New Weekend Football thread...EVERYONE REJOICE!!

[Pleb]

Leeds-Boro on tonight Magic also international break next week including some random tournament! (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1270-FOOTBALL-UEFA-Nations-League)

Saturday
Leicester City v Liverpool - 12:30 (Sky)
Brighton v Fulham
Chelsea v Bournemouth
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Everton v Huddersfield
West Ham Utd v Wolves
Man City v Newcastle Utd - 17:30 (BT)

Sunday
Cardiff v Arsenal - 13:00 (Sky)
Burnley v Man Utd - 16:00
Watford v Tottenham - 16:00 (Sky)

You all love a weekend thread :cool:

[Baz]

12:30 Saturday kickoff is probably the best timeslot.

No Vardy too. What a day!

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45369322

This is all a bit tragic now. He's completely lost it.

[Magic]

Tough game. My 3-0 bet looking pretty stupid now.

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45369322

This is all a bit tragic now. He's completely lost it.

A bit (more) brilliant you mean. They'd better not do anything stupid like lose to Burnley. Long may it carry on. His obsession with Klopp is next level.

[Boydy]

0-0 draw with Burnley.

[Magic]

Horrible, difficult game. Would take the point all day long though.

[SincereTheRebel]

When is the Son playing to win in order avoid his military time?

[Giggles]

Went to Shelbourne tonight. Fuck the First Division is bad.

[Shindig]

If we win, House of Fraser goes bankrupt.

[Kikó]

I hope they end the Mourinho misery cycle soon. It's genuinely unbearable.

[Yevrah]

A bit (more) brilliant you mean. They'd better not do anything stupid like lose to Burnley. Long may it carry on. His obsession with Klopp is next level.

It's tragic, completely tragic.

That sort of rhetoric works when you're nailing it, but looks very desperate otherwise.

[Baz]

Redders, Kelly Cates and HESKEY in the studio. :drool:

[Waffdon]

How is Wes Morgan still earning a living?

[Waffdon]

That Mendy is a Kante regen if I’ve ever seen one.

[Boydy]

Who's on co-commentary on Sky?

[Waffdon]

Carragher.

[Boydy]

I thought it might be but he sounds even more scouse than usual.

[Gray Fox]

He takes the edge off and talks really slowly in the studio.

[Magic]

:D

Get Karius back in.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:D

Beautiful.

[Trancemeister]

Allison :D

[Mike]

Oh dear

[Magic]

Carragher does sound totally different commentating. Jesus.

[Baz]

Liverpool look like they don’t know what to do. Blow the final whistle ref. :uhoh:

[Trancemeister]

Willian instead of Pedro only change for Chelsea today.

[phonics]

Is there anything more satisfying than a keeper doing a Cruyff turn and getting robbed?

[Trancemeister]

Crystal Palace XI: Hennessey, Wan-Bissaka, Kelly, Sakho, Van Aanholt, Milivojevic, McArthur, Townsend, Schlupp, Ayew, Benteke.

Southampton XI: McCarthy, Soares, Vestergaard, Hoedt, Bertrand, Hojbjerg, Lemina, Redmond, Elyounoussi, Ings, Long.


Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Holgate, Zouma, Digne, Davies, Schneiderlin, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Calvert-Lewin, Tosun.

Huddersfield XI: Lossl, Hadergjonaj, Schindler, Zanka, Kongolo, Lowe, Mooy, Billing, Van La Parra, Diakhabby, Mounie.


Chelsea XI: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Luiz, Rüdiger, Alonso, Jorginho, Kanté, Kovačić, Willian, Hazard, Morata.

Bournemouth XI: Begovic, Smith, Francis, Ake, Cook, Rico, Gosling, Lerma, Fraser, King, Wilson.


West Ham XI: Fabiański, Fredericks, Diop, Balbuena, Cresswell, Sánchez, Wilshere, Snodgrass, Antonio, Anderson, Arnautović.

Wolves XI: Patricio, Doherty, Bennett, Coady, Boly, Otto, Moutinho, Neves, Costa, Jota, Raul.


Brighton XI: Ryan, Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bong, Knockaert, Propper, Stephens, Gross, March, Murray.

Fulham XI: Bettinelli, Fosu-Mensah, Odoi, Mawson, Le Marchand, Seri, McDonald, Anguissa, Schurrle, Mitrovic, Vietto.

[Trancemeister]

Zaha not even on the bench today.

[Mike]

Another win.... phew

[Pleb]

What did Liverplol do now?

[Giggles]

What did Liverplol do now?

End up in a bus fireball somewhere on the A50 with any luck :yn:

[John Arne]

What did Liverplol do now?

Play 4, won 4.

[John Arne]

South Korea have beaten Japan, so it looks like Son Heung-min will avoid military service.

[-james-]

Raul Jimenez is an utter donkey.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/624/cpsprodpb/0B45/production/_103258820_gettyimages-1025808914.jpg

The face of a man who doesn't have to spend 2 years in the army.

[Shindig]

Ki only got six weeks.

[Giggles]

Why would one get 6 weeks and one get off completely? Don't they all get away with it now?

[-james-]

Ki got 6 weeks because he was part of the Olympics squad that won a bronze.

[Spikey M]

Such a backwards country.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why would one get 6 weeks and one get off completely? Don't they all get away with it now?

They don't.

Park Chu-Young (former Arsenal player) got out of it by claiming residency in Monaco, he was dropped from the national team and was forced to apologise.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/06/14/2012061401333.html

There have been others who gave up their South Korean passports to get out of it and they can't get it back now.

[Giggles]

Such a backwards country.

It's ridiculous.

[Giggles]

They don't.

Park Chu-Young (former Arsenal player) got out of it by claiming residency in Monaco, he was dropped from the national team and was forced to apologise.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/06/14/2012061401333.html

There have been others who gave up their South Korean passports to get out of it and they can't get it back now.

So is Son the only one that got let off this time?

[Shindig]

There's others. If you play football for the two sides owned by the military, game time counts towards it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So is Son the only one that got let off this time?

Hwang Hee-Chan (chased by Spurs but was a bit shit in the World Cup) too I'd assume.

[Magic]

Lawl transferred Sterling now he scores. Shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was great by Sterling.

[Shindig]

Can we just forfeit this entire season?

[Magic]

What exactly is Benitez game plan here? Damage limitation? Imagine getting yourself motivated for that.

[Lewis]

I am a MASSIVE fan of that Korean. Forward-thinking United would already be tapping Smallpockets up and promising to take him with.

[SincereTheRebel]

These S.Koreans are soft. I thought that part of the world did things for honour. Yubitsume, kamikaze and all the other stuff.

I didn't see the game but I see The Curse scored a last-minute winner for Wolves. Its early in the season but top-half superb.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yedlin :cool:

Shit celebration though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Could the keeper have gotten to that or am I being a bit unfair?

[Spikey M]

Yours wouldn’t have.

[Pleb]

:D

[Lewis]

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Legend.

[Shindig]

Why hasn't that happened sooner?

[Waffdon]

Gerrard’s turned Rangers into a team of right snide cunts.

[John]

Much prefer that to being on the receiving end of unpunished snide shittery, as has been the case the last two years. We'd have been about eight nil down in this game last year.

[Giggles]

Gerrard’s turned Rangers into a team of right snide cunts.

Build a team in your own image they say.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you'd told me on the 0-2 Chelsea day that Brodgers and Gerrard would soon be rival Old Firm managers, I would have lolled my head off.

[Waffdon]

Much prefer that to being on the receiving end of unpunished snide shittery, as has been the case the last two years. We'd have been about eight nil down in this game last year.

Always the victims, eh. Good to see Stevie G is rubbing off on you lot.

[Waffdon]

Up the Ra :cool:

[Shindig]

I'm still surprised Rangers haven't quite got back to par with Celtic after their exile.

[John]

Always the victims, eh. Good to see Stevie G is rubbing off on you lot.

You should at least try to make sense.

[John]

I'm still surprised Rangers haven't quite got back to par with Celtic after their exile.

Why? They had five years of uninterrupted Champions League money while we were halving the price of season tickets and playing Elgin.

[Shindig]

I dunno. I guess I look at Scotland's talent pool and assume there's enough for Rangers to scramble a decent side together. Probably should've thought otherwise when they were taking our reserves.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Arsenal :lol:

[Yevrah]

What's Wenger doing with himself these days? Did they move him upstairs or sensibly bin him off entirely?

[SincereTheRebel]

He was in Liberia collecting awards from President Weah last week.

I dont think he has any business with Arsenal anymore. They are still adopting his philosophy though. This guendozi** dickriding is strange. He is exactly the same as Wilshere but with a perm and a right foot. Nothing special.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is conceding a goal away from home worthy of mirth? It happens a fair amount.

[John]

Warnock celebrates like someone's mate who's found himself in the pub for the game but doesn't quite know what's going on.

[randomlegend]

Fellaini starting....jesus fucking christ.

[Pepe]

:cool:

[John]

Souness looks sick to death of Defoe's every third word being 'probably' already and the game they're there to do hasn't even kicked off yet.

[Kikó]

Big win today.

[John]

'And he can tell everybody, that is his stand' is definitely the worst bit of obviously scripted commentator time filling I've ever heard.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lukaku trying to save Mourinho.

[randomlegend]

Well that was fucking stupid from Rashford.

[John]

Rashford was only really good for about ten games when he first appeared. He's been below average at his best since then.

It's a shame, because in those first ten games he looked like a genuinely great talent.

Barcelona one nil down at home to newly promoted Huesca after three minutes.

[John]

Been thinking for a while that Alli has an oddly familiar gait, and it's just struck me who he's like. It's a lumbering Aaron Lennon.

[SvN]

That's a definite red, poor decision in my view.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watford are winning the league :nodd:

[Reg]

Was very impressed with Seri yesterday. Not an original thought by any means but how did they get him? Will be playing Champions League football next season, I think.


Rashford was only really good for about ten games when he first appeared. He's been below average at his best since then.

It's a shame, because in those first ten games he looked like a genuinely great talent.

Barcelona one nil down at home to newly promoted Huesca after three minutes.
Have you (or has anyone else) tried Eleven Sports? They've got the La Liga and Serie A rights here. I've got a trial to see how it is (very good so far).

[Giggles]

Was very impressed with Seri yesterday. Not an original thought by any means but how did they get him? Will be playing Champions League football next season, I think.


Have you (or has anyone else) tried Eleven Sports? They've got the La Liga and Serie A rights here. I've got a trial to see how it is (very good so far).

They finally have Chromecast support so it should be more usable now. Watched some golf on it but it was very choppy and unreliable.

[SincereTheRebel]

Rashford was only really good for about ten games when he first appeared. He's been below average at his best since then.

It's a shame, because in those first ten games he looked like a genuinely great talent.



Sounds like Welbeck. Without checking the stats, I would gamble that Welbeck has more goals, assists and every other relevant attacking stat during his time at man utd At the same age.

[phonics]

Is conceding a goal away from home worthy of mirth? It happens a fair amount.

Literally every goal Arsenal concede gets treated like a crisis by the media. They should be unbeaten by anyone below the top 6 and also win at least 8 of the games against the teams above them.

Spurs lost to Watford 2-1 away which is the same result as when Troy Deeney said Arsenal were crap and lacked balls. It'll be interesting to see what excuse they come up with because it's okay for Spurs to lose.

[Lewis]

Yeah. Still in the job. Season starts NOW.

[Kikó]

Decent today. Better organisation and better attacking movement. Shame Rashford got drawn into Bardsley who is a player who knows how to wind players up and he won today.

Onwards.

[mugbull]

Literally every goal Arsenal concede gets treated like a crisis by the media. They should be unbeaten by anyone below the top 6 and also win at least 8 of the games against the teams above them.

Spurs lost to Watford 2-1 away which is the same result as when Troy Deeney said Arsenal were crap and lacked balls. It'll be interesting to see what excuse they come up with because it's okay for Spurs to lose.

Lmao

[Giggles]

One season of them finishing higher than Arsenal completely broke phonics.

[Raoul Duke]

Barcelona one nil down at home to newly promoted Huesca after three minutes.

Finished 8-2 to Barca :D

[SincereTheRebel]

One season of them finishing higher than Arsenal completely broke phonics.

Isn't it two in a row?

[phonics]

One season of them finishing higher than Arsenal completely broke phonics.

There were calls from journos for Emery needing to worry about his job after losing to Man City and Chelsea. Jose Mourinho should be out of a job because they lost to Brighton. Why aren't there similar clamourings after Spurs lost? It's almost like there's one set of expectations for clubs that the media know they will get clicks from and a different set for others.

[Giggles]

There were calls from journos for Emery needing to worry about his job after losing to Man City and Chelsea. Jose Mourinho should be out of a job because they lost to Brighton. Why aren't their similar clamourings after Spurs lost? It's almost like there's one set of expectations for clubs that the media know they will get clicks from and a different set for others.

Presumably because no matter how many games Spurs win, they'll still always really be losers.

[Lewis]

And the Jews control all the newspapers.

[phonics]

And the Jews control all the newspapers.

You've come round on Corbyn then?

[Lewis]

As Diane Abbott said, even a stopped clock is right once a day.

[phonics]

Will that Mustafi goal have all the pundits saying man marking is useless?

[mugbull]

Every time Spurs lose there’s plenty of articles about how Spurs have a losing mentality. If youre spending all day on the Gooner twittersphere I’m not surprised youd develop a victim complex

[phonics]

Every time Spurs lose there’s plenty of articles about how Spurs have a losing mentality. If youre spending all day on the Gooner twittersphere I’m not surprised youd develop a victim complex

Out of my 224 follows, 5 of them are Arsenal based. This is just a very clear and obvious thing. Arsenal conceded a goal and you've got mahow giving it the emojis. They're judged on totally different scales considering their recent histories.

The Guardians reaction piece today was Mezut Ozil played well but he should be playing even better. Like what is the expectation game we're playing?

[SincereTheRebel]

You just need to make sure your team finishes above Tottenham. That is the most important thing.

[Mazuuurk]

Every time every "top" or "big" team lose, everyone is using crisis-talk in media, and everyone who is supporting or involved with the club targeted goes "but WHY are you all only talking about US!?" - just like Mourinho is going on about right now.

I don't understand why everyone always get so prissy when other people criticise their clubs, while they generally feel happy to do that themselves. I guess it's a bit like when people only accept criticism of their own countries from other natives of it. Still - I don't get it.

[Spikey M]

I was just preparing a witty zinger about your country only being decent at meatballs, then I realised that’s true for both your adopted and parent country and now my mind is blown.

[Mazuuurk]

My adopted country..?

[phonics]

Every time every "top" or "big" team lose, everyone is using crisis-talk in media, and everyone who is supporting or involved with the club targeted goes "but WHY are you all only talking about US!?" - just like Mourinho is going on about right now.

I don't understand why everyone always get so prissy when other people criticise their clubs, while they generally feel happy to do that themselves. I guess it's a bit like when people only accept criticism of their own countries from other natives of it. Still - I don't get it.

Except I used an example from outside my club so I'm not sure what you're getting at.

All I'm asking is where are the 'Spurs Are In Crisis' takes considering every paper said they'd finish in the top 4?

[Mazuuurk]

Did I mention you anywhere in that post...?

[mugbull]

Prime lols. Keep going, phonics, air all the dirty laundry

[SvN]

Well and truly on the ropes.

[Giggles]

An Arsenal fan giving Spurs even a second thought is so small time.

[Kikó]

Phonics has a point. United for example will always sell more papers than what's going on at spurs.

[Mazuuurk]

Isn't that just cause they have more fans? I mean.

[Spikey M]

My adopted country..?

You’re a Turk that move to Sweden, no? Or am I confusing you with someone else?

[phonics]

That's Multi who hasn't posted here in about 4 years.

[Spikey M]

Oh. As you were.

[Mazuuurk]

:D

I'm about as classically Swedish as they come.

[SincereTheRebel]

We would do with some type of thread that is sticked that explains where everyone is from or some type of interactive map.

[SincereTheRebel]

I thought Mazuuurk was Swiss like Phonics.

Edit: I may be confusing you both you with someone else on here who is Swiss.

[Ian]

An index of where everybody is from and what their teams are in which sports.

On a side note who was that creepy bastard who wanted us to PM him all that info about ourselves?

[phonics]

No that's just you being dumb and thinking Sweden and Switzerland are the same thing.

[Disco]

We would do with some type of thread that is sticked that explains where everyone is from or some type of interactive map.

So Baz can use it for his next direct marketing scam.

[SincereTheRebel]

No that's just you being dumb and thinking Sweden and Switzerland are the same thing.

Im not implying they are the same you Swiss cheese.

[phonics]

You'd be amazed at how many do.

[John]

Except I used an example from outside my club so I'm not sure what you're getting at.

All I'm asking is where are the 'Spurs Are In Crisis' takes considering every paper said they'd finish in the top 4?

Did they? I thought the narrative around Spurs going into the season was that they'd made an arse of the summer and would almost certainly struggle to match last season.

[Pepe]

An index of where everybody is from and what their teams are in which sports.

On a side note who was that creepy bastard who wanted us to PM him all that info about ourselves?

Baz?

[Giggles]

An index of where everybody is from and what their teams are in which sports.

On a side note who was that creepy bastard who wanted us to PM him all that info about ourselves?

When was that? Don't recall.

[Baz]

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[Ian]

When was that? Don't recall.

Can't remember if it was here or at the end of the last board but somebody started a questionnaire thread that was a borderline attempt to gather identity theft information, I'm sure.

[Giggles]

1035307950993076224

:D

I shudder to think how many would actually fall for that.

[mugbull]

Probably no one

[Giggles]

Probably no one

It's 2018.

[mugbull]

Happy birthday!

[Giggles]

Didn't realise we still sent clubs to that Scottish Challenge Cup. Is that the equivalent of the League Cup or the FA Vase if you were comparing to England?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Checkatrade Trophy.

[mo]

JFH has a surprisingly terrible grasp of the English language.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I watched Scotland last night. Surely there has to be a point at which everyone agrees that that's it and football should no longer be played there.

[Shindig]

Let's at least wait for Judy Murray to be announced as first team coach.

[mugbull]

Iceland are getting utterly dismantled

End of the Golden Generation :(

[Jimmy Floyd]

I might start a long drift back towards SOUTHGATE OUT. Got to keep your opinions wrong at all times and I'm just not working hard enough at the moment.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

RIP in piece Luke Shaw.

Hopefully he doesn't eat too many cakes while out this time.

[-james-]

Harry Kane looks finished.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

England band playing You Can Make Me Whole Again/Southgate song is the worst thing they've ever done.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That attempted finish by Kane (he didn't know he was offside) was the pits.

[-james-]

It's not, but Sky's shit little Nations League style flags denoting which side is which on the score display are. Someone has paid phonics a hundred grand for that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Are they Sky? I think they're UEFA central corporate things. Look like the default ones in FM.

[-james-]

Yeah that'll be right. They're so shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So Phonics got paid even more for them.

[John]

The first twenty five seconds of the Switzerland game will be shown in black and white 'to denote twenty five years of Kick It Out.' That seems simultaneously utterly pointless and deeply misguided.