EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

yeah we have a longstanding brexit cunt section for whom uncle neil may as well have taken over ukip. not-so-veiled remarks about les/jfh/ramsey jobs for the boys etc, culminating today in the almighty nazi olympus of a thread entitled "If JFH goes does Tottenham Les go too?". i don't know if i'm even able to articulate the pure sociopathy it takes for a qpr supporter to come out with that. fucking country is getting to me tbh

nearly went in last night just to tell all the "can't trust these Europeans" twats to get that result right up them tho

― you can't drowned a duck (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 September 2016 21:34 Bookmark

wait... really...? but... everyone was against kenny and it's been peaches and cream so far apart from barnsley

~football fans~

our board is pretty balanced between brexit and fuck brexit (11,000-post thread mind) but there's absolutely no challenging the now-universal orthodoxy of fuck belgiums and everything that goes wrong is belgiums fault and we've lost our soul and boooooooooooooooo

are u out there saying don't tar all of noble belgium with the same brush or what

south ldn moules-frites boycott hadnt occurred to me tbh

everyone was against kenny and it's been peaches and cream so far apart from barnsley

yeah but there are the usual suspects who wanted him replaced with a-manager-that-knows-the-Championship i.e. fucking Steve Bruce or something and players-that-understand-the-Championship i.e. whatever comedy fee they were asking for Rhodes plus the usually circulating shitkickers

plus every point dropped is like a death knell to some of our lot

Steve Bruce IN now............

Mendes has used us to clear duds he has foisted on other clubs. Fosun own 8% of the Mendes agency so they get some of their money back but this is rapidly turning into a joke situation.

His track record is not great and we need to press the eject button now to give someone better qualified a good chance of getting a play off berth.

If the new signings are what we have been led to believe then any combination of them should have enough quality to see off Barnsley. Obviously not. Is Zenga up to the task? Has he got the experience of English football and what is required to succeed. I have my doubts.

This guy has no track record and likely will just scream and hold his head. I have had a bet that we finish in bottom 3 and it looks good.

Better send for Brucie - which we should have done the minute he became available!

it goes on and on. that's from Tuesday night. i fucking despair, don't make me go back in there, please

hahaha fucking hell

thank you for retrieving that though i feel much saner

This guy has no track record and likely will just scream and hold his head.

new cv cover letter

it took our chairman five goes to realise that 90% of British managers are basically the same arrogant and lazy Brucie type bullshitters with varying levels of luck. Fuck knows why anyone would want him at their club.

Powell used to spend every week admiring the budgets of our opponents and reminding us of how we can't realistically compete with them. Glad to see now him and Pearson have endless money at candy crush they are competing so well. I am probably sounding smug here, but fuck it - even when we weren't top of the table last season it was clear we were witnessing our best manager since the pathe days.

football message boards all just seem the same mix of crypto-racism and reactionary fatuous nonsense these days. but idk maybe I'm being a look-back bore - but it did seem much less idiotic and more fun than they are now in the late 90's/early 00's Rivals messageboard era. ours went downhill after Sky bought Rivals and loads of decent posters either didn't migrate to the new board or became absolute tossers, I can't remember which.

YES

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12 vs 10 today, but it sounds like we are coping admirably.

why i do believe that our little old squad of part-timers is starting to come together

not loving this Leeds revival tho

it is very disappointing, I hope Leeds get the same ref we had today at their next away fixture

Reading ended up lucky to hold on against 10 today, despite the ref giving them everything, bottling a last man foul on Nahki call and seemingly hellbent on reducing us to 9. Previously we get gubbed in games like this, so definitely taking positives from this one, especially away at one of the better sides.

small signs jfh may have stopped the rot today. enforced change for the injured cousins (starting on the bloody right again) has hopefully shown this (admirably/suicidally) stubborn git the light

anyone but karl obv but ariel borysiuk finally starting in his place was a massive upgrade and his countryman wzolek on the wing v good also. try and graf up the polish cultural centre now u cunts

the length of Henry's professional career is a far greater mystery than Rooney's continuity imo

banality of evil is the opposite of mystery alas

but he's shit at everything. too slow and weedy to be a real enforcer, can't pass, doesn't cover a lot of ground, no positional sense.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/25/millwall-goal-ultimate-home-win-lewisham-council-the-den-renewal-property-developer

twist here is sensational and appalling

Asked if he had sold his shares in Renewal, Sullivan said: “Yes, I must have sold them.”

Zac Goldsmith in disguiseKhan doesn't come out of this with any credit.

"“Sadiq is clear that London is open and encourages investment from all over the world to build new and genuinely affordable homes,”

Yes, so not gentrification at all, it doesn't look good for someone who ran on a ticket to tackle the housing crisis.

worth keeping an eye on this account (not just to lol at their banner image)

Millwall Ams Group ‏@A_M_S_Group 3h
The plot thickens....... Makes you wonder about things..??
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spend-save/contract-to-succeed-1283285.html

Millwall Ams Group ‏@A_M_S_Group 3h
Could he be the local money man behind New Bermondsey???
http://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/jack-petchey-s-decision-to-splash-out-at-surrey-canal-6495424.html

west ham, millwall, iron maiden... if u ever meet a dave sullivan shoot on sight

see orient have sacked old ape face hessenthaler as their owners usher them into oblivion. probably end up at charlton before the end of the season

thought that said Millwall Arms Group

Cheers we saw the first sacking of the season pull and then couldn't work out who it was

http://i.imgur.com/SrxeEJG.jpg

update please imago i cba to dig today

some sort of driesen to-do, miere quits fa seat?

she was up for election to the EFL's board as its L1 representative, against stefan gamble of walsall, but several dozen charlton fans sent letters to all the other ceos in L1 dissuading them from voting for her, so she has pulled out of the vote, meaning gamble is elected unopposed

driesen thing...let's see

oh it's coming out that caleb from pretty little liars wanted to overrule a transfer we did last month (andrew crofts) and nearly still had the authority to do so

OH and there's an interview! and a twitter account! https://twitter.com/ThomasDriesen10

this fucken division

"Derby's players were only told about Pearson's suspension three hours before kick-off in south Wales, and the news made for a sense of bemusement inside the Cardiff City Stadium."

The real big story of the day. Allegedly, apart from piles of fucking money from signing on fees, one of the main reasons Butterfield pushed for his Derby move was to gtf away from Powell's insipid management style.

if Cellino's involved in this i just don't know what to believe any more

What happened has he been revealed as a benevolent philanphropist type on the side or something?

Lolling at Leeds fans, who are for the umpteenth time talking about some shadowy benefactor with deep pocketz waiting in the wings to pull them out of the shit again. Maybe they are secretly hoping they don't take a peek under the blanket before they buy.

bleh i've lost perspective on this jimmy thing already. if he was your manager would you want him out, simple yes no

Nah not really

Given that they're probably all at it, it comes back down to whether he's any good at his actual job

Lack of job security I suppose is the vindication a lot of them will feel for trying to get some hustle bustle on the side. Doing it to put Junior through university to pay off bookie/losses at the roulette wheel. It is hard to justify this type of grift when some of them are already on obscene money, but I suppose the more you have the more you spend.

that Tommy Wright footage makes him look like a right dodgy fucker you would bump into in one of Beeston's roughest pubs. Oh don't worry that's the Barnsley assistant manager there, he won't threateningly ask you if your a "fed".

Ben Rumsby ‏@ben_rumsby 42m
New statement from @QPRFC urging @Telegraph to hand over all Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink footage. @Telegraph still acting on police advice.

hmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/ex-manchester-city-star-emile-mpenza-suing-former-yeovil-town-boss-paul-sturrock-over-viagra-claims/story-29763914-detail/story.html

Plenty of intrigue in the basement as well!

"star" is a strong word isn't it?

I get the feeling most of these fuckers haven't spent much time pondering the the starry heavens above them:p

god i don't want to go to the pub today

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football

my deepest gratitude to the billion pound tv companies who will put on any old tat except for this all time classic local derby

14 pens vs smithies: 6 saves 2 misses