Football thread 2022/23

[Azrael]

Only feels like yesterday that Rooney scored another goal against San Marino and the media creamed themselves about him being Engerlands bestest top goal scorer. Then Kane came on that game and scored for like 2nd time in 2 games or something,  and I jokingly said to my brother that it  won't be long until Rooney loses the record to Kane. 

[Loik V credern]

Bayern sack Nagelsmann and hire Tuchel. 

[milko]

5 hours ago, Plissken said:

Here we have an England "fan", heading to Naples for tonights match with his patriotic flag.

 

 

Now you may wince.  You may think that is in poor taste.  You may, in a surge of good conscience, try to warn the bloke about trying to display that in a city such as Naples.

 

However, said bloke is Jake Hepple, last seen claiming credit for the "White Lives Matter" banner that flew over the Etihad before a Man City/Burnley game.

 

And therefore, I fervently hope that he finds out just exactly why this is Not A Good Idea.

 

The FA cancelled his ticket before the match, apparently, after this came out. Fun!

[Art Vandelay]

Didn’t Nagelsmann go off on a mad drawing room accusational trying to flush out a mole in the ranks who was leaking surface level tactics to the papers or something. Conte must be wondering what he needs to say to get the boot.

[JamesTW]

Probably got the sack because Bayern are involved in a title race, can’t be having any of that bollocks at Bayern

[Loik V credern]

2 hours ago, dizogg said:

You think wrong.

 

 

I still think Grealish's is worse, he's behind the ball so can hit through it, he sees it more clearly, he has more time to set himself up and he doesn't just hit it over from a ball bounce as we've seen Sterling and others do dozens of times, he completely mishits it, it was a simple side footed shot I'm not sure what he's trying to do with. 

 

It didn't matter in the end while I genuinely think Guardiola went cold on Sterling because of that miss and misses like that and it secured him leaving City.

[Fry Crayola]

Comfortable and fairly routine 2-0 win for NI in San Marino, this giving Michael O'Neill a much more comfortable start to his second spell than he endured in his first. 

[glb]

Everton referred by the Premier League for a breach of FFP at the end of last season. That’ll come at no comfort whatsoever to Burnley, Norwich and Watford, especially when the commission does nothing about it.

[bradigor]

Talking of Everton. Heading to Goodison right now the the Merseyside Derby. 

 

Time for a bit of revenge 

[Loik V credern]

Lets pick a photo where he's looking up at his superiors and their puzzling decision. Tuchel's first game is a 6 pointer potential title decider against Dortmund, then 3 days later a cup quarter final against Freiburg, 4 days later another game against Freiburg, then 3 days later a champions league quarter final away to Man City.

 

[deerokus]

I feel Bayern sacking Nagelsmann is going to be the opposite of the 'Man U didn't sack Ferguson' thing where it gets brought up as a historically important decision decades from now. Young, brilliant manager they could have had for ten, twenty years... and they're probably going to win the league and CL this season anyway.

 

Incredibly baffling.

[Fry Crayola]

Mads Mikkelsen has just scored for the Faroes.

 

Unfortunately, not that Mads Mikkelsen. That'd be a story.

[Zael]

Ireland watching that France game rn

 

[bradigor]

Hey Brad. Fancy a cuppa? 

 

How does it taste? 

 

 

Spoiler

Bitter.

 

[Orion]

16 hours ago, deerokus said:

I feel Bayern sacking Nagelsmann is going to be the opposite of the 'Man U didn't sack Ferguson' thing where it gets brought up as a historically important decision decades from now. Young, brilliant manager they could have had for ten, twenty years... and they're probably going to win the league and CL this season anyway.

 

Incredibly baffling.

 

He seemed to be pissing everyone off behind the scenes and it's not great for morale when the club captain Neuer couldn't stand him.

 

The timing seems off but Bayern were going to sack him anyway and were worried someone else would hire Tuchel. I think he could go onto greatness but he seems a nightmare to deal with. I'd like to see him in the Premiership at somewhere like Spurs or Chelsea. So if it turns into a nightmare, the fallout would be hilarious.

[Ork1927]

Wales looked like they were going to get annihilated by Croatia who should have been out of sight at half time.

 

But second half they improved a bit and hung on in there and just managed to equalise in stoppage time!

[Fry Crayola]

From 2-0 down, Kazakhstan have come back to beat Denmark 3-2.

 

This was the equaliser.

 

 

[neoELITE]

Hans Christian Andersen, Carslberg, Mads Mikkleson your boys took one hell of a beating.

[Naysonymous]

Are England are starting with shirts 1-11? 

[Hamus]

BoooooomSakalaka

[Danster]

Beautiful finish

[Gabzy]

He’s ridiculous 🥵

[feltmonkey]

Gerrard the pundit is closer in quality to Gerrard the manager than Gerrard the player.

[Hamus]

Kane kneed his goal in mind. Massively overrated, not worthy of praise as a not at all bitter Bazza Glenden would remind you.

 

Imagine if Kane didn't take penalities or didn't score loads of goals for any team he's played for. Perspective, people.

[Naysonymous]

I’m pretty sure Baz had been down the pub before that rant. 😅

[Shimmyhill]

1 hour ago, Hamus said:

Kane kneed his goal in mind. Massively overrated, not worthy of praise as a not at all bitter Bazza Glenden would remind you.

 

Imagine if Kane didn't take penalities or didn't score loads of goals for any team he's played for. Perspective, people.

 

He was shit at Norwich, well overrate - only scores goals when he is playing etc

[Art Vandelay]

You can see why club managers lean on their players to skive off internationals when Southgate flogs the same group of players all the time. Make some changes when the game’s over and done with you helmet. 

[The Fox]

3 hours ago, Naysonymous said:

Are England are starting with shirts 1-11? 

They always do outside of tournaments.

[Naysonymous]

I genuinely hadn’t noticed before.  Or more likely had noticed but completely forgot about it.  🤦‍♂️

 

The reaction to the game has been, er, interesting.  My experience has definitely been skewed by tuning into Villa channels polluted by people who still haven’t forgiven Southgate for signing for Middlesbrough twenty years ago (upon which he made a bunch of comments agreeing with everything the fans had been saying about Doug Ellis since the 80s) but to me the game was about as routine and comfortable a home win as you could wish for. Ukraine didn’t offer much but we broke down a low block and they barely laid a glove on us. Kane extended his record, Saka scored a screamer and on another day we’d have had three or four. It didn’t have the thrills and drama of Denmark in the Euro semi final but it was never going to. Home wins without breaking sweat are what you want in qualifying. 

[Stopharage]

I was glad to see Maddison get a run out for England yesterday as that will probably add another £10m to whatever fee we end up getting from Newcastle for him. 

 

Thought we looked really good in spells in both games but ultimately the most pleasing thing was how we seem to be able to see out games (Italy) and break down defensive blocks which we haven't always been able to do.