Football, innit (24th. 25th & 26th Nov)

[mo]

Sat, Nov 24 2018

Brighton & Hove Albion v Leicester City

Fulham v Southampton

Everton v Cardiff City

Watford v Liverpool

Manchester United v Crystal Palace

West Ham United v Manchester City

Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea

Sun, 25 Nov 2018

AFC Bournemouth v Arsenal

Wolverhampton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town

Mon, 26 Nov 2018

Burnley v Newcastle United

Championship

Sat, 24 Nov 2018

Rotherham United v Sheffield United

Preston North End v Blackburn Rovers

Wigan Athletic v Reading

Sheffield Wednesday v Derby County

Hull City v Nottingham Forest

Millwall v Bolton Wanderers

Swansea City v Norwich City

Stoke City v Queens Park Rangers

Leeds United v Bristol City

Brentford v Middlesbrough

Sun, 25 Nov 2018

Aston Villa v Birmingham City

[Jimmy Floyd]

Real Madrid getting shoed by Eibar. Does it turn out that Lopetegui probably wasn't the problem, and not having Ronaldo is?

[Lewis]

I don't think I've watched this this season. Do they just crab it around and then periodically bounce it off Karim Benzema's shins?

[Waffdon]

Raheem Sterling :drool:

[Shindig]

Three sides are getting relegated on goal difference, at this rate.

[niko_cee]

This feels like the phase of the season where City are going to canter off into the middle distance.

[Lewis]

I've got the Joe Rogan Jake the Snake podcast on over this United match and its the least depressing of the two.

[Waffdon]

Is there anything worse than Liverpool winning? I guess Willian conning every manager into thinking he’s good is one.

[John Arne]

https://gyazo.com/dc7775e4fb6703e99bb2d89965b622fe.gif

[Boydy]

That's a decent freekick but what is the keeper doing?

[Mike]

Trent is just the best :cool2:

[Lewis]

He's crap.

[Shindig]

He's like three players, man.

[Kikó]

Today was excellent.

[Disco]

Top four by christmas.

[Waffdon]

Chelsea really could do with a decent centre half alongside Rudiger.

[John Arne]

Nice dodge by Luiz.

[Waffdon]

They’ve been due a thumping for a while. Kante needs put in the middle ASAP.

[Spikey M]

Chelsea look vulnerable to pretty much any cross coming from out wide.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sonaldo :drool:

That was lovely.

[Waffdon]

That’s great from Son but Chelsea are a mess. The midfield is pointless. Whole system on a Wembley pitch is pointless.

How is Jorginho still on the pitch

[-james-]

That dive at the ball from Luiz for Son's goal was something I'd do at five a side.

[phonics]

I know we say that Serie A football is slow but I just watched Son run past Korginho at jogging pace.

[phonics]

Copa Liberatores final has been suspended after Bocas bus got nearly every window smashed in and tear gassed.

[Pepe]

The Libertadores always delivers. :drool:

[Lewis]

They like football too much that lot.

[niko_cee]

I know we say that Serie A football is slow but I just watched Son run past Korginho at jogging pace.

I thought it was pretty lol how Kante didn't make the combined XI on the BBC Sport thing.

[phonics]

I thought it was pretty lol how Kante didn't make the combined XI on the BBC Sport thing.

It's even worse than I remembered. Son gives him half a yard and the momentum advantage by cutting back and then going for it and ends up 2 yards ahead of him from the outside.

https://i.imgur.com/467lO5V.png
https://i.imgur.com/vBJULYa.png

Son takes 5-7 steps between those two images and gains 2-3 yards FROM THE OUTSIDE.

[niko_cee]

Imagine the riot there's going to be when they abandon the Libertadores final and award Boca a 3-0 default win.

:drool:

La Bombonera and El Monumental have to be two of the best stadium names going.

[Giggles]

Imagine the riot there's going to be when they abandon the Libertadores final and award Boca a 3-0 default win.

:drool:

It's going ahead isn't it?

[niko_cee]

Yeah, probably. Although 'Miguel Delaney' off the Independent reckons there might be more to it yet.

[phonics]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/270326079648956433/515985298933415947/unknown.png

That's the Boca bus and River fans surrounding it. It looks like the opening scene of a zombie film.

[Giggles]

Yeah, probably. Although 'Miguel Delaney' off the Independent reckons there might be more to it yet.

There could be alright. Sounds like 'Marcelo Gallardo' is offering to call it off now.

[niko_cee]

I was wondering whether that was the Gallardo who was the next Maradona at some point. Sounds a right farce. You can only imagine the amount of injury feigning the Boca lot will be no doubt up to. Would put whiplash claimants to shame.

How do you play it behind closed doors on Wednesday? Won't the River fans burn the city down before then?

[Giggles]

He scored some goals for me on an old CM.

Delaney and Ewan McKenna both reporting that it's going ahead. In 90 minutes time according to the latter.

[Kikó]

Looks like it's off again.

[phonics]

Boca are going to refuse to play and they're going to give them a 3-0 loss resulting in a civil war.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If Jorginho plays another game in the middle there needs to be a Chilcot-style inquiry. Kanté is the best midfield player in the league/world and needs treating as such. David Luiz also needs to be replaced by Christensen.

That said, we shouldn't confuse ourselves with title contenders due to a decent start. 3rd/4th would be excellent.

[niko_cee]

Where else is Jorginho going to play though? He can't really be mooching around in one of the more mobile midfield positions, so it's change system, or face the fact that against physical teams it's going to be a problem.

[phonics]

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River bottle thrower misses the bus and catches fellow fan across the street full on in the head.

[niko_cee]

On the few vids I've seen that bus really is shifting considering the crowd it seems to be going through.

[Giggles]

And it's off again.

[John]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/tottenham-vs-chelsea-live-score-goals-result-report-moussa-sissoko-a8650491.html?amp

There has never been a wankier headline.

[phonics]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/tottenham-vs-chelsea-live-score-goals-result-report-moussa-sissoko-a8650491.html?amp

There has never been a wankier headline.

You should try posting pictures like the pros instead mate, this is what I see.

https://i.imgur.com/CKD7A3X.jpg

[Lewis]

I was going to say that, between 'Miguel Delaney' and that flub, the Independent has the worst sports writers of all the papers, but then I remembered lol it isn't a newspaper.

[John]

You should try posting pictures like the pros instead mate, this is what I see.

https://i.imgur.com/CKD7A3X.jpg

What a shame.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jonathan Liew is on 90% of occasions the best sports writer in the country. Occasionally goes in a bit too deep, but I don't mind that.

[Giggles]

You should try posting pictures like the pros instead mate, this is what I see.

https://i.imgur.com/CKD7A3X.jpg

I'm seeing it fine.

[phonics]

Jonathan Liew is very good but he's going to end up being an absolute parody of himself by the time he's anywhere near Henry Winters age.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For his next move, which should be asap really, he either has to go full gonzo and start doing ridiculous long features after 6 month embedding periods, or he has to rein himself in and focus on one sport.

[Lewis]

I would sack him for that first paragraph. Forget that he sat and wrote that, and then he submitted it thinking it was clever and/or funny. It's the paint-by-numbers opening you get in every single one of these articles regardless of who writes them. It's either a shit anecdote, previously untold due to its utter irrelevance, or some strained to fuck allusion of wank.


With the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 12 April 1945, beleaguered wartime leader Adolf Hitler had, amidst the doom and gloom, a renewed sense of optimism. His birthday was only a week away, and his long-term girlfriend had recently agreed to move in with him. Eighteen days later he shot himself rather than be taken alive by invading Soviet forces that had, over the preceding months, obliterated his armies and uncovered the shocking remnants of the worse genocide in history.

Following their improbable comeback victory over Juventus in mid-week, Jose Mourinho finds himself at a similar crossroads as his team prepares to take on their crosstown rivals. Five years on from their last league title, the 'Noisy Neighbour' might not sound much like the Soviet shelling that greeted Hitler as he blew the candles out on his fifty-sixth birthday cake, but...

Five-hundred quid. Invoice in the post.

[phonics]

That was a quite entertaining 2 paragraphs. You should have been writing a blog all these years instead of posting on here/writing about shit no-one cares about like a mong. You could be at least at a Jacob Steinberg level by now.

[Shindig]

He'd have a Patreon and a podcast and everything. And a proper published book like those things Zoella puts out.

[Spikey M]

I'd read your articles, Lou.

[phonics]

If Daniel Storey, a perfectly competent writer with all the same opinions as anyone else, can make a career to the point he's now on Sky Sports/BT then you could have donned it.

Instead you chose to talk about crappy old bombs shaped like the rocket from Wallace & Gromit

[Jimmy Floyd]

On the Argie shite, I don't understand why they are 'postponing' the final. Surely the trophy must be awarded to Boca, and River prevented from participating in any future ediition. Same applies to anyone else attacking team buses. It's not trivial. One day a gang/terrorists will go and shoot a team bus up. Already happened in cricket.

[phonics]

You're such a reactionary.

[Jimmy Floyd]

And you're probably one of those people who thinks football violence is edgy and cool because it was all just standing up to Fatcher wannit.

[mugbull]

“Prevented from participating from any further edition”

Sound like you’re chronically frustrated with being irrelevant and want your opinion to be heard. The 30 year old’s version of I Shat Myself On The Playground

[Pepe]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/tottenham-vs-chelsea-live-score-goals-result-report-moussa-sissoko-a8650491.html?amp

There has never been a wankier headline.

:sick:

[Lewis]

And you're probably one of those people who thinks football violence is edgy and cool because it was all just standing up to Fatcher wannit.

You should heed the wisdom of 'Grady's mate', or whoever it was in manc sean's old signature.

[Spikey M]

Phonics calling someone a reactionary has made my day.

[Jimmy Floyd]

“Prevented from participating from any further edition”

Sound like you’re chronically frustrated with being irrelevant and want your opinion to be heard. The 30 year old’s version of I Shat Myself On The Playground

Don't be too reactionary about it, my little flower.

[Baz]

Has Jordan Henderson purposely tried to look like Ross Barkley, with his new hairdo and clean shaven look? Made me bloody cold just looking at him yesterday.

[Trancemeister]

Amazing own goal by Lerma

[-james-]

Arsenal are due a pummelling whenever they next play someone good.

[phonics]

Arsenal are due a pummelling whenever they next play someone good.

That's what they said about the Liverpool match.

[Giggles]

Is the Copa America cancelled again?

[Offshore Toon]

Yep. Well, Copa Libertadores has been according to Vickery.

[Giggles]

Ah yes. Boca asking for it to be called off apparently.

[Offshore Toon]

Vickery just now - "Meeting - probably on Tuesday - to decide date (and maybe venue) of second leg. Can't be next weekend - G20 in town. Just time the following weekend for the winner to make it to the UAE for Club World Cup (S American team in action on 18/12)"

[mugbull]

Don't be too reactionary about it, my little flower.

No u

[Lewis]

They should just play it in secret somewhere and announce the result afterwards, like when Saint e-mailed Tim Vickery a load of shit and then claimed victory when he asked how old he was and gave up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Vickery and Saint was such a good rivalry.

[Shindig]

Four points clear. :)

[Giggles]

Libertadores going ahead early next month now but not in Argentina.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rashford isn't great at chipping.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm going to miss De Gea.

[Lewis]

He wants to start acting like Messi/Neymar and getting managers sacked.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He can do whatever he wants.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If Lyon could defend from set pieces then they could be world beaters.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fellainimania running wild to save Mourinho.

Those two deserve each other.

[Disco]

The drink smash :D

Utd are fucking awful.

[randomlegend]

Fucking tragic. I'd almost rather lose at this point.

[Ian]

Lads, I'm not watching this but am I to understand that Fellainimania just RAN WILD?

[mo]

I used to teach Sol Pryce, who made his debut for Swindon Town tonight and scored twice (first after 14 seconds). :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lads, I'm not watching this but am I to understand that Fellainimania just RAN WILD?

You'd be frothing with glee at the finish.

He actually used his foot.

[Ian]

Oh. Great. Thanks. Now I'm aroused.

[Mazuuurk]

There hasn't been this much disdain for a watercarrier at Old Trafford since Eric Cantona was asked for his opinion on international team-mate Didier Deschamps.

Fair play Beeb, well done.

[Giggles]

Jackpot.

1067802122975150082

[SincereTheRebel]

Postpone it all the way to the european champions league final and put it on the undercard

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lovren against this attack?

[phonics]

It's 3-3 in the match between Villa and Forest and there's 10 minutes until half time.

[Gray Fox]

Well this is disheartening.

[Boydy]

Well this is disheartening.

It's absolutely woeful.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm quite enjoying it tbh.

[phonics]

It's 3-3 in the match between Villa and Forest and there's 10 minutes until half time.

Calmed down after the break ending 5-5.

[Boydy]

Given how card happy that ref seemed, how on earth did Veratti stay on the pitch to the end?

[Gray Fox]

Neymar is still shite.

[Mellberg]

Nevermind tonight. Alan Hutton :cool:

[mugbull]

Spurs game tonight was legendary. Still give us about a 14% chance of going through, but that's far more than I had been expecting after game 3.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Given how card happy that ref seemed, how on earth did Veratti stay on the pitch to the end?

Because even card happy refs don't like using the red one on famous players.

[mugbull]

Because even card happy refs don't like using the red one on famous players.

Either that, or they love using it on famous players. See Ronaldo, Balotelli, Neymar in other games...

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah, there are posers who love dishing it out to big names (I would be one of those, if I reffed), and there are people who gun out yellows like there's no tomorrow but always bottle the second yellow to a big name.

[Boydy]

His first yellow should have been a straight red. It was a horrible tackle.

Not that that's an excuse for Liverpool losing. They were shite.

[Spikey M]

Sissoko swerves from 'unmitigated disaster' to 'destroyer of world's' from game to game. He's either your best or your worst player. There's no in between.

[Pepe]

Yeah, there are posers who love dishing it out to big names

Obligatory reference:

https://www.eldiario24.com/d24ar/fotos/uploads/editorial/2014/07/06/imagenes/42366_24-arbitro-semifinal.jpg

[mugbull]

Sissoko swerves from 'unmitigated disaster' to 'destroyer of world's' from game to game. He's either your best or your worst player. There's no in between.

He's been really good this season. It's really weird, sort of like how Paulinho went from dogshit to big-time Barcelona lad but luckily this time it's happened while he's still at the club

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46386440

We've triggered a one year extension in De Gea's contract.

[niko_cee]

Does that basically mean he's leaving for nowt in 18 months?

[Lewis]

'Dave! Leave! Do the best thing. Leave. Get out while you can, Dave!'

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sol Campbell taking over at Macclesfield, somebody get the documentary cameras in there quick sharp if his opening quotes are anything to go by.

[SvN]

New manager Sol Campbell has told Macclesfield that in him they have "an international footballer" who has been "one of the best players in the world".

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/4F8C/production/_104546302_sol2.jpg

His face :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Does that basically mean he's leaving for nowt in 18 months?

I'd imagine we'll try and sign him and if he doesn't we'll sell him in the Summer.


That or just lose him for free ofc.

[SincereTheRebel]

Is the one year trigger automatic or does can De Gea say no?

[SvN]

It's automatic, he agreed to it when he signed the contract.

[phonics]

This ref is having an absolute nightmare and it's all going in the favour of Arsenal. I'm pretty sure they just got a free kick for Ramsey and Nketiah running into each other.

[Giggles]

Did Dudelange get a load of money or something? They're bearing Milan 2-1 and it must be only a couple of years ago that I remember UCD beating them in the Europa.

[phonics]

Did Dudelange get a load of money or something? They're bearing Milan 2-1 and it must be only a couple of years ago that I remember UCD beating them in the Europa.

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[Giggles]

That didn't last long.

[Giggles]

Jackpot.

1067802122975150082

They're saying Madrid now.