EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

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god bless this man

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'AVE IT

is it me or is the wolf looking warier as this goes along?

bottling it for sure m8. only fair to be umble in such resplendent presence tho

i like how the champo is accurately depicted by all these clashes taking place in an interdimensional wasteland of the real

aka Wolverhampton

i forgot about leeds and peacocks tbh, took me a while

bailey peacock-farrell, tom lees, aidy white - leeds yoof system really going for the john de wolf nom-dem award

:D

i don't even fucking know any more

next match programme features our Wolfie taking one in the nards from a giant ram

only Mike Phelan's ongoing self-immolation can console me now

wonder what odds u get on hull not winning another game

we are five points off 5th, five points off 23rd, and such is life for the forseeable

he's stopped playing karl though at least so progress is not impossible

always signals a lurch upwards when that happens, as if you've just thrown an anvil over the side of your hot air balloon's basket

thinking about doing a comedy Cameron Jerome thread in ILF, y/n?

I worked with his cousin for years and used to work in the bookies his dad frequented. If I dished any of the dirt I have on Cam I wouldn't be worried about defamation law :p

just thinking of guys who inexplicably keep finding employment in the Championship

he has been around forever and never actually done much anywhere, maintaining a top echelon player rep without doing fuck all is an artform imo

obv not the first time he could be accused of [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]. But that was a long time ago tbf

hey, he's a guy who's always gonna get you 6,7 goals a season no problem

I didn't realise he banged in 20+ in Norwich's last EFL season, but that was one swallow amongst a bunch of malfunctioning cuckoo clocks.

Yesterday, or the second half at least, was the most inept refereeing I've seen at any level.

Marker was placed immediately after the restart, gave a penalty against us for a fairly innocuous coming together which I suppose you can't really complain about but then showed a straight red for the challenge which as we all know was removed by rule change last year. And it all went downhill from there culminating in a flying challenge with both feet over the ball only getting a yellow and a player booked for a tackle which wasn't penalised. Not to mention a range of decisions being given blatantly the wrong way, the highlight being a genuinely great save by their keeper pushing a free kick over the bar being given as a goal kick.

I honestly thought reffing would improve when we went up but it's got way worse.

something has coalesced

jackett's available

BIG SAM'S COMING HOME

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Marco Silva 2/1
Big Sam 3/1
Pearson 6/1
AVB 12/1
Pako Ayestaran 16/1
Rob Edwards 16/1
Giggs 16/1

portuguese twitter itks say silva may have been tapped up by inter. need lopetegui on the phone confessing his deep regret

Kenny's not available as any fule kno. i'm at me mom's as it happens, she was asking about this the other day. i told her i thought only idiots and nutters would want him sacked this soon. ho hum.

anybody but "somebody with Championship experience" for god's sake please

well this was the blast of outraged adrenaline i needed this week. it's kind of comforting to know that the new owners aren't messing around.

except for the messing around, obv.

willy sagnol now making a splash in the betting

following the pre-warnock briatore at qpr path like so far the next man up is edwards, then an honourable but brutally grim spell under silva, then steve cotterill, then two games with paul hart, then fosun abandon the structure and big sam takes you up

suppose i just need to sit back and enjoy this. i would rather be fun than up, dunno if that's just nerd talk.

Sagnol has a recent history for Ron Noades style idiot science racism, possibly too much of liability maybe?

funnest thing i've read today is a mb itk claiming zenga couldnt get a flight back from dubai during the international break so he called up and told danny batth to take training

feel like Silva and AVB are the most likely in most respects, which is, y'know, lol 2016

I definitely wouldn't have predicted the state of EFL2 10 years back, but i sort of fucking love it tbh.

sad to hear about Efe Sodje, probably a dark day for a generation of noughties children who wore their "Against All Odds" bandannas with pride.

I always thought his brother Sam was a complete tosser though.

accidentally happened upon nv in an e&s comments section and now i feel like a degenerate perv

good game brewing here

"used to clean the seats with his dad while he was at villa park"
"should have just used a cloth"

actual chuckles at commentary banter, is this what my life's come to

the good game was brewing while we could string two passes together, now it's just brentford with the rapid breaks not so much

bloody great player is ginger ninja ryan woods

bentley and egan also excellent

i was holding back tbrr

Town haven't had this much of an arsekicking at CC since the Louis Saha days, it might be double figures by ft!

just ftr, the forces of lee novak and ched evans came together in mortal combat today, and lee novak prevailed

yay! Shit player, but at least not repugnant slime on legs.

he wasn't actually bad in his first couple of seasons, but once the heroic workrate dropped off it became apparent he wasn't really top L1 standard.

it was actually quite a classy header

two minutes later he scuffed one wide unmarked from 15 yards though, just to prove it was really him

think he might be useful when fed on a pure diet of crosses

also jesus, 3rd and 4th in the ch'ship both losing 5-0 :O

It doesn't matter, we are in a fake position and have now been exposed as the one dimensional poundshop gen-gen crap that can't defend set-pieces for shit:p