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

Don't know whether it belongs here or Real England but I stayed in the hotel at Bramhall Lane on Friday night and we left before 10 to get back for our match. As we checked out some Blades fans were already in the bar getting a beer in before the Rotherham game. Feels slightly admirable in a completely wrong way.

Gotta make the most of your Saturdays

my assertion that 'that's birmingham city' has aroused tt's ire; she has bluenose in her family i think. i offered my condolences

I pointed out to friends in the pub that a life ban is probably better than having to go to St Andrews once a fortnight

lol

holding out for sgt biscuits' take on the day as well tbh

brum bringing on craig gardner to break someone's leg

... from the bench or from the stands?

Villa fan here. Thought Birmingham were hard done by to not get a penalty today and have to say their fans were fantastic 👏👏

— Jefferson Skarsnik (@ANNOYMAN) March 10, 2019

My statement on the events earlier today. I will be making no further comment at this time. Thank you.

magnanimous and dignified

We should all aim to conduct ourselves with the calm resolve of Jack Grealish dusting himself down from a sneak attack lariat to cooly dispatch the worst football club

OTM

Meanwhile at Bramall Lane pic.twitter.com/KL3sSEKz8Y

— Michael (@KenBoon79) March 12, 2019

haha

North Ferriby United wound up today after 85 years over just over £7500 debts. They won the FA Trophy only 4 years ago.

wrecked by the Allam family who bought in, pumped in unnecessary and unsustainable funding, then pulled out again when they got bored

Derby County owner Mel Morris trying to sell club for £1. https://t.co/mebVJRGaUJ

— Matt Hughes (@MattHughesTimes) March 19, 2019

would pay a quid to sack Lampard and then put the cunts into administration and make them Mansfield's new feeder club.

Fuck's sake

Sorry NBS, looks terminal.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/latest-owls-news/alan-biggs-sheffield-wednesday-column-why-most-of-the-football-world-will-laugh-with-steve-bruce-if-owls-beat-aston-villa-following-his-shameful-and-disgraceful-treatment-at-villa-park-1-9689031/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Going by this article, I would expect there to be some upcoming fixture postponements and minutes' silences as the football world angrily seeks to somehow reckon with the fact that [checks notes] Steve Bruce didn't win against the team that sacked him for signing Yannick Bolasie for 70 grand a week on deadline day while his club had one fit centre back

Mathematically safe now.

Sorry nbs

Looks like a good fight back against Stockport, are things finally starting to look up a little?

alas, twas not to be for poor mistreated Steve Bruce

The second half was maybe the best we've played all season. Speaking to a couple of their fans after the game, their manager instructs them at half time to sit back and take the points if they're thoroughly on top and they got caught by it for not the first time.

So a combination of the two might have flattered the result - especially when both our goals were scrappy horrorshows - but I'm almost optimistic about the new season.

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/50073/spot-the-difference-qpr-annihilated-at-norwich--report

magnificent

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/joey-barton-police-investigate-post-match-brawl-barnsley-vs-fleetwood-latest-a8868831.html

Ched Evans appears to be playing for Fleetwood Town, this is in addition to having Joey Barton as manager...

And the tractor has left the championship building.

free from Mick McCarthy ennui

meanwhile we've become the best team in League One, probably a few weeks too late but it's nice anyhow. i'd have us favourites for the playoffs, and automatic isn't out of the question. we have a couple of insanely good loan signings from west ham and arsenal. london privilege eh

Also, Dommy P may be gone, but his spirit prevails https://www.skysports.com/football/southend-vs-wycombe/393597

Sorry nbs but once Guiseley went ahead today I thought it was stuck on.

Chorley bottling it is a laugh, I guess they hadn't noticed Stockport have got Nuneaton in their last game.

Leeds every so slightly making an arse of this. How sad.

LOL yes, this game is on in the pub I'm in, Brentford have totally stolen it.

surely with Bielsa the maverick genius at the helm, the white shite haven't just pissed away an auto-promotion spot:P

i'm ready

i don't get ready until 2 games to go these days

Leeds also have Villa next :D

Sorry nbs but once Guiseley went ahead today I thought it was stuck on

It's been nailed on for a while, tbh. Going to be very difficult to get back up.

If you were wondering if Leeds Utd were still wretched fucking scum they've just scored after pretending they were going to put the ball out for an injured player and then got Al Ghazi sent off by faking being punched in the ensuing melee

Bielsa made them let Villa walk an equaliser in, tbf. The red was a joke, though.

Yeah and Jansson tried to tackle Adomah while he was walking it in

Play acting for the red card was shocking, was in the pub having lunch with our Han so couldn't work out all the other stuff. I wondered what Villa's goal was about!

I really hate players pretending to be punched or elbowed or head butted or whatever.

I do think that the kind of trickster business that gets the other side to slow down or switch off or whatever is hilarious though. It's very annoying when it happens to my lot because it means someone has made chumps of my team.

I think if Danny Mills is on the telly saying something's "morally wrong" the chances are it's probably alright and I suppose Villa should be proud that their staff cleave so strongly to Corinthian sporting ideals that they were forced to initiate scraps right across (and off) the pitch.

Can't say I blame Bielsa for telling them to let Villa score, given what happened last time his lot did something that wasn't against the rules but apparently offended English football's "morals".

I am angry that watching the clip of this has resulted in my seeing John Terry's face, I did not want that to happen.

Patrick Bamford is a bell end.

Pass it on.

pic.twitter.com/0qRYmUxzzP

— HLTCO (@HLTCO) April 28, 2019

didn't SV previously post that Bamford is related to the tory donors involved in the Seabourne Freight/Chris Grayling scandal? He sure looks a bona fide tory boy in that clip! dirty ..dirty ... dirty L**ds.

shit refereeing too, he's sent El-Ghazi off for something that he can't have seen

i don't like leeds, i don't care what anyone says

I see Patrick Bamford has been charged with "successful deception of a match official", but to be honest with you folks, if it were up to me, he would be being charged with "a 100-strong unit of heavily armoured shock cavalry"

What a goal that is for Eastleigh in the National League playoffs pic.twitter.com/OOslUam5eZ

— Nige Sandom (@NigeWolves) May 2, 2019