Marsch football

[Ian]

Bielsa is gone, don the black armband football purists / people from Leeds. I know nothing about him and I haven't seen Ted Lasso so I'm afraid the thread title pun is the extent of my middling bants about the man.

But there's plenty going on this month.

• Former Liverpool defender Rigobert Song has been confirmed as the new Cameroon head coach on the orders of the country's president, Paul Biya.
• Man City have another of their famously tricky cup ties to look forward to.
• THE MANCHESTER DERBY!!! (Oh no.) United will be getting bummed by Liverpool too. (We don't deserve two bullet points.)
• Gazprom-free European football continues.
• Celtic look to be getting sued for noncing.
• The best ever / worst ever manager Steve Bruce continues to try and get a win at West Brom.

And no doubt other stuff. You know how to find fixtures at this point, I'm sure.

[Magic]

I've downloaded it.

[Ben]

Is FA Cup in midweek normal?

[Ian]

I think fifth round and quarters they do midweek, don't they?

Are the semis always a weekend now they're at Wembley?

[Ben]

To be honest it's been so long since my team made it this far so I'm oblivious. The last time was 2016-17 and R5 and QF were both weekends.

[Spikey M]

Are you a Middlesborough fan Ben?

[Ben]

Yes.

And that's not even the best one (feat. Chris Rea and Bob Mortimer):

[Spikey M]

There's a lot to process in that.

[Don]

March is fairly tame, but the international break at the end of the month kicks off peak festival of football season, having weeded out the soft shites [and Man Utd] fans.

[Kikó]

Looking forward to playing city this weekend. 😭😭😭😭

[Waffdon]

I can’t remember the last time City even beat you at home. The year before Pogba’s double when 2-0 down? Perfectly set up for another counter attacking masterclass. It’s about the only fixture Rashford turns up for

[Ian]

Yeah but we're fucking shit so it's just easier to assume there will be nothing to enjoy about a United game and if there is it's a bonus.

[Baz]

Even I want City to beat United.

[Bernanke]

Yes.

And that's not even the best one (feat. Chris Rea and Bob Mortimer):

And to think, that Chris Rea put Bob in a bath with an egg in it after recording this.

[Kikó]

Yeah but we're fucking shit so it's just easier to assume there will be nothing to enjoy about a United game and if there is it's a bonus.

I can't imagine our half of shit won't be published by a team as good as city. I think Rashford has officially become Trashford so even that isn't something to cling onto.

[Lewis]

Anthony Martial always seemed to turn up for City. Doniel James as well. Oh well.

[Raoul Duke]

It's all set for an Elanga banger

[Reg]

Top work titling, Ian. What perfect timing - it's almost like Leeds did it for TTH.

Not sure about midweek Cup games but nice that Spurs are treating it seriously with Kane and co.

[Ben]

Not sure about midweek Cup games but nice that Spurs are treating it seriously with Kane and co.

Yeah it's great.

[Spikey M]

Doherty

Square it you mong.

[Ben]

Our keeper is bad. Been caught flying off his line numerous times this season.

[Shindig]

Been an alright half. Boro need to move it quicker if they want to cause some proper problems, though. Spurs are just gearing up for the counter.

[Manc]

Shearer at this point might be the baldest man on the planet.

[Spikey M]

I have no idea why Bergwijn isn't used more by Spurs. He always makes a huge difference and they're nowhere near big enough to be having "supersubs".

[Ben]

I thought that front three would batter us as they did to Leeds but they did pretty much nothing and indeed it’s taken Bergwijn for them to do anything threatening.

[Shindig]

Boro would've probably had this if they just put their foot through something.

[Ben]

Fucking hell, the BBC really want to push the fear; live TV has never been shoved off for the news, it’s always delayed.

[Ben]

Boro would've probably had this if they just put their foot through something.

Yep. Bergwijn 118’ all over this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yep. Bergwijn 118’ all over this.

I've got Spurs on pens.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a lovely finish.

[Spikey M]

Lol

[Shindig]

There you gan. Smash it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sol Bamba? Bloody hell.

[Shindig]

Lloris going keeper to keeper sums it up.

[Waffdon]

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86 years old? He won’t even make it through 90 minutes of watching Romelu Lukaku try control a football before his ticker goes

[niko_cee]

He's selling.

[SincereTheRebel]

You have to be a straight badman to give a Russian a lot of money right now

[niko_cee]

It's all going to help the Ukrainians charidee.

[Lewis]

If he does get sanctioned will he even be able to sell it? What a dork. Ride it out and cry anti-Semitism like a man.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If Mellin pulls his finger out we could make an offer.

[Shindig]

"Sorry, we don't accept bitcoin."

[Ben]

Kenedy

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Luton

Good start.

[Manc]

Perraud with a sumptuous strike.

[Baz]

Liverpool are gonna win 4 trophies aren’t they

[phonics]

If he does get sanctioned will he even be able to sell it? What a dork. Ride it out and cry anti-Semitism like a man.

The whole point is to sell it before he gets sanctioned. I thought you were Mr. more intelligent than everyone.

[Bam]

The whole point is to sell it before he gets sanctioned. I thought you were Mr. more intelligent than everyone.

He's been sanctioned. I thought you were Mr. more intelligent than everyone.

[phonics]

No he hasn’t?

[Lewis]

If they don't sanction him in the next couple of weeks then they probably won't at all. Can you sell a two billion pound football club to a decent buyer in a few weeks? He should just sit tight and dare the government to confiscate it.

[phonics]

That’s literally what he’s trying to do. Hence why he’s made the first official statement in his entire time since he took them over. They’ve stated that the price will plummet the more days it goes on.