closed Reading 3-4 Chelsea

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

I don't care much about pre-season but I hope Frank sticks with the pressing we've been playing so far. Its so refreshing to see this. Feels like the good old days when the players went into every tackle like it was the last one.

Very excited about the new season even though our attack is maybe not even in the top 10 in the Premiership.

[manpe 10,855]

29 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Pep just said he is the most talented player he has ever had for his age

that's crazy pressure to put on the lad

Has he forgotten he worked with Messi?

[Vesper 27,310]

Just now, manpe said:

Has he forgotten he worked with Messi?

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he has ever had for his age

Messi was 21 when Pep first started coaching him

Foden was 17 when Pep first got him

 just turned 19

[manpe 10,855]

8 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Messi was 21 when Pep first started coaching him

Foden was 17 when Pep first got him

 just turned 19

Wasn't Pep a youth coach for him before?

[Vesper 27,310]

woot, good day all around

Malmö only drew so we are level on points at the top of table, only trail on GD, although fucking Djurgårdens (our biggest rivals along with the third big Stockholm club, Hammarby, who I HATE even more, up there with Spuds and Manure and Victimpool level) have a game in hand

 

 

[Alabama 1,992]

1 minute ago, Vesper said:

woot, good day all around

Malmö only drew so we are level on points at the top of table, only trail on GD, although fucking Djurgårdens (our biggest rivals along with the third big Stockholm club, Hammarby, who I HATE even more, up there with Spuds and Manure and Victimpool level) have a game in hand

 

 

I love malmo...I supports them in Sweden...

[Vesper 27,310]

24 minutes ago, manpe said:

Wasn't Pep a youth coach for him before?

no, Pep played until 2006, then had one year at Barca B, then became main Barca manager, Messi was already on the main team

[NikkiCFC 7,580]

Frank will have a lot of headache in picking team. When everyone is fit I'm thinking something like this...

Kepa, Azpi, Rudiger, Christensen, Emerson, Kante, Kovacic, Barkley, Pulisic, CHO, Giroud. 

Bench: Willy, Luiz, James, RLC, Mount , Pedro, Abraham. 

This leaves Zouma, Alonso, Jorginho, Willian and Michy out of the team which is problem. Some won't be happy. 

Sell or loan Tomori, Zappacosta, Drinkwater, Bakayoko, Kenedy etc... 

[NikkiCFC 7,580]

3 minutes ago, Vesper said:

woot, good day all around

Malmö only drew so we are level on points at the top of table, only trail on GD, although fucking Djurgårdens (our biggest rivals along with the third big Stockholm club, Hammarby, who I HATE even more, up there with Spuds and Manure and Victimpool level) have a game in hand

 

 

Football season in Scandinavia starts on different time because of weather right? 

[Fulham Broadway 16,392]

All looked OK today, but maybe Luiz has eaten a lot of pies. Saw Fat Frank outside. We were in fine song as always.

Good day out, but Reading FC need a lot of sorting in terms of admission, parking, traffic management. 

Wasn't going to pay £10 to park so revved up and left the parking steward in a cloud of dust.  #Fuck the Royals

[Vesper 27,310]

3 minutes ago, Alabama said:

I love malmo...I supports them in Sweden...

bleeeech, roflmaooo

I do not like them at all, nor any other Svensk team

well, IK Sirius I can tolerate, as I went to Uppsala universitet for an away semester whilst I was reading for my masters

they are going to have a completely renovated stadium soon, in 2 years, we just beat them nil 2 yesterday

at least you didnt say Hammarby or Djurgårdens

[Vesper 27,310]

9 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

All looked OK today, but maybe Luiz has eaten a lot of pies. Saw Fat Frank outside. We were in fine song as always.

Good day out, but Reading FC need a lot of sorting in terms of admission, parking, traffic management. 

Wasn't going to pay £10 to park so revved up and left the parking steward in a cloud of dust.  #Fuck the Royals

last time I was in Reading was for the 2009 Festival, which was damn good that year

[Milan 17,835]

3 hours ago, Jason said:

Didn't watch the match, couldn't find a workable stream and was busy watching F1 (WTF HAPPENED?!).

What a race that was. I wish it was raining every racing weekend  

[Alabama 1,992]

19 minutes ago, Vesper said:

bleeeech, roflmaooo

I do not like them at all, nor any other Svensk team

well, IK Sirius I can tolerate, as I went to Uppsala universitet for an away semester whilst I was reading for my masters

they are going to have a completely renovated stadium soon, in 2 years, we just beat them nil 2 yesterday

at least you didnt say Hammarby or Djurgårdens

Norrkoping and AIK are other Swedish club teams I really love but don't understand why so much live for malmo...seems AIK won the Swedish league last year.   

[Vesper 27,310]

Just now, Alabama said:

Norrkoping and AIK are other Swedish club teams I really love but don't understand why so much live for malmo...seems AIK won the Swedish league last year.   

yes we won last season

Malmö and Göteborg are like the Manure and Victimpool of Swedish football, most titles, 20 and 18

AIK has a lot (12 total) but many were early on, we now have 4 in modern era (since 1992)

we were the only team that stopped Göteborg from wining 6 in a row back in the 1990's, but they have only one 1 since then

Malmö has won 4 of the last 7, 5 of the last 10

 

[Jase 43,479]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

Pep just said he is the most talented player he has ever had for his age

that's crazy pressure to put on the lad

Wouldn't read too much into that TBH. Pep has a history of over-exaggerating things. 

[Jase 43,479]

36 minutes ago, milan.cech said:

What a race that was. I wish it was raining every racing weekend  

 Was struggling to "compute" what was going on with all those crashes!

[Jase 43,479]