Sunderland 'Til I Cry: EFL and beyond 19/20

all teams that play in white are cunts, yeah you heard me London ilx!

ok well it's over now

wariotifo shd have waited until this finished 5-0 lol

i think this might be the last ever competitive game at Griffin Park.

isn't that competitive

Perhaps Pontus Jansson has the secret of the classic choke.

XP LOLS!

a classical choker puts the tory white shite back in the game!

the mighty Warito abides

how lovely for west london

you can't deny their transfer policy has been pretty impressive and canny, lots of champo clubs have spent their way into mediocrity. Including my lot (when they were a pretend prem club!)

matthew benham is tbf in actual fact a moneyball genius and he kind of deserves this

yes he is a complete stain, but they have either been incredibly fortuitous in the transfer market or someone knows wtf they are doing! Saying that, we've been fucking pony this season and still took 4 pts off them.

we were even ponier and were 15 minutes from taking 6 off them

Hoping effing Fulham get through because I can’t face wanting Cardiff to win. Don’t care what happens really, just desperate for Watkins to be sold. Desperate!

back in pre Rona times you could have have afforded yourself the luxury of a bit more patience and gamble on him being a success in the prem and yielding a better sell on cut, but them days are gone:( Rough times for league 1/2 clubs right now

Apparently we're OK, survival-wise, we had put away some money from the last couple of lucrative sales, but this spell has blown through the savings; we released al our out-of-contract payers (seven from a not-huge squad) and it would be really nice to see a couple of replacements come in. Rough times mean it'd be a brilliant time to have a few quid of disposable income to spend on a few really good players.

(Last lucrative sale = Watkins to Brentford, funnily enough, which was £1.75m if I recall correctly - the sums involved in L2 are laughably small compared to even the Champo. )

I can remember when we were a L2 club being run by an asset stripping chairman. Just coming out of administration and with a squad of seven players. Then followed a massive transfer splurge with a net spend of fuck all. Then we sold Stead for 1.2m which seemed a huge sum then and probably was huge for the club at the time.

Since more or less all the clubs in the lower leagues are loss-making enterprises, and most are owned by "local businessmen" of one kind or another, there is going to be quite a difference this season between those clubs whose owners' businesses are likely to do OK and those whose businesses are tanking.

Mansfield (insurance?), Forest Green (green energy), Salford (you know who) all seem to be spending rather freely so far so I guess they're all doing alright.

Our local bête noire former chairman Ken Davy is considered a total villain in the town. I even saw him getting accosted on John William St once and some bloke was yelling: give us our stadium back you robbing cunt! In the local rag there was constantly stories about how his crooked loan company was breaking laws and illegally misselling loans and involved in all sorts of sharp practise etc. Anyway the Conservative Party missed a trick by running him against the universally despised safe-seat wasteman Barry Sheerman in the last election. That would have been the easiest red wall seat to take if they had even run a Shetland pony with a get brexit done blue rosette, anyone but Ken Davy.

Oh look, calzino has another league club to go and watch if he gets bored of Huddersfield

I've been there before for preseason friendlies, there must have been some dramatic improvements made since I last went because that wasn't close to being a FL standard ground - although this was about 16-17 years ago. They are that posh you get to meet BBC producers and crime fiction authors in their local boozers, but they are no Bradford Park Avenue.

getting there is not that "local" either, you are talking a fair journey on a clunking pacer train from Leeds!

nothing is weird these days but Harrogate Town in the football league? hmm truly the age of Toryism!

Dover let all their players go. Sounds terminal.

That was clever!

Not from Raya, obvs.

Aw. Even watching the text commentary has been a chore

It has been a poor match. Fulham have been slightly better but there’s not much in it.

Remarkable from Joe Bryan. One goal since 2018, two tonight.

Feel for Brentford as they’ve been so good this season and I can’t imagine the front three will still be there when the next starts.

I guess having choked twice in the run-in Brentford shd've expected this

Won't be the first time they've had to rebuild tho

Poor old Brentford, losing playoffs sucks. I hope they make an absolute mint selling Ollie W.

Brentford won't win the playoffs (aeternum)

In all seriousness, I hope Reading FC go out of business for this pic.twitter.com/kS967KWN6p

— Chris Scull (@cjscull) August 22, 2020

Defending the glory of Reading.

fucking tory club to the core

I guess "tbey call us the biscuitmen" didn't scan as well

https://www.buryfc.co.uk/news/latest-statement-07-08-2020/august/club-update/

This is quite the update.

Incredible sign-off to that Bury statement pic.twitter.com/Ic9qaqxmLy

— Steven Chicken (@StevenChicken) August 27, 2020

i hope Bury FC are eradicated from the face of the earth and never play a game of football again

Me too, though obviously I'd be happy with an AFC Bury making their way back to Gigg Lane in the fullness.

aye i always feel for fans when owners are douchebags, but then that's almost all owners at some point

It is, and I very much hope they all go bust.

in only slightly related news I Danny "arse carbuncle" Boyle goes bust as well! But I do have a soft spot for Gigg Lane.

Highlight of the night so far goes to the lad that walked passed these ketchup bottles and thought it was hand santiser 😂🤦🏼‍♂️
He played it pretty cool to be fair and sneaked off to wash his hands 😂@CambridgeUtdFC #cufc #camutd #EFLTrophy #cufc #SocialDistancing #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/RabuYFuLpm

— Tom Cody (@tomcody11cufc) September 8, 2020

Macclesfield bustness confirmed this morning. Odd since they've been signing players all week, including stealing Jason Cowley - who we've had as a trialist for about a month - by offering him loads of cash.

yeah, it's a grim start to the season, and worse to come probably

it's a shambles that they were still signing players with £500k of short term bills they couldn't pay and nearly £5m worth of debt hanging over them. I once said to my brother I hope this tinpot pub-team goes bust after they did us 4-0, but honest, I didn't mean it!

for my freebet treble I've got Blackburn who are 3-0 up and Reading who are 0-0 but a Barnsley player has seen red and then I've got Town ...sigh