You like Weekend Football?

[Pleb]

Some EFL and Scottish football starting this weekend apparently...oh and a Charity Shield whatever the fuck that is.

Today
Reading-Derby (20:00) - Sky

Tomorrow
Birmingham-Norwich City
Brentford City-Norwich City
Bristol City-Nottingham Forest
Ipswich Town-Blackburn Rovers
Millwall-Middlesbrough
Preston-QPR
West Brom-Bolton
Wigan-Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Utd-Swansea (17:30) - Sky

Sunday

Leeds Utd-Stoke City (16:30) - Sky

Community Shield
Chelsea-Man City - BT

Monday
Hull City-Aston Villa (19:45) - Sky

[Giggles]

Some EFL and Scottish football starting this weekend apparently...oh and a Charity Shield whatever the fuck that is.

Today
Reading-Derby (20:00) - Sky

Tomorrow
Birmingham-Norwich City
Brentford City-Norwich City
Bristol City-Nottingham Forest
Ipswich Town-Blackburn Rovers
Millwall-Middlesbrough
Preston-QPR
West Brom-Bolton
Wigan-Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Utd-Swansea (17:30) - Sky

Sunday

Leeds Utd-Stoke City (16:30) - Sky

Charity Shield
Chelsea-Man City - BT

Monday
Hull City-Aston Villa (19:45) - Sky

It's the Community Shield for a start.

[Max Power]

It’ll always be the Charity Shield in our hearts.

Interested to see how Lampard’s Derby get on. I have a friend who is a derby fan and he is extremely excited.

[Pleb]

Fixed.

:wub:

[Max Power]

Derby a rabble early doors. Shocked that Richard Keogh still gets games at this level, absolute bomb scare.

[wullie]

When nuclear war finally breaks out and we're all scavenging and fighting off the undead, Dave Nugent will still be banging them home in the Championship.

[Shindig]

The mackems in the office are getting their hopes up a touch. Might actually keep an eye on them this season. George Honeyman is captain which sounds alright on paper. And in practice.

[bruhnaldo]

Not a single fucking EFL match on TV tomorrow but hurray the International Champions' C Team Cup will be on all day long.

At least I have my local to look forward to but I'm sure we'll fucking lose again the twats.

[phonics]

Did you guys play while the WC was on or just start again the moment it finished?

[bruhnaldo]

Nah, this dumbass league stops for nothing so we were without our best player for like 2 weeks lolol

[Pleb]

Lampard's seething.

[phonics]

Nah, this dumbass league stops for nothing so we were without our best player for like 2 weeks lolol

That wouldn't happen if you were in it, surely?

[bruhnaldo]

Looking it up apparently we took a "9-day break" at some point in the MLS schedule for the World Cup this year but I didn't notice because we had a Cup match in that time.:dirk:

In 2014, when the US were actually in it, they took a "12 day break" at the beginning of the tournament as well.

Which again, fucking useless as these dates generally line up with the first (MLS) round of the Open Cup anyways.

[phonics]

Having seen the state of your weather in the winter I kind of get the seasonal nature of it but there's got to be a better way.

[Shindig]

Have indoor stadiums caught on over there?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a lovely header.

Fuck Lampard though.

[Lewis]

Frank Lampard must be the least dislikeable top, top player we've had recently. Certainly the least dislikeable person so closely affiliated with Chelsea.

[Baz]

Why didn’t Jack Marriott play? Got a bet on him for golden boot.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mason Mount is a proper player.

[igor_balis]

couldn't find anyone to go watch west brom with me today, cunts.

wonder if i'll be able to find a stream.

[Pleb]

Sunderland :D

Scenes if they go down again.

[Max Power]

I see Harvey Barnes has scored a screamer on his West Brom debut. Watch out for him, will be a proper player.

[igor_balis]

oh christ glad i didnt go

[Shindig]

We lost to Augsburg. 9/2 for our relegation odds. Dead cert.

[mo]

Two penalties (in 96th and 98th minutes) saw Swindon scrape a 3-2 home win against Macclesfield. Not the most convincing of starts.

[Baz]

Was a good day for goals galore. Didn’t win, of course, but still there were loads of goals.

[Boydy]

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[Lewis]

That is begging to be pushed over. I saw all the shit league goals on the telly in the gym, and it got me thinking how do you even approach new seasons as a fan of half the teams in the country? It struck me watching Rotherham get twatted, not least because the travelling fans will also return home to find their kids have been groomed, but apparently they have just been promoted so whatever.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Probably devastated he didn't go now.

[igor_balis]

that boiler is fucking quality

[Giggles]

What's the idea behind such bollocks?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Their new sponsors are a boiler company. It's more and more of a thing now. When I went to Peterborough their sponsor was Mick George Skips, so naturally the mascot was a bloke in a hard hat, and the half time entertainment was trying to get someone with Down's Syndrome to kick footballs into a skip.

[igor_balis]

David Bentley's charity foundation deemed misjudged

[Magic]

Today's the day. Will be spectacular or a disaster.

[Reg]

Does that sum up how you think the season could go as well, Magic?

Good read on Bielsa: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/04/leeds-united-marcelo-bielsa

[Magic]

Does that sum up how you think the season could go as well, Magic?

Good read on Bielsa: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/04/leeds-united-marcelo-bielsa

Yep. Inclined to think disaster because that's what we do.

[Waffdon]

Man City’s midfield is about to be molested. Same for Chelsea’s full backs though.

[-james-]

This should be good.

[Trancemeister]

Chelsea XI: Caballero, Azpilicueta, Rüdiger, David Luiz, Alonso, Jorginho, Fabregas, Barkley, Pedro, Hudson-Odoi, Morata

Man City XI: Bravo, Walker, Stones, Laporte, Mendy, Bernardo, Fernandinho, Foden, Mahrez, Aguero, Sane

[Shindig]

Hope Foden makes an impression this season. Too many decent English kids get swamped until they're getting game time in their 20s for Championship clubs.

[Waffdon]

Alonso at left back is going to be even more of a bombscare than usual.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nice defending.

[Waffdon]

Alonso isn’t Championship level. Is he ever in position?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is David Luiz going to start for Chelsea this year? If so, lol.

[Magic]

Unreal so far. :drool:

[Magic]

This is the best I've ever seen us play outside the PL.

[Magic]

:)

[Lewis]

Once United are out of the title race in a few weeks, the season will become all about Leeds Good Footballing their way to the play-off final wi' all't great passin' football lark ya know, only to be GUBBED by whoever plays the most rotten shit stuff in the league ([The] Villa?).

[niko_cee]

Seeing some guy called Evandro score for Hull made me think of Evandro Roncatto. Another back-in-the-day legend who never amounted to anything, it would seem.

[ItalAussie]

I noticed the Championship had kicked off. It honestly made me double check my calendar.

[niko_cee]

Stick this in your FACT pipe. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45087444)

Sounds dubious.

[phonics]

Kroenke's completing a full takeover of Arsenal using a several hundred million dollar loan leveraged against the corporate structure. Yippee.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The fact that no one can do anything about that is properly wrong.

[Raoul Duke]

Russians getting the fuck outta dodge before it all hits the fan(s)