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

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