The English Football Thread

[Laylabelle 9,402]

Charlton win last few seconds. Though they did score all the goals including Sunderlands 

[LAM09 6,824]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11701/11728924/stoke-sack-saido-berahino
 
Berahino sacked by Stoke.
He really seems to fuck his carreer up, a few years ago big teams were after him, now he is a Burundi international sacked by his Championship team.
 

That's what happens when you have your head turned.

At least he will have the AFCON to gain some interest.

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The Championship playoff Final: Get ready for the richest game in sports

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-league-championship/0/blog/post/3860320/championship-playoff-final-aston-villa-and-derby-county-play-for-keeps-in-sports-richest-game

 

It is the most lucrative one-off fixture in the sporting world, with the financial windfall for the winning team a staggering £170 million -- three times more than the combined value of winning the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup. The monetary jackpot vastly overshadows that which comes with winning the Super Bowl ($6.25m), NBA Finals ($3.3m) or World Series ($30.4m), but the flip side of the EFL Championship playoff is that the losers not only end up with nothing, they also see the door to the riches of the Premier League slam shut in their face.

On Monday, Aston Villa will play Derby County at Wembley (live on ESPN+ at 9:55 a.m.) for the glory of winning the richest game in team sport.

Villa, relegated from the Premier League in 2016, were beaten by Fulham in last season's final, while Derby, who lost to Queen's Park Rangers in the 2014 final, are attempting to return to the top division for the first time since 2008. They are two of English football's best-supported clubs; Villa's average home crowd this season (36,029) was the 10th highest in the country, while Derby's average of 26,850 was higher than six Premier League teams. And Villa have won more league titles and cups than Manchester City -- and lifted a European Cup in 1982.

There's also an intriguing subplot for the pair: two former Chelsea teammates and legends will be in opposite dugouts on Monday. Frank Lampard is the manager of Derby, while John Terry is Dean Smith's assistant at Villa. The pair won four Premier Leagues together at Stamford Bridge, along with four FA Cups, two League Cups, the Champions League and Europa League.

But only one of them will secure a passport back to the Premier League on Monday. The losers get nothing more than heartache and the prospect of another season in the second tier, with fixtures against Barnsley and Brentford, rather than Manchester United and Liverpool, to look forward to.

 

snip

[Atomiswave 6,072]

Looking forward to Lamps will set his team out, will they go for it or will they be cautios? His tactical changes etc......should be a blast.

[Special Juan 27,498]

Derby have the momentum and the edge in this for me, and I'm not sure how Villa will cope if they lose two years on the bounce.

Lampard loses and gets the Chelsea job...or...JT loses and gets the Boro job

 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

Villa look clearly the better side here so far.

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1 nil Villa

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half time

here are some streams

http://www.sportnews.to/events/2019/championship-final-derby-county-vs-aston-villa-s1/#

https://www.vipleague.bz/aston-villa-vs-derby-county-streaming-link-1

https://www.ronaldo7.net/video/manchester-live/manchester-free-live-streaming.html

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2 nil

Derby is more than likely fucked

Villa have outscored them 9 nil so far this season

[Laylabelle 9,402]

Awwwww frankie! 

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Just now, Laylabelle said:

Awwwww frankie! 

really puts the heat on as to if we make the move and call up Lamps as manager and Mount as a MFer

I really wanted them both to have a full EPL season under their belts before we made to the moves

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I do not think either are ready

Tammy looks strong though

I would recall him

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

shame... but Villa have been the better team in the game.

Only thing that can save them is Lamps subsituting himself and score 4 goals vs Villa like he did 2010. Curiously these here are both teams Lamps scored 4 goals in a single game against each.

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2 horrid defensive/GK blunders for the Villa goals

my Baggie friend is going bonkers

Villa going up and Wolves in Europe

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1 minute ago, Magic Lamps said:

shame... but Villa have been the better team in the game.

Only thing that can save them is Lamps subsituting himself 

lolol, Ashely and Frank in a 2010 flashback

now they need to rocket in Ancelotti for the  last 25 minutes

 

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that should be a corner, the GK pushed it out

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

Andre Green on. This is over.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

All Waghorn does is scream for the ball and get in his teammates way.