Sunderland 'Til I Cry: EFL and beyond 19/20

Who was ready last weekend? I mean, Fulham weren't

West Brom looked pretty slick vs Forest. Huddersfield were unfortunate last night.

Obviously looking forward to the Cocu / Rooney coaching team Derby are aiming to line up before the window ends.

lol all three relegated prem teams lost right?

do unfortunately think sunderland will smash l1 this year

I'm ready... it's our fuckwitted backpassing to rookie goalkeeper, english cb that isn't! But despite a mixed performance and still looking toothless/clueless in the last 3rd. Diakhaby's lightning pace and Grant's cool as a cucumber, totally confident penalty strike tells me mid table is doable!

Bradford Park Avenue sack their new management team (appointed in May) after two consecutive 5-0 losses.

Is the first week a new record?

There was famously a same day sacking years back but I can't remember who

Rosenior, brilliant

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/21/newsstory.sport5

Norwich's climb from the nadir was triggered by the insta-sacking of Gunn after a 7-1 opening day defeat to Colchester

Robins had a nervous breakdown and walked after an opening day 4-0 home drubbing against Bournemouth. The chairman said he was a brilliant technical manager who lacked people skills and cited his refusal to high 5 the jovial Jermaine Beckford on the training ground as an example of this.

You can probably trace a fairly steady decline for Colchester since that 7-1 too.

Beating someone 7-1 and having them immediately nick your manager will generally have a depressive effect, as will having your stadium miles out of town in a weird car park

Our pre-season optimism lasted around 35 minutes into a display of deep ineptitude against a rubbishy Macclesfield; by halfway through the second half my drunk mates were reduced to complaining that the yoof are not as good at singing songs as we all were in the old days (NB not true at all in my estimation but wevs) then we spawned an 87th minute winner and joy was very nearly unconfined.

Ah yes, Macclesfield - dear old Sol is ready

Won't (strike thru) Will always be fooled by an unbeaten preseason, and then feel all optimism drain away in first 20 mins of match 1.

Yeah. After the first game is much too early to be giving it the "gotta grind out points in this league" gubbins also.

Just passing Elland Rd ont bus and have a gigantic bamford head peering right at me at the traffic lights :x

Some lovely old buildings in Holbeck tbf

"Most of my constituency know I am not a football expert but it's my job to take up concerns when they are expressed to me and I have had a confidential briefing.

"I want to be satisfied that the sale was done by the book. The fans deserve to know that the sale of their football club has been done by the rules. I am not making a judgment."

The Examiner understands Mr Sheerman has not been in touch with Huddersfield Town directly to discuss his concerns.

A Huddersfield Town spokesman said: "The sale of the club has been ratified by the FA and the EFL as is part of the process."

lol the legitimate concerns of barry sheerman. just for some clarity our club used to be fully owned by a full on scumbag capitalist who utilised zero hour contracts and outsourcing to ruthlessly destroy his business rivals on the depleted high streets of the UK. And now the club is 3/4 owned by some amoral ambulance chaser who looks like a class a cunt as well. barry sheerman is the first mp to declare himself a professional lobbyist and now admits he doesn't know the difference between the Hudds and S Weds shirts after humiliating himself in a pub a couple of years back.

Did somebody say...'surprise package'?

you've totally cursed it now.

"We'll go for it," he told BBC Radio Suffolk. "Too many people come here and don't try to play but we'll go for it. We're playing rock and roll football."

presumably if other people like it, that's a bonus

https://hastingsflyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/30564_image_45647377_1898502896851441_4403624492505497600_n.jpg

Richards gone. Would have been nicer to have done it during the close season but we said that last year too.

Siewart gone.. never thought this golden era of 1 win in 8 months or whatever the fuck it was would ever come to an end!

You get beat again? 2-1 down last time I looked

yeah finished 2-1, fucking Cavelerio finished us off! lots of talk of the players despising the manager, our chairman was on the verge of sacking him after the league cup defeat the other night. Always had a feeling it would be all downhill after Wagner went. Or at least normalis negotium as pom would say!

just for Bacuna's dopey assist for the Mitrovic opener - I seriously never want to see that cunt play for us again, and him looking like a L2 player and giving the ball away umpteen times a minute. While we were in the prem our recruitment was fucking shocking.

there are reports he was sacked on wednesday, but the chairman told him: seeing as he'd already picked his team for tonight he might as well stick about for another game before getting pumped.

Pușcaș looks like an excellent signing for Reading.

As I say that he misses a one on one under no pressure whatsoever.

damn, you can get a shit hot Romanian international striker for €8m these days. I wish our shitty scouting dept knew this last season.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECW2YhvWsAAH4zO?format=jpg&name=900x900

lool

:D

Looks like dear old Oldham are in a spot of bother, largely flying under the radar AFAICT amid the massive pits of bother that Bury and Bolton find themselves in.

Luckily for the Latics they're playing us this evening and there's nothing we like to do more than donate three dumb points to crisis clubs.

I still can't get past my tribal hatred for Oldham whose fans were very shitty when we were the crisis club and our ex-player Wijnard tormented our dysfunctional defence. Also fuck them for the time they gave a contract to vehicular homicide scumbag Lee Hughes. Hope they go bust!

I've nothing against Oldham but I'd just as soon see them slide ignominiously out of the league as see them go bust in a blaze of Bury-style publicity. (They would be the first team that had been in the Premier League to do so I think?)

I haven't checked but I bet not many clubs have spent as many consecutive seasons in League 1 as Oldham have in the modern era, and if hadn't have been for that meddling amateur Scholesy ....

What is this new Bolton bullshit

they were just calmly preparing to field an XI of children as they normally do and some spoilsport postponed the game!

Squeaky bum time in the most exciting footballing action of the day. I imagine "C&N Sporting Risk, headed by Henry Newman and Rory Campbell" are running round the office printing off bank statements.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49455433

Reminds me of the collapse of Hereford United where the scumbag owner didn't turn up for refinancing in court as he was "stuck in traffic" and the company was immediately dissolved.

Bury FC Crisis: Company which bought £7m debt for £70,000 and now wants £1.75m for it, reportedly owned by partner of daughter of club owner Steve Dale. Jaw-dropping detail in the wreckage of this football club. https://t.co/IGVPxYAddp

— David Conn (@david_conn) August 23, 2019

EFL did some cracking fit and proper testing on this Dale fellow.

Steve Dale has been telling some media that a deal has been done. The potential buyers have told James Frith MP that's not the case. Yet. #BuryFC

— Chris Hall (@chrishallitv) August 23, 2019

we've had quite a few momentously big scoring win lose draws against Bury in my lifetime - including 0-6, 6-0, 4-4, 3-3 in the last couple of decades. I love Gigg Lane as well despite only going there twice. Good luck Bury.

we are going through the longest period of terrible football and sustained losing since that 70's period that some older fans with a slight touch of grandiloquence refer to as The Great Decline. When the designated disabled area is abandoned by the contemptible prem daytrippers that took over it like a fucking disease - i'll be happy to get a season ticket again, because half empty stands is the only environment that works with the kid. At least yesterday our useless caretaker manager realised Elphick is an old slow liability that is finished at this level, probably finished at L1 level (where we are headed) as well so a complete waste of a wage. It reminds me of when we signed Unsworth when he was an old knackered useless bastard as well.

I've often complained to stewards that there should be an autism friendly section of the ground, and they agreed. But shite football is the only real solution for empty banks of seats.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/17751427.middlesbrough-continue-investigate-transfers-garry-monks-time-charge/

he always looked like face from crimewatch did this cunt, never trust anyone who spells Gary with 2 R's and wears wooly cardigans in the summer.

BREAKING: Bury FC Crisis: The proposed purchase by C & N Sporting Risk is OFF; owner Steve Dale was given until 5pm today for it to complete or the club would be expelled from the Football League, so this really could be the end.

— David Conn (@david_conn) August 27, 2019

it looks like Bury will be gone within the hour.

Ugh, I feel very bad for the Bury fans suffering at the hands of a bunch of stuff outside their control.

Having said that, there's a piece of me that would be irritated by their being saved at the last minute, rewarding them for massively overspending to buy promotion last year (my lot finished one point outside the play-off places, remember). I try to keep that piece of me under control because ultimately it's the Bury FC community that loses its club, and it's hardly their fault they enjoyed last season on the never-never.

Presumably the ground will be disposed of as part of an insolvency process? That's quite an important factor in any phoenix club starting up.

I'm not sure tbh - some phoenix clubs retained their grounds didn't they? Just currently balancing the genuine sadness of a great old historic football ground getting turned into shit new houses vs the idea of telling Danny Boyle that this is fucking karma - you complete stain!

Ha!

When we nearly went under, the fact that the Council owned the ground (which is a whole other dumb story in our dumb history) was very helpful, because it meant that it couldn't be sold to cover the debt the previous owners had run up. I think this is a common experience for other teams where the worst has happened - if you have to find / finance a new ground that's a whole different order of pain from recruiting a football team.

Going to be uber #FBPE and look at the EU ref results for Bury and Burnley and have a wee chuckle to myself

oof actually if i still had twitter i could go on a deep dive for supporters of those clubs who have made fun of the SPFL.

too bad i have work to do today

there's no silver lining to this

just don't look at Scumbet next Town manager odds rn

I think the silver linings are (a) the EFL actually beginning to enforce its rules instead of eternally granting extensions (b) the widespread calls for re-examination of the rules around football club ownership, which might actually come to something this time. Might not, of course.

I feel very sorry for Bury fans but it was going to happen sometime.

I hope they can somehow remain at Gigg Lane because it's a fine old ground.

Yeah I hope so too, seems from the bit I've read that it's mortgaged and the unwillingness of whoever owns the mortgage to sell it on to the bidders was the reason the bid failed (NB this may be a total misreading or misunderstanding on my part). I suppose any successor club will need the Council to intervene in some way to safeguard the ground, otherwise it'll be "developed", ugh.

oh look we're still really good

we are still really shit and doomed despite having a bigger wage bill and being officially worse than when we had the 2nd lowest outlay in the championship and went up. but this is the cyclical nature of things and i'm already planning for a L1 season ticket when all the happy clapper prem detritus has fucked off!

all is not lost... at Leeds got beaten at home

you really aren't going down, plenty of dross about

nathan jones surely doomed

nah we're doomed, we had our last of about 3 wins in 18 months, way back in February. Most the team need pulping. The club owner is out of his depth and hasn't a clue what he is doing. He was ready to sell Billing for the first offer of £7m a few weeks back, it was only due to the intervention of our previous chairman that blocked it till we held out for £15m.

VLP put in another absolute stinker of a performance, and our chairman accepted an offer for him from Red Star Belgrade during the game. Strange transfer that - as he was getting picked I don't there was any realistic expectations we could move him on, especially to a decent Euro club for money. When you can get the best out of him he's a very limited but useful tool, when he can't be arsed (for such a shit talent he's a total needy diva) you might as well play someone from the stiffs in his position.

i hear ya

I want to be optimistic, new manager and all that, but the deficiencies in the squad really stood out yesterday when Reece Styche looks like your best player. Thank fuck for the international break.

Also apparently yesterday's Chester game had the greatest sending off of all time.

Players involved in clash of heads. Ref decides the Chester player should leave the pitch for more treatment so he can get the game going again.
Chester player disagrees and remonstrates with the ref.
Ref books him for dissent and sends him to the touchline.
Chester player gets minimal treatment and comes back on.
Ref decides he didn't wait for permission to re-enter the pitch and books him again.

First win of the season yesterday for FCUM (having opened with three consecutive defeats following relegation).

we got turned down by the cockney brothers management team at Lincoln City after a million comp was agreed between clubs. Some of our lot were having a jizz fest over them and talking up their progressive coaching/tactics chops. They've rapidly risen up the leagues with a ridic amount of promotions but I'm not convinced they'd have been good for us tbh. But now they are all ready to top themselves as Adkins is apparently the 3rd choice behind Stendel who also will probably turn us down because of how we headhunted his no.2 and unceremoniously sacked the fucker after a few months. That Wagner era has really spoiled us and warped our expectations as fans of a small club in a biggish Town. Adkins is dull as dishwater but at the moment some steady competence could be all we need to start building towards a winnable relegation dogfight season.

Adkins was doing good work at Hull before the Allams decided they didn't want to pay him

I think his record is much more impressive than his dour demeanour and dull rep would make some people think, and that "go for the b-coach at borussia dortmund" thing has been tapped out to fuck now - we need a known quantity with champo experience at this point!

Adkins did well at Soton too iirc.

In October 2012, Adkins disclosed that he recites the Dale Wimbrow poem, The Guy in The Glass to control stress.[12]

:)

He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear up to the end,

And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test

If the guy in the glass is your friend.

It looks like the truly massive Sheffield club are about to hire Monk. Odd choice considering his corrupt transfer dealings at previous clubs are following him like a bad smell.

ffs Neil Harris is current fav for Town. Can't be having another p/t London manager who is allergic to fresh air. and paying compensation for a pretty uninspiring looking manager would be terrible business.

next manager odds-watching is so futile but addictive. Those Cowley brothers from Lincoln City are favs again. Allegedly some pro-gambler whale has put a large sum on them and there have been other whispers. After that Neil Harris scare I have lost all the reservations I initially had about them.

it's definitely Cowley now!

our new management team the Cowley brothers are ex PE teacher siblings who seem quite earnest and naive, albeit with a very good management cv in the lower leagues and recently L2 as well.

Concord: 3 promotions in 6 years to Conference South. Reached the FA Cup first round

Braintree: Took them to their best ever position, a part time team, 3rd in conference. Took them to first round FA Cup first time

Lincoln: 2 promotions in 3 years. Won EFL trophy. First non league team to get to FA cup quarter finals

apparently they have cost us £1.5 m. Like the cut of their jib so far.

I feel like the footballing gods of fate are getting ready to take a big dump on us tbh. But see how it goes.

First non league team to get to FA cup quarter finals

Wait till the ILXSpurs contingent log on...

IME the Crowley’s are admired for their success but not really liked for footballing style (Lincoln played hard and agricultural but had the gamesmanship turned up to maximum, I like to see big strong effective teams but it irks me when those same players crumple as soon as they’re breathed on). The brothers themselves use pre-Zen Warnock approach to touchline behaviour, continually screaming at the officials for no obvious reason.

That said, they did brilliantly for Lincoln, most importantly by cultivating a real sense of togetherness between club, fans and the community more generally. Hope that works again at Huddersfield because when it works it’s the best thing.

Haha Cowleys, I might not love them but they’re not Great Beasts.

satanic lols! I think at the moment a lot of the fans would take some ugly wins. But after Wagner as a long term project I'd prefer to see more of the hard pressing, high tempo style he brought before he lost faith in his methods after a few prem maulings. Even if it meant there wasn't some instant turnaround in results from it. Hopefully having a budget beyond anything they've had before (bolstered by flogging some of our overpaid wasters and parachute payments) and a transfer window might lead towards a more positive approach.

Flores has spent most of the second half sitting in his dug-out. TV pictures have just shown him shaking his head repeatedly

heh heh! the nightmare is real alright

lol wrong thread

The joy of articles like this is only fleeting, I know, but I think it's important to savour it while it lasts

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/plymouth-argyle-exeter-city-lowe-3349365

(If you're disinclined to click on that link to a boring link to an ad-splattered hellsite, it's an article in which Plymouth's new manager recognises that the snot army are especially sad about their team's mediocre start to the season because ECFC have had a very good start to the season, goes on about it a bit and then says its irrelevant and how he doesn't want to talk about it.)

(I am not being entirely fair.)

lol West Ham

me and my big mouth

god watching Stoke drown is enjoyable

Genuinely can’t remember the last time I saw Butland play and he didn’t give away at least one goal.

"£35m... is that for one glove?" Lambert said.

"The way the modern market is you might get one glove for that."

"I know the people at Wolves, but that will get Jack’s right-hand glove!"

Have. It.

:D :D :D

hah! eat it white shite!

let's see if this soft as shit group of serial losers can cut it on a cold wet Tuesday night in Stoke.

ah, the hell game

https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/sites/core/files/styles/large/public/images/gustave_dore_dante_cocytus_traitors.jpg?itok=R9yv2Xgf

In hell Kachunga will have to watch that miss of the season of his on a loop forever

every game has been a hell game for a long time now.

what a load of shite, but hey a win is a win! Nathan Jones will be gone by dinnertime.

only a few points behind Millwall, keep it going now

You won?!?!? Woohoo

What a shame for Stoke and their fans

it was a resolute but mostly awful performance for lovers of the game - we've played 10 times better and got absolutely nothing multiple times in the last 18 months. i'll take an ugly shithousing bastard of an away win at Stoke on a cold tuesday right now though!

FC United 5-0 up after just half an hour against Buxton.

Roll over Kasper Schmeichel, WILL. JAASKELAINEN. is in town, and Crewe are top of League Two

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50084290

ashamed to say I absolutely aced this white shite quiz

lol

i got 9. forgot about the existence of peter lorimer

hard to forget the answer to one of the questions after being escorted/separated from a bunch of them on a train by british transport police after we'd just won a first leg L2 playoff game against Lincoln City and they'd been relegated from the prem after 4-0 mauling at early KO at Stamford Bridge.

some Nostradamus shouted "Welcome to the football league lads, you'll get used to it!"

an absolute amazing reaction save by our rookie keeper followed by a total howler of a follow up miss of the season candidate, so I'll take a point against this shower of shite.

x_x

Ouch

After a couple of terrible results, we clock up our biggest derby victory against the snot since 1925, apparently.

6 games unbeaten inc 3 wins, we have our first guaranteed 25 a goals a season striker since .. erm Pawel Abbott. Yet we still are absolutely awful to watch at times... but staying up is on again. Need to ditch Elphick fast, he's an old laggard well past his best and with too many dumb mistakes in him.

Sunderlol

You may not love to see it but I sure as hell do.

https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/2019/october/argyle-apology/

national league north fixtures today wiped out by the rain, only 3 out of 11 matches were played

congrats Tim!

My only regret today is that there’s a roof on our away end nowadays.

^^lol

i note that exeter are in the promotion places, kiu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Premier_League_and_English_Football_League_managers

cracking photo of Ainsworth to celebrate his day of glory

Celebrating the @EFL's longest-serving manager.

Gareth Ainsworth x The Cold Blooded Hearts x @PreSonus

Yeah, he's a Wanderer... pic.twitter.com/DuNluhhu0e

— Wycombe Wanderers (@wwfcofficial) October 28, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/30/derby-sack-richard-keogh-car-crash-reduced-wages

a classic of the genre including drink driving, a player fleeing the scene of the crime and then returning 45 minutes later, a club cynically taking the moral high ground to sack an old laggard on high wages. Also Giggsy turned up to give a character reference for Tom Lawrence in court.

gotta love a team bonding day

when Keogh was on loan at Town he was really shit and his keyboard warrior mum kept logging onto the Hudds forum and getting into flame wars with anyone who dissed him, which was about 99% of posters.

Lol. I can see him making a case against Derby though. First demanding a 'my way or the highway' wage cut, and when it's not accepted going for the axe approach with "gross misconduct" is p nagl.

yeah i'd imagine he'll win, he wasn't even driving was he?

yeah but he was illegally not using his seat-belt! (whilst probably coked up)

He didn't drive and was left for dead while his mates fled the scene lol! One of them has been getting regular playing time since.

i know it's cruel but it's pretty funny really! I mean out in the real world how many of us would feel lucky to be offered £5k a week to sit on our arse for a year?

we certainly won't be going down now and we totally picked your pocket for that Karlan Grant lad, imago - soz. He's turning out to be one of our best signings of the decade.

another cracking win for Hull as well today, something's started to click there, just in time for the usual "can they hold on to Jarrod Bowen?" window

I never really rated Grant! Weird. I guess he's getting good service

He was feeding off scraps when we were up against prem defences and still scored a few and has improved some since then

Coolest pen taker as well which is what you need for the pla....

i think you'll find we still have the coolest pen taker

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/championship/top-scorers

had to scroll down a bit to see who you were talking about :p

when's the cricket season then

this seems to finally be the day our racist fans turn on naby sarr for good

we got outshithoused today, that'll be a valuable lesson to our oh so charming management duo.

Warnock out.

oilball comes to se7

lol, misread that as ollie-ball for a sec. back in the big time again eh?

the predictable town 0 vile revenant 4 debacle still hurting like a bleeding abscess spurting blood out of my arse. thursday's exit poll is released. A lot to to absorb in a week STOP I may be gone for some ti

this is going to be brutal - a patched up team of square pegs in round holes and a bench of U18's - fucking hell i can't even watch.

words that apply extremely well to our own injury-ravaged squad. we had 14 out last week ffs

barring spectacular investment i can unfortunately see this being an 'it's us or you' situation come season's end

<3 u calz but this is us or u and no prisoners taken at that

Lol I'm so apathetic about Town and disgusted by our racist gammon section I didn't even know we we were playing tonight! As defined by the geneva convention ruling on child soldiers, they are legally considered victims of war and taking them as prisoners is a war-crime.

tbf arguing with pig ignorant morons on football forums about the absolute state of the Conservative Party and the BBC does out a lot of decent posters as well, they are just a minority unfortunately.

Jim Smith (along with any hope of us getting anything tonight) dies.

we have named an astonishingly defensive and doomed-seeming xi fyi

oh we got lucky!

you got FP'd :P

just kidding but everyone must die obv

there would have been a time when I would have been charmed and excited by a young homegrown prospect getting an injury time winner, but I have gone into a late hateful period where I despise all footballers and about 70% of our supporters!

in terms of football endorsements, neville southall, peter reid, joe lolley, kevin kilbane, mayumi pachecho, stan collymore and marcelo bielsa are all backing labour.

— joe (@cillanoir) December 11, 2019

no T Watt - no cred!

You can add Klopp to that:

“I'm on the left, of course,” Jürgen Klopp notes, as relayed by journalist Raphael Honigstein in his new book about the Liverpool manager. “More left than middle. I believe in the welfare state. I'm not privately insured. I would never vote for a party because they promised to lower the top tax rate.”

if you fuckers thought supporting Labour was heartbreaking right now

only 1-0 down at the half thanks to nakhi wells pulling off two of the worst misses of the season. keep it up champ

I've got a fiver ILX treble on Sheff Utd, Town and Charlton today, that 9/2 on your lot is sounding way too short! Sounds about right for Nahki :p

ffs both Town and Blades 2-0 up now!

oh no blades are still 1-0 up - don't where I saw that phantom goal

go on addicks!

ffs lads!

i otoh will take a 96th-minute equaliser by our cult hero, legend and titan of inconsistent brilliance naby sarr

since A le Fondre rocked up in the A-League he's scored 27 in 34 appearances!

Knew he had to have a level somewhere

I watch a lot of Australian football as i am always up early and it’s genuinely terrible. Two of the best strikers in the league just went to play in India instead.

Birmingham- Leeds is now 4-4!

5-4 Leeds!

imagine conceding more than 3 goals!

(we've conceded 3 once and every other time less. but often 2. usually 2)

btw

you know how there's always football on during xmas/new year's

well there's only one game tomorrow

and we have 14 injured

that's right, give us 75 minutes against ten men, see if we care about scoring

should have been 50 minutes against 9 men tbf

Excellent penalty technique.

I knew eventually Duane Holmes would be a good championship player, we let go way too soon.

that is what 13 injuries will do to ya

https://lastwordonfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/01/Richard-Stearman.jpg

going swimming today. Somebody wake me up when the current management duo have been sacked. Don't even give a shit if we stay up/go down.

Not good to watch? Form seems to have picked up?

the football has been awful from what I've seen. Too much thuggery, gamesmanship, time-wasting. Awful men they are as well. After having a class act like Wagner for a few years it does spoil you a bit. But these ugly bastards are such bullies I want to see them getting taken down a peg or two rather than the opposition. I was even glad when Leeds beat us, cos whatever you say about the vile revenant - the manager seems a class act.

https://youtu.be/2dqEv7KECPQ

Fantastic behind-the-scenes content from Other Deems; bonus multiple dry zings at prima donna footballer who turned down Charlton for no good reason

🎥 @nabysarr or circa-2001 David Beckham? 🤔

I see no difference... 🤷‍♂️ #cafc pic.twitter.com/G8JQ9Z2BDR

— Charlton Athletic FC (@CAFCofficial) February 12, 2020

my hero, my friend

Looks across, checks his stride, boom

Been saying it for 3 years now: we have had this forsaken Champions League player roaming about our backline for three seasons now as half our fans scream that he's shit and we should get rid

Screamer of an assist that.

You lucky bastards

Hull might be the only side that keeps us up, especially after calz's lot dismantle our negative injury-hit crew later. Keep going Leeds

Playing nice football Hull but hopeless in the box. Thing they might yet survive. Hard when they've sold their two goal scorers tho

Result didn't flatter Leeds but Hull weren't bad except zero cutting edge

with our current management duo i don't really care any more, hope they do go down tbh. I just can't accept these fucking PE teacher bully, sunday league dregs of humanity after the Wagner period. I'm all for 80's/90's football nostalgia, apart from the troglodyte managers side of it.

you won't go down with some of the dross in this league, as you're presumably witnessing rn

No I'm cooking rn with music playing, can't even be arsed with Radio Leeds radio commentary anymore. For the first time in decades. Oh Grant scoring is quite predictable!

took a brief look at the table, it's looking one of them seasons where someone in the championship will go down with 50 + points for sure.

that does it, i'm voting Starmer

now i loves the Towns again it's Nandy for me obv!

fuck sake

Just heard that Peter Whittingham has died. Fuck

oh god :(

Nothing confirmed yet so hopefully just a horrible rumour

Spread like wildfire if it is

Still shit news but not dead:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51928263

Glad the story was wrong, hope he makes a full recovery.

Gone now :(

No love for Cardiff but he was a baller. RIP

This season expunged completely for all leagues below NLS Step 2.

Seems like the Prem, EFL and National League 1 & 2 want to complete the season and have asked permission to extend the season indefinitely. Goodness knows what happens to players' contracts, transfer windows etc.

Not terribly stoked for the madness.

The season that never ended

As far as I know nobody in NLN is in a position to finish it and presumably there's no relegation if the leagues below have already been told their league is void so no promotion.

because i need cheering up

Hooray! It's another goalmouth scram...

Oh. Oh my.#LincolnCityFC #Imps #Macclesfield #Silkmen #Crap90sFootball pic.twitter.com/ksXCY0b2RL

— Crap 90s Football (@Crap90sFootball) March 31, 2020

Having spent most of the season in the top 3 in L2, we had a dip in form at the worst possible time and now the season's over we're in the weird playoffs rather than the auto slots (the only reason I care about this is because dirty Argyle managed to worm their way into the autos, the snotrags). All behind closed doors obv, but if we want we can pay £25 to upload a photo of ourselves to some website and they will manufacture a polypropylene cut-out to be placed in the stands to give an impression of a crowd. We get to keep our cut-outs, but the club can't help it if they're damaged. I'm half tempted as a way of bunging the club some case but I'm probably better just making an extra donation to the Trust.

The thought of picking up a cardboard cut-out of myself with half my head hanging off because it had been clattered by a Jake Taylor moonshot from the edge fo the box, such a feeling.

lol beautiful

if i'd got the money i thought of putting my dad in the fake crowd at Molineux, think he'd have enjoyed it

i don't suppose there was any good way of sorting out the broken leagues but i'm not happy with the ways they've chosen

I am not too bothered really - genuinely the only reason I'm bothered about going up is that being in League 1 would provide a one-division safety net for the next time we go tits up. Because of the way we're structured we just have to get used to watching teams piss past us while racking up millions in debt, which we can't do. Most of them will fail eventually but there seems to be an endless queue of rich tossers (at our level, mostly local rich tossers as opposed to the criminal classes higher up) who are happy to waste a ton of their cash on some small scale grubby financial doping. Even the dream of keeping ourselves going on good transfer windfalls (which is what's been fuelling or fairly decent run the last 3 or four years) has been taken away. So L2 or L1 is not that important, mostly it's about having a beer and a jump up and down.

(That last bit's not wholly true. The club's doing a lot of good in the community these days, which I'm pleased about obviously, but L2 or L1 doesn't make a whole heap of difference to that either.)

unlucky tim
good luck in the playoffs!

tim is yr cardboard cut-out watching this

Not in the ground. I have a cardboard cutout here at home to watch the game for me.

magnificent! if you reach the final you should design & print a collectible exeter squad imo

No point. If they were worth anything the premier league would steal them.

we paid u good money to train up your manager as a born winner iirc

oh wait it was a free transfer lol

Fully formed when he left, took us a while to fix him after he arrived back from Charlton IIRC.

i hadn't been aware he was involved in a successful playoff campaign for u as a player

and it wasn't us what spoilt him, it was the motley crew of cheltenhams he struggled thru before retiring obv

sorry i mean 'the likes of cheltenham' pax no returns

great keeping lol

He was in the team that thrashed Charlton 3-0 at yours (the Valley was pretty full that day because you made it v cheap to try to attract some fans for an unattractive game, heh).

football for a fiver! we usually screw those up

(The best team in our recent history met the worst team in yours that season, I suspect.)

(i think you are correct)

in the spirit of the zing, just noticed you are sponsored by a company that literally went bust!

Oh mate. A sponsor zing.

at least it isn't yet another betting firm lol

dodgy keeping at both ends, your lot kept in it by some serious atonement from the gentleman with a religious beard

good tie rly

other one seems a bit tasty too, will tune in now

Talking of men with religious beards:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53171423

So... this was a "crowdie"? Did someone pay £25 to install OBL on a seat at Elland Rd?

now that's value for money

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covid has completely saved us, got to say

when you hate Boro and their cunt manager but you hate Stoke even more

if last week was the death-blow to Hull then this week is the stake through the heart

Luton look like the ones to watch out for now, glad our GD is so much better than theirs

Saddled with a terrible owner, don't own their own ground, real trouble ahead

so are we going to see the red-and-white wembley playoff hoodoo defeated tonight

I don’t imagine so. Never know though, eh?

based on having seen the semis, exeter are a better and more controlled and classy side, but northampton have strong chaos energy which could prevail

I think that’s about right.

Possession
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Cardboard cut outs sneaking out at half time etc

turn on the stream, northampton long throw causing chaos, exeter flowing passing move leading to nothing

football's a bastard

exeter player going through on goal slows, checks, bundles it out for a goal kick

northampton almost score immediately

exeter's keeper is having an absolute stormer

northampton get the first shot on target at the other end too, just for shits

plymouth's manager here to rub it in from the analysis couch

'keir starmer has modelled his look on morrissey'

no you haven't keir. behold the master of the craft: joey barton

My completely irrational dislike of Danny Cowley is partly mitigating how sad it is to see Huddersfield reduced to this.

there is nothing irrational about disliking the dim, flat-track bully. He's fucking horrible and he is the brains and charm of the family.

lol all the useless duffer clubs at the bottom losing/already lost. Wigan down to 10 at Barnsley, locked at 0-0.

lol fuck off Warnock!

fuck me it's like they're all fighting to go down

fuck knows what is wrong with this lot, including my lot I would add. Maybe a bit of complacency because of the Wigan points deduction? The Rona? They've all been up late doing whatever unsavoury habits they picked up during lockdown? They are probably all just shit tbf!

Wigan 6-0 vs Hull before half time.

can't work out if that's good or bad, but we play wigan at the weekend so um

7!

What on earth is going on?

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone score seven in one half since Spurs beat Wigan 9-1.

8-0

There is an air of grim resignation here in the pub

Sheff Wednesday could be facing a points deduction this week, something to do with financial irregularities, that might save one more crap team that barely deserve to stay up!

drops my jaw how utterly shit QPR can be and never really be in danger

^^^conjures a QPR equaliser just like that *takes a bow*

this stop L**ds Utd project is looking pretty fucked rn, but i'd take a relegation to league 1 and *love it* if it meant an against the odds outcome of West Brom + Brentford taking the top two spots and they choked on their last two games.

just a quick lol

lol

Cmon lads if you keep this up Leeds are promoted. Lol we went 2 nil up against them at their place and lost, northing to see here.

Leeds is happening anyway, would rather they went up with Brentford

I like Brentford well enough but apparently we have a good sell-on clause on 25-goal Ollie Watkins and I could do with him being sold on this summer.

I wish the telly wouldn’t show pictures of the Cowlings. Puts me right out of temper.

The worst thing about no artificial crowd noise is being able to our ugly af management team bawling in shrill cockneyese at everyone and everything all the time

i've not got much against West Brom tbh but just annoying the two or three twats who constantly troll the Wolves stories on the Express & Star website is enough for me

can't even be arsed watching this. I'm predicting a 1-3 defeat, but would rather cut my hedges than watch this shite tbh!

Whoah get in Smith-Rowe you sexy bastard!

Almost fell off my steps when that went in from the wireless in the garden coverage!

Lol gl in the playoffs baggies!

Charlie Austin in tears an unexpected bonus.

our safety now depends on defeating either a team that won 8-0 last time out or the hopefully already-confirmed champions

;_;

hopefully the leeds squad secure the league on saturday and then just booze for 3 days

Tim Pope on Radio Leeds on them securing promotion " finally we are back in the joy division"

Maybe even Adam Pope!

Wait, you tuned into Radio Leeds? Secretly celebrating I reckon.

Lol

Lol

Lololololol

Xp
Radio Leeds also have to cover the w yorks non-league clubs Bratfurt Colliery and the famous Huddersfield Rovers! Even though they do it reluctantly.. meh fuck 'em!

Wait, you tuned into Radio Leeds? Secretly celebrating I reckon.

Yawwwwwkshir pride.

I used to work with this wanker that always had a local commercial radio station on Pennine Radio or Yorkshire fm or whatever the fuck it was called. It used to run this awful ad for a local law firm that carried the slogan : Yorkshire lawyers for Yorkshire people!

lol "Dirty Leeds" is trending on Twitter

Yorkshire law for Yorkshire crime

I don't even feel that bitter about Leeds going up tbh. i've got nothing but jealous admiration for their manager.

"not a football fan but lee bowyer and jonathan woodgate were an inspiration to me and the polprofs 👏👏👏" https://t.co/UuhGOTHtT3

— LES MONUMENT (@wariotifo) July 17, 2020

Watching West Ham vs Watford build up and I have weeped 6 times already. I love my country very much.

— Tom (@t_manning92) July 17, 2020

ruh roh

fuck's sake Brentford don't choke

This is so disappointing. I haven’t seen them play this badly all season.

just got the radio on, maybe i should change channels to buck the jinx

93rd minute equaliser for Charlton!

fuck's sake Brentford don't choke

It's Brentford, they were bound to choke.

that's the kind of result that could still be in your head thru the playoffs

I'm just thinking next season will be the first time Town have been in the same division as Coventry since the Frank Worthington days.

It's amusing hearing Robins talking about how the Championship is the place to be, he must have changed his mind after walking after an opening day defeat with Town!

Yes lads get in now do your jobs EFL and hammer Wednesday

well, yes and maybe like before the season is over lads. I mean ffs haven't they heard of Zoom?

yay! this is better news than staying up.

not taking any interviews so perhaps this decision was made when they already had a replacement lined up. I'd stopped caring almost since the Cowley's came to Town.

Carlos Corberán is the rumoured replacement, never heard of the fucker, but not being English nor Essex would be a massive plus for me. I think the quiet crowdless stadiums highlighted what a thoroughly horrible pair of thuggish morons the Cowley's are. I'd have been embarrassed by their behaviour if I owned the club as well.

lol also rumours that Bristol City are interested in them.

That would be great if we don't have to pay up the contracts of these wankers. Jesus wept, to think we paid one million compensation to Lincoln for these turkeys.

Bristol City were after Gerrard and got knocked back, so I think they're lowering their sights.

or raising them!

thanks, i had option paralysis with the punchlines there

True if Rangers' performances immediately post-lockdown are taken into account. They are still in Europe though!

altho if you like punchlines, this one from the BBC site takes some beating:

Steven Gerrard: Rangers boss warns young players over 'ego'

The man they call Stevie Me? Surely not!

the picture that is emerging now is that the Cowleys are effectively on garden leave and not sacked and the chairman found out they'd been talking to Bristol City. I find it unbelievable these grim bastards have still got a pretty good rep at this level. They did manage to arrest the decline, but along with that came their horrible management style which brought a different decline which eventually was losing games and doing it ugly.

Corberán has left the building and a compensation package has been agreed between the two clubs according to Bielsa at his latest press conference. Another Wagner type appointment where it is a bit of a gamble, but fuck it at least it isn't Adkins or Pearson!

Adkins is alright imo but this is more interesting

he was the U 23 coach and Bielsa's translator and he promoted him to first team duties and rates him very highly apparently and at least he'll know a thing or two about the championship despite not having management experience.

daer leeds

u are the best team in england i have always loved u

now

u lost a player to an acl injury the other day and u have won the league already

i hope ur players are under strict instructions not to tackle

ty

imago

good luck imago

how nailed on is wigan's deduction?

daer imago

Luton winning.

And now Wigan are in front

And QPR are in front

What a night this is gonna be

Hull dying very much with a whimper

Brentford upping their choke game ffs

sick of brum avoiding a completely deserved relegation in the last game, it still haunts me we fucked up the chance of relegating them couple of seasons back. I'm still bitter about 2001

h8 football

plenty of time

you say that like luton and wigan won't both win by 2

leeds are playing like they genuinely want to score 8 btw

it sounds like it :/

couldn't really expect Bielsa to accept slacking

Scott Parker player could do with some Bielsa spirit - the useless cunt. With the squad he's got he shouldn't be losing to Wigan

player? sorry phone typing!

managers that miss out on auto and take their foot off the gas in the last couple of games deserve nothing but abject failure in the playoffs

Fulham equalizer :O

West Brom in front ;_;

Leeds

https://i.imgur.com/MPbX6OD_d.webp?maxwidth=728&fidelity=grand

ffs Birmingham equalizer

Luton get a third

QPR!!!!!! COME ON

if brentford fuck us here then i have no words tbh

BRENTFORD

Brentford equaliser

fucking hell i've got no dog in these races and my heart's still pounding

Luton 3 Blackburn 2

Swansea needing just one more goal to pinch Forest's play off spot

and they've got it

Barnsley score!

jesus christ

-_-

lol, Stoke sticking the knife in. 4-1.

sorry imago, terrible night

only had my all-time musical hero die today as well

i noticed :(

would be v weird and funny if the EFL decided to dock Wednesday 12 points now ofc, but that ain't happening

Brentford have been amongst the worst chokers in history this season, they don't deserve shit in the playoffs

Sorry imago, that’s rough.

Perhaps Pontus Jansson has the secret of the classic choke.

You wouldn’t bet on Brentford even winning the playoff semis now, eh? Still hoping for a Watkins-shaped payout.

lol he sounds like the type of lad who wouldn't have choked in the 40's when it came to volunteering for the waffen ss!

Whilst at Leeds, Jansson has had a famous chant made for him, the song is called 'Pontus Jansson's Magic, He Wears A Magic Hat' (with a choking death's head insignia on it!)

Ha!

I remember fondly the season Brentford missed out on promotion from league 1 finishing second (cos of premier restructuring) and then we under uncle Neil, beat them in the playoffs on penalties despite being an absolute ragtag bunch of cloggers and went up at the expense of Bristol Rovers in the final, can't say we never get any luck really!

and my old classmate Chris Billy scored the winner at old Wembley

the last time I heard a report on Chris Billy he was doing a shitty telephone centre job and cursing that he never got into the electrical or plumbing trades rather than the dead end of being a decent lower league professional footballer who kept following Warnock to every club he went to in the 90's!

I think this might be the first time the entire bottom 5 of the Championship (with 20 days of season left) all avoid relegation. Although the compressed end to the season and Wigan points deduction were not the usual.

Corberan is official

Oh I've not read anything yet, will do the new manager bingo when I get home. Obv getting the nod from the mighty Bielsa has got to be a good sign. You surely can't have three bad managers in a row, we are due a bit more managerial luck now!

Oh Jeromey Corberon!

Why the fuck is Trevor Francis trending on twitter when a: the cunt isn't even dead. And b: the mighty terriers have just installed a new manager!

lol i checked, it's some Bluenoses having an eppy because they've retired Jude Bellingham's number

Lol that will wind up some of the worst cunts in this country, like it!

if we hadn't let them equalise in the 93rd they'd be down

can someone else name next season's thread btw, I think I've suffered enough karmic punishment for rubbing the black cats' noses in it

Superb Swansea goal.

my fuckin god the brentford red card, keith stroud is the worst pro referee ever

No Mitrovic. Is he injured?

compelling narrative arc to this one pic.twitter.com/5fUA39tN5P

— LES MONUMENT (@wariotifo) July 29, 2020

never over till it's over tbf

all teams that play in white are cunts, yeah you heard me London ilx!

ok well it's over now

wariotifo shd have waited until this finished 5-0 lol

i think this might be the last ever competitive game at Griffin Park.

isn't that competitive

Perhaps Pontus Jansson has the secret of the classic choke.

XP LOLS!

a classical choker puts the tory white shite back in the game!

the mighty Warito abides

how lovely for west london

you can't deny their transfer policy has been pretty impressive and canny, lots of champo clubs have spent their way into mediocrity. Including my lot (when they were a pretend prem club!)

matthew benham is tbf in actual fact a moneyball genius and he kind of deserves this

yes he is a complete stain, but they have either been incredibly fortuitous in the transfer market or someone knows wtf they are doing! Saying that, we've been fucking pony this season and still took 4 pts off them.

we were even ponier and were 15 minutes from taking 6 off them

Hoping effing Fulham get through because I can’t face wanting Cardiff to win. Don’t care what happens really, just desperate for Watkins to be sold. Desperate!

back in pre Rona times you could have have afforded yourself the luxury of a bit more patience and gamble on him being a success in the prem and yielding a better sell on cut, but them days are gone:( Rough times for league 1/2 clubs right now

Apparently we're OK, survival-wise, we had put away some money from the last couple of lucrative sales, but this spell has blown through the savings; we released al our out-of-contract payers (seven from a not-huge squad) and it would be really nice to see a couple of replacements come in. Rough times mean it'd be a brilliant time to have a few quid of disposable income to spend on a few really good players.

(Last lucrative sale = Watkins to Brentford, funnily enough, which was £1.75m if I recall correctly - the sums involved in L2 are laughably small compared to even the Champo. )

I can remember when we were a L2 club being run by an asset stripping chairman. Just coming out of administration and with a squad of seven players. Then followed a massive transfer splurge with a net spend of fuck all. Then we sold Stead for 1.2m which seemed a huge sum then and probably was huge for the club at the time.

Since more or less all the clubs in the lower leagues are loss-making enterprises, and most are owned by "local businessmen" of one kind or another, there is going to be quite a difference this season between those clubs whose owners' businesses are likely to do OK and those whose businesses are tanking.

Mansfield (insurance?), Forest Green (green energy), Salford (you know who) all seem to be spending rather freely so far so I guess they're all doing alright.

Our local bête noire former chairman Ken Davy is considered a total villain in the town. I even saw him getting accosted on John William St once and some bloke was yelling: give us our stadium back you robbing cunt! In the local rag there was constantly stories about how his crooked loan company was breaking laws and illegally misselling loans and involved in all sorts of sharp practise etc. Anyway the Conservative Party missed a trick by running him against the universally despised safe-seat wasteman Barry Sheerman in the last election. That would have been the easiest red wall seat to take if they had even run a Shetland pony with a get brexit done blue rosette, anyone but Ken Davy.

Oh look, calzino has another league club to go and watch if he gets bored of Huddersfield

I've been there before for preseason friendlies, there must have been some dramatic improvements made since I last went because that wasn't close to being a FL standard ground - although this was about 16-17 years ago. They are that posh you get to meet BBC producers and crime fiction authors in their local boozers, but they are no Bradford Park Avenue.

getting there is not that "local" either, you are talking a fair journey on a clunking pacer train from Leeds!

nothing is weird these days but Harrogate Town in the football league? hmm truly the age of Toryism!

Dover let all their players go. Sounds terminal.

That was clever!

Not from Raya, obvs.

Aw. Even watching the text commentary has been a chore

It has been a poor match. Fulham have been slightly better but there’s not much in it.

Remarkable from Joe Bryan. One goal since 2018, two tonight.

Feel for Brentford as they’ve been so good this season and I can’t imagine the front three will still be there when the next starts.

I guess having choked twice in the run-in Brentford shd've expected this

Won't be the first time they've had to rebuild tho

Poor old Brentford, losing playoffs sucks. I hope they make an absolute mint selling Ollie W.

Brentford won't win the playoffs (aeternum)

In all seriousness, I hope Reading FC go out of business for this pic.twitter.com/kS967KWN6p

— Chris Scull (@cjscull) August 22, 2020

Defending the glory of Reading.

fucking tory club to the core

I guess "tbey call us the biscuitmen" didn't scan as well

https://www.buryfc.co.uk/news/latest-statement-07-08-2020/august/club-update/

This is quite the update.

Incredible sign-off to that Bury statement pic.twitter.com/Ic9qaqxmLy

— Steven Chicken (@StevenChicken) August 27, 2020

i hope Bury FC are eradicated from the face of the earth and never play a game of football again

Me too, though obviously I'd be happy with an AFC Bury making their way back to Gigg Lane in the fullness.

aye i always feel for fans when owners are douchebags, but then that's almost all owners at some point

It is, and I very much hope they all go bust.

in only slightly related news I Danny "arse carbuncle" Boyle goes bust as well! But I do have a soft spot for Gigg Lane.

Highlight of the night so far goes to the lad that walked passed these ketchup bottles and thought it was hand santiser 😂🤦🏼‍♂️
He played it pretty cool to be fair and sneaked off to wash his hands 😂@CambridgeUtdFC #cufc #camutd #EFLTrophy #cufc #SocialDistancing #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/RabuYFuLpm

— Tom Cody (@tomcody11cufc) September 8, 2020

Macclesfield bustness confirmed this morning. Odd since they've been signing players all week, including stealing Jason Cowley - who we've had as a trialist for about a month - by offering him loads of cash.

yeah, it's a grim start to the season, and worse to come probably

it's a shambles that they were still signing players with £500k of short term bills they couldn't pay and nearly £5m worth of debt hanging over them. I once said to my brother I hope this tinpot pub-team goes bust after they did us 4-0, but honest, I didn't mean it!

for my freebet treble I've got Blackburn who are 3-0 up and Reading who are 0-0 but a Barnsley player has seen red and then I've got Town ...sigh

now Blackburn 4-0 up and Reading 2-0 up against 9 men Barnsley. fucking typical why did I put Town on the treble after a lifetime of them knacking up my bets.

5-0!

you sign Naby Sarr and don't put him in your squad? deserve all you get

I forgot we'd even signed him! Although last time he was on the pitch with the Town squad he did give the ball to Grant for his first goal!

He'll definitely get a chance now, we just lost Schindler and Toffolo to injuries today.

I forgot we'd even signed him! Although last time he was on the pitch with the Town squad he did give the ball to Grant for his first goal!

― calzino, Saturday, 19 September 2020 19:01 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that was Deji Oshilaja!

you'll have forgotten Schindler and Toffolo's names by the end of Sarr's first game

I'm not really that downhearted at how shit we are rn. It doesn't help our only striker Koroma is L1 standard and not even any good at that level. This Grant transfer saga (which will no doubt also include a nice little windfall for Charlton) going on forever is killing us, just tip up the cash Baggies, or boing boing fuck off! Oh we just signed a young central midfielder from Ajax, there is another positive.

a windfall that might just pay our wages while the crook who doesn't even own us holds us to ransom in the courts

we've got a useless owner who is clearly out of his depth, but I do suspect the blundering oaf is doing his best and it just hasn't been good enough so far. But at least he is a fan of the club and not some asset stripper who got their fingers burned trying to make a quick buck out of a club and playing hardball to get some cash back.

the fact that he was willing to pay off those repugnant Cowley brothers rather than persist with them after realising the dreadful mistake he had made shows at least he'll sometimes put the good of the club over money.

our last chairman made sure he grasped back any of the prem money legacy to cover the "debt" owed to him. Even when we'd got promoted to the prem I always maintained he was a total shit.

The Leyton Orient thing is pretty alarming. The majority of the first team tested positive for COVID but the only reason anyone found out is because Spurs paid for the tests. Their chairman's pointing out that it's not fair to make Orient players self-isolate, and to award Spurs the win, as other teams could be in the same situation but not have to be tested.

I'm behind on Leyton Orient ownership, thought it was still Barry Hearn. It's another arsehole now - some Brit from a US corporate background. Who'd have thought he'd be capable of such unscrupulous practises!

🤯 The club shop has done over £20k of sales since yesterday morning!

No words for your generosity, Spurs fans 🙏

You can still donate a child’s kit to our charity partners - read more below. #LOFC #THFC https://t.co/QPuMrv3OEE

— Leyton Orient (@leytonorientfc) September 23, 2020

that Forest manager will be gone by tomorrow, he's pissed away a fortune and if we weren't so "blessed" with players that literally can't even score a simple tap in or get a one on one on target and encumbered with a £16m star striker we can't even play, then these turkeys would have lost at least 3-0 tonight. As if they started with Grabban on the bench, manager hasn't got a clue what he is doing.

An agreement has been reached for Barnsley manager Gerhard Struber to join New York Red Bulls on a three-year contract. A reported €2m (£1.8m) fee has been arranged to bring Struber to America.

blimey

goes without saying but happy to have been saved

there will be a period of adjustment where he get's used to bairns not smoking again and politely ordering food rather than grunting fookin' chips!

Danny Cowley was Huddersfield Town manager until he was unceremoniously sacked a couple of days after guiding Town to Championship safety last July. Now he’s doing corporate gigs for ScrewFix Direct.

Cowley answered some heavily curated questions taken from fans on Twitter and then played a couple of slightly cringe-inducing games involving the ScrewFix catalogue, some ping pong balls and mugs.

it looks like charmless bellowing PE teacher Danny is discovering he isn't quite the hot property he thought he was and he has take whatever gigs he can get these days.

Apparently we are all being reimbursed our season ticket cash.

charlton are just converting theirs into streaming passes and merch vouchers haha

which is fine tbh

and away ticket vouchers for future use tbf. 'charlton cash' credit system

That may still happen, they haven't confirmed what form it'll take yet.

We got three options, two of which were not to be reimbursed. The third was to be not fully reimbursed.

guess you'll be watching the boys online then!

Haha they also announced three tiers of streaming today - £5, £10 and £20. No difference between the tiers, you can just choose to pay more if you like (supposedly it's if more of you watching the same stream would have paid to get in).

loooool

i guess gate receipts really are a matter of survival and this is their way of trying to get the supporters to one-up each other on how supporty they are. we're talking about In Rainbows on another thread right now, nice parallel

at Forest Sabri Lamouchi is gone, Chris Hughton is straight in. He was already gone weeks ago really and he knew it.

Southport's feed was useless tonight because they couldn't cope with the demand. They solved this for the second half by... errr... making it free for everybody streamed live on YouTube. Which was a bit of a kick in the balls to people who had paid for it.

We played in the Craig Levein 6-4-0 formation and didn't look too bad at the back but, unsurprisingly, created nearly nothing. It's going to be a long season at this rate.

And now Saturday's match is off, Bradford Park Avenue have a positive COVID test for someone who played last night against Gateshead.

Richard Williams just pointed out Forest go through more managers than kit designs, Hughton is their 30th in the 27 years since Clough retired.

This is a very sick prank by the Oxford social media department.

United sign Baldock!
JAMES Baldock joins United as Club Doctor#AnnounceBaldockhttps://t.co/5wuIl0V74C

— Oxford United FC (@OUFCOfficial) October 9, 2020

George Baldock was a legendary loan signing about 4 years ago

after a very uneventful transfer window our social media dept announced we'd signed a "record breaker" which turned out to be a 16 year old kid called Grubb who got released by Bristol Rovers. I'm not sure if he is a football player or a Roald Dahl character yet.

after a very uneventful transfer window

how dare you do Naby like this!!

there was some nonsense being spread on social media about him running from the scene of a car crash the other night. It was started by a snapchat user named Sniff Lines, Bang Nines was so of course it turned out to be true!

He had a quietly impressive debut by the sound of it and is only just getting his match fitness back and Corberán was impressed, the early signs are positive.

quietly impressive

lol, it will not ever be thus

down with social media depts pranking their fans. how much long must we stand for these pranksters?

the worse sort of irritating clickbait is when they do the same kind of "our latest signing" heading as above but it turns out to be some commercial partnership with a local tile company or a legal firm or something. Fair play to Rona on that score tbf

I'm all for it, punctures the clamouring embarrassment nicely

now have we signed a bloody striker yet

Morecambe are top of League Two with a negative goal difference after 5 matches.

lol Scholesly has installed himself as new Salford City manager, was sort of hoping the Danny Cowley rumours were true because fuck this tinpot made-up club.

that Morecambe thing is mad, 4 1-goal wins and a 0-5 to cambridge

any suspiciously large amounts staked on Chinese betting exchanges were purely coincidental

Clubs need to make ends meet during the lockdown

lol the Bantams beaten at Valley Parade by Harrogate Town. I'd have loved this 20 years ago.

Beautiful #htafc pic.twitter.com/STOPtrI2Wx

— Calum Fennell (@TerrierMulac) October 20, 2020

lovely worked goal and so much confidence returning to the players that Toffolo celebrates his assist before Bacuna calmly slots it in, the last few months have cleansed that foul stench that the Cowley's brought to the club. I'm going to curse the Corberán project now by declaring us a shoe in for the top 6!

beautiful goal

saw that earlier because Naby Sarr retweeted it and I still follow him ;_; note his role in getting it going with a nice loft to the left!

mind you, we're building something pretty swish ourselves

I gave up on the stream because it kept shitting out, but what I saw of him his distbritution is consistently excellent. That Schindler was on the bench and he started tonight says pretty much the manager likes him!

rumour is Cocu will be sacked as soon as Rooney comes out of self-isolation and is then installed as player-manager. You can still get 9/2 for them to be relegated.

Naby straight back into starting XI, puts in a powerhouse shift at Millwall. Town 3-0 winners! That's what I was hinting at on the prem thread t'other night LJ! We lost 4-1 there last season.

Sarr made a last-minute error there for us last season that saw him pilloried and loathed, v glad he's buried his jinx :)

Speaking of things going well, check out that League One form table eh

congrats!

the wall are so predictable but usually quite effective against us with all their height + when they just keep lumping it at that big shithouse Matt Smith, but from the radio commentary it sounds like Sarr was winning everything thing in the air and had that bastard in his pocket!

he's the one who beasted him last year too!

absolutely crooked from the efl. wednesday have to somehow get relegated now still. we are all wycombe wanderers

We had the Spennymoor game called off on the way to the ground (about 200 miles into the journey) last weekend because the National League doctors couldn't deal with an issue in time. Tuesday's game was cancelled as a result and tomorrow was supposed to be but yesterday the league changed their minds and said the game could go ahead after all.

Chester have called it off 10 minutes ago on advice from the league. No way this season is finishing.

:/

it sounds like a total disaster

Fleetwood owner saying after our match how loads of clubs could really go bust

maybe the lower overheads at NL and lower protect those clubs?

Don't see any of the full time clubs surviving. Money was distributed by the league on the basis of attendance so many of them will be getting less than us. We signed on some non-contracted players to get to the minimum 14 - with only 5 full time I think - and we're on about 50% income afaik.

No money at all for the clubs below, Aldo, but until this lockdown we were allowed fans in. However, they capped it at a third of the minimum ground capacity acceptable at each level, rather than to a third of the capacity of each ground, i.e. in FC United's division *all* teams were capped at 600 supporters. Not a problem for most clubs at that level, but for us it was considerably less than the number of season tickets we'd normally sell and less than a third of the average gate. Kind of irrelevant now as I can't see the league possibly finishing this season, probably not even restarting. We're on the BBC tomorrow for the FA Cup game against Doncaster - special dispensation for the 'non-elite' teams left in the cup to go ahead and play, but in the highly unlikely event we win, our players won't be allowed to train together (or have any matches, obviously) between the 1st round and the 2nd round. Magic of the cup. I'm looking forward to hearing the piped in crowd sounds on TV as we lose 5-0 in an empty ground.

Yes, I should have said it's a farce below. Although of course the vote two seasons ago that brought in playoffs was only announced at the restart of football that "oh aye, voting yes made you elite sport, did we not mention it at the time?" And yes, as with you we had to drop the season ticket sales to the league cap level despite safely being able to hold more, with a cap that benefited just about all other teams (we were capped at 1100, a reduction of about 300 on safe hosting and I think there's only 4 sides that routinely get over 1000).

The FA cup has been daft as well, because when a non-elite side hosts an elite side they were allowed he support but not away support.

I know of one team in our league who were streaming the game on the pitch into the club bar, so you could watch a game in progress inside the ground, just not be able to see it.

I think we'd already sold seven or eight hundred season tickets before they announced the cap at 600, which was awkward (but just about manageable as there's a reasonable number of people who buy them essentially as a donation, knowing full well they won't go to every game).

Some pretty good Torquay bizarro this afternoon. Finished 5-6 to Crawley aet but it took me a fair while to work out how the game had gone from the goal timings; 90+18 minutes happens before 102 minutes obv.

HT: 2-0
FT: 3-3
AET: 5-6


Torquay 5:
Nemane (18' minutes), Whitfield (24' minutes), Umerah (90'+18 minutes), Hall (102' minutes pen, 107' minutes pen)

Crawley 6:
Nichols (83' minutes pen, 108' minutes, 113' minutes), Watters (90'+14 minutes), Tunnicliffe (90'+21 minutes), Nadesan (118' minutes)

lol i take it somebody's been stretchered off

"Torquay bizarro" feels like a thing that is only a thing to Exeter fans, lol

mind you that is pretty excellently daft

Not even a “thing” to Exeter fans tbh, but there has been some good Torquay bizarro over the years.

Also I’m not having any football related lols from you this weekend lj. For shame.

Plymouth put out an unchanged team! Entirely not in the spirit of it, lol

Boston Vs Darlington cancelled in the 87th minute following an injury to a Darlo player. Fan accounts say the ambulance took 45 minutes to arrive.

I should be excited about getting to go back. Unfortunately I have watched streams of our games so I'm not.

Round 4 - Match 5

Otto Versfeld (26) vs Hugh Sproat (32) pic.twitter.com/Y1FlDQEuuX

— 80s Footballers Aging Badly (@80sAging) November 23, 2020

I'm against appearance shaming in principle, but I'll forget that for this hilarious FA Cup of badly aging footballers competition.

lol dourly holding on for a point against a side with Akinfenwa in it, we've come a long way since 2009!

try losing 4-2 to a team bottom of the league who've had a covid crisis

it wouldn't be any fun if we won every game, we'd become as insufferably smug and full as shit your average Spurs fan!

Weird how the 2,000 Milwall fans who got in today happened to be total cunts