EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

ps. of the ten goals we've scored in the league this season, zero zip nada bupkus have come from open play

make it stop...

dunno if it's the fuckedness of the economy or just sad fickle bastards waiting for magic to just happen but there's less than 19,000 at the Wolves tonight

and as if by magic i spur Barnsley on to a goal

make it stop...

― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 8:07 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rtc reduced to unadorned pleading, it's a harsh night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZipKdI1sY

shit just got real

oh fuck i've just seen QPR's score

hard to say which scoreline is crazier tbh

can we get a mod to slip a black armband over the thread for the rest of the week please?

even huddersfield losing now

jfc race to the bottom

ft at loftus road. if chuck tingle did football matches

probably shd've stopped clicking "View new Tweet" about 10 minutes back

it looks like the fucking Sports Direct machine is going to crush all opposition as the bookies originally predicted.

checked in with my brother who was there last night and Saturday, his estimation of Coady is "still shit".

this doesn't feel like the best week for a visit to Newcastle

if they go top today i predict a FL show barcode jizzathon with double extended coverage, erm well .. again I suppose.

nukey are good, probably the best this league has seen, but unlike us maybe try give them a game at least and see what happens. as the loftforwords match report put it, "I felt like a child watching his dad get beaten up for the first time. God I still love you Dad but don’t just let him hit you like that."

expect mooy will fuck us today like shelvey did

http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/30277/i-have-no-words-only-despair--notes-for-aston-villa

http://i.imgur.com/0lcwvYZ.png

poor windsor davies

will blandford forum have enjoyed today's proceedings, we wonder

“Most sides in this league and poor and the best are average."

kinda right and kinda wrong all at once

only an idiot would say anything at this stage

i had heard that Saiss might be broken tho, so that's a pleasant surprise

competing with newcastlona, impossible, surely some mistake

sounds like another battering today. jimmy is nosediving, serious trouble

hate that bacon park frazzles away kit and all

brother reckons centre mid was the key missing ingredient, hard to tell much from Twitter but the boy Saiss seems to be involved a lot

washington hooked at ht after yet another game as stranded lone striker. what was the point? £2.5m and we're killing him dead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Csj9GjhW8AA-Tlx.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CskMYjpWgAESYeH.jpg

at least i can enjoy these delightfully crap htafcdotcom goal jpegs

Hudders and Wolves both two goals up!

(sorry rtc)

shhhh

;)

good business for lilquest asbestos management when we're in town

i'm angrier about the wolves result (ie what it says about the 6-0) than hudds tbh

alls i can say is hope you don't have Barnsley soon

next two weeks: sunderland home, birmingham home, burton away, fulham away. this script writes itself i'm afraid. welcome back kenny

sylla scores. still time for tjaronn to cherybdis defence apart

(i'm sorry)

'grats NV, this is a great result

re: poor Windsor Davies and his broken Aston Villa side, I confess that there is a masochistic side of me that is somewhat enjoying all this. if nothing else it means I can dive wholeheartedly and without feeling like a hypocrite into the "look lads, until you've been out there in the pissing rain on a bleak weeknight watching your team getting beat 2-0 at home by Coventry City you just don't know what it is to be a real English football fan" routine with which I bore all my irl friends who support Man Utd and Arsenal and whinge about the way things are going in the EPL.

https://twitter.com/C_Rae_18/status/777171570661920768

perfect timing on the twitter feed #culture

Ok, with red for Vurnon Lol Anita this is in the bag NV, congrats!

Staying up tonight to see this. A Newcastle defeat always lifts my spirits.

(oh it's on ch5 now lol, hadn't realised)

some turn around from Tuesday, mostly on the counter by the looks of it. maybe this Zenga guy knows what he's doing.

dean whitehead's twitter is apparently @442Dean. realest britain

we made anita look like dani alves riding a motorbike with cafu in the sidecar on tuesday of course

this fucking league

the 2-1 result definitely flattered QPR today, probably some similarities with Wagner's main bro's 2-1 win last night in terms of first half domination/2nd half throwing a bone to the opposition. From where I was sitting it looked a clear Grant Hall handball, but tbf the ref was decent and did a fair job of letting the game flow mostly. I had to leave 10 minutes early but it sounded like we can close out games these days.

I should be in a happy mood today but we took a short cut off the beaten track on the way home and accidentally disturbed a wasp's nest on the ground and got attacked by a swarm of the bastards. I've got about 10 stings across my back and my arse and I had to mostly carry the screaming kid home. Fuck you wasps for ruining what was previously a jolly good day.

Congrats to Wolves for helping to weaken the Wehrmacht Utd myth as well.

To say we squeaked through today is an understatement. Tried to sit back at 2-1 and played far too deep, their equaliser felt inevitable. Then winning it with a potentially undeserved penalty as the last kick of the valley. Seen a photo since (in clear and obvious breach of the FA rules) that shows it could have been ball to hand, but the most damning thing about the pic is that the defender has spread himself pretty large.

FA rules you say? I avoided mentioning it in the last round but the FA are fucking dicks. At the moment it's still all well into non-league - the level above us is the highest. But the FA is forcing us all to adhere to the full standards package. This means, for example, you can't serve drinks in view of the pitch. This has led to teams having to temporarily board up windows.

Worse yet is the media policy. We have a pretty serious media presence, with multiple gopros set up leading to a very informed Twitter feed. But you're only allowed to put up still photos and video in the daylight hours of Sunday; less than 20 photos and less that 10 videos none of which can be longer than 30 seconds and with a combined run time of less than 3 minutes. In the last round Salisbury put up a clip on the Saturday night, and in the debate surrounding their tweet an FA spokesman said it was fine because the rules didn't apply until the third round, despite what the compliance document says. Then in the morning an FA Compliance Officer emailed them telling them to take it down or else. So much for supporting grass roots (see also kicking off an England match halfway through the FA Trophy final).

the FA are, and always have been, fucking dicks

really need to do something with "team of lads"

Hard luck Imago - Im far from SE London but wore a white t shirt and black trainers today in solidarity (/because it's what I always wear).

Off to see the mighty Godoy Cruz v Boca Juniors tomorrow on a wave of euphoria with a brand new Dom Poleon tattoo

http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/30277/i-have-no-words-only-despair--notes-for-aston-villa🔗

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The wry detachment born of being top of the league for longest serving championship team