local rumours here suggest he took a couple of his mates up there on a salary to continue being his mates.

[Kikó]

It's true. Great to be his mate. Basically paid to be a mate, what a life.

[Shindig]

There was another young kid they took on after Shaw and I can't remember his name. What happened to him?

[Jimmy Floyd]

If that means all the other local rumours about him here are true (he grew up in my home town and went to the shit comp here), then he's also both thick as shit and a massive cunt.

[Shindig]

Nick Powell. He's at Wigan now.

[John]

Powell was long before Shaw. I don't think I've ever seen him have a good game.