[FOOTY] Midweek Fixtures inc. Champions League (31st Oct - 2nd November)

[Reg]

Alright, go on then, I'll make a thread. I'm out tomorrow night so there better be some riveting discussion for when I'm back.

http://www.live-footballontv.com for TV list.
http://uk.soccerway.com for fixture list inc. full Championship & Europa.

Tuesday 31st October
https://i.imgur.com/ybK8rcq.png

Wednesday 1st November
https://i.imgur.com/64JRmXb.png

Preston North End v Aston Villa - 19:45 Sky Sports Football

Thursday 2nd November
Lyon v Everton - 18:00 BT Sport 2
Arsenal v Crvena Zvezda - 20:05 BT Sport 2

[Lewis]

Scott McTominay starts, which means Ander Herrera is carb-loading (speaking of which, Big Fat Luke Shaw is on the bench) to follow somebody around all Sunday afternoon.

[Reg]

Darmian and Blind the full backs, let's get ready for some thrilling Manchester United wing play!

Mourinho has had another dig at the fans in his programme notes. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/oct/31/jose-mourinho-programme-notes-suggest-tension-manager-manchester-united-fans

Why does he go looking for fights?

[Lewis]

Where have you been? MIND GAMES.

[Baz]

Why are Red Star Belgrade not called Red Star Belgrade?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol.

[Magic]

Love Serie A at the moment. Great.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a shit penalty.

[Lewis]

It always look extra bollocks when those sort of penalties get saved. I bet Eric Bailly takes an amazing penalty. Like that Kevin Pressman one, but somehow executed with less than absolutely no technique.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why was Perotti trying to squeeze THE EGYPTIAN WIZARD'S arse in the celebration there? It looked like he was trying to dig out some nuggets.

[Magic]

I like how El Sharrawy hasn't disappeared in to the middle eastern log pile and is actually still decent.

[CJay]

Yeah I saw clocked that as well. :cab: It was a proper going over. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Atletico :D

[Lewis]

That 'keeper is cursed.

[SvN]

Great goalscoring ratio for a keeper. That's what, 2 in 5?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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I guess that's one way of coming out.

[Raoul Duke]

Berbatov's hair :|

[Magic]

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I guess that's one way of coming out.

That's so pre-Spacey.

[Bernanke]

Atletico :D

Amazing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's some hit.

Feel bad for the Qarabag massive but they've missed so many good chances.

[Raoul Duke]

Is Michael Carrick still alive? He played twenty-odd games last year and then this year he's disappeared

[Magic]

Are Sunderland really not going to beat Bolton? :harold:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chelsea are getting fisted, almost as much as Perotti on El Shaarawy.

[Magic]

Gonte. :)

[Lewis]

This United defence (or rather defending) is pretty great. I get the feeling that you could stick me and Mahow in the centre of it and the STRUCTURE (the negative of SYSTEM) would see us right, so if he buys a top, top centre-back/left-back in the summer then get ready for sixty 1-0 hummers and a treble.

[Magic]

The Chelsea defence. :D

[Magic]

Lol at those two posts.

[Magic]

Drinkwater?!! Wat. Please tell me it was 40m+

[Reg]

Are Chelsea just useless without Kanté?

[Raoul Duke]

if he buys a top, top centre-back/left-back in the summer then get ready for sixty 1-0 hummers and a treble.

Fat Luke: The Resurrection


Drinkwater?!! Wat. Please tell me it was 40m+

£35m wasn't it. Hilarious stuff.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Look at them getting destroyed by Rashford.

They had no idea how to defend him there.

[Magic]

I can't believe I didn't know. LOL.

[Raoul Duke]

Why not give Lukaku the penalty? Anyone could have blasted it down the middle.

[Lewis]

Fat Luke: The Resurrection

Cameron Borthwick-Jackson. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hattrick for Kurzawa, the PSG left back.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's amazing how well Mourinho has gotten into Griezmann's head.

[Magic]

Grayson gone. :(

[ScousePig]

What an absolutely shambolic tenure.

[ScousePig]

But less about my relationship.

[Jimmy Floyd]

lol at Team Gypo letting us off the hook.

[Shindig]

I wonder who's next for Sunderland? I doubt Allardyce could be tempted back with Everton interested.

[ScousePig]

The timing suggests someone may be lined up, so perhaps someone from within or with strong connections to the club.

Failing that, Karanka?

[Shindig]

Yeah, I was thinking that. Hopefully that's the case.

[Weaver]

Peter Reid is the favourite this morning, with Kevin Phillips and Aitor Karanka 6/1.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Christ, I didn't realise Atletico were on 3 points from 4 games. Smell you later, Simeone.

Benfica losing 4 from 4 in that group is a genuine disgrace on their part.

[phonics]

Their goalkeeper has scored twice as many goals for United as they have in the entire group stage.

[Waffdon]

I for one am shocked a team with Fabregas in a two man midfield and Cahill got fisted.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Cesc in two man midfield thing really has to stop, I'd even advocate putting a kid in there if Kanté still isn't fit.

Cahill is a ridiculous scapegoat though. He's perfectly fine.

[Max Power]

Shocked that a team would massively decline without Kante in the team. Really shocked. Never seen that before. Nope.

[Giggles]

If this Preston team is being tipped for promotion then the Championship is absolutely shite.

[phonics]

This City Napoli game is awful. Both teams look like they're playing in sludge.

[John Arne]

Can, Henderson and Milner in midfield, at home, to Maribor. Do we not have any more industrious midfielders that we could pick?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Handanovic's cousin donning Milner :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

APOEL :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Real Madrid :harold:

Zidane must be on thin ice now.

[Ian]

Which of Kane and Alli is going to have the most disappointing World Cup? Alli looks like he wants to be in the sort of form to do it properly.

[Yevrah]

Spurs. :eyemouth:

[mugbull]

Odds this ends 3-3?

[Bernanke]

What the hell is wrong with Dortmund at the moment.

[John Arne]

It's completely fucking stupid (unacceptable) that we still can't take a decent corner - we clearly are not practising them at all.

[Baz]

Grayson gone. :(Sunderland have only been in the lead at the Stadium Of Light for a total of three minutes in the whole of 2017. :roflol:

[Magic]

Sunderland have only been in the lead at the Stadium Of Light for a total of three minutes in the whole of 2017. :roflol:

Was that the previous game? Surely Larry must be a cult hero now?

[Shindig]

Which of Kane and Alli is going to have the most disappointing World Cup? Alli looks like he wants to be in the sort of form to do it properly.

Alli. Kane can always blame the service.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's completely fucking stupid (unacceptable) that we still can't take a decent corner - we clearly are not practising them at all.

Chelsea have been shit at corners for at least 15 years. Probably since Zola left. In fact I don't think many top, top teams are good at set pieces nowadays.

[Lewis]

The Golden Age of Chelsea corners was Fernando Torres being in the team to defend them.

[ItalAussie]

That's a great result for Spurs. I really hope Madrid don't win the thing again.

[Bernanke]

https://i.imgur.com/DvfWq4S.jpg

This is fun. I remember Kerlon from some FM.

[Spoonsky]

I looked up Sadick Adams and found, from today, the best match summary of all time: https://www.graphic.com.gh/sports/sports-news/sadick-adams-a-day-of-glory.html

[Jimmy Floyd]

Love that. Who needs a word count.

[Magic]

Kermit Erasmus from Russia? :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Republic of South Africa.

[Magic]

Of course.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Full survey of Africans on the list:

Sadick Adams: been back in Africa since 2010
Macauley Chrisantus: in the lower reaches of the Greek top flight
Kermit Erasmus: benchwarming at Rennes
Nour Hadhria: I can only find French-language sources on him, apparently never left Tunisia and now at mid-table outfit CA Bizertin
Rabiu Ibrahim: had a brief spell in Scotland, now in Slovakia
Sapol Mani: 13 caps for Togo, now strutting his stuff for Dacia Chisinau in the Moldovan league
Ransford Osei: never made it any further than Maccabi Haifa, now remarkably playing for Santa Claus in the Finnish third tier
Daniel Opare: had some time in Belgium although has now dropped off the radar in Germany
Abdou Razack Traoré: probably the best career of the bunch, 38 caps for Burkina Faso and a journeyman Turkish career

That really isn't a great hit rate.

[Baz]

Not even Big Sam could save this Everton lot.

[Giggles]

Evra :D


https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2017/nov/02/patrice-evra-sent-off-kicking-fan-marseille

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[Giggles]

(in before #somehowabout)

[Lewis]

:cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hero.

[phonics]

I have been watching Theo Walcott pretty much week in week out for at least 7 years and I'm still not sure what he does.

[Kikó]

Typical Weng.

[Raoul Duke]

That's Wengerball

[Guybrush]

Evra in being an arsehole shocker.

[Kikó]

Remember when he got Suarez banned for being black? Crybaby.

[John]

They've sacked him.

[Lewis]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/14/article-0-04EEF807000005DC-678_306x327.jpg

:cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Do it Mourinho.

Let him teach Shaw.

[John Arne]

Jay Bothroyd collapsed during training for Consadole Sapporo... turned out it was just a blackout, and he has since tweeted to confirm that he is ok.

[Baz]

Is he still a petulant little knob end?

[Adamski]

That’s really a question for Mike.

[Baz]

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bothroyd-tattoo.jpg

[Spikey M]

Poor mans Nile Ranger.

[Shindig]

He never should've left Serie A.

[Weaver]

They've sacked him.

He called it.

Fined €10,000, banned for all club football until July 2018 and now Marseille have sacked him.

[Magic]

Let's hope he gets done in on the street by any of those things, or perhaps all. Preferably all.

[Lewis]

Can't he go to some outlaw league and stay fit for the World Cup?