Football thread 2022/23

[Chindie]

Classic Villa.

 

We've not won in the FA Cup since 2016. Diabolical.

[BabelRich]

Stevenage totally deserved it. Villa were abject today. Totally devoid of ideas. 

[Mike1812]

😂

 

[neoELITE]

Where is Stevenage? It's like Crawley. Peterborough and Forest Green Rovers. Nobody knows. 

[bradigor]

Crawley is down near Brighton, been twice to watch games. Peterborough is best Cambridge, been to the rink countless times and it is freezing. Forest Green is in Gloucestershire, but never been so it could be a lie.

 

I assumed you'd been to some of those with Argyle away days.

[Art Vandelay]

Stevenage is one of those towns that threw its lot in behind an underwhelming precinct at some point in the last 50 years and never looked back. Great result for them though, Emery did always enjoy chucking the cups.

[Shimmyhill]

Come now, we all know where Stevenage is - well the GOAT in F1 was born there so we know it exists….

 

On a lighter note…

 

 

[dizogg]

6 minutes ago, Shimmyhill said:

Come now, we all know where Stevenage is - well the GOAT in F1 was born there so we know it exists….

 

On a lighter note…

 

 

Yeah that joke works really well 6 days late after he scored last night.

[Naysonymous]

1 hour ago, neoELITE said:

Where is Stevenage? It's like Crawley. Peterborough and Forest Green Rovers. Nobody knows. 

Stevenage is about half an hour on the train from Peterborough.   Probably doesn’t help much tbh.
 

Weirdly the the two most famous people from Stevenage were in the same year together at the same school, Lewis Hamilton and Ashley Young.  Part of me wants to know what the careers teacher thought on the day they heard “F1 World Champion” and “England international footballer” in the same morning, but the rest wants to know how much shit Ash is going to get from his friends in Stevenage tomorrow.  
 

 

I’ve just got in from the game.  Villa got absolutely mugged.  They were playing like they were 4-0 up when it was only 1-0 and it’s cost them a place in infamy.  There will be massive overreactions from a lot of the fanbase of course, but the main thing here is the result gives Unai Emery a free hand to bin some of the squad.  

[ryodi]

31 minutes ago, Naysonymous said:

Weirdly the the two most famous people from Stevenage were in the same year together at the same school, Lewis Hamilton and Ashley Young.  Part of me wants to know what the careers teacher thought on the day they heard “F1 World Champion” and “England international footballer” in the same morning, but the rest wants to know how much shit Ash is going to get from his friends in Stevenage tomorrow.  

 

Lewis Hamilton famously called Stevenage a 'slum' which didn't go down well

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46605985

 

Quote

 

People in Stevenage have hit back after Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton said it had been his dream to "get out of the slums".

Hamilton, who made the remark during a speech at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) event, was born and grew up in the Hertfordshire town.

 

Speaking to one of the presenters of SPOTY, Gabby Logan, he said: "It really was a dream for us all as a family to do something different. For us to get out of the slums.

"Well, not the slums, but to get out of somewhere and do something. We all set our goals very, very high but we did it as a team."

 

 

I noticed that theirs shirt sponsor is Amazon Prime Gaming which is a strangely high profile sponsor for a team in League 2. 

[Shimmyhill]

57 minutes ago, dizogg said:

Yeah that joke works really well 6 days late after he scored last night.

 

Didnt realise that was his first goal this season  

 

At least someone got their pizza but no wonder they dont do the 30 mins of its free anymore!

[MikeBeaver]

22 minutes ago, Shimmyhill said:

 

Didnt realise that was his first goal this season  

 

At least someone got their pizza but no wonder they dont do the 30 mins of its free anymore!

Strangely, the 30 minutes or free thing was cancelled years ago, lawsuit in America or something, mostly due to the drivers being maniacs and causing accidents... or something like that.... found an article https://www.ranker.com/list/dominos-30-minutes-or-less-lawsuit/genevieve-carlton#:~:text=According to a 1993 lawsuit%2C Domino's "30 minutes,won a %2478 million verdict against the company.

[Plissken]

I know that Forest green Rovers play in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire and that the stadium is at the top of a long hill as many away fans complain about having to walk up it.

 

I couldn't tell you where Nailsworth actually is, mind.

[Orion]

I've no idea where Plymouth is tbh. Somewhere on the south coast ?

 

Anywhere south of Birmingham who cares really.

[Plissken]

Plymouth has a rock.  It's where Denzel Washington landed.

[neoELITE]

56 minutes ago, Orion said:

I've no idea where Plymouth is tbh. Somewhere on the south coast ?

 

Anywhere south of Birmingham who cares really.

 

Yet you mention us

 

We're always on BBC weather. 

 

Bottom left.

[Fry Crayola]

No, that was Nic Cage.

[Mike1812]

14 hours ago, neoELITE said:

Where is Stevenage? It's like Crawley. Peterborough and Forest Green Rovers. Nobody knows. 

Sounds like a tour of places Leeds have been knocked out of the cup. 

[ryodi]

Roberto Martinez has been appointed manager of Portugal.

[Plissken]

He must give amazing interviews.

[Ork1927]

Bale retired from international and club football.

 

Not a great surprise given his lack of games/desire at club level over the last few years and his decline in fitness/performance.

 

I thought he might play a 'goodbye' game for Wales, but I guess it would have been pretty hollow after Wales' disappointing time in Qatar.

 

 

[Plissken]

At his age, his number one priority is going to be his club.

 

[Hamus]

What a historic day. Seems to me that this day might never have come. I thought he might be on his way out of the game but this news so soon?

 

Spoiler

Surely hard to believe that Martinez got another job, football eh? Bloody hell!

 

[The Fox]

 

Why have Chelsea gone so weird.

[Loik V credern]

hmm this is interesting if true

 

How do you get there when some are vastly over 200,000 per week...

 

On Felix...I thought once the to Man City rumour surfaced with B Silva going to Barcelona that it made sense. Chelsea have a lot of the same player and getting about as little as it's possible to get out of them. When I think of Havertz i remember Honigstein saying he was the most talented out of a group of young talents they were talking about, i can't recall the group now which is annoying but the gist was generationally good. You see his ease in the champions league final goal but it doesn't seem like he's yet gone on a run of a few impressive games.

[Art Vandelay]

Wenger tried to flatten the wage structure at Arsenal and it was famously a massive flop. 

[dizogg]

Don’t really get that, I mean nobody is going to take a voluntary pay cut are they, it’ll just be on incoming players. The story is misleadingly written, like De Gea will either accept a pay cut or leave. As will be the case with everyone else.

 

I think overall it’s a good idea to start restructuring the Man Utd success model… can’t see it going down well with the international fanbase though, they live for marquee signings more than trophies.

[Gabe]

2 hours ago, Loik V credern said:

hmm this is interesting if true

 

How do you get there when some are vastly over 200,000 per week...

 

On Felix...I thought once the to Man City rumour surfaced with B Silva going to Barcelona that it made sense. Chelsea have a lot of the same player and getting about as little as it's possible to get out of them. When I think of Havertz i remember Honigstein saying he was the most talented out of a group of young talents they were talking about, i can't recall the group now which is annoying but the gist was generationally good. You see his ease in the champions league final goal but it doesn't seem like he's yet gone on a run of a few impressive games.

Surely they can't reduce salaries without renegotiating contracts and unless they are then fudging it by saying £200k is salary and the rest above that is paid via 'other' means?

[Azrael]

De Gea on £375k a week?! Fuckin' hell. 

[spork]

24 minutes ago, Azrael said:

De Gea on £375k a week?! Fuckin' hell. 

Ed Woodward master class. We also used to have Sanchez and Pogba on similar wages too.