General football thread

indiana · Tennis legend

General football thread

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Great scenes and well done the England team for winning this!

Enjoyed following their journey this past few weeks and hope it really helps women's football kick on and inspire many younger girls to take up the game!!
In general I accept that in professional sport you push the boundaries and I have some degree of acceptance of this But I have to admit, in comparison to the men's gane, it was great to see so much less simulation and feigning of injuries in this tournament. I do hope this doesn't markedly change with time.
The overall quality has so improved over the last decade.
Well done to England, a team of different personalities that it was very difficult not to like

With Rachel Daly in the team, we do of course claim this as a triumph for the hotbed of footie that is Harrogate !

paulisi · Tennis legend

Interesting to see that the top women players can earn upto 200k a year from their club and another 30k from internationals.

That is without persnal endorsements and commercial interests which will surely come in droves.

seagull · Hall of fame

Well me and Bob are happy today!

Looking forward to next Saturday

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Well me and Bob are happy today!

Looking forward to next Saturday

Some would have us believe it's a relegation battle wink

seagull · Hall of fame

Bob in Spain wrote:
seagull wrote:
Well me and Bob are happy today!

Looking forward to next Saturday
Some would have us believe it's a relegation battle

No that's tonight's match!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

hHave to say, great starts for Leeds, Brighton and Newcastle, good to see and two good, English , managers as well.

Fab.

Being honest, my Premier League interest has just dwindled away, and is getting to the level where I just read the headlines, look at the scores and move on now. It has got worse that way over the past 3 years - which saddens me - and I cant really put my finger on why. I was an avid Leeds fan until , effectively, we went back to the Prem and my interest seemed to just fall away after that.

I am looking forward to the World Cup very much (I know others arent) in Nov/Dec, though, and am definitely a big England fan - although I have to say I look at some of the names mentioned as players and have no idea who they are, half the time!

Been going to Harrogate's home matches so far this season, mixed start really and sitting mid table, we should have got a point away to Barrow at the weekend really. Hold out hope we will challenge for play offs but think anything other than going down this year will probably be a result.

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting. Personally my interest in the Premier League has been pretty unwavering. I find it a great league to watch and follow. Indeed it's even better than the Scottish Premiership

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Interesting. Personally my interest in the Premier League has been pretty unwavering. I find it a great league to watch and follow. Indeed it's even better than the Scottish Premiership

the standard is amazing, I totally agree, it is just my passion that has dwindled.

Strangely, I have got really into Triathlon as a sport to watch at the same time, love it!! And the Cycling eg the Tours etc

seagull · Hall of fame

Another great Seagulls performance. Sorry Bob but apart from last 10 minutes your guys were second best. Shame we didnt have our shooting boots on.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Another great Seagulls performance. Sorry Bob but apart from last 10 minutes your guys were second best. Shame we didnt have our shooting boots on.

Can't argue with that. My live stream dropped out early in the second half but from what I saw up to then, we were second best by some distance. Brighton have been our bogey team for a while now. That's 7 consecutive visits to Brighton where we have failed to even score.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I will settle for a point from last night's game although I thought we deserved all three.

On a side note, Jordan Pickford will not be available for Everton at the weekend as he is still at Elland Road waiting to take a goal kick. Seriously, the time wasting started in the 1st 20 mins. Players were being warned by the ref by midway through the first half but in the end, he did nothing about it.

Henry Winter in The Times, mused that Pickford was waiting so long to take a goal kick that perhaps he was waiting for Neil Maupay's registration to go through.

Time wasting spoils the game as a spectacle for me and refs must be much more proactive in combating it.

On a separate note:

OPTA stats: If a team gets 8 points from their first 5 games, they have a 96% chance of staying up.
Leeds Utd: Hold my beer.

wolf · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Time wasting spoils the game as a spectacle for me and refs must be much more proactive in combating it.

Simple solution. Just stop the clock when the ball is not in play.

Brendan F · Lower Club Player

Graham Potter the next Chelsea manager. I expect he'll be available to go back to Brighton in a few months

seagull · Hall of fame

Totally gutted. A 3 year journey torn apart in a couple of days. And to add insult to injury he has taken the entire back room staff with him.
We now know where we stand and will go back to our rightful place in the table and let the Top 6 carry on winning everything.

Very disillusioned with football today.