[Football] Weekend Fixtures - FA Cup 5th Round (Fri 16 - Mon 19 February)

[Reg]

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Friday
Leicester City 19:45 Sheffield United
Chelsea 20:00 Hull City (BT)

Saturday
Sheffield Wednesday 12:30 Swansea City (BT)
Brighton & Hove Albion 15:00 Coventry City
West Bromwich Albion 15:00 Southampton
Huddersfield Town 17:30 Manchester United (BT)

Sunday
Rochdale 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur (BBC1)

Norwich City 12:00 Ipswich Town - Sky
Hamilton Academical 14:15 Rangers - Sky
Leeds United 16:30 Bristol City - Sky

Monday
Wigan Athletic 19:55 Manchester City (BBC1)

[Jimmy Floyd]

Manchester based games on the beeb again, they fucking love a short trip for the outside broadcast van.

[Pleb]

What a shit set of cup fixtures.

Huddersfield the only possible side to cause an UPSET probably then.

[Raoul Duke]

This Chelsea team looks filthy.

[phonics]

I might watch just to see Giroud.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ampadu, du, du is class. Should get league games once the season is dead.

We go to rat shit without Christensen though so expect a comfortable Hull win.

[phonics]

Is there a different Chalobah on the bench?

edit: Bilic is punditing on BeIn Sport. :cool: He should just retire from doing the management stuff. He's so good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Trevoh Chalobah, his younger brother. Along with Dujon Sterling, the cream of the current U18 crop.

Oh and Callum Hudson-Odoi and George McEachran.

[Raoul Duke]

Trevoh Chalobah, his younger brother. Along with Dujon Sterling, the cream of the current U18 crop.

Is he related to Raheem?

[phonics]

I've been hearing the guys name for years and I'm still never not going to think of a mustard based joke there. What an awful name.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is he related to Raheem?

Don't think so.

[Magic]

Trevoh...seriously? East Midlands?

[Raoul Duke]

Holy christ, what the hell is this Ampadu? Looks like David Luiz after hitting the weed and trekking around Thailand for 6 months

[Magic]

James, then?

[Raoul Duke]

Will.I.An with a FIFA finish here

[phonics]

Something I was wondering about while watching Arsenal knock passes about like it's a 5 a side yesterday. Is there a reason big teams aren't allowed to use 4G pitches? It seemed to suit fast passing and I've noticed a similar speed of touch and pass whenever we've played on that sort of pitch, though that may be affected by the level of opposition you face on that surface.

[Pepe]

Ever tried sliding on one of those?

[phonics]

Not for years. I've never seen what those NFL fields are like though.

[phonics]

Willian is so good. Conte's non-use of him is nearly enough to earn him the sack that he so clearly wants. It's like Chelsea must have an unfairly maligned by the manager wide-forward at all times.

[John]

Holy christ, what the hell is this Ampadu? Looks like David Luiz after hitting the weed and trekking around Thailand for 6 months

You might remember him as the kid from the Bomfunk MCs video.

[Ian]

Whoever "Scott" is for Chelsea he looks like an addict.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Whoever "Scott" is for Chelsea he looks like an addict.

Having a thigh tattoo before you've made the first team isn't really a great look.

[John]

Steve McLaren on 'The Debate' just now was talking about why Aguero doesn't get a game for Man City. Just let him slip off into anonymity and fully redden his nose.

[SvN]

21 in 22 for Aguero in the league. Had no idea his record was quite that good, even if it is slightly inflated by his recent exploits.

[Shindig]

Steve McLaren on 'The Debate' just now was talking about why Aguero doesn't get a game for Man City. Just let him slip off into anonymity and fully redden his nose.

He should've stayed in Holland for the remainder of his career.

[Danny]

You might remember him as the kid from the Bomfunk MCs video.

I know you werent serious but he wasn't even born when the song came out :|

[Jimmy Floyd]

I saw something about Steve McClaren preparing a bid to buy a club the other day, having been fired by Maccabi Tel Aviv. It might all have been a fever dream.

[Shindig]

Does he have the £250m required to buy us?

[igor_balis]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43092534

THEY STOLE A TAXI

This is the best thing that's happened to us all season. It's like they know it's a proper train-wreck of a season and they're trying to see how far they can take it.

[Reg]

Our lineup looks pretty :drool: considering it's Coventry. Debut for Locadia, up front with Ulloa.

[Ian]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43092534

THEY STOLE A TAXI

This is the best thing that's happened to us all season. It's like they know it's a proper train-wreck of a season and they're trying to see how far they can take it.

I just love that it involves such a boring set of people.

[Disco]

Look at it this way, driving offences are about the only reliable way West Brom have to get any points this season.

[phonics]

You'd think Livermore would try a bit harder to keep his nose clean (lol) considering his coke addiction.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The FA Cup needs Spurs, Man U, City and Chelsea all to draw each other in the next round. Brighton v one of them would be a great final.

[Ian]

Look at it this way, driving offences are about the only reliable way West Brom have to get any points this season.

Waaaaaay.

[Lewis]

Eric Bailly is back in the squad. :cool:

[Magic]

Was there a more inevitable result than Wendies Swansea being 0-0.

[John]

Rajiv Van La Parra must be one of the daftest names around.

[Lewis]

The commentators on this United game can't seem to believe the home side are working hard and having chances.

[Lewis]

That was onside. Idiots.

[Raoul Duke]

This VAR thing is just total wank. Such a ballache, no-one knows what's happening and I still don't think that decision was right.

[Magic]

:harold:

[Giggles]

Needs to be binned. Along with the FA Cup.

[Raoul Duke]

Why are these lines not straight? Are they knocking this shit up in MS Paint?

[John]

I didn't realise the bloke doing the review was in the same office no matter where the game is. So this game is in Huddersfield and they're taking their cues from a fat idiot in London.

[Dark Soldier]

https://preview.ibb.co/byKbt7/E200_D770_1_C1_A_412_E_BFC8_15_CB9_BA0_DDA4.jpg

:happycry:

[Raoul Duke]

Cracking goal that from Lukaku :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've got Ballymena v Dungannon Swifts on the go. This is not good football.

[John]

I've got Ballymena v Dungannon Swifts on the go. This is not good football.

I watched a few minutes of that earlier. You've got to give them credit for finding a new use for the potato fields.

If you want a real laugh find a way to watch the NBA celebrity game. Bubba Watson has just come out in a sweat headband to some generic hip hop.

[Giggles]

Where the fuck is that on?

[Lewis]

The notable thing about the goals is that matey looked fired up and willing to attack them. If he looked as bothered every week it would go a long way to covering his other deficiencies.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Some mean-looking Dungannon forward has just dumped the elbow on a 17 year old opponent, earning a red card and the co-commentator's insistence that 'He's not that type of player'. It's quality fare.

And a joiner has just come off the bench.

[wullie]

Is this Irish game definitely a cup final? There's nobody there.

[Giggles]

I genuinely do want to know where it's on in case not telling me has been deliberate. I don't see it on either of my BBC's.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sky Sports.

[Giggles]

Good man. Used to go to Swifts the odd time when I lived close to it.

Interested to see if there's still as big a gap between our own and the northy stuff too. I'd presume it's got a lot closer in recent years.

[John]

Mata calling it 'Mister VAR' is adorable.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The lines for that 'offside' :harold:

Two tidy goals by Lukaku too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sheff Wed/Swansea v Rochdale/Spurs
United v Brighton
Leicester v Chelsea
Wigan/Man City v Southampton

[Giggles]

A Villa collapse would be fantastic.

[Lewis]

Sheff Wed/Swansea v Rochdale/Spurs
United v Brighton
Leicester v Chelsea
Wigan/Man City v Southampton

Unlucky Floyd.

[Reg]

United away. Woof.

Today couldn't have gone much better. Comfortable win and we couldn't have picked the scorers any better - one striker on his debut, another on his full (second) debut and a centre-back who's recently come back from heart surgery.

If we were to be picky it would be to wish Knockaert scored so that he could finally settle, be confident and happy this season.

[Pleb]

That cup draw was early.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Unlucky Floyd.

It's the worst draw imaginable.

[Lewis]

Without any genuine, giant-killing upstarts in there you might as well have that draw. Chelsea vs Leicester is hardly an interesting final.

[Shindig]

Just seen the VAR decision. He was off. Strictly speaking.

[John]

Analysing things to that degree is a bit American - and fucking hell isn't this the only arena in which that phrase is valid. If it takes four minutes and a video review to work out if someone is offside then they're onside. The rule was brought in to stop Inzaghi's dad from just pissing about in the box the full game, not for this horseshit.

[Ian]

The lines on that VAR review (is VAR review a RAS syndrome thing?) were a bit good.

Also the BBC commentary at the final whistle was the pits. "The initials of FA Cup aren't all we'll be talking about, we'll be talking about V-A-R." Fuck off.

[Giggles]

Sky really need a Sky Sports Leeds United channel. They seem to be on every fucking week.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm sure every Championship game they show is some combination of them, Aston Villa and the Sheffield pair.

I watch the Championship live games pretty much every week and I haven't seen Millwall all season, barely seen Fulham once or twice, Brentford never, Preston maybe once, Reading never (thankfully), Barnsley once max.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nice finish to the derby there. Norwich's manager still looks like a hunter-gatherer though.

Next up in today's Super Sunday of absolute shite is Hamilton v Rangers, I can't wait.

[John]

If you just focus on the left foot of Sean Goss you'll have a lovely afternoon.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hamilton is the strangest team I've seen for a while. A bizarre mixture of a couple of very decent-looking teenagers with at least three absurd, lumbering Greeks.

[Giggles]

:D

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[John]

Decent comedy goalkeeping there.

Declan John to cut inside and score a right footed goal at the near post would be a decent bet here. The sort of game in which he excels.

We are an utter bombscare at the back.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is a quality match tbf. 1-1, then the Hamilton keeper quite literally threw one in, and now it's 2-2 after 22 minutes.

[John]

It's a shame Daniel Candeias doesn't have much to his game. One of the few current players capable of putting in a good cross on a regular basis. He'd be in the Premiership if he was capable of anything else.

[Disco]

The pitch looks almost as bad as some of the defending, every butcher in town must be closed on matchdays.

[John]

I really like Greg Docherty. He's not great technically but he seems to be everywhere at all times and does the simple things well.

[Giggles]

Tottenham are completely aimless with that lump Llorente up front.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bobby Madley is such a bad referee. Always gives things late after he's seen the reaction.

[igor_balis]

I reckon there'll be a Rochdale red card at some point.

[Pleb]

Tottenham are having a MELTDOWN here.

[Giggles]

Rose is as useless with the ball as Walker used to be before 'Pep' fixed him.

[Giggles]

I presume that's a big reflection on the directors box windows and not screens.

[Pleb]

That was tasty.

Shite defending there.

[Giggles]

Tottenham are having a MELTDOWN here.

:nodd:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Rose is as useless with the ball as Walker used to be before 'Pep' fixed him.

He needs a half time hook here and probably shouldn't play again this season. Looks bored, uncommitted and time after time they've just worked it down his side and got the cross in.

[Giggles]

A performance like this from Rochdale must sicken a manager though. Especially when they switch back off next week in the league.

[Magic]

This is the worst we've played this season. Good to see that NEW MANAGER BOOST in full effect.

[phonics]

The Busby Babes Mk. 2 appear to be losing to Rochdale after needing 2 games to get past Newport. Weird that.

[John]

You bitter nugget.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fat lad :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't think I dislike any current footballer more than Dele Alli. He just has a face that screams nasty human being.

[Magic]

Yids. :harold:

Dav will be loving this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The best part of the game was the BBC desperately turning the mics down when the travelling fans sang any song with the word 'Yid' in it.

[Magic]

Fucking hell how did we draw that. :D

[Giggles]

Fucking turned it off at 1-1.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Some interesting stuff on Sunday Supplement about Pogba. Reckon they'll sell him to PSG in the end.

[Ian]

What were they saying? I've seen lots of "Oh well they're not using him right!" but very few suggestions about where it's going wrong. It's a shame, he's our best player when he's on it.

EDIT: Though now I say it, I don't think he's ever been "on it" during one of the really big games, though I may be being forgetful. We got better when he came back from injury though.

[Giggles]

He's just not the player they need him to be, especially at the price. He was never going to be.

[Ian]

It's weird that in hindsight the money spent on him means even less than it did at the time.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They were basically saying:

a) his 'illness' yesterday was clearly bullshit and there's clearly some problem between him and Mourinho

b) he is being far too overindulged with regard what position he plays, and they made the comparison that could you imagine Keane, Vieira, Souness etc saying 'ooh I need to play on the left of a 4-3-3'. They then blamed Woodward and his equivalents at other clubs basically encouraging certain players to believe they are bigger than the club with all the social media and marketing bullshit.

Especially on the second point I fully agree.

[Reg]

What were they saying? I've seen lots of "Oh well they're not using him right!" but very few suggestions about where it's going wrong. It's a shame, he's our best player when he's on it.

EDIT: Though now I say it, I don't think he's ever been "on it" during one of the really big games, though I may be being forgetful. We got better when he came back from injury though.
Mourinho has replied specifically to the tactical stuff (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/16/jose-mourinho-paul-pogba-leave-manchester-united-lies) which seems unlike him. Wouldn't he usually just call Jamie Redknapp a muttonhead and move on? Something like the Ferguson "He's a fucking great player. You're all fucking idiots."

[Giggles]

Mourinho has replied specifically to the tactical stuff (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/16/jose-mourinho-paul-pogba-leave-manchester-united-lies) which seems unlike him. Wouldn't he usually just call Jamie Redknapp a muttonhead and move on? Something like the Ferguson "He's a fucking great player. You're all fucking idiots."

Because he's clearly not.

[Ian]

Jimmy Floyd
Is there a point that those players in point b) weren't playing when everything was so tediously rigid, tactically? That's both a minor exaggeration and a genuine question, rather than a rhetorical one.

Did ANY player back then get excused / make the excuse of not being played in the specific position they really fancied?

When players were bought from abroad and they flopped they were just a flop. There weren't (the same number of) dickheads claiming that it'd all be okay if they were being played as an enganche.



Mourinho has replied specifically to the tactical stuff (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/16/jose-mourinho-paul-pogba-leave-manchester-united-lies) which seems unlike him. Wouldn't he usually just call Jamie Redknapp a muttonhead and move on? Something like the Ferguson "He's a fucking great player. You're all fucking idiots."

Yeah, it's not like him to get quite that into it. Though he's been on a fluctuating meltdown since his second Chelsea stint so who even knows.

[Reg]

Giggles Whether or not that's the case, I wouldn't have thought that'd usually matter to Mourinho.

[Lewis]

I seem to remember Steven Gerrard needing particular formations to get the best out of him. Frank Lampard too. And don't we all sit around now pontificating about how Paul Scholes should have been the basis of the entire England team? Sounds like a bunch of twats talking shit.

[Lewis]

In fact literally everything you read about Paulp Ogba (with regards to matters on the pitch) was said by TTH about Gerrard a decade ago. Then Liverpool indulged him and he was arguably the best player in the country. Why the manager persists with his midfield two I have no idea, but building a 4-3-3 around him is hardly down to Twitter and money.

[Magic]

I seem to remember Steven Gerrard needing particular formations to get the best out of him. Frank Lampard too. And don't we all sit around now pontificating about how Paul Scholes should have been the basis of the entire England team? Sounds like a bunch of twats talking shit.

The England diamond chat was among the worst football related conversation ever. It was so...absolutely dull. The phrase 'world class midfielder' was the mainstay of that discussion for 10 years.

[Adamski]

It's a shame Daniel Candeias doesn't have much to his game. One of the few current players capable of putting in a good cross on a regular basis. He'd be in the Premiership if he was capable of anything else.

His fitness, work rate and tracking back are all excellent too. Only things really lacking are finishing and a bit of decision making.

[phonics]

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Quality. He's laying him out.

[Giggles]

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[Pepe]

That's pretty good.

[Reg]

This (https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/watch-psgs-neymar-pulls-some-delicious-skills-against-strasbourg) is the sort of thing that's probably convincing Neymar that he can do it all alone in the Champions League by doing a bunch of tricks, and never passing to Cavani and pretty much only to his mate Alves.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The media are complicit because their only way of pulling in cash is clicks, and morons apparently want to watch Neymar play football like a performing seal against a bunch of orphans in berets.

[Reg]

This Wigan-Man City game has actually been good and it's set up nicely for the second half. 0-0, City dominating and Wigan with decent counters, Delph sent off just before half-time, and the two managers shouting at each other down the tunnel.

[Foe]

The pundits showing how big club bias they are. Complete shocker from Delph and yet they don't seem to think it worthy of a red.

[SvN]

I don't think it was a red, but it's not a mental decision, like they're making out.

[Foe]

You are not invited to the next TTH kickabout if you think that is an acceptable challenge.

[Lewis]

lol at Danilo throwing himself all over trying to level it up.

[Magic]

I'd be terrified over playing the scintillating KDB against these horrible Whelan pie eating cunts.

[John]

De Bruyne is comfortably the best deliverer of a dead ball in world football at the moment. No one else within a hundred miles of him.

[Pleb]

Woof.

[Magic]

Fuck right off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUlSmCGj1r8

He's on fire :drool:

[Mike]

:cool2:

[John]

Absolutely laughable defending from Walker there.

[Magic]

Stunning defending by the 50m man.

Let it go after losing his man, nearly catching him then guessing he'll turn away from goal? Prat.

[Pleb]

Fuck right off.
You having a MELTDOWN mate?

[SvN]

:D

[Shindig]

Well left. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fucking lol if they fuck the quadruple at Wigan.

[SvN]

Let's hope for a 96th minute equalizer incorrectly ruled out by VAR.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is where English football is great, Wigan just indulging in desperation and lunging here. Argies would be going down holding their face etc.

[Lewis]

'KDB' wants to be having as many shots as possible, not trying to put these other tits in.

[Magic]

Ah yes Jermaine Jenas giving MoM to a guy that's touched the ball once. Excellent.

[Pleb]

What scenes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol at playing Oasis at the final whistle too.

[Magic]

Pitch invasion? Fuck me. Tinpot as fuck.

[Kikó]

Wigan :cool:

[SvN]

Wonderwall at the whistle has to be a piss take :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Magic of the cup. Lollest thing to happen all season.

We should dampen the BIGGEST UPSET EVER hype that will no doubt start though, Wigan are good enough to be a top half Championship side.

[John]

That's grade A trolling from the stadium DJ. Magnificent stuff.

[Pleb]

That's a yellow card for Delph :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Watching it for the first time. Definite red. Excessive force.

[Reg]

That was fun. One of the better cup ties I can remember from the last few years.

He works hard but Danilo is comfortably Man City's worst player each time I see them.

[Magic]

Aguero trying to deck a Wigan cunt? :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Ban the prick.

[Giggles]

Never knew that's where Cook ended up, he'd done brilliantly here managing Sligo Rovers but hadn't heard tell of him since he left.

[Giggles]

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:D

Ban the prick.

Wouldn't blame him.

[Lewis]

I think the ideal run from here is United beating Tottenham in the final, and doing so with a properly negative performance. I imagine Jose Mourinho would prefer to see Antonio Conte off with a lol, but it must be a tough one for him.

*loses to Southampton in the semis*

[Giggles]

I'm sure every Championship game they show is some combination of them, Aston Villa and the Sheffield pair.

I watch the Championship live games pretty much every week and I haven't seen Millwall all season, barely seen Fulham once or twice, Brentford never, Preston maybe once, Reading never (thankfully), Barnsley once max.

Fucking Leeds again tonight.

[Magic]

Tomorrow tattie man.

[Giggles]

Still.

[Shindig]

I'm trying to remember how often they shown us last season.

[Andy]

Now I have to go to Wigan on a Friday night to see us stink it up.

[phonics]

On Monday we had one national newspaper journalist (http://www.football365.com/news/spurs-are-busby-babes-shanklys-liverpool-and-fergies-best) claiming that Tottenham were enjoying a golden era to rival the Busby Babes, Bill Shankly’s Liverpool and Sir Alex Ferguson’s great swashbuckling Manchester United sides. He suggested we watch this great Spurs side – then fourth in the Premier League and now fifth – while we still can. Were City to win all four trophies – or even only two or three – it will not be Tottenham’s valiant over-achievers (http://www.football365.com/news/f365-says-spurs-soared-above-potential-humiliation) that we will tell our children about. Pay attention people, we may be watching history being made.

I'll be telling my kids about the time Will Grig caused Man City to have a massive chimpout for years to come.

This is quite annoying really as it probably means they'll be more up for the final on Sunday.

[phonics]

I've just seen someone on 5Live call that win bigger than the time they won the FA Cup :cab:

Yes a win over the same team in the fifth round at home is bigger than winning their only trophy ever.

[Kikó]

Quality gap wise it is. It's an incredible result and they've knocked out three premier league teams already.

[Magic]

Remember when we dicked you cunts at Old Toilet? :drool:

[Danny]

Hard to forget. You still live off it.

[Magic]

January 3rd, remember the date.

[phonics]

Quality gap wise it is. It's an incredible result and they've knocked out three premier league teams already.

Than winning their only trophy in 86 years?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43132301

West Ham have been charged by the Football Association over a breach of anti-doping regulations.

"It is alleged the club failed to ensure its 'club whereabouts' information was accurate on three occasions within 12 months," said a statement on the FA website.

:cab:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Than winning their only trophy in 86 years?

It's a bigger shock/upset.

The cup win is their greatest moment.

[Kikó]

January 3rd, remember the date.

Jermaine Beckford?

[-james-]

City vs Inter in the Youth League is on BT Sport. Half time and it's 1-1.

City have tried to play pepball, have had about 80% possession but created one chance all half. Inter are, man for man, about double their size and operating a 6 man deep block.

Inter goal came after their keeper hoofed it upfield and it ended up with the City keeper. He tried to play it out, got closed down and it flew in behind him.

City equaliser came from a penalty after Lukas Nmecha went down under the faintest of contact, which about sums them up

Mon Inter.

[-james-]

Jens Odgaard is probably Inter's best player but he has one of those weird runs like that one kid you knew at school. Looks so laboured. Probably because he's 18 years old and 6ft 2.

[Magic]

Jermaine Beckford?

:)