[FOOTY] Weekend Fixtures ft. La Liga's title race finale

[Reg]

Scottish fixtures. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scottish/fixtures) | Full live on TV list. (http://www.live-footballontv.com) | U20 World Cup thread. (http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1576-U20-World-Cup-South-Korea)

15:00 unless stated.

SATURDAY:
Bradford City v Millwall (L1 Play-Off Final) - 15:00 Sky Sports 1

Napoli v Fiorentina - 19:45 BT Sport 2
Sevilla v Osasuna- 20:00 Sky Sports Red Button

SUNDAY:
Arsenal v Everton
Burnley v West Ham United
Chelsea v Sunderland
Hull City v Tottenham Hotspur
Leicester City v Bournemouth
Liverpool v Middlesbrough - Sky Sports 1
Manchester United v Crystal Palace
Southampton v Stoke City
Swansea City v West Bromwich Albion
Watford v Manchester City - Sky Sports 2

Cleethorpes Town v South Shields (FA Vase Final) - 12:15 BT Sport 1

Macclesfield Town v York City (FA Trophy Final) - 16:15 BT Sport 1

Celtic v Hearts - 12:30 Sky Sports 2
Juventus v Crotone- 14:00 BT Sport ESPN
Atletico Madrid v Athletic Bilbao - 15:45 Sky Sports Red Button
Celta Vigo v Real Sociedad - 15:45 Sky Sports Red Button
Valencia v Villarreal - 15:45 Sky Sports Red Button
Malaga v Real Madrid- 19:00 Sky Sports 1
Barcelona v Eibar- 19:00 Sky Sports Mix
Lazio v Inter Milan - 19:45 BT Sport 1

MONDAY:
Pescara v Palermo - 19:45 BT Sport 1

[Giggles]

Sky showing simultaneous Spanish matches :harold:

[Lewis]

I might watch that play-off final. I seem to have missed most of it this time round, which is shit because, along with League Cup finals, they're usually the best games of the season.

[Kikó]

United xi: Perreira, Rafael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Tofu-Mensah, Tuanzebe, Dong, Ravel, Fellaini, Rooney (c)

[Reg]

:D

Who says Mourinho doesn't give kids/turtles a chance!

[Yevrah]

Is it me or did Mourinho never used to play weakened teams, whatever the circumstances?

[John Arne]

“We are going to be there to win trophies again and I’m sure we are going to win. We are far and away the best team in the league.”


:D

[mo]

Paint Pot final was weeks ago.

[Reg]

Paint Pot final was weeks ago.
Oh shit, yeah, getting confused between those trophies. They're not on my radar now that Brighton are BIG TIME.

[Raoul Duke]

Julio Arca to don the FA Vase :rasta:

[mo]

Oh shit, yeah, getting confused between those trophies. They're not on my radar now that Brighton are BIG TIME.

Standard.

Gutted that Millwall appear to have got the winner here.

[Magic]

Morison. :sick:

[Lewis]

This has been a crap match and they both deserve to lose.

[John Arne]

Why does the commentator keeping asking "Was it written...Millwall... Neil Harris... Was it written?" No, it fucking wasn't, you massive spastic.

[Magic]

Fell asleep at Napoli 1-0. :(

[Patterson]

I normally love the final day of the season but with everything pretty settled already its a bit of a rubbish one this year. I imagine the Champions League chasing trio will all win easily enough.

Who else would love to see a full fixture list of games every Saturday at 3pm forever more! Football needs it.

[randomlegend]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAWhpEvXUAApZgu.jpg:large

:drool:

[Kikó]

If Smalling starts the final...

[Shindig]

Hot talent.

[Kikó]

Good to see Phil getting a game at least.

[Lewis]

His list of youth players must have doubled this week.

[Lewis]

That Liverpool kit is nice. Proper Liverpool red as well, rather than the cherry/glossy shit they've been wearing for twenty years.

[Yevrah]

Arsenal one up.

I'll lol myself to sleep tonight if Livepool muff this, Arsenal make it and we get another 3 years of that stealing a living wanker in charge at the emirates.

[Waffdon]

Harry Kane about to score another hattrick :D

[Magic]

Koscielny off. :lol:

[randomlegend]

What a lad :cool:

[Danny]

The YOOF :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was tidy by Harrop.

[Waffdon]

Well, that's the FA Cup sealed for Chelsea if it wasn't already.

[Magic]

If Palace lose to this scum 11...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Banging.

[Lewis]

James Wilson must be sitting at home seething.

[randomlegend]

Can this team play the EL final?

[Lewis]

Can this team play the EL final?

'Wayne Rooney leads inexperienced side to European glory.' :drool:

[Lewis]

If Liverpool don't win this they deserve another European ban.

[randomlegend]

Harrop is a proper player.

[Dark Soldier]

Terry got a guard of honour mid-match when he went off hahahaha

https://twitter.com/mattmcgeehan/status/866299892456710144

[Lewis]

Terry got a guard of honour mid-match when he went off hahahaha

https://twitter.com/mattmcgeehan/status/866299892456710144

In the twenty-sixth minute. Disgraceful.

'Josh Harrop' sounds like a wanker who plays for Widnes (came through at Wigan). He'll never captain England with a name like that.

[Lewis]

Unlucky Arsenal. Unlucky Liverpool as well, since they will now spread their WARCHEST thinner and buy a load of shit 'depth'.

[Mike]

Phew!

[Serj]

I was just about to complain about Wijnaldum being desperately shit today. :drool:

[Danny]

I would have rather us chucked three more kids on tbf

[John Arne]

I don't get Middlebrough's approach - you don't stay up by siting 10 men behind the ball and hoping to grab a draw here and there - you have to win games - if they had turned just 2 of those 13 draws into wins, they stay up.

[Gray Fox]

We're always likely to chuck a goal. We need to play smart whilst pushing on. No need for gung ho.

[Mike]

If 'Boro try to score I can see us scoring a few more.

[Giggles]

Fuck sake. A shit 0-0 was the only hope.

[Lewis]

That is the worst free-kick I have ever seen go in.

[Gray Fox]

'keepers made a mug of himself there.

[John Arne]

Thanks fuck for that.

Bye, bye, Arsene.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Terry got a guard of honour mid-match when he went off hahahaha

https://twitter.com/mattmcgeehan/status/866299892456710144

That is fucking amazing :D

[John Arne]

Chelsea have a history of that shit. At time when people were having a go at us for the Gerrard adulation, Chelsea stopped a game mid-match and carried Drobga off on their shoulders :D

[Magic]

Freaks.

[Waffdon]

Shearer's record is getting molested.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Harry Kane is mental.

[John Arne]

Kane is turning into a monster. 29 in 30 this season.

[Offshore Toon]

I can see Tottenham keeping this team together for a while because I'm not sure any of them would be anywhere near as good in a different system.

[Dark Soldier]

Let's see if they can get out of the CL group stage next season :drool:

[Gray Fox]

There are still people who don't think Kane is up to much too :p

Good to see us get the job done today.

[Cheddar]

In the words of Lucas, unluckyyyy Arsenal.

[Magic]

I can see Tottenham keeping this team together for a while because I'm not sure any of them would be anywhere near as good in a different system.

Kane to RM when Ronny gets a bit older.

[Shindig]

On the plus side, Arsenal might be a good shout for the Europa next year.

[Pen]

Kane RM Diaby LM :drool:

I just pipped my mate to the FPL crown by a mere 3 points. Best fantasy football season ever (probably the worst overall, but the last few game weeks have been great).

[Gray Fox]

On the plus side, Arsenal might be a good shout for the Europa next year.

Bayern Munich will finish 3rd in their group, go into the Europa League and knock them out in the last 16.

[Lewis]

I can see Tottenham keeping this team together for a while because I'm not sure any of them would be anywhere near as good in a different system.

And they still won't win the league.

[Giggles]

Chelsea have a history of that shit. At time when people were having a go at us for the Gerrard adulation, Chelsea stopped a game mid-match and carried Drobga off on their shoulders :D

There's an overblown shit storm brewing now because Moyes has said Sunderland agreed to put the ball out in the 26th minute so they could give him the send off.

Barry Glendenning is calling for both to get points deductions :face:

[John Arne]

There's an overblown shit storm brewing now because Moyes has said Sunderland agreed to put the ball out in the 26th minute so they could give him the send off.

Barry Glendenning is calling for both to get points deductions :face:

Really? :D As stupid as it is, let's just move on and celebrate Liverpool's glorious march to 4th.

[Giggles]

Really? :D As stupid as it is, let's just move on and celebrate Liverpool's glorious march to 4th.

Should it not be fall to 4th seeing as the title was ON mid season?

[John Arne]

Good point :(

This time next year......

[Lewis]

Meanwhile, Wayne Rooney just got subbed off like it was any other game. :cool:

[Giggles]

Was going through the scores earlier and spotted this. Did that name change actually happen or is it just Google being all American?

http://i64.tinypic.com/2aajxgx.png

[Reg]

United won? How'd that happen? :D

[Offshore Toon]

Lahm and Alonso hugging everyone on the pitch as they left (at separate times as well) yesterday was probably worse than Terry's tunnel of death.

[Lewis]

That is that little gimp (Philipp Lahm) even doing retiring? You would at least stick around for the World Cup.

[Kikó]

Lahm stopped with the German team a while ago didn't he? I think he was probably sick of the German manager sniffing his armpits after every game so retired.

[John Arne]

Malaga last 80 seconds against Real. Well done, lads.

[Reg]

That is that little gimp (Philipp Lahm) even doing retiring? You would at least stick around for the World Cup.
Got the t-shirt.

[Kikó]

I don't know what's worse about the Terry thing. Whether him suggesting it wasn't laughed away, whether because it happened or whether Sunderland actually agreed to do it. The game is dead.

[Yevrah]

I'd like to see the sequence of events that led to it happening. Did Chelsea kick the ball out of play to make sure it happened in the 26th minute?

If so, the Premier League should be all over that shit.

[Magic]

I'd like to see the sequence of events that led to it happening. Did Chelsea kick the ball out of play to make sure it happened in the 26th minute?

If so, the Premier League should be all over that shit.

God you know I'd never even considered how it happened.

[Shindig]

The only way the Terry bollocks could've been good is if Wenger came on in a full kit and bagged a hat trick past a defeated John O'Shea.

[Giggles]

I'd like to see the sequence of events that led to it happening. Did Chelsea kick the ball out of play to make sure it happened in the 26th minute?

If so, the Premier League should be all over that shit.

This:


There's an overblown shit storm brewing now because Moyes has said Sunderland agreed to put the ball out in the 26th minute so they could give him the send off.

Barry Glendenning is calling for both to get points deductions :face:

So if you think Chelsea doing it would be bad...

[Reg]

Am I the only one who doesn't care about the 26th minute thing?

[Giggles]

Am I the only one who doesn't care about the 26th minute thing?

Nope, I'm with you. Insignificant game.

[Yevrah]

This:



So if you think Chelsea doing it would be bad...

Missed that, cheers Giggles.

Fucking hell, if there's one thing that sums up why Moyes was so ill equipped for the Man Utd job. Can you imagine an actual, proper manager, agreeing to do that shit.

As for a points deduction, I agree with it. I'd say fine, but that won't matter to either club so there'd be no point.

[Reg]

Was going through the scores earlier and spotted this. Did that name change actually happen or is it just Google being all American?

[image]
The name hasn't officially changed but it seems the club are pushing the Tigers thing in their branding. http://www.hullcitytigers.com

[Yevrah]

Nope, I'm with you. Insignificant game.

I'd agree the match meant nothing. But where do you draw the line with that sort of wankery? Would it have been ok if a load of cheerleaders had rushed the pitch, forming the numbers 2 and 6 with their cunts?

[Giggles]

I'd agree the match meant nothing. But where do you draw the line with that sort of wankery? Would it have been ok if a load of cheerleaders had rushed the pitch, forming the numbers 2 and 6 with their cunts?

I'd have been all for it :D

[Magic]

Haha the fact that they even asked and he agreed. :lol:

[Magic]

I'd agree the match meant nothing. But where do you draw the line with that sort of wankery? Would it have been ok if a load of cheerleaders had rushed the pitch, forming the numbers 2 and 6 with their cunts?

:D

Wonderfully unexpected finish there.

[Shindig]

I'd agree the match meant nothing. But where do you draw the line with that sort of wankery? Would it have been ok if a load of cheerleaders had rushed the pitch, forming the numbers 2 and 6 with their cunts?

Absolutely. That sounds difficult and more noteworthy.

[Giggles]

The main issue with the whole thing is Moyes being thick enough to even mention it, considering how he surely knew the press would most likely lock onto it.



.

[Kikó]

The press wouldn't dare. He'd give them a slap.

[Lewis]

John Terry claims to have 'negotiated it' with the manager, presumably by threatening to embarrass another contract out of the owner if he refused. The way to deal with all of this stuff is to ask yourself whether Roy Keane or Alan Shearer would have done it. Obviously this isn't a watertight rule for life, because you end up not researching smaller teams during World Cups because it's impossible to tell who the characters are via Wikipedia, but it works for potentially mawkish events.

[Yevrah]

You really have to be a special type of cunt to ask for, nay insist on, your own guard of honour.

[Magic]

Are we surprised that this sort of cuntish behaviour is associated with the rich Millwall?

[Yevrah]

Not really, but I thought changing into his kit to pick up a trophy he didn't play in the final of would remain as the low point... Did he not see all the meme's taking the absolute piss out of him?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I doubt he cares.

[Yevrah]

I doubt he cares.

Indeed, and it's that which fascinates me. If there's a scale that describes what condition he has, he's completely off it.

[Raoul Duke]

He's too dense to care.

Question now though - is there a way to exploit this in future betting scenarios? Is there a player who's a) retiring b) has a high enough shirt number (e.g. not 7)?

[ScousePig]

I don't get Middlebrough's approach - you don't stay up by siting 10 men behind the ball and hoping to grab a draw here and there - you have to win games - if they had turned just 2 of those 13 draws into wins, they stay up.

They were 12 points behind Swansea.

[ScousePig]

I don't know what's worse about the Terry thing. Whether him suggesting it wasn't laughed away, whether because it happened or whether Sunderland actually agreed to do it. The game is dead.

We can't have agreed to it or carried it out, we'd have messed it up.

[Lewis]

I have seen in the football media that certain pundits (Graeme Souness) cannot understand why our players are tired. A pundit is not honest if they cannot forget their colours or if they try to hide the truth from their audience. It’s not my fault if their managerial career was very poor.

His post-retirement books are going to be miles better than the Alex Ferguson ones.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39994193

It really was his idea.

[randomlegend]

That really is the height of narcissism.

[Yevrah]

Like I said, what goes through the mind of a man like that? I really can't comprehend it.

[randomlegend]

"I deserve this"

[Jimmy Floyd]

Him demanding it is weird, Chelsea going through with it is weirder, Sunderland agreeing to it is as weird as that, but Sunderland agreeing to put the ball out of play for it to happen is probably the weirdest thing of the lot.

[Kikó]

Didn't I post that yesterday?

[Yevrah]

Adolf Hitler, that man who shoots elephants and got trampled by one, Smiffy, I get how their minds work, but John Terry. Nope, I'm out.

[randomlegend]

Adolf Hitler, that man who shoots elephants and got trampled by one, Smiffy, I get how their minds work, but John Terry. Nope, I'm out.

I can believe the others, but that's a lie.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was out all day yesterday so missed it, but my mate who went to the game said Costa did a farewell lap of his own. Is that true?

Announce Morata/Lukaku/Akinfenwa.

[Max Power]

He also pretended the Premier League trophy was a giant silver penis. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN??

[Yevrah]

He's a massive twat?

[John Arne]

Didn't I post that yesterday?

Mustn't be subscribed to your posts. Fortunately, I have SMS alerts #KikoPost

[Giggles]

Moyesey is gone. That's some fucking fall from grace.

866686135182950402

[Magic]

Lol what a tragic cunt.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39999708

Thousands of pounds have been won in bets on Chelsea captain John Terry being substituted in the 26th minute of his final appearance at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

One bookmaker said it had paid out on three bets, with one customer claiming he had been paid at 100-1 on a £25 stake.

FA have to get involved now, surely?

[Yevrah]

The integrity of the sport is called into question when teams do wanky things like that anyway, let alone if people have made money from it.

[Yevrah]

I see Moyes has gone.

The bloke must be raking it in.

[Lewis]

You could only really punt a Sunderland manager if they have 'lost the dressing room'; but they need to replace everybody in said dressing room anyway, and you might as well have David Moyes building your wholly new bottom half set-up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Moyes is a curious one. He genuinely did overachieve at Everton for years (and at Preston before that), but since leaving has been useless everywhere he's been.

[Lewis]

His first couple of seasons at Everton was sort of crap, so what he needs... What he needs, right, is TIME.

[Weaver]

Spot fixing re Terry, IMO.

I'm pleased Moyes has gone from Sunderland, too. The whole club needs an overhaul, but hopefully a new manager can come in and build something worthwhile from whatever's left.

[phonics]

I see Moyes has gone.

The bloke must be raking it in.

Was so desperate to get out he took no compensation.

David Moyes has always had one crap season, one good his entire career.

[Yevrah]

His first couple of seasons at Everton was sort of crap, so what he needs... What he needs, right, is TIME.

If you're a time wasting club like Sunderland I'd have given it to him as well.

[Giggles]

Sounds like some setup.

https://www.balls.ie/amp/football/michael-gray-lamine-kone-refuses-to-play-365602

[Samadini]

Getting rid of about 15 wankers is a glorious thing. The fans should be quite excited about it all.

[Giggles]

They should have just re-hired Allardyce as soon as he got the boot by the FA.

[Shindig]

It'll be Pardew.

[Baz]

Kevin Phillips to the rescue. :cool:

[Giggles]

Club goes under investigation for betting allegations and then this happens :D

https://www.balls.ie/football/athlone-town-2-365622

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd have thought most, if not all football in smaller leagues is fixed these days.

[Giggles]

I'd have thought most, if not all football in smaller leagues is fixed these days.

This one has been really obvious though. Club was bought basically for that purpose.

http://www.the42.ie/athlone-town-fai-investigation-irregular-betting-3375781-May2017/

[Kikó]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4533966/Sam-Allardyce-QUITS-Crystal-Palace-just-six-months-in.html

Allardyce has left.

[phonics]

This sounds exactly the same as Pulis. Wonder if Sam pocketed the loyalty bonus too.

[Lewis]

He should go back to Sunderland for the long-term. Neither party can really do better.

[Max Power]

Coming Leicester I reckon

[Giggles]

Coming Leicester I reckon

Shakespeare not done enough or will the late tail-off lose it for him?

[Max Power]

Think if they were gonna give it him they'd have done it by now. Keep him on as assistant to Sam (as he was briefly for England)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/807178/Burnley-boss-Sean-Dyche-Ginger-Top-Manager-Jobs-Premier-League

Sean Dyche has played the ginger card.

[Yevrah]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4533966/Sam-Allardyce-QUITS-Crystal-Palace-just-six-months-in.html

Allardyce has left.

What an absolutely shady bastard.

[phonics]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/807178/Burnley-boss-Sean-Dyche-Ginger-Top-Manager-Jobs-Premier-League

Sean Dyche has played the ginger card.

No he hasn't he was clearly making a joke. It was on last weeks Friday show on 5Live..

[Shindig]

Oh, wow. Allardyce jumping ship days after Moyes goes. My questions are: How long and how much?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hasn't he said he's retiring from management?

[Danny]

Thats what it sounds like

[Shindig]

Give it a couple of months before winding up in Jordan.

[7om]

Sam? No, I'm not having this. I won't believe it. I just can't.

[Baz]

What an absolutely shady bastard.Apparently someone close to him was involved in the Manchester bombing, which has made him realise he's got enough money and life's too short to stress over football. Plus he's really sad, obviously.

[Lewis]

I couldn’t care less, I promise you. All I care about is celebrating with my Chelsea fans. Me and them have a wonderful rapport and have done for 22 years. Nothing that people write or say can ever get in the way of that. If that’s the way I want to go out, that’s the way I go out because I’ve been here 22 years, I’ve won so many trophies – so if I wanted to play one minute and come off, I would have done. I wanted to play 26 minutes because the shirt number means a lot to me and the supporters so as long as they are happy – and I was over the moon with the reception – I promise you I could not care less.

Twat.

[Boydy]

That reads like a Trump speech.