[FOOTY] Weekend Fixtures - a weekend full of finals, including the FA Cup's

[Reg]

I've only included a few games as it was pretty awful to read otherwise (still isn't great). For other fixtures like more cup finals and Totti's last ever game, click here - http://www.live-footballontv.com

Saturday
Scottish Cup Final - 15:00
Celtic v Aberdeen (BBC One Scotland, Sky Sports 1)

FA Cup Final - 17:30
Arsenal v Chelsea (BBC One / BT Sport 2)

Sunday
League 2 Play-Off Final - 15:00
Blackpool v Exeter City (Sky Sports 1)

SPL Play-Off Final 2nd Leg - 15:00
Hamilton Academical v Dundee United (BT Sport 1)

Monday
Championship Play-Off Final - 15:00
Huddersfield Town v Reading (Sky Sports 1)

[Magic]

That will be a stinking PO final with no winners for football or the PL.

[Waffdon]

I feel for my liver on Sunday. Mofest tomorrow and then a 9am start the next morning. Christ.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'll miss the cup final, unless my cricket team gets rolled, which we probably will. Still, I have few concerns. It's only Ray Parlour.

Exeter up please. Fuck Blackpool.

[Offshore Toon]

No poll again.

Everybody seems to be writing off Arsenal. Their defence always seems a bit shaky, so surely Kosc and Gabriel aren't huge losses?

[Reg]

No poll again.
Arsenal: 12%
Chelsea: 88%

[Lewis]

That combover on Alex McLeish.

[Lewis]

This final is almost as bad as that combover.

[Kikó]

I feel for my liver on Sunday. Mofest tomorrow and then a 9am start the next morning. Christ.

Fingers crossed. Good news that the red card was overruled.

[John Arne]

I fancy a donning today. Chelsea 4-0.

[Magic]

Was a pretty good final until aberdeen ran out of steam with 20 to go.

[Giggles]

This scotch shit is dire.

[Magic]

WTF that was a stonewall handball? :D

[Lewis]

Danny Welbeck made that attracting markers.

[Pleb]

Fucking hell what scenes.

[Giggles]

I like to think he gave that just for Luiz and Cahill being twats afterwards.

[Pleb]

Suddenly a Premier League Champions fuck up causes the MAGIC of the Cup to wake up.

[Yevrah]

This is going to hurt Arsenal quite a lot when they get turned over.

[John]

Unlike Arsenal to turn up to this extent in a game that matters.

[Boydy]

Surely Arsenal playing really well and winning this with Wenger then signing a contract extension is exactly what's meant to happen?

[Shindig]

This is intense and it's setup for so much heartbreak.

[Giggles]

Apart form the goal this has been a snooze.

[Shindig]

You can't enjoy anything, can you?

[Offshore Toon]

It's been a good game, though I can't enjoy it because of my bet.

[Giggles]

You can't enjoy anything, can you?

What? It's been chance-free dross.

[Magic]

It has been good actually. Both teams with intent unlike that disgusting Europa final.

[John]

The ball's been cleared off the line twice and Mertesacker's had to produce two great last ditch tackles to stop Costa scoring. It objectively hasn't been 'chance-free'.

[Offshore Toon]

There have been two or three very good chances at least.

[Giggles]

There was Welbeck falling over himself near the Chelsea line and a couple of nothing breaks. But yeahz I didn't realise you were all so invested. Except John, that's always expected.

[-james-]

Perfectly set up for two late Michael Owen goals, this.

[Giggles]

I didn't know either Mazzari had left Watford or Silva had left Hull.

[John Arne]

Why didn't the ref book Costa for his little paddy?

[Giggles]

Nice to see Kante having a mare for once at least.

[Lewis]

This has been a real Best of Welbeck performance, with him beating players for fun and making a shit decision/having his technique fail him every single time.

[Pleb]

That's a great dive :D

[John]

That's unbelievably stupid from Moses.

[Giggles]

The 'think of the children' reaction to the Moses dive on TV here was worth watching on for at least.

[Yevrah]

What brilliant refereeing.

[Offshore Toon]

Fantastic call. Moses looking like a twat in a high profile game might help to prevent it alongside retrospective action.

[Reg]

Moses deserves that for his cynical foul for his first yellow. I'm still a sin bin cheerleader even if no-one else is.

Oh Arsenal. Ohhh, Arsenal.

[Pleb]

The heartbreak :drool:

[Yevrah]

Rofl.

[Danny]

That first touch was lovely.

[Giggles]

Chelslol.

[John Arne]

Is their a player in the league who looks more like a cunt than Giroud?

[Yevrah]

The fucking state of that.

[Pleb]

Oh my :D

[John Arne]

Kante... more like Can'te.

[Gray Fox]

2 more years!

[Offshore Toon]

Is their a player in the league who looks more like a cunt than Giroud?
I don't mind Ronaldo being up his own arse because he's one of the greatest footballers of all time, but the way Giroud struts about makes me think he's probably an insufferable French twat.

[John]

That was absolutely pathetic from David Luiz. He's just completely ignored the play.

[Giggles]

God I hope Chelsea can score after that Ramsey sitter.

[Giggles]

Once you've Batshuayi (sp) on the pitch you know you deserve to lose.

[Pleb]

Well that was a lol fest.

[Reg]

Three in a row. That's just a bit weird.

Funny turn of events this season. Chelsea go 4-0 down to Arsenal by half time early on in the season, change their system and go on a record-equalling match winning run. Arsenal underachieve in the league but have a resurgence of form after they copy Chelsea's system and beat them in the FA Cup Final.

[Shindig]

Proven winner, that Arsene.

[John Arne]

Wonder who the Aaron Ramsey curse is going to strike.... Prince Phillip?

[Offshore Toon]

Wenger donning it. They should just sack off the Europa League and go all out for the Prem next season.

[Giggles]

Three in a row. That's just a bit weird.

Funny turn of events this season. Chelsea go 4-0 down to Arsenal by half time early on in the season, change their system and go on a record-equalling match winning run. Arsenal underachieve in the league but have a resurgence of form after they copy Chelsea's system and beat them in the FA Cup Final.

Is it? I thought van Gaal won one with Utd. Was that 3 years ago?

[Offshore Toon]

Three in a row. That's just a bit weird.

Funny turn of events this season. Chelsea go 4-0 down to Arsenal by half time early on in the season, change their system and go on a record-equalling match winning run. Arsenal underachieve in the league but have a resurgence of form after they copy Chelsea's system and beat them in the FA Cup Final.
Three what in a row? Wasn't it 3-0 as well?

[Offshore Toon]

Is it? I thought van Gaal won one with Utd. Was that 3 years ago?
It was one year ago.

[John Arne]

Fair play to Mertesacker - playing only 45 minutes all season, then comes in and performs like that.

[Giggles]

Is that next seasons away top Chelsea have changed into to get the medals?

[Reg]

Oh yeah, haha. Well, at least my observation was valid. One of them.

[Offshore Toon]

How can you dislike Wenger?

[Giggles]

How can you dislike Wenger?

The most unlikeable looking cunt of them all is Sanchez.

[Pleb]

So is that two year contract in Arsene's office?

[Reg]

Five.

[Pleb]

That's fucking hysterical :D

[Reg]

I was kidding by the way, I've no idea.

Conte 'ready to sign a contract extension' 'worth around £9.6m a year until 2021'. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/26/antonio-conte-happy-at-chelsea-arsenal-fa-cup-final

[Magic]

A 2 year contract followed by two trophyless 5th place finishes would be lovely.

[CJay]

Moses deserves that for his cynical foul for his first yellow. I'm still a sin bin cheerleader even if no-one else is.

:chief:

[Waffdon]

Lol @ Spurs

I'm still drunk from last night so feel I may die today if we go up

[Adamski]

So either you die or your club does. What a choice.

[Waffdon]

So either you die or your club does. What a choice.

We don't do walking away unlike the famous fans of Glasgow Rangers RIP

[mo]

Some ITK wag reckons Gary Bowyer is going to be announced as Swindon Town manager when the dust has settled after today's PO final. It's leftfield enough to be believable, but if it was any other club than Blackpool I'd say there is no way a manager would win promotion and then leave for a team in the league below.

[Lewis]

Is there much dislike of Blackpool in the lower divisions, or are fans too concerned with their own clubs being run into the ground by idiots to be bothered about ex-Premiership sides being abused (arf, 'cause their owner is a rapist lol)?

[mo]

I think the fan base that dislikes Blackpool the most is their own. I've never picked up on any animosity towards the fans - more concern that the same thing doesn't happen to your own club.

[Reg]

Totti starts on the bench for his last game ever. What a bizarre decision.

[Offshore Toon]

They'll bring him on in the 10th minute.

[Giggles]

Get the bets on.

[Yevrah]

Is the Roma game live anywhere?

[GS]

Totti starts on the bench for his last game ever. What a bizarre decision.

They have to win to avoid a play-off for the group stages. Bizarre indeed.

[Adamski]

He said the other day he's being forced out against his will, so not hugely surprising.

Apparently bringing him on in the 10th minute of the second half to say farewell.

[Reg]

They have to win to avoid a play-off for the group stages. Bizarre indeed.
Wow, even discussing football you're patronising?


Is the Roma game live anywhere?
BT Sport 3.

[GS]

Only when the point raised has a blindingly obvious answer.

[Foe]

Forced out against his will is a kind way of saying you're not quite good enough anymore.

Football is a business after all and he's about 40. He probably owns half of rome by now.

[Shindig]

I think he's the last man standing from that era of Serie A. Curse my old bones.

[Foe]

Buffon, surely?

[Shindig]

He started his professional career three years after Totti which always makes me think he's a little out of that group. Only a year between them, though.

[Reg]

That was a really fun game. Serie A's nothing like the stereotype.

[Magic]

Crouton beating lazio comfortably here. Empoli. :(

[Giggles]

Do they never bother running all the final matches simultaneously in Serie A, or did they just put Juventus yesterday because this round was meaningless this time out?

[Ian]

So I think I want Huddersfield to go up here. Is there are any special reason that I shouldn't?

[CJay]

Good game so far. Huddersfield look exciting.

[Lewis]

It ticks all the boxes really. Northern (Yorkshire) side, which arrests the DECLINE OF THE NORTH thesis; it will annoy Richard Scudamore to have another pokey little town besmirching the Product; Magic will be SEETHING all summer; and it might even help sink their waste of time rugby team in time for better options emerging.

On the other hand, Jaap Stam mate.

[Reg]

Magic can't be watching this one as he'd surely have had a moan by now. That was pretty dire. Both teams looking for a 1-0 / extra time it seems.

[Ian]

It got worse as it went along but Huddersfield were comfortably better and should have had at least one.

[CJay]

Danny Williams is a bit of a monster in the middle of the park. He's running riot.

[Giggles]

I thought they were playing Sheffield Wednesday.

[CJay]

Mooy for Huddersfield also looks quality. Bizarrely, he's on loan from Man City.

[Reg]

Nobody's going to score unless they all get knackered after 15 minutes of extra time.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Huddersfield are easily the better side, but their forwards are all thick cunts so they will lose.

[Offshore Toon]

Huddersfield are much better on their day. Jaap Stam called Reading the "Barcelona of the Championship" too.

[Lewis]

If Stam actually thinks Barcelona are anything other than jumped-up cunts I would be quite disappointed.

[Mellberg]

Reading were the only properly boring club to make the playoffs. They've been a cast iron nap the whole time.

[Giggles]

I've just stuck this on, so no cunt better score at this stage.

[Yevrah]

I've just stuck this on, so no cunt better score at this stage.

Ditto.

[Giggles]

Didn't these games normally get full houses?

EDIT: Ah I see now, it's just the bit right opposite the camera that's sparse.

[Magic]

Jesus what a shite final. Even sounded fucking dire on the radio. Either of these teams is going to get destroyed in the PL. Staam is a cunt and Wagner is the little tiny cock that fucks it. Pricks.

[Giggles]

Was that Dave Beasant?

[Lewis]

It's a lottery this.

[Mellberg]

The tension :drool:

[Lewis]

Was him who missed a German? Twat.

[Pleb]

That escalated quickly...

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think God intervened to stop a team with Ali Al-Habsi in goal from winning a penalty shootout.

[Reg]

When Huddersfield missed their chairman looked as if he'd burn down every player's house if they didn't go up.

I skilfully avoided extra time. I swear extra time, in any competition, is rubbish 90% of the time. Straight to penalties would be fine with me.

[Lewis]

Everyone hated golden goal at the time, but it the NARRATIVE would die for it these days.

[Weaver]

That was one of the worst games I've seen for ages.

You'd think Huddersfield are going to have to spend loads to get up to par - Wells could have a Danny Ings/Callum Wilson season in him, Mooy looks alright if they can sign him permanently and Schindler/Lowe/Hogg could 'do a job' but they need loads of work IMO.

[Boydy]

Huddersfield are up then? Good stuff.

[Giggles]

Glad to see them up out of those two. Just for Captain Picard.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What was the last team with 'Town' to be in the top flight?

[Giggles]

Ipswich? Or were Swindon after them?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ipswich were more recent, must be them.

[Mellberg]

Ipswich?

[Reg]

That was one of the worst games I've seen for ages.

You'd think Huddersfield are going to have to spend loads to get up to par - Wells could have a Danny Ings/Callum Wilson season in him, Mooy looks alright if they can sign him permanently and Schindler/Lowe/Hogg could 'do a job' but they need loads of work IMO.
I think they've got a much better shot than Reading would've had.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Whoever this Irishman is on the coverage (Andrews?) is absolutely seething at Wagner's success.

[Giggles]

Whoever this Irishman is on the coverage (Andrews?) is absolutely seething at Wagner's success.

He's always on the Tuesday CL games here. Absolute fucking dosebox, all his seething should be saved for his barber.

[Byron]

What was the last team with 'Town' to be in the top flight?

Scuadmore will be seething. Will probably insist on them changing their name to Huddersfield Harriers or something to protect the brand.

[Jimmy Floyd]

lol at the German managing a swipe at 'Olly' in his post match interview.

[Mellberg]

Happy for Huddersfield. They've been very good this season and tbh I expected them to fall out the picture after a brilliant start. Gutted for the Championship, as it takes a bit of gloss off what should be a very interesting and competitive season down here next year.

[Shindig]

That was one of the worst games I've seen for ages.

You'd think Huddersfield are going to have to spend loads to get up to par - Wells could have a Danny Ings/Callum Wilson season in him, Mooy looks alright if they can sign him permanently and Schindler/Lowe/Hogg could 'do a job' but they need loads of work IMO.

I'm done making predictions given how well Bournemouth and Burnley did.

[Lewis]

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:lol:

Context: 'Carra' posted a picture of himself with a snake and said it was Danny Simpson, so Danny Simpson posted a picture of himself in his Premiership medal. 'Carra' then lolled at him getting his wife to take a picture of him in his medal, Simpson said 'lol your wife took it mate', and then... Gary Neville is so rubbish.

[Reg]

That's a bit of a fucking strange response if you ask me.

What's the 'snake' bit about? Google didn't help me.

[Mellberg]

Simpson stitching up Ranieri.

[John]

That's a bit of a fucking strange response if you ask me.

How so? Simpson got done for choking his girlfriend a few years ago.

[Lewis]

He deleted it, the fanny. But its memory lives on.

[Reg]

Oh, see, I didn't know that. Well, my conclusion is they're both dicks.

[Giggles]

Carragher donned the fuck out him with that one. Pity he didn't leave it up.

[Gray Fox]

When Carragher has the clear moral high ground on you, you're really a fuck up to be fair.

A shame it didn't go a few tweets further though.

[Waffdon]

They've been having back and forths for a while but that topped it