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

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

still undefeated mind.

good stuff exeter

hate leeds hate hate

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

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

hate leeds hate hate

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

Aye. QPR bringsh the lolz tho.

Bielsa is doing terrible things to my natural instincts

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

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

calzino is back

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

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

can have an additional pint on me after the game.

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

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

A pizza express? SWOON.

lol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Football is dog dirt.

At least Argyle lost.

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

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

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

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

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

Wilson on Bielsa at Leeds

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dara and Jimmy both starting for Exeter.

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

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

Sigh.

good to be back itt

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

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

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

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

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

— Nestor Watach (@NestorWatach) August 30, 2018

fuckin steve bruce man

fuck him in the eye

Tamplin is putting Billericay up for sale in the morning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

top work

Ndong the money

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

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

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