EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

lol

what is the experience of being a coventry fan? it must be something hellish and unending, a purgatorial torment that surpasses anything else in football

I can't think of a bigger football club indignity than being reduced to a groundshare with the Cobblers. I really did scream out "The Humanity!" when I read about that. Would rather start again from the bottom wrung with a clean slate than do that.

I've never been to Sixfields but it can't be as bad as the old ground

the only thing i can think of comparing it to is when those guys watched grown ups 2 every week for a year
every year

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It is just a typically soulless nu-stadia in the middle of a retail park. Once during a windy game someone a few rows in front of me got injured by part of the stadium falling on them, nothing serious but the game was called off.

I went when they played on the cricket pitch, probably the worst pro "stadium" I've ever visited

One of my fave ever seasons was spent going to loads of shit old grounds I'd never been to before. I've never been to Kenilworth Road but love the legend that you have to trespass through someone's garden to get into the away end.

That is really amazing. Cheltenham is the one I hate most, though the two old sides of our place are probably the "worst" in the league now. They'll have all the character* knocked out of them soon enough.

I used to enjoy going to weird non-football towns when we were in the conference: days out in Farnborough or Canvey or Grays. Leigh RMI!

*asbestos

I wonder how many of these old stands still have asbestos in their roofs. Was just googling it and apparently Tynecastle Park - before it was re-developed - had a saftey net to "protect" people from dislodged chunks of it when the ball would hit the roof o_O

I'm sure I've normally seen asbestos removal professionals doing air tests in space suits - not perforated gear!

THIS IS WOLVESBALL

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lol!

that pic reminds me of a Welsh left-back from 16 years ago who became known as the Transparent Taff for his miraculous diaphanous qualities on the pitch!

just sack everybody ffs

I wonder what Brucie thought of seeing a team that is a lot greater than the sum of it's parts.

do you know you've scored 5 more goals than us all season loooool :/

There was a point where we conceded from nearly every set-piece so our goals against column isn't too pretty either. But 2-1 or 1-0 is our default sort of win score. And you probably already know how quality VLP is until the final third - like a few other of our attacking players. but fuck it, i love them all right now!

yeah i'm surprised but sort of pleased VLP has lasted, just goes to show what a difference it makes when a manager knows how to use his players

I'd forgotten what winning felt like :)

nothing like a last minute winner

iirc

I have sat through some serious defeats to the fucking Irons - 6-2 away and 1-3 at home comes to mind - so congrats LJ. This has got me thinking of when Burnley used the FM computer/or some kind of idiotic moneyball divination to decide that Brian Laws was a top class manager!

a last minute winner scored by an absolute wasteman while half the team can't look, indeed

my current game has peter crouch the best manager in the world

haha just checked charlie adam is his assistant

this is real madrid ftr

i'm no psychic but i'mma stick my neck out and say if we don't win this one we're fucked

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getting unintentional Dennis Cooper's Frisk vibes from this one.

it occurs to me these all look like badges for overpriced microbrews

there might be a place for a completely not arsed about overpriced beer in the new era thread!

Carling, Strongbow and Jaegerbombs in the new era

if you like your jazz and film classy, strikes me you'd want fine beer as well :P

i've got nothing against any beer but drinking the horror away on a budget requires something with a little less attitude

My budget is more supermarket brand plonk and lager, as much as I'd love to be a full on bon viveur. I am too much of a pisshead to go down the pay more for quality and less quantity route. If I cut out the booze for two nights it feels like a week!

lol! thread is turning into AA confessional space! I need to some googling on the Reading manager from the 1930's who was apparently a pisshead + whose insouciant attitude to team affairs was along the lines of *pulls hip flask from pocket and takes swig* "who we playing today then lads?"

all fair, all fair

bet there are some wholesale deals on good stuff. worth investigating at any rate

Hello, I'm a Fulham fan. In the UK at the moment so I'm going to the Blackburn game in midweek.

I've not really followed the Mighty Cottagers (lol) this season, but from what I've seen our gameplan is based largely around giving Sone Aluko a free role to blaze wide from eight yards as often as possible

would settle for having somebody who blazes anywhere tbh

a rare VLP goal that was actually a shot on target, must have been some kind of keeper error! But bless him all the same.

we are literally scrapping it out against a team that are already relegated. be nice to check in on League 1 again.

no, wait, we've got a pen

Costa, already a broken man at 22, misses from the spot to keep his summer transfer hopes alive

Noodle Vague contemplates toddling off to the pub to watch the FA Cup but can't bear the thought of all those African lads sat in the back crying

ohmygod Marshall and Wiemann combine to score a goal, maybe this Lambert fella is onto something nah only joking Lambert Out

m8 you're not losing at home to walsall

no, that's next season

this thread = four yorkshiremen sketch, except our actual yorkshireman is supporting the best team in europe

it's about this time of the season my thoughts turn to enjoying Hull FC blaze up the Superleague, with the added convenience that i can turn back to the new football season just as they choke and blow it

county cricket's available

also true, bit early yet tho