Football Thread 2021/2022

[Ork1927]

Are teams going to drop down into the Europa League still.

 

Now you play 6 games in the group stage. In this new thing you play 10 then maybe a 2 legged knockout then maybe end up in the next competition down!

 

Having won something like 2 of those twelve games (with a couple of draws to get you 24th)

 

[Naysonymous]

2 hours ago, paulie12 said:

He didn’t say it.

 

I didn’t actually say Italy was “like living in a foreign country”. No one has ever seen a direct quote from me saying that. I’m blaming Kenny Dalglish. When he re-signed me, a reporter asked me, “Why have you come back?” Kenny quipped, “He said it was like playing in a foreign country”. He’s got a lot to answer for!

This is along the lines of what I’d heard too. Kenny Dalglish is no stranger to the after dinner speaking circuit, by all accounts he’s a very witty guy, and the Ian Rush story was part of his routine for a while.  He probably just thought it would just get a decent laugh when he said it, not enter football folklore. 

[skadupuk]

At it again, you'd think they'd at least let some of the dust settle:

 

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/03/03/new-european-super-league-launched-today/

 

Ten clubs will be launching a new attempt at the European Super League later today, according to reports.

Not all the names involved last time are being mentioned this time, with just ten teams seemingly behind this revamped project, which would also bring slightly different rules from the closed-shop format that failed so spectacularly last year.

Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool are the Premier League sides involved, though Arsenal and Tottenham’s names have not been mentioned on this occasion.

Elsewhere, we would also see Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid from La Liga, as well as Serie A trio Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan.

[Gabe]

I was reading yesterday that they were looking at ways to do it without English clubs and that's what the the La Liga top guy thinks, this just seems like clickbait.

 

Given what was said and seen at the time, I'd be amazed if Liverpool, Man City or Chelsea were to join it. Man Utd you just don't know, because: Glazers, but I'd still be pretty surprised.

[Gabe]

I read the latest developments in David Goodwillie's movements and see that Clyde have now u-turned on taking him on loan, for much the same reasons that Raith don't want him (but with an added council ban on being in or near the ground too.)

 

In Raith's case I get why there was such a big outcry - for Clyde though, everybody associated with the club tolerated him being there all through, during and after he was declared a rapist and there was no mass quitting (did sponsors pull out at the time?) 

 

So what is different now? I can only think that the publicity from the Raith situation has driven it, but as I say, Clyde stood by him after his civil case verdict and surely that's worse? By all accounts he's a pretty nasty piece of work so I won't shed any tears over it, but I do find the reaction puzzling.

[Fry Crayola]

I can only assume the publicity at the moment, as well as the cultural awareness brought about by #MeToo since he originally joined Clyde are the biggest factors here. There was still some consternation but not at this level. Had he not moved to Raith in the first place, he'd still be playing under everyone's radar.

[Commander Jameson]

I hadn't seen this before. Norwich fans celebrating am imaginary goal.

 

 

[smithstock]

Amazing, I remember when Villa used to celebrate getting a corner a few seasons back. 

[Naysonymous]

Yeah. Let’s pretend we’ve scored a goal was a staple chant for a while back in the dark days of Randy Lerner running the club into the ground. In 2015/16 (17 points from 38 games) we had to cancel our ‘goal of the month’ competition on the grounds that we’d gone a month without scoring a goal. Twice. 

[Stopharage]

Leeds are looking a lot better defensively and shouldn’t be a goal behind in this game. 

[skadupuk]

Palace looking good at Wolves, Mateta is raw but seems to find the goal.

 

We've done nothing but give away leads all season, so I'm debating sticking a tenner on a Wolves equaliser straight away.

[Azrael]

So disappointing to see Newcastle escaping relegation, the only thing that would come close to making up for that is it Lampard's Everton went down instead 

[skadupuk]

Palace running rampant, Wolves pretty poor, we should have had another 1 at least but given our recent poor form in front of goal I'll take a 2-0 lead.

 

Michael Olise is the bargain of the century at £8 million.

[Plissken]

Burnley should be ahead against Chelsea. Tuchel looks livid. This will bite us in the second half.

[feltmonkey]

 

 

[Naysonymous]

Quote

GOAL! Aston Villa 4-0 Southampton (Ings 54)

Premier League: Danny Ings scores against his former club but refuses to celebrate out of respect for the fans of his former club who have been booing him all afternoon.

 

Danny Ings scored to make it 4-0 to Southampton in the corresponding fixture last season. That game ended 4-3, I’d prefer it if there were more goals in this game then it’s Southampton’s now traditional 9-0 drubbing.  

[Plissken]

20 minutes where everything that could go wrong, did.

[skadupuk]

Palace holds on for a 2-0.

 

They sat back for the second half, which was a mistake given it was a complete change (and they dominated the first half by being on the front foot).

 

Wolves really didn't do much, very odd set up by them first half and then waiting unti the 55th minute to make any changes lost them time.

 

We were the better team overall (should have had more first half) so a fair reult I think. 

[Plissken]

I hate to tar a fan base with the actions of idiots but right now I’m outside the Turf trying to avoid Chelsea fans looking to provoke fights. Not seen this in years.

[Stopharage]

26 minutes ago, Plissken said:

I hate to tar a fan base with the actions of idiots but right now I’m outside the Turf trying to avoid Chelsea fans looking to provoke fights. Not seen this in years.

Probably the same knuckle-draggers who were shouting Abramovich’s name through the 1 minute applause for Ukraine. Stay safe. 
 

Every club has them, we have some utter bellends at Leicester. Remember watching us play Coventry years back and some of the Baby Crew were throwing darts down at the away support. 

[5R7]

30 minutes ago, Plissken said:

I hate to tar a fan base with the actions of idiots but right now I’m outside the Turf trying to avoid Chelsea fans looking to provoke fights. Not seen this in years.

also ..."this"...i mean...jfc, what a bunch of utter fucking morons!

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12558320/chelsea-fans-chant-roman-abramovichs-name-during-ukraine-tribute-against-burnley

[Hamus]

Tonight could be the night for Liverpool. Do they really have the mental strength?

[kensei]

It's good that Leeds got rid of Bielsa so they could create chances and get beat 1-0 against mid table rather than create chances and get beat 6-0 against better ones. Will 100% keep us up.

[JDubYes]

I haven’t watched many non-Arsenal games this season, so I’m not sure if he always does this, but Carragher’s favourite way of adding emphasis during commentary is very irritating, it really is.

[Plissken]

Burnley 0 Chelsea 4

Yeesh.

First half was very even, with Clarets having by far the clearer chances.  Unfortunately for Burnley, they fell to Dwight McNeil, whose confidence is not so much on the floor, but practically subterranean.  I'm all for letting a player play himself back into form and confidence but right now he's actively harming the team.  Spooning over from eight yards after Mendy messed up a clearance was the worst of the misses, but what really got on the crowds tits giving up on a chase for the ball, only for Jay Rod to keep the ball in play, pass it back to McNeil who failed to find a wide open Aaron Lennon with a simple pass.

Second half, OK, let's build on... oh FFS.  James fakes McNeil twice and scores from a tight angle.  I was told as a fucking eight year old to watch the ball and never the opponent, but that was a lesson forgotten.  Then an open header.  Then a bundle over the line.  Chelsea with a 3-0 lead that you would call undeserved in just about every circumstance apart from their opponents presenting them with each chance.  Finally Tarkowski just managed to cut out a pass straight to Pulisic and.. bloody hell it was as if everything went wrong in about twenty minutes.

Burnley huffed and puffed for the rest of the game, while the crowd got on McNeils back after he either sprayed a pass into touch, went backwards when the space ahead of him was gaping or was spinning around so much he seemed to be drilling for oil.  Chelsea started timewa game managing with some extravagant injury delays that were frankly embarrassing and the only supporters who weren't pissed off at the final whistle were the visitors. 

A special mention for the visiting supporters, who not only starting chanting for their current owner towards the end of the minutes applause for the people of Ukraine, but kept it up during the first half.  The songbook was finally changed when they were 3-0 up, but after the final whistle were looking to goad home supporters into fights outside the ground, something I haven't experienced at the Turf for several years.

 

A thoroughly dispiriting day.

 

[Naysonymous]

Things really starting to feel like they are solidifying now.    Obviously we've got a title race, but the Champions League seems like it's now three teams fighting for the final spot (Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester United) and relegation is Norwich plus two from Watford, Burnley, Leeds, Brentford and Everton.   I've got a feeling Manchester City will win the league, which as much as it pains me to say it, isn't who I want to win the league and disappointingly I figure the clubs who go down will be the ones which make for the least interesting stories.  Sorry Watford, sorry Burnley.    

[Plissken]

Whats maddening is that the Burnley who turned up for the second half of the Man Utd game and the first half today would easily stay up.  The team who came out for the second half to do would go down and deserve to.

 

I've been resigned to it since we lost to Newcastle.  It's an old squad that desperately needed refreshing two seasons ago.  It's hard enough for us to stay in the Premier League without the (old) board basically keeping all the money in a rainy day fund, then selling up and subsequently complaining in the Press that the money they had saved was used to buy them out.  What the fuck did they think would happen?  The more they stashed the cash in the bank, the more likely that a leveraged buyout was going to happen.  And it's a bit fucking rich to complain about it when the only reason the money was there to fund such a buyout was because they wouldn't fucking spend it on the squad.

[layten]

24 minutes ago, Plissken said:

Burnley 0 Chelsea 4

I see the Chelsea "fans" were keeping to their usual standards of class by chanting Abramovich during the 1 minutes applause for Ukraine. 

[Chindie]

That Burnley result is very much a 'getting relegated' kinda one. Decent performance against a side that should win the match, for a half, then completely fall apart.

[Stoppy2000]

47 minutes ago, layten said:

I see the Chelsea "fans" were keeping to their usual standards of class by chanting Abramovich during the 1 minutes applause for Ukraine. 

Remember - they consider John Terry a legend. Explains a lot.