Jonathan Woodgate is @Smjffy
Jonathan Woodgate is @Smjffy
I'm a twit
Lol @ Ashley Young being the latest 'Arsenal celebrated like they'd won the league' melt.
I see Stevie is on the verge of throwing some players under the bus. He did it in his early Rangers days and it seemed to turn the tide slowly into his favour. I'm not so sure it'll be working here.
I think one of his parents is a huge St. Etienne fan and named him accordingly. The green appears to be a nice coincidence.Originally Posted by -james-
Doing for my first look of the season across the top league tables across Europe and I've came across a team I've never noticed before who are bottom and playing Juventus today. Salernitana. Gattuso used to play for them for a season and Ribery, who I thought retired is currently with them now. Its there first season in Serie A since 1999.
They also have Diego Costa.
Actually it fell through https://www.google.com/amp/s/football-italia.net/reports-diego-costa-will-not-join-salernitana/amp/
That Palace front four is a thing of beauty.
I'm beginning to think Lampard might not be a very good manager...
Everton’s squad is absolutely horrendous but bringing in someone who is utterly dreadful at setting his team up to defend when the team is already a joke defensively was never ending well
They had Di Vaio in the late-90s who went on to be a pretty decent player. Legend of CM9798 iirc.
Yeah if Frank can’t finish the job this season hopefully he can get it done next year and get them relegated.
A bit harsh, he's not had a chance to get to 1,000 games yet.
If Lampard doesn't realize he's shit at setting up defence, then he's in trouble.
If Lampard realizes he's shit at setting up defence but has too big an ego to let someone else take care of it, then he's in trouble.
I don't know which is worse at this level.
Hold tight my 'Super Frank has been hard done by Chelsea, he blooded Tammy and Mason and this German clown doesn't know the game' gammon crew.
Jota looked off there but I'll take it.
Aye, no idea how that wasn't offside. Can't wait to see 'the lines'.
Why are both Madrid and Barcelona in away kits.
Did Frank sort of lose it in the aftermath of that result today or are the quotes misleading?
Shame we didn't draw Palace really. That 1990 semi is one of my earliest proper memories of football.
Real Madrid are nothing without Benzema. Barcelona are absolutely pumping them.
I see their formation is listed by the BBC live text thing as 4-2-4-0. Not sure I've ever seen that before [in terms of the specific emphasis on them not having a forward]. I can recall a dreadful game against Boro years ago where Liverpool played 4-6-0 but I have no idea if it was billed as such.
Phil Brown new Barrow manager
The sportswashing begins. I wish we had fuck all to do with this but there’s one of your own running the FAI now.
Should be a great month for footie in the British and Irish Isles.
That’s the attitude I expected. It’s only a thing when browns are doing it.
It's a festival of football. Slovakia v the Luhansk Republic will happen in your Aviva Stadium (renamed Ireland Park for commercial reasons during the tournament) and no one will mention Eamonn de Valera even once. It's a win-win.
Christ, lets go jingo to avoid anything else. In a way I thought better of you and yet I still didn’t really.
Just invade the North. I'm on board with a united Ireland.
I'm sure Giggles would too.
Get whole Ireland back as part of the Union.
Why are we even involving Ireland? We don't need to.
They've got a couple of dons signing with Udinese and their lot aren't empowered/arrogant enough yet to waste away their natural gift so it's wise to keep them on your side.
Exactly.
Rooney was saying today that it will be tough for Ebosele "moving to a foreign country". I'm sure he's used to it by now.
On the subject of Rooney, I only became aware today that I witnessed his international debut, the 3-1 defeat to Australia at Upton Park, which seemed, at the time, the absolute nadir of English sport. The foolishness of youth.
What’s the real nadir? Iceland? 2008?
With the benefit of hindsight the Iceland defeat was embarrassing because of the occasion rather than the actual gulf in quality. That England team had about three good players, and two of them were out of form. 2008 qualifying was worse because we had a quality side. Everyone remembers the Croatia defeats but we lost out by drawing with Israel and Macedonia.
I honestly don't know/too many to count/it's probably still to come.
Iceland was pretty bad.
The nadir of English football was the 0-0 draw with Algeria - combination of drab/ineffectual play, unlikeable players and utter toxicity on and off the pitch.
The Hodgson teams you at least felt something was maybe brewing for the future, even if it was quite well hidden at times.
Yeah, I had the Algeria game [aka Yevmageddon] in mind as one of the options.
Southgate pissing this generation of players up against an 8-at-the-back wall is one to keep an eye on.
Also, lol at there being no trains from the north west on the day of the City/Liverpool semi.
For me I don't think the Algeria performance will ever be topped (bottomed?) as it was the one that finally saw me lose all hope of us ever winning anything.
Nice to see people are more and more getting wise to Southgate though.
It's nice to have the whole of the British Isles involved.
I'm still broadly with him. We could win something under him and very nearly did. Like all England managers, there's always some what-the-fuckery along the way. We wouldn't be talking about finals under Sam Allardyce as he 5-3-2's our way into a Quarter Final defeat.
God knows when the wheels truly fall off, though.
And of course the FA will do nothing about it because Wembley is life.
Isn't the fact that there wasn't a gulf in quality (with a nation of 350,000 people) exactly what makes it so bad?
On the other hand I don't think anything England do will compare to missing out on the World Cup because of losing to Trinidad & Tobago on the final day.
Yeah that is a point, and maybe it is a nadir of the actual sport (of 'English sport' must be those lean cricket years or every pre-Lottery Olympics). I read it as the pits of the football team.
The English sport angle was more a reference to the fact that Australia had pretty much stomped us at every sport we both played since pretty much forever and then the chance to play the one we were actually a lot better at came along and they took the fucking piss in that as well.
Balance restored when we won the rugby world cup later that same year and then 2005 sorted everything through the medium of cricket.
Australia should beat us at cricket, rugby league and pretty much anything other than soccer and rugby union. They have massive weather and lifestyle advantages.
Rugby union is probably our most underachieving sport given how much resource goes into it. Football, ok we haven't won much but our pitches are bogs for half the year and we have no space in most of the country.
This used to be where ItalAussie popped up to give it 'Mate we're only a small country mate...' like they don't do anything other than sit and seethe about sport down there.
This is scarily accurate.
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You don’t even need the other three involved, let alone us.
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