"Concentrating on the League" - the FA Cup 2019 and onwards

15:45
'Clearly wasn't a priority for Leeds'

FT: Crawley 3-0 Leeds

Alistair Bruce-Ball

BBC Radio 5 live commentator

Leeds fans will be so delighted with what Marcelo Bielsa has done during his time at the club, playing the football that they are, anything like this and they will always give him leeway.

This clearly wasn't a priority and he works his players very hard. They made seven changes, and if you look at the changes he made at half-time they were about rotation and giving the young players a chance. therefore you are taking a chance with your place in the FA Cup but who are we to question Bielsa.

who indeed

Who are you to doubt El Loco?

does Bielsa speak about himself in the third person? he could probably get away with it!

Slightly disappointed that didn’t go in.

Good from dele but problem is his every touch til now has been a flick to nobody and its not like hes any different against eg city

Fox in the box vibes off this lad

Thing is white is the player we all want to see on set plays, has a great rep

an old pal once had to flee Marine's ground after winning a unibond league fixture against them playing for Accy Stanley. He said they were a team of scouse bouncers and drug dealers and were going to kick the shit out of them if they hadn't legged it straight onto the coach!

Theyll do well to scare big charlie vinnie

I've been to Crosby dozens of times over the last few years (stayed with an old college pal when I visited for family reasons and my kids became friends with his kids), but can't quite place the ground. Other side of the railway line, away from the beach, I guess. Blundellsands end is quite genteel, Waterloo is a little rougher, but I guess if you're a successful drug dealer, the leafy 'burbs is where you end up!

One of my best friends is from Crosby and he went to public school, although he wasn't that posh in the end because his accountant dad ended doing time for cooking books! I've stayed there a couple of times, it's a very nice place.

my old pal might have been exaggerating a bit, but if the Marine squad was enough to put the shits up a thuggish monster like him they probably would have been fairly rough at the time.

Apparently local boy Roger McGough wrote a poem for the occasion? I missed that intro. I love that beach. Getting four kids away from their devices down to the sand dunes an impossible task, however, so I rarely get to walk down there when I visit L22.

Get a good look at devine, nabbed from wigan (iirc) in summer and has been bossing games at youth level despite being only 16

Yeah looks decent

famously the little scrote who tried to snap danny drinkwater in half a few weeks back

I lost my first newspaper job because of #MarineFC .

It must have been 1977 but I can't remember exactly. I was the lead sports reporter for the newly formed local newspaper - the Crosby Ambassador.

— dallan (@dallan) January 9, 2021

a twitter thread on Marine Fc by my pal from Crosby!

Whomst amongst us etc xp

Marine were my local team when I livedin Crosby. I was a total Jonah though, only saw them win once near the end of my time there and after they'd suffered their first ever relegation. In fact, I think I might have got into double figures for games attended before I saw them score. At least three penalty misses as well.

My own local non-league club growing up on Merseyside were Poulton Victoria. West Cheshire League, which is level 11, so just below FA Cup eligibility, and only FA Vase if you've got floodlights (I don't recall any). I assume facilities were also a criterion for promotion into the North West Counties, cos we never managed it, and it took Vauxhall Motors and Cammell Laird any number of titles before they ascended to Tier 10. The club folded a few years back, but have re-emerged in West Cheshire Div 3. Top division now is full of cross-river interlopers, like South Liverpool (no doubt banging on about Puskas) and Maghull (same, but with Atomic Kitten).

Greatest success: winning the Carlsberg Pub Cup in '97 at Wembley over some team from Corby. I've got the VHS.

i can remember the last time Chorley knocked us out of the Cup, nervous already

sounds like i should have sorted a stream out, oh well, not gonna jinx it now

What happened to the BBC covering the FA Cup?

they've got 3 or 4 games over the weekend but they don't cover the likes of us if they can help it

They often cover the likes of Chorley though, romance of the Cup an' all that.

again, i refer you to the "cunts who hate Wolves" file starring Garth Brooks and Lawrensong

altho this is STILL an upset waiting to happen

This john lad at left back looks like he could get a game at spurs

ie Two touches that landed in another postcode and totally fucking asleep to concede a goal down his side in the first three minutes

David Moyes' West Ham are
..

Good?

Weird stoppage for fireworks just outside the stadium in the Cheltenham v city match

Save it for when they win, guys

I had the sound down and wondered what was going on. I'm not a judgemental person but I feel comfortable calling whoever did that a cunt

Yeah, should've saved those rockets

Lol City

Ah, fuck. Could feel this coming though

No sense of occasion these lads

Classic Chelsea, turn it on against the big boys

Kepa knows what the punters have tuned in for

Lineker says this "promises to be a cracker"

he must've missed last weekend

Has been good so far. Of course I missed the opening goal putting on a washing but end to end stuff

Sight better than the league game tbf yeah

Donny looks like a bit of spare part at the moment

Keeper cannot be beaten at his side from that distance

lol Spurs.

Looool

Im glad tonight I'm a Chelsea fan

Battling Spurd really staying in this.

Just before half time too, get them in now and get the word out, keep it tight and hope to be within a goal with ten mins to go we'll throw the big lads on

otm game plan so far