General football thread

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: General football thread

Shhh · Challenger level

seagull wrote:
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.

Sorry seagull, it sucks

seagull · Hall of fame

I would prefer Cooper from Forest or Frank from Brentford but then of course we will be just as bad!

indiana · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
I would prefer Cooper from Forest or Frank from Brentford but then of course we will be just as bad!

Forest and Brentford more particularly are on journeys. Don't go nicking their manager.

Seriously I can understand it being really galling. You seem to have very good folk behind the scenes but now yes really have to be wise / lucky with your next management team.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
I would prefer Cooper from Forest or Frank from Brentford but then of course we will be just as bad!

I do believe that Marcelo is still out of a job wink

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Very tough decision on whether to cancel the fixtures this weekend. There will be arguments either way and I respect them all. Personally I would have gone ahead this weekend and used it as an opportunity for the clubs/crowds to pay homage as they did at West Ham's Europa League match. I am sure that many fans have spent money on travel arrangements etc and it is tough on them to cancel at short notice.

I think next weekend will definitely be cancelled and with it's proximity to the date of the state funeral, perhaps this would have made more sense. In all likelihood the matches next weekend will be cancelled as well. I can't see the police wanting thousands of fans heading into London while the preparations are being made for the funeral. They will be overstretched as it is.

Perhaps others see things differently and that's OK. As I said, I can see valid arguments both ways.

Edit

Just noted that the ECB have announced that matches will restart tomorrow (Sat) including the Test Match against South Africa.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 9th of September 2022 01:29:20 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

I'm sure everyone will be pleased to see that there will still be a home nation Group A team in the next Nations League campaign biggrin

Scotland will also join England and Wales in Pot 2 in the Euro 2024 qualifying draw to take place in Frankfurt in 12 days time. So they will avoid each other and indeed France. Northern Ireland will be in pot 5.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 27th of September 2022 10:10:33 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Had the pleasure of going to watch England U20s vs Australia yesterday. It was all a bit one sided and the 3-0 victory could easily have been 7 or 8.

A few names on show. Liam Delap from Man City and Carney Chukwuemeka from Chelsea being the two best known although both were held back and came on as late subs. Best player on the park was a lad from Bristol City called Alex Scott despite him missing a penalty.

www.englandfootball.com/articles/2022/Sep/27/england-mu20s-australia-pinatar-match-report-20222709

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti Football manager Formerly of 8 Rappax Road, Hale, Altrincham, WA15 0NT and 7 York Drive, Bowdon, Altrincham, WA14 3HF 6 Apr 2014 to 5 Apr 2017 defaulted tax £816,579.80 penalties levied £343,728.07

www.gov.uk/government/publications/publishing-details-of-deliberate-tax-defaulters-pddd/current-list-of-deliberate-tax-defaulters

An interesting list to go through that is publicly published (names , addresses and occupation all made transparently public to name and shame).

Ex City manager , Pellegrini, defaulted on paying over £800k tax and a susbsequent £300k penalty. £1.1m in total. Presumably left the country.

Ex Liverpool and Leicester player, Emile Heskey listed as well but much lower sums. One person I know (from local news) as well on the list.

Spireman · Strong Club Player

Looking forward to MOTD tonight!!!!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Just got back from FA Cup at Bradford where my Harrogate Town team won a local derby 1-0. Great win as we played well and havent been playing well this season; Ive not been to an away match before but the atmosphere was crackling. Bradfords stadium was only maybe 1/3rd full with just under 7000 there, we had around 500 fans and well deserved a good win. Onwards !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Town drew Solihull or Hartlepool in round 2. Either way, a banana skin in waiting. I think they said 19 non league teams in the round 2 draw, realise a lot are still in round one replays, but its a decent number.

seagull · Hall of fame

Have to say as a supporter VAR is really tarnishing the experience of attending matches. Was at Wolves on Saturday and referee did not see handball from Dunk (Probably because it didn't touch him). No one really appealed and if game carried on no one would have thought twice. We were in line with it and saw nothing. You then get 2 minutes waiting in bewilderment as to what is going on as they watch the incident over and over again to see if there was any conclusive evidence as to if it hit his arm (there wasn't). Then another minute while ref goes over to monitor (and by then you know he is going to give it so a complete waste of time).
Not only that but every time you score you half celebrate in fear that VAR will find a way to overturn it.

It's really noticeable how when I go to watch Worthing what a better experience overall it is without VAR.

Listen we won the game anyway so not really the fact we were on the wrong end of the decision but who is benefitting from VAR? Certainly not the supporters who by the way had already had to travel 200 miles each way with a train strike on.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Have to say as a supporter VAR is really tarnishing the experience of attending matches. Was at Wolves on Saturday and referee did not see handball from Dunk (Probably because it didn't touch him). No one really appealed and if game carried on no one would have thought twice. We were in line with it and saw nothing. You then get 2 minutes waiting in bewilderment as to what is going on as they watch the incident over and over again to see if there was any conclusive evidence as to if it hit his arm (there wasn't). Then another minute while ref goes over to monitor (and by then you know he is going to give it so a complete waste of time).
Not only that but every time you score you half celebrate in fear that VAR will find a way to overturn it.

It's really noticeable how when I go to watch Worthing what a better experience overall it is without VAR.

Listen we won the game anyway so not really the fact we were on the wrong end of the decision but who is benefitting from VAR? Certainly not the supporters who by the way had already had to travel 200 miles each way with a train strike on.

I agree with this, Seagull - same for watching Harrogate play, surely it is all part of football's great appeal that it flows and mistakes happen - VAR slows it all down and confuses. Apart from "did it cross the goal-line" stuff I think we should leave the rest to the Referee on the pitch.

wolf · Tennis legend

Aint this the truth. Most of the time people are still arguing over the decisions anyway so whats the point?