March Football: The "I'm on a train" edition

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"It's bigger than a bread bin".

[Don]

The grainy vids just made it look like your standard lad banter in a pub. Fucking leave the poor fuckwit alone.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

De Ligt bailing out Sommer massively there.

[niko_cee]

"Scott Parker is no longer head coach of Club Bruges"

Quality club statement. Brutal.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a goal for me.

Muller doesn't get a touch, I don't think.

[Yevrah]

"Scott Parker is no longer head coach of Club Bruges"

Quality club statement. Brutal.

Clearly a sensible decision, but you have to question how on earth he blagged his way in there in the first place.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

PSG not winning the CL again :drool:

[niko_cee]

Bayern progressing not a while hill of beans better. Hopefully Napoli wreck everyone but they'll probably come unstuck at some point.

[Waffdon]

Bayern are pretty toilet too. Real Madrid will probably shit their way to it again. Benfica to make the semis.

[randomlegend]

Tfw you're enjoying hating PSG and then you remember you're about to be PSG :(

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

PSG :harold:

[Lofty]

Spurs :D

[niko_cee]

Hopefully this turns out to be something of a jinx, but Richarlison seems to be having a fairly low key god awful season for a £60m forward. Doesn't seem to attract anywhere near the criticism that some players do.

[Yevrah]

Goes without saying but I shall anyway, fuck me Spurs were shit.

[Waffdon]

That was an utterly pathetic performances in both games from Tottenham. What a tragic club. Hopefully they can win their convert appeal to get more Beyonce performances to entertain the crowd

[Don]

Hopefully this turns out to be something of a jinx, but Richarlison seems to be having a fairly low key god awful season for a £60m forward. Doesn't seem to attract anywhere near the criticism that some players do.

Antony has set the bar high/low.

Romero too, jesus, work permit freedom and an ill-advised world cup fluke has got the English teams forgetting how ill-suited these favela lads are to the English game.

[Lewis]

Tfw you're enjoying hating PSG and then you remember you're about to be PSG :(

PSG as the feeder club to United, like that scam Watford were running with whoever it was in Italy. :cool:

[Max Power]

Conte’s European record is a disgrace.

[Lofty]

I know a spurs fan that had £1000 on them to qualify :D

[Spikey M]

He's either a gambling addict or an idiot. Probably both.

I don't know why Spurs are persisting with Conte. He was always going to be the wrong manager for them. If actual Mourinho couldn't make it work, then this needy, perma-depressive, mea speaka noa de Engleesh Mourinho has no chance. I've said it before, but Chelsea and Spurs definitely got their appointments the wrong way round.

[Kikó]

Isn't Conte lying in bed somewhere recovering?

[Jimmy Floyd]

If we get a good draw we could scam our way into the semis yet. Probably only Napoli, City and Bayern who I am confident would beat us. And Real Madrid I guess but even they're not all that.

[Spikey M]

Isn't Conte lying in bed somewhere recovering?

He's back now. But yea, he was. Along with half of his Christmas card list dying over the last year. Poor cunt. He's been properly Spurs'd.

[Don]

These mans speaking as if we ain't about to pull off the greatest comeback in European football history since our last one.

[Waffdon]

If we get a good draw we could scam our way into the semis yet. Probably only Napoli, City and Bayern who I am confident would beat us. And Real Madrid I guess but even they're not all that.

Bayern aren’t much better than Dortmund. Muller and Chupo Moting front 2 is hilarious. Napoli/Madrid would be a cracking tie

[niko_cee]

There's definitely potential for someone stealing their way into the final this year, hopefully it isn't City.

Madrid would grift Napoli out of a result despite being smashed in all likelihood.

[Spikey M]

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He's begging for the axe :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

I reckon Spurs could send even a man who wears a wig into male pattern baldness.

[randomlegend]

PSG as the feeder club to United, like that scam Watford were running with whoever it was in Italy. :cool:

Us somehow ending up with Mbappe would be quite funny.

[Shindig]

Buying back Ronaldo :drool:

[Don]

Weghorst 2 year deal :drool:

[niko_cee]

I'm all for this 'effective time' business [well sort of] but unless it has the desired effect [and basically knocks time wasting on the head] I'm not sure I'll ever really come to terms with the fact that 4.50pm on Saturday will still see most 3 o'clock kick-offs having 15 minutes plus left to go.

[niko_cee]

Is Union Saint-Gilloise Tony Bloom's other team?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We're back.

[Boydy]

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He's still going?!

[Yevrah]

Indeed. He will never retire.

[SincereTheRebel]

It has been over 365 days since a Wolves 'striker' scored in the league

[SincereTheRebel]

Indeed. He will never retire.

I remember him being on CM4 I think and even though Betis would accept the bid, he just refused to move. He loved Betis so much.

[Shindig]

It has been over 365 days since a Wolves 'striker' scored in the league

That's the kind of record Newcastle can help you with.

[Pen]

I remember him being on CM4 I think and even though Betis would accept the bid, he just refused to move. He loved Betis so much.

Irl he did spend almost a decade away from Betis, but i agree that he clearly loves it there. I think I’ve read he owns a part of the club.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, he went off to join other long term FM don/player unable to function outside of his home city Vicente at 'Balenthia'.

[randomlegend]

Just watched United game from last night.

You can't help but love Weghorst, but the difference when we get an actually good striker is going to be stark. Osimhen please.

[Ian]

I would love it if he secured himself some.proper cult status by contributing a few key goals somewhere toward the end of the season but there's no getting away from the fact that he's quite bad.

[Shindig]

Every club needs a Shola Ameobi.

[Gray Fox]

I know he's had a shit time of it lately, but Conte does not look a well man.

[Dquincy]

Something about Americans talking football makes my toes curl.

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[John Arne]

For those wanting some live footy, J.League now stream on YouTube. Just put you VPN to a country that doesn't have TV rights (such as VN).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrcmj8ei6rg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Van Dijk :harold:

[Waffdon]

I just assumed he was miles offside. Van Dijk didn’t even bother :lol:

[niko_cee]

Looking forward to no MotD this evening.

[Shindig]

I haven't watched it in years, to be honest. The sky highlights on youtube do enough for me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:lol:

What a penalty.

[Waffdon]

The 4th spot always seems to come down to who bottles it least. Gonna be a right shit off. Mon Brighton

[Dquincy]

Liverpool, fuck me. Sums up the season that does.

[Lofty]

Looked at Liverpool's fixture list and apart from the dross I can see them dropping points in the majority of their remaining games.

:cool:

[Ian]

See this is the problem with these smaller teams, they get themselves all worked up for what is their cup final on the Monday and leave themselves all tuckered out for the Saturday.

[Shindig]

The 4th spot always seems to come down to who bottles it least. Gonna be a right shit off. Mon Brighton

14 consecutive scoreless draws might do it for us.

[Don]

Sets us up nicely for the midweek scenes that :drool:

[niko_cee]

:cool:

Again, isn't this the actual opposite of what you predicted there?

Is that the second or third bottom of the league side Liverpool have managed to lose to this season? Pretty sure Forest were, Leeds might have been at the time. :cab:

[niko_cee]

The 4th spot always seems to come down to who bottles it least. Gonna be a right shit off. Mon Brighton

Whilst that would be great, it would actually break Brighton. European football might be a step too far for them at this stage [particularly seeing as they are likely to be raided in the summer]. They're pretty much at the limit of their capabilities/expectation ceiling where they are and trying to smash through that just ends up in the sort of shitshow West Ham now find themselves. It's a bit rubbish, but that's the way it is.

Maybe G Potts Chelsea can make a late run at it, although one of Spurs and Newcastle probably more likely.

Hopefully Liverpool can sort their wretched away form in their next league game.

[phonics]

Think I saw that Bournemouth and Man Utd have a combined aggregate score of like 17-2 for Liverpool and they got 6 points out of 12.

[-james-]

Whilst that would be great, it would actually break Brighton. European football might be a step too far for them at this stage [particularly seeing as they are likely to be raided in the summer]. They're pretty much at the limit of their capabilities/expectation ceiling where they are and trying to smash through that just ends up in the sort of shitshow West Ham now find themselves. It's a bit rubbish, but that's the way it is.

Maybe G Potts Chelsea can make a late run at it, although one of Spurs and Newcastle probably more likely.

Hopefully Liverpool can sort their wretched away form in their next league game.

If they came 4th this season, they wouldn't come 4th again next season but then they won't be doing that anyway. Can't be having it being a net bad thing on average.

[niko_cee]

It would be if they got relegated.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Think we'd have to win 11 from 13, which would mean scoring in 11 from 13, which isn't going to happen.

[-james-]

It would be if they got relegated.

I would happily have my net worth on them not being relegated next season.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Chilwell is so fucking good. We're like a different team with him in it.

[Gray Fox]

I didnt see much of the game beyond the first 10 mins as I had to go out, however it sounded like the usual script of our away games, despite the promising early start.

We've only won 3 away games all season(Villa, Saudi and Spurs), so that's going to need to massively change if this top 4 (3rd, lol)talk is at all serious.

[-james-]

It looked like a 3-0 stroll for the first twenty odd minutes. That triple change in the second half was truly bizarre.

[Waffdon]

Chilwell is so fucking good. We're like a different team with him in it.

No idea why he kept the 4 when his players are just clearly 3 atb specialists. Another shot off the woodwork and a goal disallowed in this game - think this has happened in 80% of Potter’s games.

And now they concede after dominating. Same thing every week.

[Waffdon]

Enzo Fernandes is a plur

[Jimmy Floyd]

Enzo Fernandes is a plur

Quite aside from his technical abilities, he seems to be a natural born leader which is what we have needed very badly.

[Waffdon]

The goal was the weirdest thing ever. Nobody even reacted including the fans. I just assumed he was 5 yards offside.

Referee should have seen 2 Leicester players off by now

[randomlegend]

Quite aside from his technical abilities, he seems to be a natural born leader which is what we have needed very badly.

It's mental none of the big sides took a chance on him in the summer.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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:cool:

[Waffdon]

Leicester might actually go down lol

[Danny]

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Just bin it off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Binning it off would be a breach of contract I imagine.

[SincereTheRebel]

Top Gear went down the toilet once the legends quit. I dont think MOTD will have the same effect. Nobody cares.

[Waffdon]

Mason Mount out of the squad the last 3 games. Not just a coincidence

[niko_cee]

Liverpool currently rolling with the highest xG of the day according to understat.

Oh no, scratch that, Leicester just pip them.

:happycry:

[Spikey M]

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:harold:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fake news.

That picture was taken against Fulham.

[Spikey M]

Fake news.

That picture was taken against Fulham.

I don't think AfcGaBeast would lie, tyvm.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He didn't get booked today either.

[Spikey M]

He didn't get booked today either.
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Now I just don't know what to think.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm starting to doubt myself.

[Giggles]

You heard the man.

[Spikey M]

He should probably DM him to apologise really.

[Shindig]

Gateshead made the semis of the FA Trophy today, matching the furthest they've ever been in the erm ... lucrative trophy's history.

[Don]

Get a load of the Kvaradona goal and Osimhen assist. If they don't do the double it'll be a shame. We'll look back fondly on this duo's season in decades gone.

[SincereTheRebel]

Haven't paid much attention but it sounds like Dzeko and Grafite over there

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Man City offer absolutely nothing when De Bruyne aren't playing.

This match has been toilet.

[Ian]

Man City offer absolutely nothing when De Bruyne aren't playing.

Is that because he's the only one bright enough to kick the ball to their giant goal freak? (I know it's not just that, he's amazing.)

[Don]

The fuckers have gone and ruined the highlights by shortening them to such a degree that it's almost impossible to keep up with them so you lose interest. Champions League Weekly highlights on ITV used to do this. They must of thought no one would have watched without those fucking tragic cunts and their shittalk and now their value has been artificially inflated thanks to this botch job.

[Lewis]

If they could spin this out to fifty minutes and add graphics etc. it would be a massive improvement.

[Shindig]

I want a full Eurogoals experience.

"And now over to Portugal where Mario Jardel continued his scoring run ..."

[Spikey M]

If they could spin this out to fifty minutes and add graphics etc. it would be a massive improvement.

You sound like everyone 50+ on Facebook.

[Lewis]

Super League has been broadcasting highlights without commentary for years, and it's harder for casual fans to make out what is going on there than on a football pitch.

[Shindig]

I feel like most sports are easy to understand if you have basic understanding of another sport, to be honest.

[Yevrah]

Football without commentary or pundits is just wrong - the BBC need to sort this.

[Don]

Separating the purists from the narrative-munchers :drool:

[Ian]

You sound like everyone 50+ on Facebook.

I assume you weren't only realising this at the time of your post.

[Magic]

The GB News alternative. :D

[Kikó]

If you just want highlights then stick on YouTube.

[Baz]

If that’s MOTD now… I don’t even know. :nono:

[Luke Emia]

Football without commentary or pundits is just wrong - the BBC need to sort this.

Well they could sort it. Or if they could of managed the situation correctly and not given a shit about what the Daily Mail thinks it need not of ever happened.

[Yevrah]

Well they could sort it. Or if they could of managed the situation correctly and not given a shit about what the Daily Mail thinks it need not of ever happened.

Yep, a productive way forward from here is definitely to dwell on what's already happened.

[Yevrah]

And I should add, with less sarcasm, they obviously need to sort their guidelines and application of them out, but that's for later.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears

They've apparently pulled an episode of Attenborough's latest TV show to appease Tories.

[Lewis]

The article explains why that isn't actually the case.

[Spikey M]

Poor Lewis :(

[Lewis]

On the one hand we have an official BBC statement, which they know will be subject to scrutiny and Freedom of Information requests from sadcases, as well as a statement from the production company, confirming that not to have been the case. On the other, we have 'senior sources', who, despite claiming to be familiar enough with this programme to explain the exact thought process behind its commissioning and broadcast, have only decided to say something now, in the middle of a political row, completely anonymously, five years after the separate 'sixth episode' was originally commissioned.

How can we possibly judge the merits of these competing claims? Better to just reflexively defend the government.

[Spikey M]

Poor Lewis :(

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That red is harsh.

[SincereTheRebel]

That red is harsh.

I mean, he was airborne for 0.1 seconds
https://twitter.com/EPLBible/status/...jpHe2VTwQ

[Ben]

Trawling Twitter trying to find a clip that shows all the angles and my only takeaway is the incredible amount of bot accounts that club has. About fifty tweets showing the penalty claim with the exact same caption about how Anthony Taylor needs investigating.

Regarding the red, it probably is the correct decision these days even though it wouldn’t have got a yellow 25 years ago.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Anthony Taylor is the 2nd best ref in England, imagine how wound up they would be if the 30th best was doing their games.

[Kikó]

I can see why it's a red although I can also see why the ref title give it as a yellow. Oh well.

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The handball rule is completely broken.

[Shindig]

Big win for us. Happy to see Isak back who just looks sharper than Wilson at the minute.

[Dquincy]

Arsenal looked very good today. The Trossard signing had been a great piece of business compared to that Eastern European chap who Chelsea signed.

Disclaimer: I've hardly seen the latter play, but he was serious money.

[Ben]

The Athletic have printed a list of Chelsea players that would be part of a mass clearout and Ben Chilwell is top of that list. :cab:

Surely it's just bollocks journalism and the only way he'd leave is if Man City offered silly money?

[Waffdon]

Their left back at Burnley looks pretty shit hot. Doubt he goes but I think they’re going down the route of ‘if you’re not going to sign a new contact then we’ll be looking to cash in’ route.

[Gray Fox]

Can a player sign a new deal while you are under embargo?

[Don]

I'll be watching my boy for Porto but, not having actually watched them play, I can see enough in Leipzig ranks to threaten an upset today :drool:

[Boydy]

A penalty for that? Fuck off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The freak is back.

[CJay]

A penalty for that? Fuck off.

Absolute joke. :lol: That’s the first time I’ve been watching a match and had the thought ‘I don’t actually know this game anymore’. I’m sure there have been some equally bad VAR calls, but I just can’t see how that was given.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Grealish is such a little scumbag.

[Boydy]

Soft penalty earlier and then Werner gets booked for having the temerity to get cleared out by Ederson. Abu Dhabi paying the big bribes this year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Soft penalty earlier and then Werner gets booked for having the temerity to get cleared out by Ederson. Abu Dhabi paying the big bribes this year.

He was booked for arguing with the ref.

I believe it was Laimer who got clattered.

[Boydy]

Oh, I thought it was Werner himself. Fair enough.

[niko_cee]

Man City must have had about 20 penalties this season.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck me, he's gone in raw tonight.

[Ben]

Real Madrid will shithouse them out of the competition.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yes he scores loads of goals and makes loads of money, but can Alf Inge Haaland really enjoy having a son with a face like that?

[randomlegend]

Your obsession with Haaland being ugly is quite weird.

[Spikey M]

Not really, he is quite possibly an actual Ogre.

[Manc]

Fuck me, he's gone in raw tonight.

How was it?

[Gray Fox]

Henderson ill and Bajcetic has apparently picked up one of those injuries that Klopp wont put a time on. It's Fabinho and Milner in a midfield two with Liverpool going 4-2-4 if reports are to be believed.

[niko_cee]

I liked the clickbait story today I saw that had Bajetic being injured as some sort of MASSIVE CRISIS similar to when most of the front line was injured/unavailable against Barcelona. :happycry:

[Don]

Properly looking forward to this with no nerves.

[-james-]

Milner - Fabinho :happycry:

[randomlegend]

Properly looking forward to this with no nerves.

Yeah pressure's off when you're out already.

[Gray Fox]

Napoli banned Frankfurt fans from the 2nd leg, after the 1st leg had been played. So you can guess how things are going in Naples right about now.

[Baz]

Properly looking forward to this with no nerves.

Same.

[Gray Fox]

Trent is absolutely clueless when Vinicius gets the ball.

[Boydy]

Time-wasting already? Small time.

[Gray Fox]

Madrid seem like they're just waiting for us to start throwing the kitchen sink.

It's been... okay. Both teams should likely have scored twice. Too safe with the passing from Milner I think. I'd perhaps be looking to get someone into the 10 position.

[Don]

Goal before 60th minute and it's on with the introduction of Bobby.

[Manc]

Spineless.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's never a pen.

[Gray Fox]

Once more the substitutions killed the game. This insistence on playing Nunez out on the left is also infuriating.

Sending on Oxlade towards the end just says everything really.

[Giggles]

Don is still quietly confident.

[Don]

Ref was filthy there. We are all Napoli.

[Ben]

Osimhen is such a beast.

[Kikó]

It looked lively in Naples yesterday from the videos I was sent. I'm surprised by how much the Frankfurt fans fancy it. It completely passed my this hooligan element.

[Baz]

Liverpool can concentrate on coming 3rd in the league now.

[Shindig]

Aye, you and about 5 other clubs. :moop:

[Lofty]

Liverpool can concentrate on coming 3rd in the league now.

Only if they play Utd every week.

[Gray Fox]

Bajcetic out until next season.

Might take my boots up to Anfield, I'll probably get a game in midfield.

[Baz]

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Lost the next game 6-1 against Blackpool.

[Don]

The side-eyes :D

[Spikey M]

Fuck me :D

[-james-]

That England squad lol

[randomlegend]

That Pellistri yellow is match-fixing territory.

[Kikó]

Properly shit first half.

[randomlegend]

Properly shit first half.

As much as I love him, the problem is Weghorst.

[Kikó]

I don't think EtH does well away from home.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a hit that is from Rashford.

[Giggles]

It’s Nayim again.

[Manc]

Holy shit. What a finish.

[randomlegend]

Anyone else's stream of the Arsenal game just disappear because the streaming sites don't seem to have realised it's gone to extra time?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ramsdale really should have saved that.

Nice height and not too powerful.

[Lewis]

Happy for The Saint.

[randomlegend]

Damn, there was no doubt from whoever took the last pen. His run-up went directly into a celebration with barely a glance to see if it had gone in.

[randomlegend]

Also get fucked Arsenal Ayylmao

[Manc]

Ramsdale looks like the kid in school who always had a cold.

[Lewis]

United should be winning this easily enough now. Roma in the final for NARRATIVE please, with a Woot Weghorst winner.

[Boydy]

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What a downfall.

[Shindig]

I don't quite get what's happened with him. Like has his head completely dropped out of the game?

[Waffdon]

Arsenal are a proper embarrassment in Europe. At least proper teams like Man Utd and Chelsea win this competition even if they don’t want to be in it.

[Kikó]

Dawned on me last night that city are going to win the treble.

[-james-]

Vieira sacked. Right call I think.

[Gray Fox]

I saw yesterday it had been 4 games since they'd even had a shot on target.
I think he got lost in the ploddy football game.

[niko_cee]

Arsenal are a proper embarrassment in Europe. At least proper teams like Man Utd and Chelsea win this competition even if they don’t want to be in it.

Winning the league would more than offset any European failings, and not having those games will help with that.

It's not even like getting a 1 seed in the Champions League group stage is all that much of a thing now anyway - just ask Ajax who as 1 seed got Liverpool [2] and Napoli [3].

[Ian]

I saw yesterday it had been 4 games since they'd even had a shot on target.
I think he got lost in the ploddy football game.

That stat and ones like it blow my mind. Even a whole game without a shot on target. For a high level team how does not even one player go "oh fuck this" and work the keeper from range?

[Shindig]

Two of those games were against City and Liverpool so I can understand the mentality for those. They should've been right after Villa and Brighton, though.

[Spikey M]

I don't quite get what's happened with him. Like has his head completely dropped out of the game?

It all went wrong when Eriksen left Spurs and he was asked to drop from his "number 10" role into central midfield. He isn't a midfielder. He plays behind the striker, but in a world of front 3's and attacking wingbacks, his position isn't really a thing any more.

That and Fortnite.

[niko_cee]

Vieira sacked. Right call I think.

Until they appoint Scott Parker, Frank Lampard or Steven Gerrard anyway.

[Waffdon]

Tasty CL draw. One of Milan/Inter/Benfica/Napoli in the final.

Chelsea v Madrid / City v Bayern
Inter v Benfica / Napoli v Milan

[Raoul Duke]

Tasty CL draw. One of Milan/Inter/Benfica/Napoli in the final.

Chelsea v Madrid / City v Bayern
Inter v Benfica / Napoli v Milan

Napoli vs. anyone would be the coolest final

[Don]

Sexy af. Was gonna be difficult to plan a title celebratiom day trip to Naples but the CL final date is being done to round off the double and bring down the city :drool:

[-james-]

Until they appoint Scott Parker, Frank Lampard or Steven Gerrard anyway.

Not that it means anything but Hodgson is the early favourite lol. Let the man enjoy his retirement ffs.

[-james-]

Napoli being 2nd favs to win it is good fun. 350/1 at the start of the season.

[SvN]

Sevilla again. Any chance we can play a team outside of Spain?

[Waffdon]

Napoli being 2nd favs to win it is good fun. 350/1 at the start of the season.

How are Madrid double the odds of City/Bayern :lol:

[Adramelch]

Because they've won it 5 times in the last 10 years, without necessarily being the best team? And at the same time neither City nor Bayern are at their usual levels this season it feels like. I don't think Real are twice as likely to win it, but it's not that outrageous a proposition.

Edit: Would appear I had that the other way around.

[-james-]

How are Madrid double the odds of City/Bayern :lol:

Because the models have them as worse than both of those teams. The prices before the draw were a perfect mirror of the 538 rankings.

[Kikó]

Flights to Seville booked. 😎

[Waffdon]

Because the models have them as worse than both of those teams. The prices before the draw were a perfect mirror of the 538 rankings.

City being the favourites for the CL will never not be funny. They just aren’t going to win it. Bayern are also bang average.

[-james-]

City being the favourites for the CL will never not be funny. They just aren’t going to win it. Bayern are also bang average.

Obviously nonsense.

[Ian]

Sevilla again. Any chance we can play a team outside of Spain?

It's enormously boring isn't it. I'd have rathered we'd got literally anybody else in the draw.

[Spikey M]

https://www.southendunited.co.uk/news/2023/march/club-statement

£10 each should do it lads. Let's fucking go.

[Gray Fox]

Talk of old Uncle Roy coming back for Palace again.

[Jimmy Floyd]

At 75 he's a mere spring chicken in the world of work.

[Kikó]

Roy has recently been seen in central and South America and is expected to be let go from his current role.

[Waffdon]

Quality pen from Isak. Massive goal from Newcastle anyway, 5 points clear of Liverpool now. Man City and Chelsea away followed by Arsenal at home for Liverpool so that’s them probably out of CL. They’re better off just throwing the season now and avoiding EL and ECL.

[Don]

:happycry:

[Gray Fox]

Looks like Spurs just bottled a 3-1 lead away to Southampton. Nobody wants 4th place huh?

[Ben]

Also, who the fuck is going down?

[Shindig]

Every year I say Wolves. Every year I'm wrong.

[Baz]

Looks like Spurs just bottled a 3-1 lead away to Southampton. Nobody wants 4th place huh?

Nope. All in for 3rd.

[Andy]

We really need to learn how to beat the teams down near us, huge games against West Ham, Bournemouth, Palace and Forest coming up. 10 points from those four and well be fine but we've been so bad against the bottom half teams.

Hopefully three goals today will give them some confidence.

Bournemouth look doomed.

[Gray Fox]

Bournemouth fell for one of the classic blunders and appointed the caretaker who did a decent job. I suspect that will come to be their undoing.

Besides, anyone who plays Liverpool at home is guaranteed 3 points.

[-james-]

Having watched Southampton a couple of times recently they don't look like they deserve to be down there. Point deficit and schedule is going to make it a struggle though.

I think Leicester and West Ham will crawl their way out. I thought Leeds were buggered, wasn't expecting them to get four points from the last two fixtures.

Bournemouth, Southampton, Forest for me I think. Palace to get sucked into it as an outside bet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Could end up being double figures if they want here.

[niko_cee]

I saw that comment and thought "am I watching the same game here"? Chelsea - Everton, evidently not. Forgot entirely about the FA Cup.

Not that I'm actually watching Chelsea v Everton, I'm not a sadist.

[-james-]

They're used to it here. Don't play for something important. They don't want to play under pressure. They don't want to play under stress. Tottenham's story is this. 20 years there is the owner & they never won something. Why?


Fantastic chimpout.

[niko_cee]

:D

Started off reading that as he was going to be moaning about Southampton.

[Ben]

Outstanding. :D

[Shindig]

He's not wrong, either. :D

[Waffdon]

Enzo Fernandez and his switch passes :drool:

Very odd watching midfielders not just passing sideways and backwards

[Waffdon]

Potter getting his goal and bringing on Gallagher to try and hold the lead is the most depressing thing going. Has done it in every match they’ve won in the last 3 games on and have clung on each time. Dropping deep after an hour against Everton at home. Fuck me

Edit: get a lucky penalty to go back to 2-1 up and straight back to sitting in against one of the worst teams in the league if not the worst. Proceeds to bring on 3 defensive subs and go 541. Christ.

[Ben]

That’s dreadful tactics from Potter.

[Waffdon]

Get him sacked. Absolutely disgraceful stuff from Potter

[Gray Fox]

Say what you will about the coach, but his big strong CB and then goalkeeper should both have stopped that goal.

[Ben]

Say what you will about the coach, but his big strong CB and then goalkeeper should both have stopped that goal.

Play with feathers, you get your arse tickled.

Everton are shite, he just have just trusted his £1bn squad to batter them.

[Lewis]

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Foot-a-ball 'eritage.

[Waffdon]

Say what you will about the coach, but his big strong CB and then goalkeeper should both have stopped that goal.

He’s went 541 with 1 attacker on the pitch against the worst side in the league going forward. He got bailed out with the penalty and double downed on it. He’s just absolutely shite. Randomly drops Mudryk after finally starting last week and doing well enough out of position for some who is going in the summer. Him running in behind with Everton throwing people forward would have been smart but instead he brings on another defender and centre mid to close up shop. Was he this negative at Brighton?

[Spikey M]

1637163879921745921

Foot-a-ball 'eritage.

:D this was inevitable. Appointing him was even more baffling than the Mourinho move was.

Who's the next has been in line? Probably Pochettino II.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

All that SEETHE :drool:

Surely he's gone now.

[niko_cee]

For fucks sake Graham. :face:

[phonics]

It’s the history of the Tottenham.

[Shindig]

On a set table.

[Jimmy Floyd]

His increasingly desperate attempts to get sacked are quite funny tbh. Like a game of brinkmanship between him and Levy on the severance package.

[niko_cee]

Not sure I can agree with Ally here, that's clearly just hit his arm, and is clearly a penalty.

Looked like knee at first, but it wasn't.

[Yevrah]

His increasingly desperate attempts to get sacked are quite funny tbh. Like a game of brinkmanship between him and Levy on the severance package.

That's absolutely what it'll be. Given they're still 4th and he's not long left on his contract anyway I doubt Levy is going to blink.

[Gray Fox]

I think he'll go in the summer. Levy can out-cunt even the best of them and he's paid him to do a job.

Looking at the table, it's just Spurs and Newcastle you'd look at. Brighton do have their games in hand, but still have to play Arsenal, City, Chelsea and Spurs themselves. Their results in those games will most likely be their undoing.

Liverpool aren't a bother unless they get their shit together in that first week back from internationals. A win or two in those big three games and you can talk, but if it's the expected 2 losses and a draw, they're likely too far back.

What will trip teams up is that there doesn't seem to be that many teams that will be on holiday mode in end of season games. Almost every team is directly in a fight to stay up, or a fight for a European spot. You could maybe argue Fulham, Chelsea and Villa are drifting into that no-mans land now.

[Shindig]

Gateshead remain 21st in the National League but have two games in hand over the teams above them. Not entirely sure how they've managed to play so few games but I guess the International Stadium doesn't deal with weather.

That and the cup run.

[Andy]

Having watched Southampton a couple of times recently they don't look like they deserve to be down there. Point deficit and schedule is going to make it a struggle though.

I think Leicester and West Ham will crawl their way out. I thought Leeds were buggered, wasn't expecting them to get four points from the last two fixtures.

Bournemouth, Southampton, Forest for me I think. Palace to get sucked into it as an outside bet.

We had a disastrous run with Nathan Jones in charge, over than that we've not been too awful.

[SincereTheRebel]

This Sheff UTf vs Blackburn cup tie has been superb. 2-2 in the 82nd minute. Billy Sharp is still out here, doing work.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a hit to win it.

[John Arne]

How on earth is that not a red for the Brighton keeper? Handball and last man... Video replay even showed it outside of the area... What am I missing?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh look, Man City get the last Championship side in the semi-finals...

[niko_cee]

They would probably have rather allocated their draw good fortune to the Champions League, in fairness, where they got a stinker.

[Lewis]

The international break is going to be a godsend for United. If the games were still coming thick and fast the season would have wheezed out by Easter like when Ole Gunnar Binman first came in.

[Lewis]

You would just let that in at this stage.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a pen, Sancho took his time there though.

[randomlegend]

Should be a pen and a red right?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mitro SEETHING :harold: