Didn't they lose pretty much every game after November and stay up anyway? Heroic.
Didn't they lose pretty much every game after November and stay up anyway? Heroic.
I was just looking at their Wiki page for that season. They beat Boro on 6th December then won 1 more game until the end of the season, which was in March against Fulham.
Just checked, they were 6th at Christmas and then won once after that - an injury time Manucho winner at Fulham - but still stayed up by a point (this was the year when Alan Shearer's Newcastle lost x games in a row at the end, just pipping them to relegation).
In fact, they won twice after 25 October.
Blackpool did the same thing but I think managed to go down.
Joint first after 9 games.
Knocking about in the Spanish third division now at '36' years old.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Edit: Wiki is wrong, he left them last month and has yet to find a new club.
Bolton were top after seven games in 2001/02 and then fell to bits, but at least they managed forty points.
The problem for Norwich is they had everyone watching so it’s going to be impossible to rewrite the narrative as they won’t have anyone watching when they do. It’s like Fat Sam having a rep for doing Arsenal despite having a 4-26 record. It’s about winning the ones when the press have nothing better to do.
Must have been the same year he went on bridges talking people out of jumping. What a hero he was.
Top of the league boys! #OurYear
I remember when LuaLua fired us to the top on day one.
Saw Norwich in their last friendly last week and Jamal Lewis looked quality. Thought he looked alright last night too, although why he was told to mark Van Dijk at set pieces was a mystery.
Reckon he'll be Norwich's breakout player this year.
Starting XI's
Watford : Foster, Femenia, Dawson, Cathcart, Holebas, Hughes, Doucoure, Capoue, Deulofeu, Gray, Deeney.
Brighton: Ryan, Duffy, Dunk, Burn, Montoya, Propper Stephens, March, Gross, Murray, Locadia.
Bournemouth : Ramsdale, Mepham, Cook, Ake, Smith, Lerma, Billing, Rico, King, Wilson, Fraser.
Sheffield United : Henderson, Baldock, Basham, Egan, O’Connell, Stevens, Lundstram, Norwood, Fleck, McGoldrick, Robinson.
Burnley : Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters, Gudmundsson, Cork, Westwood, McNeil, Wood, Barnes.
Southampton : Gunn, Valery, Stephens, Vestergaard, Bednarek, Bertrand, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Ings, Adams, Redmond.
Crystal Palace : Guaita, Ward, Kelly, Dann, Van Aanholt, Milivojevic, McArthur, Townsend, Meyer, Benteke, Ayew.
Everton : Pickford, Coleman, Mina, Keane, Digne, Gomes, Schneiderlin, Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Calvert-Lewin.
What a bastard Aguero is.
Justified in missing it.
Fuck VAR.
The miss should have stood for taking away the chance for a hattrick.
I already hate VAR. It's been a total shitshow this game.
Lasted a whileTop of the league boys! #OurYear
What the Dickens was Fabianski up to for that last goal? Sterling seems to have some Paul McKenna shit in his locker for those situations.
Was going to stick one of the games on but jesus, slim pickings.
Got west brom on the radio like it's 2006 all over again, and I'm quite enjoying it. Streams have spoiled us.
Just get there gaa on sky arena and forget the soccer for today. It's going to be war.
1-0 up and Potter makes a double change, brings on two strikers.
Andone scores with his first touch for 2-0.
Looking forward to some feel-good-factor at The Amex next week.
Spurs' warm up gear looks like some Le Coq Sportif nonsense from the nineties.
Tottenham : Lloris, Walker-Peters, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Rose, Winks, Sissoko, Ndombele, Lamela, Lucas, Kane.
Aston Villa : Heaton, Elmohamady, Engels, Mings, Taylor, Hourihane, McGinn, Grealish, Trezeguet, El Ghazi, Wesley.
Eriksen on the bencha transfer perhaps
Milwall are awful. Sorry igor. Ya boys fucked it.
It’s mental Scotland are shite when they have the two best left backs in the world as well as the best box to box midfielder. Ryan Fraser can’t be far off top ten in the world either.
And me for £180. Seeek
Solid if unspectacular 2-0 win over Blackburn. Much more like it, still things to work on but nice to kick off the home games with a win.
Good to see both Cairney and Mitrovic get goals too. I’m also pleasantly surprised at how well Arter fit in after only joining in the week.
There is a guy on the spurs bench called Oliver Skipp. Why is that funny?
Harry Kane persisting in being horrible at finishing
It’s August, he’s always a mong when the sun is out.
Fuck off Kane
Must be raining
Lol
Lol at Lineker calling them Sheffield Wednesday.
My prediction is Martial will have a scorching season
Leicester: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Evans, Soyuncu, Chilwell, Ndidi, Perez, Tielemans, Choudhury, Maddison, Vardy.
Substitutes: Justin, Morgan, Albrighton, Ward, Iheanacho, Barnes, Praet.
Wolves: Rui Patricio, Coady, Bennett, Boly, Doherty, Dendoncker, Joao Moutinho, Neves, Jonny, Jota, Jimenez.
Substitutes: Pedro Neto, Cutrone, Gibbs-White, Ruddy, Saiss, Ruben Vinagre, Traore.
The battle for 3rd begins.
Bringing in Alexis and sacrificing Martial for him has to be one of the most disastrous footballing decisions in recent memory.
Newcastle: Dubravka, Manquillo, Schar, Lascelles, Dummett, Ritchie, Hayden, Longstaff, Shelley, Almiron, Joelinton
Arsenal: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Chambers, Sokratis, Monreal, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Willock, Mkhitaryan, Nelson, Aubameyang
Probably the strongest side we could field.
Have Arsenal had a plane crash or is that really the best they can come up with?
They've got Pepe to come in at least.
If it's Mata or Young on the right today I'm writing the entire club calendar off.
Rashford up top with Greenwood just behind with James and Martial on the wings.
de Gea
Shaw
Jones
Smalling
Young
Gibson
Anderson
Fellaini
Rashford
Lukaku
Mata
We'd piss the league.
Mkhitaryan is having a terrible start. Has given the ball away to an opposition player three times already.
Cracking attempt there too.
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