Shit Noddy teams on Quest: EFL and beyond 21/22

seeing your local rivals boss it can do funny things

relax daerest grecians we shall vanquish thy foe

We’ll I hope so but I’ll believe it when I see it.

Their form is a flash in the pan. It must be.

I mean we'll hardly finish ahead of them but I reckon we're playing them at a good time - the time when the Run Of Form naturally peters out. Ipswich and Rotherham should finish 1st and 2nd, the rest sorts itself out in theory

Oh and Wigan. Yeah those 3 teams will go up tbh

plympton argula

that's apropos of nothing, just a weird phrase that goes through my head when I see mention of the green clad historic underachievers

Since it's Bradford day on ILX I should note that we beat them 3-0 after extra time last night, their manager is a sour ex-Argyle piece of work, but it seems we used six subs and look like being booted out of the cup as a result.

Would have offered to get you down on a free ticket this Saturday on an anyone-but-Argyle remit but I didn't think in time, and I also notice your lot have to serenade the Carlisle fans towards their ten-hour return journey

Good work with the subs though, a fine flourish

It's a nice though, thanks, but I'm not wasting any Saturdays on the Snot in any case, I'm off to see the Carlisle game.

"thought", that says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59320476

this is nothing compared to the time Jeremy Helan got 3 yellow cards and remained on the pitch against the bastard "massive" Wendies!

for Wednesday against Town in a game we lost I meant!

There were some bizarre decisions in our game on Tuesday night including a player being booked twice and staying on the field, a player continuing after being knocked out cold (he got helped to the side of the pitch then literally staggered about for the next 10 minutes) and a defensive wall being walked back 10 yards for a drop ball.

I don't know where I got this third yellow card from, early morning brain.

Turns out we have to replay the match (oh good, more Mardy Adams) which I think means the FA must have found this to be pretty much entirely the fault of officials.

Graham Poll booked Josip Simunic three times in a game at the 2006 world cup, but iirc he did brandish the red after the last one, thus preserving some of the honour of English refereeing.

True story- I bought a Croatia shirt from a charity shop with a blurry felt tip signature on it, which turned out to be Simunic's. Too bad my man is a nazi lol

Looks like we're about to do a two mins silence on the *checks phone* 20th of November

Tim, we have delivered. They won't be going up now.

very surprisingly straightforward and comfortable 1-0 win for injury ravaged Town today. I think the way Valerien's management style was very good and effective at Barnsley and made them extremely hard to beat last season - it will conversely fall well short of what is needed at the Baggies this season. Oh what a shame!

also a powerhouse performance by Naby was a big factor in how comfortable the win was!

So I gather! You should maybe not drop him so often lol

We’re on a twenty game unbeaten run (roughly, depending on how you count them) without having played terribly well. We should do this more often, it’s really fun.

We’ll done on beating the slimers, Louis.

Stoked 4 Exeter and Stroud away next season

(that wasn't sarcastic btw!)

Folks, a small update here. It’s Bradford City that this group is up for buying a revolutionising using crypto, NFTs, assorted magic beans.

Farewell, then, football. You had a good run.https://t.co/YSdIarBPjM

— tariq panja (@tariqpanja) December 16, 2021

poor Bradford City. I wouldn't wish these wankers on any club.

Maybe they can buy Derek Adams and leave BCFC alone - Adams aside Bradford are a decent solid club AFAICT

maybe they'll replace Adams with an AI Holo-NFT

Holo NFT would be an absolute picture of charm and class, by comparison.

NEWS: I can announce that I have agreed on a deal to acquire Bedford FC from their current chairman Lui.

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— Peter McLasso (@PeterMcCormack) December 16, 2021

another cryptocurrency bro buying a club, his genius strategy to get Bedford into the Prem as a bitcoin club is by simply just keeping on winning games and not losing them.

i've run the numbers and that checks out

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGuXWtdXIAU_WHh?format=jpg&name=large

heh!

Where local teams can only tap into a local community of fans/companies to drive revenue, we have a global army of #bitcoin holders and companies who can get behind this.

the commercial dept at my club have done us proud again. Norwich dropped betting firm BK8 as a kit sponsor after discovering the kind of degrading and sexist ad campaigns they'd been running in Asia. My club, with recent history of having an eviction/legbreaking firm with anti-GRT, pro-Trump stuff on their social media account as the one off match-kit sponsors, have made them their global betting partners for the remainder of the season.

"We have spent a lot of time speaking to BK8 in order to understand their values."

lol yeah, show me how much do values cost, Siri.

some incredible reffing from Jeremy Simpson today. Lees is knocked unconscious by an elbow smash and Mr Magoo sees something different and plays advantage Blackpool, repeatedly looking back at the unconscious + unresponsive player on the deck. Then he books Toffolo for politely informing him of his appalling mistake. Justice was served to the donkey lashers in the end though.

still in the playoffs and now our former quite wealthy bastard chairman has sacked the CEO and temporarily installed himself in his place after making noises that he'd "like to be given some problems" in the jan transfer window. Didn't see this coming.

lol I thought my acc was down and Luton scored in late injury time, at which point I'd already repeated my bet.

The fucking clueless muppet who took Ipswich into L1 for the first time in 60 years is apparently going to be the new majority shareholder at Town. It could be worse but I can't see anything good coming from this.

Wayne Rooney's Derby are gonna do this, aren't they

tbf on him adversity seems to have turned him into a real manager.

also tbf on him he's not fucking Gary Neville

prefers old ladies lol

https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/club-statement-derby-county

it seems Derby are deep in the shit and their inability to find a new owner is further complicated by Steve Gibson still going for £45m compensation for them depriving the Prem of everyone's fave away trip by cheating P+S rules and finishing ahead of them in a playoff spot. Oh yeah and Wycombe were tragically relegated to L1 because of their FFP breaking shenanigans as well.. lol!

There was that time in the prem when West Ham coughed up £20m to the relegated Blades over the Tevez business. But Middlesbrough's claim seems pretty dodgy to me. And as for Wycombe, when you get into the playoffs via the duckworth lewis method then don't complain when shit happens.

boing boing

Afobe lol you beauty

Sunderland getting hit for six as well ..heh! And Reading with a top four wage-bill looking doomed. Fulham dropping points at home - some decent results. We might not make the playoffs but aren't doing too shabbily considering our budget is a Peterborough level budget again these days.

four penalties scored by Oxford's Brannagan against the Gills today

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