Other Football 2023/24

[Lee909]

1 hour ago, KevieG said:

Rice literally shit his pants tonight. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sir roger]

Reminds me of a legendary Ring Magazine fight report where one of the boxers fouled his white shorts after taking a body blow and was stopped a round later ' to save the fans from further punishment '

[Pidge]

54 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turd Müller

[Scott_M]

I’m not upset Arsenal got through. 

[lebron]

I can see where Code is coming from with the psychology stuff, but accumulated fatigue is a much bigger thing in my opinion, especially for a high energy team like Arsenal. There's only so many times you can go to the well and have the players performing over their limit, much like we experienced in the season where we won 2 cups but ultimately fell short in our hunt for the league and CL. 

 

Arsenal have barely changed up their team and as others have noted, didn't trust their bench last night when the chips were down. I know they are a good team, but they rely heavily on Saka and Martinelli's pace down the wings, as well as playing extremely physically (Saliba, Gabriel, Rice) and exploiting the refs' leniency on set pieces.

 

I don't think they'll crumble as such, but their PL run-in (esp the next few games) look really tough, and having CL obligations smack in the middle will have them finish a distant 3rd in my opinion. To give them credit (and avoid egg on my face), I'm no longer 100 pct sure I want them to win at City in the league, more like 99 pct. I don't think they are able to do so, so the point is probably moot anyway. I think the percentages for the league given the respective clubs run-in should be City 45, Liverpool 40 and Arsenal 15 pct chance of winning it

[Carra_is_legend]

10 hours ago, Reckoner said:

I’m sure he used to be quite an honest likeable player. It’s a shame what’s become of him. A pathetic whiny cheating shit who offers little.

 

It comes from his manager. Havertz has turned into a diving cunt too and whole team is full of petulance.

[Manny]

1 minute ago, Carra_is_legend said:

 

It comes from his manager. Havertz has turned into a diving cunt too and whole team is full of petulance.

Character-wise, Arteta really is the heir apparent to Guardiola isn't he? Same fucking weird goggle-eyed intensity, same passive aggressiveness, same hypocrisy.

[Dapower]

That horrible fucking legohead insulting Porto managers family 

[an tha]

10 hours ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

Good post. City's game at Spurs will be extra nasty too as well.

 

Not wanting to go off topic, I hope we avoid Rangers and English teams in the Europa. Obviously, nothing should be easy at that part of the competition, but a blood and guts two legged tie against a local team isn't what I want.

 

 

No issue avoiding Brighton - they are 4 down in their tie.

 

Sevco are shite and will lose to Benfica IMO.

 

Just leaves West Ham - who are one down but at home.

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, an tha said:

No issue avoiding Brighton - they are 4 down in their tie.

 

Sevco are shite and will lose to Benfica IMO.

 

Just leaves West Ham - who are one down but at home.

I wouldn’t write them fuckers off at Ibrox mate 

[Reckoner]

3 hours ago, Dapower said:

That horrible fucking legohead insulting Porto managers family 

Porto were whiny little bitches when we beat them too. 

[Tenfolder]

9 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Porto were whiny little bitches when we beat them too. 

Yeah, much as I despise legotwathead, I've seen some stuff to suggest their manager has plenty of previous for claiming the opposition bench/manager said mean things after they lose.

[El Rojo]

I’d imagine that insulting his family thing is some ‘son of a/hijo de’ comment during arguments, which isn’t actually insulting his family.
 

It was hardly ‘Your aunt Mavis sent cheap, flimsy Christmas cards to the rest of the family for a number of years.’ 

[Reckoner]

13 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

I’d imagine that insulting his family thing is some ‘son of a/hijo de’ comment during arguments, which isn’t actually insulting his family.
 

It was hardly ‘Your aunt Mavis sent cheap, flimsy Christmas cards to the rest of the family for a number of years.’ 

Reacting to ‘you son of a whore ‘ by saying ‘my mum passed away!’ to the media is some cry baby lame shit. However the fact remains- Lego head is a cunt.

[sir roger]

7 hours ago, lebron said:

 

I don't think they'll crumble as such, but their PL run-in (esp the next few games) look really tough, and having CL obligations smack in the middle will have them finish a distant 3rd in my opinion. To give them credit (and avoid egg on my face), I'm no longer 100 pct sure I want them to win at City in the league, more like 99 pct. I don't think they are able to do so, so the point is probably moot anyway. I think the percentages for the league given the respective clubs run-in should be City 45, Liverpool 40 and Arsenal 15 pct chance of winning it

 

The BBC did an in-depth computer simulation on the last 10 games and you are pretty close to their tabulations, except City are further ahead of us, think it was about 50%, 34% and 16% respectively.

[Lee909]

What's people thoughts on this finance deal with the premier league and EFL. 

 

I agree money needs to funnel through the divisions. But my issue with it is that all its doing to helping sustain and unsustainable product. The top 100 paid players in League 2 earn on avg 175k a year. If clubs are supposed to be self funding how is that sustainable. These teams avg less than 6k in attendance each week and that is with Bradford scewing the stats with their 18k. 23 home games a year and your paying a single player £3300. The premier league be putting money into other leagues but if they give the EFL what they want without the structure changing then it wages will continue to spiral even more out of control. 

[Ronnie Whelan]

3 hours ago, sir roger said:

 

The BBC did an in-depth computer simulation on the last 10 games and you are pretty close to their tabulations, except City are further ahead of us, think it was about 50%, 34% and 16% respectively.

I make it a bit closer to be honest Sir Roger because I think the City-Arsenal game will go a long way towards deciding it. 

 

If it's a draw (presuming we beat Brighton), then we're two ahead of Arsenal and three ahead of City with a much nicer goal difference. That might allow us a serious fuck up in our remaining games. If Arsenal or City win, it's huge for either of them - being honest my feeling is if City win, they could win the remaining games with that bit of momentum, whereas Arsenal, who are very good, could shit the bed at some point.

[Ronnie Whelan]

If they win..

[Rushies tash]

6 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

What's people thoughts on this finance deal with the premier league and EFL. 

 

I agree money needs to funnel through the divisions. But my issue with it is that all its doing to helping sustain and unsustainable product. The top 100 paid players in League 2 earn on avg 175k a year. If clubs are supposed to be self funding how is that sustainable. These teams avg less than 6k in attendance each week and that is with Bradford scewing the stats with their 18k. 23 home games a year and your paying a single player £3300. The premier league be putting money into other leagues but if they give the EFL what they want without the structure changing then it wages will continue to spiral even more out of control. 

 

There is too much money in the Premier League, an obscene amount. But I do find it amusing that the government is arguing for, what appears to be, a form of footballing socialism.

[Lee909]

Hope they both get beat

[corro]

9 hours ago, an tha said:

No issue avoiding Brighton - they are 4 down in their tie.

 

Sevco are shite and will lose to Benfica IMO.

 

Just leaves West Ham - who are one down but at home.

I just hope we avoid Roma. Especially in the final. Let them get knocked out by Xabi’s lot. We can then play them in the final. As champions of our respective leagues. Out going legend v incoming. 

Could someone have a word and make that happen.

[Mook]

9 hours ago, an tha said:

No issue avoiding Brighton - they are 4 down in their tie.

 

Sevco are shite and will lose to Benfica IMO.

 

Just leaves West Ham - who are one down but at home.

 

Rangers will beat Benfica at Ibrox.

[Bjornebye]

Go on Luton you scabby cunts 

[Bjornebye]

[Lee909]

Oh the bitters GD advantage getting reigned in here by Luton