EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

wait, did he watch the game today? same old shit from Villa. there's half a decent team there (almost all new signings / youngsters). Elphick is probably the most popular player in the squad already, Tshibola looks like he might be good. Hutton Cissokho Westwood Gardener Gestede are all problems that need solving. Bacuna not much better. We're going to need at least one good midfielder if we're gonna get anywhere this season.

It has been the same kind of punditry from 5 live, where they seem to forget how tight this league is and seem to forget every year that parachute money doesn't always equate power.

We have Newcastle away next, my stepdad and brother are travelling to this one. Their first away game in something like 18 months. Sad fucking starfuckers.

Saunders is a moron. How hard would it have been to look at the respective trajectories of Villa and Wednesday over the last 12 months?

oh. oh my. drumroll please

FootballLeaguePaper ‏@TheLeaguePaper 38m38 minutes ago
Charlton CEO Katrien Meire, the subject of fans protests, has been appointed to the FA Council as a representative for the EFL

Maybe her first act will be to promote the tightening of fit and plopper rulings over club ownership etc :p

i cannot

i cannot.

just watched two episodes of veep and this frankly feels like a continuation

Lol! I din't mean it that way, I meant as in pile of plop ! Rather than Chinese racism

Oh jesus I didn't mean that you said anything bad! Just that she's been appointed

Just one of them moments when you mean one thing and it might look like something different.

As Limmy said, wasser ploblem?

You are making me feel even worse now!

:(

we're all good, except english football, which is fucked!

glorious first win under Zenga, a 2-1 demolition of Crawley

Only 3 changes from sat and beaten by Shrewsbury, probably the early doors reality check some of us needed tbh. But still enthused by Kachunga scoring again.

Nervy 2-1 win at Totton on Saturday, nervy 3-2 win at home to Mangotsfield last night. I think I will be saying nervy a lot this season.

:(

i mean i guess it's pretty funny watching these clowns tripping over each other to be the one that gives away the goal, but still

:(

4 real guys, if you fancy a laugh check out Luton's 3rd goal

Oh there's been a 3rd

a beauty

we've given up on the simply trying our best to let them score, as it's obviously quicker just to do it ourselves. can't deny that it's efficient

sad to see that luton goalscorer and cameron mcgeehan has sensible hair now

http://www.efl.com/cms_images/ltfc4549-3012887_478x359.jpg

http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_620,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/webimage/1.7489513.1469166216!/image/image.jpg

http://www.wearelutontown.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/maxresdefault2.jpg

(and good player) that shouldve read

rob green already getting ironic cheers from leeds fans every time he catches the ball

rosler too shit to manage a revenge win though

Ethan Ampadu: Exeter City 15-year-old gets first-team chance while on school holiday

"The biggest compliment I can give him is that he plays like a 35-year-old," Tisdale told BBC Radio Devon.

15, motm at centre back, and narrowly pipping hamza choudhury to the afro of the week award

p lol that his dad (kwame) works at arsenal academy and doesnt want him there

he's played a sight better than poor old Hamza this week

People seem genuinely excited about Ethan; as I understand it he hasn't signed full pro forms (with being 15 and all) and may not do so with us.

(His dad played for us and coached with us until recently btw, so I think Ethan remaining in Exeter was more to do with not disrupting his schooling than some comment on the Arsenal Academy; it's quite possible Kwame doesn't want him there for some reason.

Meanwhile Brentford keeping it classy:

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrJamie88/status/763413156999954432/video/1

that's gotta be 3 ungentlemanly conduct bookings

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But apparently they pulled the same trick at the weekend and had similar referee non-response. Weird.

referees are useless tbf

They were swarming our keeper on saturday as well in the same manner, fucking low level tinpot wankers they are- I take back everything good I have previously said about them

https://streamable.com/ozck

the motherfucking enemy within, this guy. and to think i used to buy him every year on Footy Manager

#crap90sfootball

feel we must have done brentford's boldly innovative routines before

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7110952.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Birmingham-and-Brentford-players-line-up-in-separate-walls.jpg

lol at all of this

we're about to sign a straight up rugby player (and Euro 2016 STAR)

I know it's much lower league but on Tuesday I think we had the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen. It's not an exaggeration to say he got every single call he was asked to make the wrong way round; highlights were giving a throw to Mangotsfield, then to us, then to them again and then awarding Mangotsfield the free kick for a foul then booking their player for making it.

Last season's best was flagging a player offside for passing to himself while dribbling with the ball, I think this outdoes it.

http://www.wolves.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/news-201617-matchday-artwork-3241011.aspx

http://www.wolves.co.uk/cms_images/4367-3240995_613x460.jpg

Above is the first illustration and each programme thereafter will have a similar theme as Wolves progress through the season, facing 23 separate opponents along the way.

looking forward to the wolf taking on this guy

http://static.007soccerpicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Burton-1.jpg?1a5826

feel like this hasn't been properly thought through

http://www.football-stadiums.co.uk/images/cardiff-city/lightbox/m.jpg

looking forward to the badger-baiting cover

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/gallery/atleticomadrid-fulham/pa-photos_t_atletico-madrid-fulham-photos-europa-league-final-1305d.jpg

curious depiction of a biscuitman

i assumed that was the silver paper he was wearing

looking fwd to matchups vs a tree, a tractor, a terrier and a bee this season

perhaps next season eating some cherries and toffees after vanquishing a swan and a potter