The English Football Thread

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Leicester has the advantage of playing only in 1 competition.

[Fulham Broadway 16,920]

Van Gaals press conference. Clearly getting rattled, but fair play to him, had a right go at the media.

[stroey 2,525]

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[Fulham Broadway 16,920]

If theres one thing the media hate, its being criticised, which LVG did -they come back with a vengeance.

Lets be honest, the media arent interested in the results or football, it's whos's next for the sack....

[Reddish-Blue 2,354]

LVG hasn't learned from Mourinho has he? Stop spoonfeeding the English media by being negative. They love to see you crumble.

The teacher never learns from the star student!

[Laylabelle 9,381]

Hopefully with Leicester be a case of waiting for them to drop and they never do.be pretty amazing if did do it and good on them and hopefully will...though probably be arsenal and annoying..

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

Bournemouth face FFP fine, Fulham and Nottingham Forest face possible transfer embargo

By Dev Trehan

Last Updated: 24/12/15 11:45am

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10109261/bournemouth-face-ffp-fine-fulham-and-nottingham-forest-face-possible-transfer-embargo

The Football League has announced Bournemouth, Nottingham Forest and Fulham will be sanctioned after breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.

Bournemouth, who won the Championship last season, will be subject to a financial sanction, while Nottingham Forest and Fulham will be subject to an FFP embargo - in the form of a transfer ban - for the remainder of the season.

All three clubs have exceeded the maximum £6m permitted as a 'maximum deviation' - clubs cannot spend more than £6m of what they generate in revenue.

Bournemouth face the most severe punishment because their spending resulted in them gaining the competitive advantage of promotion to the Premier League.

The worst case scenario is that the club are fined 100 per cent of the excess over £10m but the fines are assessed on a sliding scale; for example if they are found to have spent up to £10m above the £6m threshold - so £16m in total - they'll be asked to pay 80 per cent of that £10m back as a fine.

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

Here is the Barclays Premier League team of the year so far at the end of the 2015 part of the 2015/2016 season chosen by SuperSport TV South Africa Sports Channel on DSTV SOUTH AFRICA.


https://twitter.com/SuperSportTV/status/680100832659042304





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It has been a cracking season so far. Here is our #BPL Team of the Season, what do you think? #SSFootball

[iceman 329]

[Fernando 6,484]

Well at this rate lvg is a gonner.

More then likely Mourinho to go there soon.

[DDA 9,691]

LVG is a gonner!!

[Laylabelle 9,381]

Maybe we have a chance against them after all :-D

[Barbara 15,149]

The English media have moved on from Chelsea now because Jose has been sacked. The speculation of Mourinho getting sacked and him being negative reels them in money.

Now they moved on to Van Gaal. LVG and United must not let the English media win again.

Except isn't the media playing awful football, getting out of UCL in groups stage and going 8 matches without winning. They're throwing fuel, but they certainly didn't start the fire

[DYC. 7,542]

Stoke's entire attack consists of former great hopes, all tipped to have a great future. If this was a film, they would've bonded like brothers and led Stoke to Premier League glory.

Arnautovic's goal was amazing. He'll always be Zlatan-lite for me. Well, Zlatan-lite-lite now.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

Well at this rate lvg is a gonner.

More then likely Mourinho to go there soon.

Well...its not like Mourinho has done any better against this stoke side this season.

Would be a terrible move to sack LVG behind losing to a pretty decent stoke side.

[Laylabelle 9,381]

Least he benched Rooney that seems to have gone down very well.

They've only won 3 more games then us.We've just lost 5 more where they've drawn instead.

[stroey 2,525]

It's the first time Manchester United have lost four matches in a row since 1961! #MUFC

[Special Juan 27,439]

United were fucking brutal.