EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

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somebody should tell him we've moved to an FP system

lol

still haven't decided how i feel about the decision to bring him in. i mean on the one hand, it's Steve Bruce ffs. but then on the other i'm not sure who the hell else would be caught dead in the Villa dugout these days, and Brucie seems to be kinda zeitgeisty atm what with this whole (alleged) po-mo football-murder-mystery cult hero status, so why the fuck not? should be good for a few laughs.

i can't lie, never want Brucey at my club, but he's a boat-steadier and he'll get any team up the Champo i think

penalty imo

fucking referee bottles a second penalty for us

congrats Sky on having nothing but pro-Villa pundits btw

Costa's a bit of a greedy twat but he's a treat when he's got his head up

Wolves nearly on fire right now

absolute cheating cunt of a referee now, Chester has to be sent off

lol classic Dave Edwards

oh man doing everything but score

feel like Villa are ceding us a lot of possession, which feels quite Bruce-ish

aaaaaaaaarrrrrghhhhh

?????

stream cut out a little while ago and my sister wanted to take over the Chromecast to put on the Hollow Crown version of Richard II, saw no reason to stop her

Hutton stopped a goal, we've been ridiculously good without scoring

1-1

feel like we've dropped points

something really good looks like it's coalescing but i don't understand why we can't start games the way we played in the 2nd half here

at least now the fucking customary Forestieri goal is out of the way

awful game today, lots of meaningless possession while Wednesday sat deep and counterattacked and easily dealt with the laboured hoofs to Mooy. It was amusing when Wagner sent written tactical instructions on with Heff and Wallace knicked it. It literally would have said "sent the 2 big lumps into the box and go direct", lol thats how we roll.

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It seemed at the time that Wallace was either struggling to read it or was incredulous that this Klopp acolyte was basically instructing them to keep fucking lumping it into the mixer!

only just seen the plastic pigs!

looked like fun

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god bless this man

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'AVE IT

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

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

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

aka Wolverhampton

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

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

:D

i don't even fucking know any more

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

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

wonder what odds u get on hull not winning another game

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

something has coalesced

jackett's available

BIG SAM'S COMING HOME

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

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

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

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

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

except for the messing around, obv.

willy sagnol now making a splash in the betting

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