EASY, DEVIN: English Football League and beyond, 2018/19

Who's ready?

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he looks ready...

great thread title, knew it had potential at the time!

Just a reminder that we might be a bad start from Morecambe away from this list being topped by this man

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/14597/production/_102215338_ainsworthgetty1.jpg

Sky have picked a real peach to kick off the season

Seems like the level of expectancy among Exeter fans is higher than I’ve ever known it, and really the justification seems to be (a) lots of people are relieved Tisdale’s gone, having talked themselves into believing that all and any problems at the club were his fault and (b) Matt Taylor making a series of very popular decisions regarding keeping or releasing players.

I have to keep reminding myself that if these players were that good most of them would have gone somewhere further up the football tree, but I am enjoying the optimism (mine and others’) and we haven’t seen these lads fail yet.

Sky have picked a real peach to kick off the season

― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Friday, August 3, 2018 5:30 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck me you're not wrong

early game tomorrow otoh is compulsory viewing

Fully ready:

🎩 | Matt Taylor: Defensive coach and magician... #ECFC pic.twitter.com/Wb99fy55jc

— Exeter City FC (@OfficialECFC) September 6, 2017

Mate in the pub pointed it out it's a Lampard ting, same reason Sky are suddenly fascinated with Rangers

This first half has been unremitting gash tho

lol ive quite enjoyed it
lots of great fouls

Screamer, fuck you Derby

Well Bod scored and Mannone made me lol, can't fault the entertainment value

OK now I hate it

One good part of being home for the game is catching up with the breaking news in Sidmouth: http://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/news/supermarket-giant-slammed-for-only-giving-one-free-butter-portion-with-toasted-teacakes-and-scones-1-5634261

Thread title continues to deliver

Meanwhile our best player has suffered an ACL tear a day or two before our first game. We are cursed. Tune into Sky to witness the hell for yourself! Only five substitutes named! It's like 2008 out there!

nice to see Sky suddenly taking an interest in League One eh?

Proper stadium, proper supporters

Howay the lads

If only there was a Sunderland fan posting to ILX whom I could abuse

GET IN

Mr Thompson: Lots of fans fancying Aston Villa to finish top two this year in #bbcefl predictions. I agree. Very few teams bounce straight back, only Newcastle in last two seasons. Looks a weaker league but will still be competitive. Looking forward to it and fancy us.

sit down, you're pissed

oof 2 last minute header winners

ikr? brutal

-_-

3 points today against what surely must now be the least likeable team in league 1

Incredible goal too

ahem

96th and 98th minute penalties give Swindon a win over Macclesfield, that's rough!

Yah Dhanda just scored twenty seconds into his debut with his first touch as a professional footballer.

Or senior professional at least, delighted for him.

West Brom’s new mascot is a combi boiler... 😳 pic.twitter.com/pMDggOXNW4

— Football Mumble (@football_mumble) August 4, 2018

A win which I think flattered us but I'll take it. Blyth didn't challenge much and I know they've got centre half problems - signing someone already carrying a suspension won't solve them for another few weeks.

Weird they didn't put up more of a fight considering sections of our fans have a conspiracy about them, Morpeth and Wembley so are supposed to be decent (in our new history terms).

i am watching leeds stoke?

how are you feeling about that decision

It's better than the Friday night game. Whisper it, but I think Leeds are gradually getting their shit together.

http://www.apocalypse-of-john.org.uk/images/paintings/main/Lamb-Opening-Seven-Seals.jpg

very worrying, although in the 10 minutes I watched stoke looked dreadful.

Afobe!

Douglas looks a good signing for the scum, already!

that vile revenant

Quality pen from Benik, look forward to our fans moaning about his sale again

I had a very pleasant afternoon on Saturday; 3-1 win which (though by no means a perfect performance) is a good way to start with a new manager. All three of our goals came from debutants: given how reliant we were on Jayden Stockley's goals last year, that's really pleasing. I'm not in the "we're going to piss this tinpot league" place but the performance was coherent enough that my fears of a post-Tisdale upheaval / collapse are allayed for now.

Can't be 100% sure till kickoff but it looks like Villa might be about to set up with a back 3/5 lookin something like this:

Elmohamady; Hutton; Chester; Elphick; Taylor

Not a one of them can pass, not a one of them can control the ball, several of them can just about break into a job when pushed

Meanwhile our brightest young talent (and star of the pre-season) Andre Green is on the bench

*break into a jog ffs

Why the fuck is Steve Bruce still here? I'd sooner have taken the punt on Thierry Henry

i wish you rid of Brucey sooner rather than later, struggling to see a top 6 finish for Villa at the moment depending on who you lose before Friday

If we keep grealish for the full season then we'll make the playoffs, if we don't then we won't, it really is that simple now

yeah that's what i meant really

Lol yes exackly that was an xpost

Noted brainbox Lee Hendrie reckons that Bruce has taken the club "back to where it belongs", intentional or not that is a+ trolling of his audience

Ugh comedy goalkeeping, comedy goal

If I were grealish I'd be making a beeline for the exit, can only hope that his diehard villa fandom blurs his vision

We're gonna miss JT this season

Why are our kits always so shit

Absolutely mesmerised by Hull's failure to even attempt to dispossess Alan Hutton there

Dogshit performance redeemed by the quid I stuck on us to win 3-1 at 19/1 in a pre-match giddy fit, paid for my takeaway at least. Hull are so bad

The Heff is being linked with QPR. He's one paced, looks and runs like a lower league clogger, but he's bizarrely + deceptively quite an awesome CB, just what is needed for the long haul of a champo promotion campaign. The platonic ideal of a 90's football style 'legend' - good in the dressing room almost certain cult status with a majority of fans after a month!

Hey Aldo, any particular opinion on Dara O'Shea? It's our turn to have him on loan this year, apparently.

Just woke up and saw that. Great player, no disrespect but too good for your league even never mind ours. Ball playing centre half, good with his head and feet. Full of confidence going forward and marshalls a defence well.

I had assumed after relegation he would waltz into the West Brom side.

Well that sounds lovely. Thanks.

Colin Quaner was a done deal to Preston North End, and then apparently the deal collapsed when he told Alex Neil that he disapproved of his training timetable, and would have to train separately at his preferred hours if he wanted him to sign! Lol! he barely even resembles a park footballer at times, bless him!

"I've got VAR here. I'll show you my phone. Prick." https://t.co/ggcRmw3aAl

— The Dulwich Remainer 🏝 (@DulwichRaider) August 8, 2018

"Ref you're a lizard".

aldo, how were leamington this evening?

All the bars in Buenos Aires appeared to be showing Leeds vs Bolton in the Carabao earlier. The Bielsa effect is having an impact here.

The prospect of Leeds Utd actually employing a good manager for the first time in their post 1960 history is causing me some serious angst.

Still not back, don't leave till tomorrow.

According to mates at the game, Leamington started playing for time after about half an hour including the manager telling their #9 (who by all accounts was their best player) to "go down as if you're injured" on the hour mark. (Our seats are directly above the opposition benches otherwise I'd be sceptical.) Two blantant handballs in the lead up to our first which was given for a third handball in the same move although apparently this one was ball-to-man.

10 points from 4 games not a bad start. Still need someone else up front.

haha thanks, sounds like a classic - gl for the season!

I'm into dirty leeds now because of bielsa.

ffs! get a grip jim!

Listening to that twat Noel Wehlan on 5Live the other night has me praying for a sign that this latest Leeds project is made from bielsa wood.

I think it's high time rtc started posting again

sounds like Smithies was a big loss, especially as Schteve seems to be doing that thing when malfunctioning managers try and get average sides to set up like Man City!

Injury time winner for Chorley during the 8 minutes added because the ref had to be replaced through injury. Then again we beat Leamington with an injury time winner during the week so we've got 3 points from the games instead of the two we would have had with the 'right' results.

Just signed Jordan Lam from Cardiff Met, apparently he's the best forward player in the Welsh Premier League whatever that's worth.

I doubt for Chester's viability. Lost 8-1 to Blyth a couple of weeks ago, the manager called the players out on it and a couple (including their real talents) have gone. The club then suffered some 'storm damage' which looked like just a couple of collapsed ceiling tiles but has somehow rendered their ground unable to play games ever since. They told us on Saturday the BH Monday fame probably isn't going ahead which will mean they gave cancelled more games than they've played. All the rumours are that insolvency is days away.

York sack their management team after 5 games.

Norwich City paint Carrow Road away dressing room pink

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45247073

a wanker move on multiple levels

Top of the emergent league tonight, ahead of Lincoln on goal difference. This is progress From Saturday when we were top of the league, ahead of Lincoln on alphabetical order.

Franchise on Saturday. I have choices to make.

whoever tonight's ref was I am going to remember his name and maybe unveil a hex or three

bielsa's 100% record gone the way of the dodo.

still undefeated mind.

good stuff exeter

hate leeds hate hate

having just been handed the win by the ref, steve evans moans about the ref. apparently we should have had multiple red cards. fuck that cunt, why does calzino like him ffs

I guess there is kind of an art to what Evans does, he's a proper heel

hate leeds hate hate

― imago, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aye. QPR bringsh the lolz tho.

Bielsa is doing terrible things to my natural instincts

Whenever Leeds make a good start to the season the overheated hysteria and bollox talked on Radio Leeds/Look North/Calendar is easy to ignore or treat with the laughable contempt it deserves, normally. But this Bielsa seems like the real deal. What a troubling situation. I might even get the rosaries out and say a daily morning prayer for their season to go to shit and for Danny Mills and Noel Whelan to die in a M62 pile up.

I can't really stand Evans imago, I just thought he looked a bit deathly a couple of years back, but the mood I'm in right now - I wouldn't gaf if the ugly bassa had a violent brain-stroke and expired during a match!

calzino is back

I have so far managed to maintain my boycott of Franchise (we've played them a couple of times) but these are special circumstances and I really really want to go to this one.

I am working up a Franchise Ticket Fee Offset Scheme (FF-Offs I call it) where any of my mates who'd
(a) ordinarily buy a beer or two at half time in the bar (I know who they are) and
(b) choose not to buy any "refreshments" at the ground

can have an additional pint on me after the game.

I reckon if I can divert approx. £20 - £25 of bar spend to a pub rather than the club bar that will offset most of the benefit to the club of my ticket.

do it, it's a nice stadium with almost no home fans in it and there's a pizza express 20 seconds' walk from the exit

A pizza express? SWOON.

lol

you can do a bletchley park tie-in as well!

the good thing about bielsa for the haters of leeds is that he's a bit bloody "mercurial" and things could go tits up by season's end

Nahki won't be the answer to QPR's woes, he's hardly played in the last year and his profligacy in front of goal makes him not much better than Conor Washington these days. And he is a bit of a needy fragile ego type, who doesn't knuckle down. Last type of player you need in a relegation scrap. Although maybe a bit early for the "r" word, but lets face it, Schteve is a fucking useless twat!

Really strong rumours Beadle and Jenkins are going to Cheltenham to replace Gary Johnson despite not featuring in the betting at all.

Pretty sure QPR's woes don't start across the front line atm

Tim - I was cycling down in Devon the other week and took a detour to your stadium. One end is missing (but I imagine you know that).
Aldo - I might possibly see your lot this season.

Yeah we are re-doing our away end and old grandstand. Particularly sorry to see the old main stand go but it was knocking on 100 years old and mostly made of wood and asbestos aiui, at severe risk of falling down.

Am slightly sorry our new away end will have a roof, watching Argyle fans standing in the hammering rain and losing is unbeatable.

alas ... those good old days when you could have snowball fights with clumps of asbestos that had fallen from the roof of your dilapidated stand are just never going to come back!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45171971

this is quite a massive event seeing as Albion + Town were rivals for 74 years, in the David Peace part of the heavy woollen district comes a new heavy hitter with ambitions of FL status ... The mighty Ossett Utd.

Football is dog dirt.

At least Argyle lost.

you know when L**ds are top of the EFL that the 7 wraths of the football gods are in the post. Just put your mortgage on a MK /Leeds scum league winning twofer.

Notts have given Kevin Nolan the boot, I note. They are supposed to have spent quite a lot over the summer so chances are they’ll get a stabilising figure in but I wouldn’t mind seeing them turn total clown car.

Disappointing performance yesterday, BPA better all over the field and worked well as a unit moving up and down together and leaving us no space to play.

More worrying is still the lack of ability to change things up when it's not working - we took off a wide player returning from injury after a knock maybe 30 minutes in while one down. Swapped him for a defensive midfielder, because we only had two of them on the pitch already. After an hour we took off a left back and replaced him with a centre forward which meant we had to drop a DM back to lb and push a striker wide to maintain a 4-4-2. Then took off a centre forward who was playing in the middle and replaced him with a wide player, who played out of position in the middle.

https://www.si.com/soccer/2018/08/28/marcelo-bielsa-leeds-united-manager

Wilson on Bielsa at Leeds

"..but at both his side ran out of steam before the end of the season. Stints at Lazio and Lille lasted two days and three months, respectively."

there is some hope, just got to stay strong through these trying times!

Glenn Tamplin starts as he means to go on, sacking the manager he brought in to replace himself at Billericay during the close season because he lost a match for the first time this season.

Tom Greaves resigns as FCUM manager following their dismal start to the season.

We are at Craven cottage. VAR is happening. It’s weird.

10 man Preston 2 up on Leeds at the break. Bielsa out imo

Dara and Jimmy both starting for Exeter.

any club looking at a promotion push or even a relegation scrap needs to get the hell out of that crapabou cup asap, cos a run in it is the kiss of death. Although I'm not sure if this is part of Bielsa's cunning plan!

Tom Greaves resigns as FCUM manager following their dismal start to the season.

Sigh.

good to be back itt

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DltqbCgXoAE_S2k.png:large

O’Shea was pretty good; Oates did alright but it was hard to judge how well because we left him exposed for big chunks of the game. He put in a few stinking crosses but showed willing.

It turns out VAR is for seeing whether our players went in with studs up but it is not for checking whether their players do petulant little kicks once the ball has gone.

I see The Heff finally won over the Forest fans last night, put in a towering CB performance and completely bullied Joselu and made him look like a lightweight. He went from zero to hero at Town, with the same initial doubts about him looking like a Sunday league beer monster.

The opening credits of this Leeds / Peter Ridsdale documentary from 2001 are, uh, quite something pic.twitter.com/GmPHjQrz8B

— Nestor Watach (@NestorWatach) August 30, 2018

fuckin steve bruce man

fuck him in the eye

Tamplin is putting Billericay up for sale in the morning.

Edin sacks Micheal Collins after 6 games at Bradford. Apparently Micheal was a puppet coach on £30k pa, while the German co-owner Edin who fancies himself as a real footie manger was pulling the strings with Greg Abbott advising him!

there is a very bad doc about these Germans at Bradford City called Matter of Heart that I would so never waste my time watching.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/16700088.tamplin-im-staying-at-billericay-town-unless-buyer-with-same-ambition-invests-in-next-three-weeks/

In which Glenn Tamplin explains that unless another Glenn Tamplin offers to buy Billericay then Glenn Tamplin will stay in charge.

Akinfenwa visits The Valley for the first and possibly last time. Will keep you all updated

haha didier ndong hasn't turned up at sunderland this season and they don't know where he is

"Ndong, meanwhile, a 24-year-old Gabon international signed from Lorient of France two years ago, last week posted poolside pictures on Instagram, though they have since been deleted"

top work

Ndong the money

I note tactics Tim Sherwood advocating the formal adoption of L1 / L2 clubs as feeder clubs to the proper real footballing organisations in the prem, on the basis that this is the only way that young English players will get the "game time" they need to improve the England team.

I don't know why no-one's thought of this brilliant idea before.

he's always likes to look at the big picture does this lad, like when he used to manage Spurs from the nosebleeds. He's gone up in a hot air balloon this time, take a holistic view of the English Game!

we've got no prospects of discovering the next Dean Windass, if we don't listen to this prophet!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/glenn-tamplin-sacked-new-boss-13232872

Glenn does it again

In other news our miserable run continues, dumped out of the Herefordshire cup by Westfields in the first round.

Torquay apparently sniffing round Beadle. They can have him. I'll pay his train fare.

Poor old Torquay are in a right old hole - bought by a developer, their fans seem to think the owner is happy to see the club drift away down the leagues.

Watch out, Beadle's about...

to be spending a lot more time at home.

Torquay getting Gary Johnson is a show of intent, I would have thought?

Not sure how I feel about Beadle going, so many problems right now, but first real crisis he's had in three years, so surely worth giving him one chance to turn it around? But probably inevitable that we'd need to change fairly soon anyway, so maybe it's for the best. Just have to stop expecting that fourth consecutive promotion.

The above with the proviso that I don't follow the team that closely, especially this year.

For all the results were last year he was found out there to be honest - doggedly sticking to 4-3-3 even if it clearly wasn't working despite having to play 2 or 3 out of position to support it.

It was ok before when results were going our way - although often flattering 80+ minutes of negative grind - but now pretty much all the teams have cottened on to the inflexibility it's not going to work in the long run.

I accept losing to Westfields isn't on the same scale as losing to Peggy or Lads Club but to see a near first choice team overrun by a team of players nearly all let go by Beadle for not being good enough (and he was pretty much right in his assessment to be fair) proved the final straw for his inability to get anything out of the team.

Yeah the Gulls seem pleased with GJ, good luck to them.

Ryan Green as player/manager for Saturday. Gareth Davies seems to have been appointed as Director of Football, which doesn't feel like an interim measure.

After a dismal 0-0 on Saturday, this happened in the FA Cup replay last night:

1' Truro 1-0 Hereford
6' Hereford miss penalty
7' The phrase 'one of those nights' gets used for the first time
13' Truro 2-0 Hereford
18' Truro hit the bar
20' Hereford miss open goal from 6yds
24' Hereford miss open goal from 8yds
25' The words 'one of those nights start getting used every time anyone comments
30' Truro 3-0 Hereford
31' Hereford fans start talking about going home at half time
42' Truro 3-1 Hereford
60' Truro 3-2 Hereford
85' Truro 3-3 Hereford
113' Truro 3-4 Hereford

Decent goal in the Villa Wednesday game:

22/09/2018
England Championship 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥 | Aston Villa - Sheffield Wednesday, minuto 53

Signore e signori... John McGinn 💣⚽ 🎯

"We don’t want to exaggerate but this may be the best goal EVER scored! 🤯" - by @SkySports pic.twitter.com/lMtlyEhJIX

— Viva el Futbol (@velfutbol) September 22, 2018

So much about that post is wrong, I don't know where to start. Was supposed to be the goal from the Bristol City Villa game! Christ. Anyway, if it stays that way, surely Bruce is out...

Still, decent goal.

Talking of decent goals

WHAT A GOAL ADAM REACH #SWFC pic.twitter.com/fWvPGPMSZJ

— Callum Toone (@toonecallum) September 28, 2018

Yeah but it's supposedly Bruce out EBJT in which kind of like out of the frying cunt into the racist cuckolding cunt.

STEVE BRUCE faces the sack at Aston Villa after a dramatic 3-3 draw with Preston was made all the worse by a fan throwing a CABBAGE at the manager.

bloody mob (s)law!

The supporters outside looked from cabbage to man, and from man to cabbage, and from cabbage to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Three enforced changes in the first half hour, two of those currently in hospital. Keeper was unconscious for a *long* time.

hope nxd and spirals run out of toilet paper

Down to 8 men, knocked out of the cup by lower league opposition, no manager, no 'chief exec', bottom of the table, deep financial trouble...

Who are you talking about NBS?

FCUM innit?

Oh of course, sorry. Sounds bad.

xps oof unlucky buddy

just secured our all-time record win, on the hallowed turf of stevenage. some kid made his first-team debut at left-back and scored a hat-trick. oh the checkatrade

nice!
greatest moment of my life winning that

we beat ol forest green on pens but wont be qualifying this year

Progress: just two players sent off in today’s defeat. At this rate within a couple of weeks we’ll be finishing with 11 men.

An away draw today, and our first goal since August.

Yes. A good result? I guess better, not exactly out of the woods though.

Not sure we deserved the point, but will take it.

Good win for FCUM today although not for us.

Nuneaton Borough's imminent demise might be our best route to staying up tbh. And it's not November yet.

Good win for FCUM today although not for us

New manager as well (finally), though he doesn't take charge until next week.

Nuneaton Borough's imminent demise might be our best route to staying up tbh. And it's not November yet.

Sounds like yet another absolute mess: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45877754. I went there last season (for a dispiriting freezing cold defeat) and found out they'd already gone bust and reformed as a phoenix club a few years ago.

Aldo - I might possibly be going to the Hereford game on 10th November.

Nuneaton are also one of (the only?) full time club in the league hence the fredcagfng status of the players next week.

NBS - if you come then FAP?

Yep, but I'll be driving, so that'll be a shandy

good to hear that one of the resident town fans on Calendar - John Shires - took great delight in pointing out that Leeds season seemed to collapse at this time last year as well.

4 wins in a row! seem to have found a nice replacement for mcnulty in conor chaplin
former huddersfield legend jordy hiwula has grabbed a couple of goals in this run too, looking good

god imagine having to put up with McCarthy and Lambert oh wait

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dqg4nDqW4AARnKZ.jpg

this made me lol from that Streatham fc parody account, it might have been posted here before - I cant remember.

3-0 away win, out of the relegation zone, level on points with Hereford

Dismal performance, never thought we were going to hold on to the lead.

Woke up late with the mother of all hangovers. Finally got to the ground about half an hour after kick off. Obviously all the gates were shut. Spent about 5 minutes banging on the door feeling foolish till I managed to get in, just after FC United scored their third. Sorry Aldo, won’t be FAPing.

No worries I am close to cyanide.

We are fucking appalling.

First goal really well taken after some incisive play.
Second was pitiful defending resulting in a speculative cross being turned into the net. Came directly from an attacking free kick for us.
Third was us dithering in midfield and hitting a forty yard ball at the keeper which he failed to control.

All in 5 minutes.

People leaving by me.

Hull come back from 2 down at Brum, get in :D

lol! there is a god.

Ha. FA Trophy draw: Hereford v FC Utd.

I know, it's as good as a bye for you.

Wanted: some wheels. Last seen Edgar Street.

I can't even bring myself to listen to our radio commentary, I'm off to watch Westfields instead.

...and as if by magic you're now winning away

It's fate or something.

An enjoyable first half here though. I miss this league a bit now.

I'm also stood with a handful of our regulars so talking about Hereford is passing the time well.

stunning Alan Hutton individual effort

Villa 5 - Forest 5 so far,

the entire midlands on an extended psychotic break

I think Villa have just had two goals ruled out for offside too.

¯\(°_o)/¯

That’s hard for Villa fans to take . Maybe another two refs behind the goal line and Drone with another smaller ref . Judas escariot how can they all miss the hand ball . #UTV.

— Paul McGrath (@Paulmcgrath5) December 7, 2018

Nodding sagely rn

Unleash the additional small ref u cowards

probably the funniest tweet in weeks

non-gk save of the season has been decided then

This is why you always have a man on the post...

Take a bow @CAFCofficial man George Lapslie for keeping #CAFC 2-0 up at #Pompey tonight. pic.twitter.com/4wkmFh4Tg8

— Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) December 11, 2018

West Brom. #WBA pic.twitter.com/sXsCwTs9tm

— Casual Mind (@CasualMind_) December 13, 2018

take it to rolling masculinity

Prat Of The Season comfortably won by Mitchell Pinnock

You wouldn't expect it with that name

yeah there was an opportunity to amend it slightly

non-gk save of the season has been decided then

already been beaten ffs

Here’s the moment you’ve been (secretly) waiting for, the goal line scramble vs @DulwichHamletFC - as mentioned on @btsportscore by @JeffBrazier...

HOW did we not score?! 🙈 pic.twitter.com/yfZd2ZTFwk

— Wingate&Finchley FC (@WinFinchleyFC) December 15, 2018

Ryan Green finally hangs his boots up.

Throwback to when he was #10 in the f365 wasted talent OF ALL TIME list.

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/68656-f365s-top-ten-wasted-talents/

oh ffs!

Fuck's sake Blackburn

Fuck's fucking motherfucking fuck's sake

Just rude

the vile revenant

also, nxd's/spiralli's boys besting us again, probably deserved this time tho

Somehow out of the bottom three. We are fucking woeful.

City you magnificent bastards

listening to that prick Whelan sulking on R Leeds is just what the doctor ordered. ffs Derby equaliser.

oh dear, wheels starting to shudder on this dirty white shite bandwagon. what a shame.

Grrr

calzino/michael white beef is what this thread needs tbh

One cup final won ✅
18 cup finals to go 🏆

ONE CLUB UNITED. Weston vs Billericay, this Saturday, 3PM...

📷 @Willtphotos #SeagullsMedia pic.twitter.com/kqUsSkr6Oz

— Weston-s-Mare AFC (@WSM_AFCOfficial) January 3, 2019

The people photographed in the background here watching Gloucester lose on NYD might add to the story of Chris Todd being Mutually Consented today.

what am I looking for?

Beadle & Jenkins, management duo for hire.

they sound like a wreckers firm

Mills back playing in Hereford. On loan at Westfields.

Not a very festive period: 4-1, 3-1 and 4-0 defeats now on my way home from another one (2-0).

Aldo, do you reckon the corner has been turned at Hereford? Today's result was ok, looked like a good goal too. But I haven't actually seen them play this season.

Sorry NBS but tonight thank God it's them instead of you.

Things are coming together for sure. It's not pretty a lot of the time and there's a propensity for light and heat without much product but yesterday I think we actually looked good for lots of the game and that's the first time this season I've been able to say that honestly.

The players seem to be performing for Richards even if it's not always clear to the spectator what he wants them to do, but he's just unlikeable. It's like being managed by Neil Warnock.

We absolutely need an actual striker though.

Lolz

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2019/01/club-statement-3

like the swedish spy from.the world cup

Can't believe Leeds bend the rules, their chairman seems so keen on them

Thinking about it this must be the most Leeds picture in the history of the world. Disgusting club. Employing nothing but absolutely despicable disgraceful violent awful cheating scum of the earth, from manager to player to back room staff. Each one of them a virus in football pic.twitter.com/alrJdd27M5

— John Ison (@Almightyram) January 12, 2019

this lad's not very happy.

football things you just don't care about: managers spying on other teams

I love how the replies are all from Leeds fans proving his point

Love Bielsa

A local landlord who was a massive Leeds fan was buried today. His pub The Vulcan was a popular match day boozer and he wasn't an arrogant twat and always pretended/claimed Town were his 2nd club so RIP Pete.

now that Pierce is weighing in on spygate, no doubt seething at the idea of cheating foreigns (lol saying the result should be reversed even tho Derby got a total fucking apparently) - I'm actually warming to up to Bielsa and fuck Lampard 4eva.

is bielsa off?

gonna join us in readiness of poch out

Looks like he's out yeah.

Marcelo Bielsa: football’s new philosopher king

there would major lolz until i die if he was to announce at the press conference that he's Wagner's replacement.

... or vice versa?

Imagine having to resign because you sent someone to spy on the chokiest club in English football.

I note that the Bielsa presser has started with a powerpoint presentation - can that possibly be a prelude to a resignation?

surely not

Announces they've watched the opposition before every game this season!

Gotta love him really.

Bielsa: "I don't want to compare my behaviour with previous behaviour that are similar. I heard there are others which also affected fair play but absolutely, I don't want to defend myself by attacking others." #lufc

— Phil Hay (@PhilHayYEP) January 16, 2019

This dude's livetweeting the press conference and I'm enjoying it.

this is superb.

"Apart from the players in a staff, you have around 20 people. These 20 people create a volume of information which is absolutely not necessary. It doesn't define the path of a competition. Why do we do that? Because we feel guilty if we don't work enough."

haha

Is Bielsa the Prime Minister now?

yet

I love how he's now sharing all the illicitly obtained Derby County information for everyone else in the league to see.

All I hope is that they were able to get the mole out of Derby before they had the chance to turn him.

ranieri revealed as tinkerman

when you suddenly find yourself wondering where Joe Mason is

dean saunders weighing in on bielsa now. next week we have the drummer from shed 7 talking about how he reckons that max roach didn't do anything he couldn't do.

We have turned another corner. Unfortunately they were both ninety degree corners so now we are heading the same way as before, which is out of the league.

Utterly abject. Everyone below us has taken points off us, and have been far better than us when we played them. Even if Nuneaton go under, we will benefit less than the sides under us so we really need them to stay afloat. Grim stuff.

You're still two points ahead of us with two games in hand

We haven't won away since August. 5 of our next 6 are on the road.

national league heavily weighted towards the start of the alphabet this season
darlington are the 12th team alphabetically

not quite as good as ayr being 5th alphabetically out of 10 teams in 2017-18 scottish league one but more teams i guess to best

I want to know what the four A's before them were now, but I'm too lazy to actually google it

Airdrie
Arbroath
Alloa
Albion Rovers

Would be my guess? Annan another option and Aberdeen obviously too senior.

Emergency board meeting in 10 minutes. Hopefully some decisive action while it's still possible.

Are you hoping for any outcome in particular?

take a bow saudi prem league

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order
Al-Ahli Jeddah
Al-Batin
Al-Ettifaq
Al-Faisaly
Al-Fateh
Al-Fayha
Al-Hazem
Al-Hilal
Al-Ittihad
Al-Nassr
Al-Qadsiah
Al-Raed Buraidah
Al-Shabab
Al-Taawoun
Al-Wehda
Ohod

Hopefully get rid of the Dymock mafia, whether someone would leave a club at this stage of the season is doubtful so you'd have to be looking at someone currently out of work (e.g. Gary Rowett) or get the Davies/Green partnership back in to try and steady the wheel.

Lots of clamour for Beadle/Jenkins back as expected but them not being able to find another job since - and not even making the Gloucester shortlist - is telling. And holding up Billericay as an example of returns happening before just makes the club sound like a basket case.

We're desperate for a striker and at the weekend I was advocating an old pro, inspired by Jamie Cureton doing a job on us more than once last season. Then today I find Pascal Chimbomba is to play ever further down the pyramid.

A decent experienced striker can do quite a lot for keeping the team shape together also. There is something slightly tragic about watching one take up a really intelligent position for a particular ball, see the move work as anticipated and then just not have the turn of speed to get there. Cases in point: Clinton Morrison, Marcus Stewart for us. They were both worth the shirt but a tiny bit of extra pace and they'd have been worth a shirt for much better sides than ours.

IIRG Cureton is the last current professional footballer to have been in FIFA 96? Or one of the last?

Hope yr board makes a good choice.

Vote of confidence FFS.

congrats on the Dalers on re-signing their fave professional wrestler Grant Holt. I hope they've made sure he can run the width of a pitch within 90 mins.

He is the width of a pitch IIRC

him and Lambert were a reet formidable strikeforce at Dale back in the day, maybe time to get the (big) band together - if only just for comedy value.

couldn't be any worse than our overpaid Belgium-beer-monster-with-a-bad-hair-transplant Depoitre tbf.

Someone has suggested it would be highly unethical to farm out Depoitre to a L2 club, so instead couldnt we just farm him off to a farm instead.

GO ON ROTHERHAM

^still thinks there is a god

A win for Hereford tonight. FC Utd now second from bottom, six points away from getting out of the relegation zone to a team with two games in hand, or eight points to a team with one game in hand. Not looking good.

I am struggling to believe how we are pulling clear when we are so fucking dreadful. Our goalscorer on Saturday said in the press conference he didn't mean it.

Still getting pleasure from giving Franchise a proper doing on Saturday.

Yet another home defeat and to add insult to injury my train home from Manchester was cancelled. Near certain relegation now.

Yeah sorry NBS, there's a gap beginning to open up I think. We're not out of it yet but it's getting there.

congrats Blackpool.

World’s most welcome points deduction.

FC United started today second from bottom and 9 points from safety, off the back of four consecutive defeats (and having lost 8 out of the last 9 games). With 15 minutes to go, we were 3-1 down at home against the team 5th from bottom, looking as dead and buried as you can be. It's just finished 3-3. Probably nowhere near enough, but...

Dismal 0-0. Probably just enough, but..

nxd's lot might get squashed out of existence by...a rugby club?

cant see it happening but if it helps get sisu out we should turn the lights off ourself

Nuneaton need £10k to just see the season out.

Injury time equaliser...still not quite dead

Our mentality changed midweek from 'must win' to 'must not lose' and I suspect it played a part.

Mate in the pub just had £480 quids worth of acca come in when Reading nicked it last minute

3-0 up at Telford, could be just three points from safety in five minutes

Spectacular Darlo collapse gifted us the points today.

look we're on the telly!

Lol pissed up Brummagem fan has run on the pitch and hit Grealish

Don't know whether it belongs here or Real England but I stayed in the hotel at Bramhall Lane on Friday night and we left before 10 to get back for our match. As we checked out some Blades fans were already in the bar getting a beer in before the Rotherham game. Feels slightly admirable in a completely wrong way.

Gotta make the most of your Saturdays

my assertion that 'that's birmingham city' has aroused tt's ire; she has bluenose in her family i think. i offered my condolences

I pointed out to friends in the pub that a life ban is probably better than having to go to St Andrews once a fortnight

lol

holding out for sgt biscuits' take on the day as well tbh

brum bringing on craig gardner to break someone's leg

... from the bench or from the stands?

Villa fan here. Thought Birmingham were hard done by to not get a penalty today and have to say their fans were fantastic 👏👏

— Jefferson Skarsnik (@ANNOYMAN) March 10, 2019

My statement on the events earlier today. I will be making no further comment at this time. Thank you.

magnanimous and dignified

We should all aim to conduct ourselves with the calm resolve of Jack Grealish dusting himself down from a sneak attack lariat to cooly dispatch the worst football club

OTM

Meanwhile at Bramall Lane pic.twitter.com/KL3sSEKz8Y

— Michael (@KenBoon79) March 12, 2019

haha

North Ferriby United wound up today after 85 years over just over £7500 debts. They won the FA Trophy only 4 years ago.

wrecked by the Allam family who bought in, pumped in unnecessary and unsustainable funding, then pulled out again when they got bored

Derby County owner Mel Morris trying to sell club for £1. https://t.co/mebVJRGaUJ

— Matt Hughes (@MattHughesTimes) March 19, 2019

would pay a quid to sack Lampard and then put the cunts into administration and make them Mansfield's new feeder club.

Fuck's sake

Sorry NBS, looks terminal.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/latest-owls-news/alan-biggs-sheffield-wednesday-column-why-most-of-the-football-world-will-laugh-with-steve-bruce-if-owls-beat-aston-villa-following-his-shameful-and-disgraceful-treatment-at-villa-park-1-9689031/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Going by this article, I would expect there to be some upcoming fixture postponements and minutes' silences as the football world angrily seeks to somehow reckon with the fact that [checks notes] Steve Bruce didn't win against the team that sacked him for signing Yannick Bolasie for 70 grand a week on deadline day while his club had one fit centre back

Mathematically safe now.

Sorry nbs

Looks like a good fight back against Stockport, are things finally starting to look up a little?

alas, twas not to be for poor mistreated Steve Bruce

The second half was maybe the best we've played all season. Speaking to a couple of their fans after the game, their manager instructs them at half time to sit back and take the points if they're thoroughly on top and they got caught by it for not the first time.

So a combination of the two might have flattered the result - especially when both our goals were scrappy horrorshows - but I'm almost optimistic about the new season.

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/50073/spot-the-difference-qpr-annihilated-at-norwich--report

magnificent

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/joey-barton-police-investigate-post-match-brawl-barnsley-vs-fleetwood-latest-a8868831.html

Ched Evans appears to be playing for Fleetwood Town, this is in addition to having Joey Barton as manager...

And the tractor has left the championship building.

free from Mick McCarthy ennui

meanwhile we've become the best team in League One, probably a few weeks too late but it's nice anyhow. i'd have us favourites for the playoffs, and automatic isn't out of the question. we have a couple of insanely good loan signings from west ham and arsenal. london privilege eh

Also, Dommy P may be gone, but his spirit prevails https://www.skysports.com/football/southend-vs-wycombe/393597

Sorry nbs but once Guiseley went ahead today I thought it was stuck on.

Chorley bottling it is a laugh, I guess they hadn't noticed Stockport have got Nuneaton in their last game.

Leeds every so slightly making an arse of this. How sad.

LOL yes, this game is on in the pub I'm in, Brentford have totally stolen it.

surely with Bielsa the maverick genius at the helm, the white shite haven't just pissed away an auto-promotion spot:P

i'm ready

i don't get ready until 2 games to go these days

Leeds also have Villa next :D

Sorry nbs but once Guiseley went ahead today I thought it was stuck on

It's been nailed on for a while, tbh. Going to be very difficult to get back up.

If you were wondering if Leeds Utd were still wretched fucking scum they've just scored after pretending they were going to put the ball out for an injured player and then got Al Ghazi sent off by faking being punched in the ensuing melee

Bielsa made them let Villa walk an equaliser in, tbf. The red was a joke, though.

Yeah and Jansson tried to tackle Adomah while he was walking it in

Play acting for the red card was shocking, was in the pub having lunch with our Han so couldn't work out all the other stuff. I wondered what Villa's goal was about!

I really hate players pretending to be punched or elbowed or head butted or whatever.

I do think that the kind of trickster business that gets the other side to slow down or switch off or whatever is hilarious though. It's very annoying when it happens to my lot because it means someone has made chumps of my team.

I think if Danny Mills is on the telly saying something's "morally wrong" the chances are it's probably alright and I suppose Villa should be proud that their staff cleave so strongly to Corinthian sporting ideals that they were forced to initiate scraps right across (and off) the pitch.

Can't say I blame Bielsa for telling them to let Villa score, given what happened last time his lot did something that wasn't against the rules but apparently offended English football's "morals".

I am angry that watching the clip of this has resulted in my seeing John Terry's face, I did not want that to happen.

Patrick Bamford is a bell end.

Pass it on.

pic.twitter.com/0qRYmUxzzP

— HLTCO (@HLTCO) April 28, 2019

didn't SV previously post that Bamford is related to the tory donors involved in the Seabourne Freight/Chris Grayling scandal? He sure looks a bona fide tory boy in that clip! dirty ..dirty ... dirty L**ds.

shit refereeing too, he's sent El-Ghazi off for something that he can't have seen

i don't like leeds, i don't care what anyone says

I see Patrick Bamford has been charged with "successful deception of a match official", but to be honest with you folks, if it were up to me, he would be being charged with "a 100-strong unit of heavily armoured shock cavalry"

What a goal that is for Eastleigh in the National League playoffs pic.twitter.com/OOslUam5eZ

— Nige Sandom (@NigeWolves) May 2, 2019

armchair supporting the Stags and Wimbledon today.

..and the bloomin' Grecians as well of course!

Scholes 'sure' to seek Ferguson advice

old headlines on L2 area of bbc site that 'sure' deliver the EFLols.

arrgh! fucking franchise score in the 1st minute.

fuck's sake.

I am medically dead

have you considered an additional small heart

lol

Even with the suspensions, Albion should probably have hit four with that Villa performance

Dirty Leeds vs Frank Lampard's Derby County ©

tough hate call

There is a sort of air of grinding inevitability that's coalesced around Leeds

I mean, there was with Hillary too, but, y'know

wd probably prefer to see Leeds in the final after that last Leeds - Villa game but obv rooting for you guys anyway

id love to see bielsa in the prem

the nobility of the resources utilized!

as would i but not this way, not this way

Frank should probably have explained to Derby that Leeds love the banter, they live for this shit, they will feed on your tears

Jay Rumball: Hoping for a Derby miracle tonight, Chelsea fan so always backing super Frank! C'mon the Rams, 3-1.

COME ON YOU LEEDS

well that was quick

28 mins
RED CARD Mason Mount (Derby County)
Things go from bad to worse for Derby as the youngster is issued a straight red for raining a series of brutal stomps onto the skull of a prone Patrick Bamford after the two had tussled while contesting a Derby corner. It looks as if the infernal god to whom Bamford pays tribute has gifted him with a grotesque additional head for every blow he received during the incident, which you have to think will significantly increase the Leeds man's aerial threat.

derby score

Sounds like comedy defending

V funny comedy of errors between keeper and defender, which then almost happened again immediately after

Bamford also got booked for a dive that was probably actually a Leeds penalty idk

We may have earlier given the impression that Leeds United Football Club enjoys, and even thrives on, atmospheres of disquiet and chaos. We regret any confusion caused by this error.

RIP Bielsa

Can't see this finishing with 11 v 11

Obviously it wasn't worth going out to watch this by-the-numbers encounter in the pub

*raises glass*

Classic choke

;_;

In the 20 seconds i was confirming it was full time on talksport they managed to use "Frank Lampard's Derby"

Huddersfield Town linked with 'Iranian Zlatan Ibrahimovic' Mehdi Taremi

good to be back in the lower leagues again!

Tommy Rowe(binson) MISSES!

congrats imago!

I can remember that little shit tormenting us in 2007 1st game of season against Stockport. Hated the little rodent, glad he fucked up the pen.

lol the state of that pen!

if i was darraghmac, this thread would have been filled with 100 of the most unmentionable posts in ilf history

you know how spurs have massively gotten away with it on like 25 occasions this season? this was all of those rolled into one, salvaged by a sudden and unexpected rediscovery of bottle when it came to penalty-taking

Sin bins are coming! TO the National League and all leagues below this year AIUI?

I am basically slavering in anticipation of this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7MPoLfXkAUXOSV.jpg

(NB I've stolen this image from the Exeter fans' site so it may all be a complicated whooshy ruse.)

Step 7 and below. They extended the 2017/18 trial to 2018/19 because it was apparently going well.

That said, I could be unsighted to an extension.

5 and 6 too now, I think?

That's still in Vase territory.

Sure, but it's coming for us all. I hope.

I'd need to see the stats of how much difference it's made - my suspicion is that lots of players at, say, steps 4 and 5 would just build resentment, and go back on the pitch and snap the player in half.

I just want to see the chaos of having your keeper run on in an outfield player shirt and then arsing around until the next break in play when they will have to swap shirts with the hapless disposable lump of centre half who's been covering for them.

is there some ancient word that describes when you can't fucking stand football/football players/managers/fans/the whole shebang really, anymore, but feel empty sadness at lack of domestic football fixtures to engage with?

Newport v Tranmere going on right now! Tranmere starting to look stronger but still goalless - may well be one of those games that comes down to either a moment of brilliance, a horrendous mistake or penalties.

Shockah

Holy shit pic.twitter.com/BmJpWyPzFo

— 𝓂𝓇 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓃 (@Si__Taylor) May 25, 2019

the wisdom of gaffers

also does anyone have any cool tips for how to negotiate one's way to a full-capacity wembley stadium

levy

lol

fml

Hope you get a goal back as that would be a sickening way to lose a play off final

Imago I don't, I cant even, I, my god

somehow we are all square at the half but I am still experiencing some form of advanced ptsd

i would not recommend that as a way for villa to negotiate the first half tomorrow, put it that way

subbed your boy for that?

gl imago!

yessssss

literally taking it with 30 seconds to go ... fuck these nerve shredding penalty shoot outs.

fun ending

never in doubt

Doubly awesome result, Sunderlols

Cheer up Mackems, that first decade in league one is always the hardest one.

✊

turns out getting the nightmare out of the way after four minutes is possibly the way to go, sunderland brought nothing of their own after that

Looking forward to Season 2 of Sunderland 'Til I Die!

sky just called villa tinkers afaict

god save the queen going down well in buskers in temple bar

Who was this guy that they brought out of the bar to meet the players?

https://i.imgur.com/oRZZqzd.jpg

joke

That was like when the fifa ai's decided it's having a goal no matter what

OK then. Have a good summer

good stuff

st andrews then next year is it

probs easier to get to tbf

where is Bowyer going then imago? Fucking loathed the cunt from his days as one of O'Leary's precious "young" Leeds team that proved to be even worse than their individual parts. But he seems like not as horrible + violent as he was as a young man and might even be a half decent manager for teh post brexit Vanarama sponsored back to basics "all parachute payments cancelled" EFL.

can't even process what's going on tbh. bowyer is a v canny and effective manager though, and has lost the attitude problem more or less completely

seems to be above average levels of managerial tumult this year in champo, although I've only come to this conclusion after just reading some thread saying there is already half a dozen clubs who've pumped/replaced their managers already and that might just be the usual tbf.

although I didn't mention the category of useless fucking egotistical club owners just losing managers because they've better things to do with their precious time and money.

Don’t fancy this new Stevenage kit much

🚨 NEW KITS REVEALED! 🚨 Pre-Order your 2019/20 Home & Away Shirt NOW! 😍 👇 #WeAreStevenage

— Stevenage FC 🔴⚪ (@StevenageFC) July 2, 2019

!!!

Oof

National Leagues fixtures list out any minute now. Maybe time for a new thread?

Tim's lot snap up Ajose. Sure to become a crowd unfavourite, but will occasionally pop up with a goal or an assist out of nowhere, meaning that among the cognoscenti (yourself inclusive, obviously) he'll gain a reputation of 'underrated'

Scored 24 for Swindon one season, I hear. My friends seem pleased , usually a bad sign.

we heard that too. he did not threaten a reprise

Genuinely awestruck by Bury’s new managers hair. What the fuck is going on there? pic.twitter.com/RujfWLaTyM

— Triggs (@triggs14) July 1, 2019

ftr I'm not intentionally bald shaming, that just made me giggle. Last time my hair got
slightly long some kid on a trampoline in a garden shouted: oi bald bastard, you look like you have a cock growing out of your head!

i'm on holiday in stroud. hearteningly large number of forest green rovers shirts on view. local pride trumps premiership gloryhunting, or something

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_qeNUOXoAAQie3.png

if this isn't some zany fucking marketing bantz from Paddy Power then bring on the clowns in ribbons!

lol i quite enjoy that

It's a mess lol

thank goodness the paddypower lads on twitter had no jokes at your expense last year :P

Looking like that kit may not in fact be real

yeah it's more nauseating zaniness from those crazee guys at PP.. ho ho ho my sides acheth with mirthe etc... hope you bust wankers.

I would love my children if they were murderers, Tories, whatever, but marketing is a line.

Bill Hicks is considered alt-right these days apparently, but he was spot on about people who work in advertising and what they should do to themselves.

sheeit .. they are all wearing this kit at Spotland tonight.

Yeah. From what I've read it doesn't meet League requirements for sponsorship logo size but they're planning on wearing it for pre-season games

HTSA statement on Town's 'new kit'
We hate to break it to you, our rosy-cheeked friends, but you've been the victim of some top-notch Banter.

But while you’re here, please consider reading a bit about our charity partners. They all do necessary work in our communities, and most of the time, they don’t get paid for it, so they need your help.

First off, there's the Huddersfield Town Foundation. The Foundation started off by providing free school breakfasts in Huddersfield and the surrounding areas, but they've since grown to the point where they’re involved in almost every aspect of our communities. And the more they do, the more resources they need. You can donate here.

Second, we've partnered with the Welcome Centre, a foodbank that supports local families and individuals in crisis. The number of people who have to use foodbanks has skyrocketed in recent years, so again, the Welcome Centre appreciate any time, money, or goods that you can give. Find out more about donating food here , or about donating money here.

Third, we work with Destitute Asylum Seekers Huddersfield (DASH). DASH provides advice and other support to destitute asylum seekers in Huddersfield. These groups do not have access to main public funds and no support from the home office. Click here for more information.

Fourth, we are happy to announce that we will be helping raise awareness of and funds for Ruddi's Retreat, a Linthwaite-based charity helps families with seriously ill children. Visit their website and donate.

Finally, we would like to draw people's attention to Gamble Aware and When The Fun Stops , two charities that help those affected by gambling-related problems.

very dignified and impressive response from our Supporters Association on this travesty, proud of 'em apart from "top notch banter" of course!

At least they didn't use "bantz"