January Football 2019 bitches

[Pleb]

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Premier League (3pm kickoffs unless stated)
01 January Everton - Leicester City 12:30
01 January Arsenal – Fulham
01 January Cardiff City - Tottenham Hotspur 17:30
02 January AFC Bournemouth - Watford 19:45
02 January Chelsea - Southampton 19:45
02 January Huddersfield Town - Burnley 19:45
02 January West Ham United - Brighton & Hove Albion 19:45
02 January Wolverhampton Wanderers - Crystal Palace 19:45
02 January Newcastle United - Manchester United 20:00
03 January Manchester City – Liverpool 20:00
12 January West Ham Utd - Arsenal 12:30
12 January Brighton - Liverpool
12 January Burnley - Fulham
12 January Cardiff City - Huddersfield Town
12 January Crystal Palace - Watford
12 January Leicester City - Southampton
12 January Chelsea - Newcastle Utd 17:0
13 January Everton - Bournemouth 14:15
13 January Tottenham - Man Utd 16:30
14 January Man City - Wolves 20:00
19 January Wolves - Leicester City 12:30
19 January Bournemouth - West Ham
19 January Liverpool - Crystal Palace
19 January Man Utd - Brighton
19 January Newcastle Utd - Cardiff City
19 January Southampton - Everton
19 January Watford - Burnley
19 January Arsenal - Chelsea 17:30
20 January Huddersfield Town - Man City 13:30
20 January Fulham - Tottenham 16:00
29 January Arsenal - Cardiff 19:45
29 January Bournemouth - Chelsea 19:45
29 January Fulham - Brighton 19:45
29 January Huddersfield Town - Everton 19:45
29 January Wolves - West Ham 19:45
29 January Man Utd - Burnley 20:00
29 January Newcastle Utd - Man City 20:00
30 January Southampton -Crystal Palace 19:45
30 January Liverpool v Leicester City 20:00
30 January Tottenham - Watford 20:00

League Cup (EFL, Milk, Coke whatever) Semi Finals
8/9 January Tottenham - Chelsea 20:00
8/9 January Man City - Burton - 19:45
22/23 January Burton - Man City 19:45
22/23 January Chelsea - Tottenham 19:45

FA Cup Third Round (3pm unless stated)

4 January Tranmere Rovers - Tottenham 19:45
5 January Bournemouth - Brighton 12:30
5 January Burnley - Barnsley 12:30
5 January Man Utd - Reading 12:30
5 January Sheffield Weds - Luton 12:30
5 January Shrewsbury - Stoke 12:30
5 January West Brom - Wigan 12:30
5 January West Ham - Birmingham 12:30
5 January Accrington Stanley - Ipswich
5 January Aston Villa - Swansea
5 January Bolton - Walsall
5 January Brentford - Oxford Utd
5 January Chelsea - Nottingham Forest
5 January Derby - Southampton
5 January Everton - Lincoln
5 January Fleetwood - Wimbledon
5 January Gillingham - Cardiff
5 January Middlesbrough - Peterborough
5 January Blackpool - Arsenal 17:30
5 January Bristol City - Huddersfield 17:30
5 January Crystal Palace - Grimsby Town 17:30
5 January Newcastle Utd - Blackburn 17:30
5 January Norwich City - Portsmouth 17:30
6 January Fulham - Oldham 14:00
6 January Man City - Rotherham 14:00
6 January Millwall - Hull 14:00
6 January Preston - Doncaster 14:00
6 January QPR - Leeds 14:00
6 January Sheffield Utd - Barnet 14:00
6 January Woking - Watford 14:00
6 January Newport County - Leicester 16:30
7 January Wolves - Liverpool 19:45

Also AFC Asian Cup football this month. Something something about Liverpool.

[Boydy]

Why are the bulk of the games on the 2nd? I thought New Year's Day was always the big football day?

[niko_cee]

Presumably because they played quite a few games yesterday/tv/the way the days have fallen over Christmas/new year.

[Reg]

Only one home game in January for us and it could be a thumping (Liverpool). As long as we beat last season's 1-5 it'll be another sign of the club's progress.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46700310

West Ham have signed Nasri.

[Spikey M]

Lol

[Vercetti]

A lesbian fresh off of a doping ban.

[Shindig]

We're losing comfortably on Wednesday.

[Trancemeister]

Have Pereira played as winger before or is it a one time thing today?

[Max Power]

He’s played there a handful of times yeah. Apparently he did a fair bit at Nice as well. Doesn’t mean this isn’t a horrifically negative team selection with very little attacking threat.

[Bob Sacamano]

Have Pereira played as winger before or is it a one time thing today?

From my FM playing days he used to be a winger by trade.

[Max Power]

Both teams are hanging here. Never seen so many misplaced passes.

[Mazuuurk]

So these threads are basically like sex in relationships now?

Before we had them every week, maybe even several times a week, and occasionally with multiple cheeky thread starters, but now we're just resigned to a monthly thread?
Pretty soon it descends into just a yearly thread, and we convince ourselves it probably best because we're a little too tired to type anyway, as it were.

[Kikó]

If you don't like it fuck off /giggles

[Giggles]

If you don't like it fuck off /giggles

Fucking hell, triggered aren't we?

Cool it down lad, you're supposed to be on holidays. Surely enough people have thought you're a cock that this couldn't be winding you up that tight.

[Kikó]

Aw Snowflake upset. 😪😪 It's ok baby.

[Giggles]

Aw Snowflake upset.  It's ok baby.

Right so. Top work there.

[Kikó]

How about we have a good mass?

[Giggles]

How about we have a good mass?

I don't even know what to say now. It's teetering towards pity at this stage.

Great stuff?

[niko_cee]

Long live the Marco Silva revolution at Everton.

God they're bad.

Isn't this exactly how it went for him at Watford? Start well, fade to shite?

[Giggles]

Long live the Marco Silva revolution at Everton.

God they're bad.

Isn't this exactly how it went for him at Watford? Start well, fade to shite?

Wasn't Everton sniffing that turned it all to shit at Watford?

[Manc]

The only thing Silva brings to the table is a well fitted coat.

[niko_cee]

Wasn't Everton sniffing that turned it all to shit at Watford?

That was the narrative, but maybe his sides are just shit after an initial bounce.

[Mazuuurk]

Slagging off homosexuals in one thread, checking out coat fittings in another

[Jimmy Floyd]

They are 1-0 down at the moment but Leeds are a brilliant team to watch. They could come top eight in the Premier League next year with the right signings. Bielsa is a genius.

[Pleb]

Woking's three nil win against Hampton and Richmond has put Torquay on the ropes.

We're going to win the division on goal difference at this fucking rate.

[Mazuuurk]

They are 1-0 down at the moment but Leeds are a brilliant team to watch. They could come top eight in the Premier League next year with the right signings. Bielsa is a genius.

Eh, they seem a distinct top 9 side to me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They are 1-0 down at the moment but Leeds are a brilliant team to watch. They could come top eight in the Premier League next year with the right signings. Bielsa is a genius.

The guy is a fucking legend. Goal down and a man sent off, any other manager in this country tries to shut up shop and hope to nick one. Bielsa's gone 1-4-4 and there's the equaliser.

[Pepe]

Bielsa is a fucking legend.

[mugbull]

We’re playing the same team that choked on Wolves cock, minus Davies. Fucking tragic. No chance we win this one

[Kikó]

That was the narrative, but maybe his sides are just shit after an initial bounce.

Sort of my feeling about him. I think he'll get the chop soon and he'll don La Liga or Belgium.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Can't get much luckier.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Eriksen is so classy.

[mugbull]

I cant remember any team with as obvious a weak link as Spurs with Trippier. He’s consistently the worst player in nearly every game he plays

[Baz]

Pulisic to Chelsea confirmed. €64M. To take Hazard's number 10 jersey?

Loaned back to Dortmund for the rest of the season.

You missed him, Jurg. I'm sure the unbeaten season and league trophy will ease the pain.

[mugbull]

He’s not even playing for Dortmund any more, 60+ for a bench player is some fucking sum

[SincereTheRebel]

The emergence of Sancho makes that a super deal for Dortmund. The play in the same postions (I beleive...)

[SincereTheRebel]

Fabregas is close to joing Hnery at Monaco

[phonics]

Pushing your academy product out the door to Bayern Munch for 20 million quid while signing someone from Dortmund 2 years older than him for 70 on no doubt massive wages. Mentalbb

[SincereTheRebel]

Pushing your academy product out the door to Bayern Munch for 20 million quid while signing someone from Dortmund 2 years older than him for 70 on no doubt massive wages. Mentalbb

Who are you talking about?

[Amigo]

Hudson-Odoi, presumably.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's the most Chelsea thing of all time. Pulisic gets us in the US market though (they are obsessed with this).

I'm going tonight, can't wait to see us put 1000 passes together and lose 3-1.

[SincereTheRebel]

[Baz]

[niko_cee]

I thought Pulisic looked decent in that friendly in the summer, but if the plan is for him to succeed Hazard then those are some pretty big shoes (and shorts) to fill. Not sure he's up to that yet.

As Jimmy says though, there are other factors at play.

[SincereTheRebel]

Wolves are supposedly in for Tammy with a view of a loan deal with the option to buy for £18m. Tammy would be mad to leave Villa at the moment if you ask me and considering the price of players these days. Chelsea would be stupid to accept that deal. Tammy isnt good enough to don a Wolves shirt anyway.

[thommo]

Abraham was pretty poor last season for Swansea, he was on the bench for a lot of the season and really failed to live up to the hype after his good year with Bristol City. He's hardly going to be better than Jimenez in that system.

Fulham supposedly in for Gary Cahill on loan. Slow, but will bring some much needed experience to the back line if true.

[Byron]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46700310

West Ham have signed Nasri.

The most 'West Ham' signing imaginable. I'm just glad we have him on a one year contract.

[SincereTheRebel]

Six months too long

[Ian]

Wor Andy is starting! How many minutes until he gets injured?