The English Football Thread

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

12 minutes ago, Vesper said:

 

what's that?

[Vesper 31,179]

Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal | I’ve Had Enough, ARTETA OUT! (Troopz)

 

[Vesper 31,179]

Just now, Magic Lamps said:

what's that?

post game set

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

3 minutes ago, Vesper said:

post game set

no i meant whats the modfather look

[Vesper 31,179]

Just now, Magic Lamps said:

no i meant whats the modfather look

name for his style of dress

[Tomo 21,754]

Usually going to Everton and Wolves i'd shake hands on winning one of them but on current form we should be winning both (4 points minimum).

[Vesper 31,179]

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

Usually going to Everton and Wolves i'd shake hands on winning one of them but on current form we should be winning both (4 points minimum).

full 6 or die trying

[Blue Armour 4,759]

Bah...Tottenham tries to be so annoying!

They've literally played Darude-Sandstorm for all the goals they've scored in their stadium this year. 

[Blue Armour 4,759]

3 hours ago, Tomo said:

Usually going to Everton and Wolves i'd shake hands on winning one of them but on current form we should be winning both (4 points minimum).

 

We need to take advantage in fixtures where sides like Tottenham, Liverpool, United and City have come up short this season....Everton, Wolves, West Ham.

[Blue Armour 4,759]

7 hours ago, chelsea_4_eva said:

How the hell did Arteta fall into that trap. Everyone knows Jose will defend and then counter. Out of all the games he could've chosen to play more attacking, he chose this one. lol.

Yeah, what a looney strategy.

Thought he could take the game to them like he's some kind of MF. ...

Should have given JM a taste of his own medicine.

Putting Arsenal aside though,...more teams should look at our performance against Spurs and do better at cutting out that link between Kane and Son...Especially by swamping Kane. Do that and you nullify nearly 50% of their scoring chances IMO.

[Blue Armour 4,759]

7 hours ago, Jason said:

Debate about Mourinho's football is already floating about...

 

 

The annoying thing is the number of bandwagon fans that have jumped on the Spurs bus parade in recent weeks simply because they are leading by goal difference atm.

I don't want to be hypocritical, because we've utilized the same style of play to get results in recent seasons, but we supported it because it helped Chelsea win.

I can understand if Spurs fans are okay with it, but for mainstream football fans to claim that this is a new found football philosophy and display of tactical genius that trumps others, is a bit much for me. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,975]

Cant.stop.watching.🤣

 

 

[communicate 2,703]

Mourinho typical 2nd season.Regullon and Hojberg signings pretty much transform the make up of spurs team.

The most interesting team imo is still United, if they can find a way to put pogba and fernandes in the same team and still look very balance (what happened to them last season after the break), they are imo one of the best team, i am not sure how especially with the makeup of the team. 

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3 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

 

Putting Arsenal aside though,...more teams should look at our performance against Spurs and do better at cutting out that link between Kane and Son...Especially by swamping Kane. Do that and you nullify nearly 50% of their scoring chances IMO.

What we did was we kinda asked our fb especially Chilwell to play conservative. So son like his goal against arsenal, won't play one on one against cb. 

It f*** up our offense also though because Werner can't play without support. 

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Listen, I simply cannot understand why there is 'Spurs are going to win the title' vibes around and people are truly afraid they might go all the way. I mean ok maybe Mourinho might have done it this way in the past, but not when he's had that many quality, and I mean really, really good teams that are challenging, too. For me Liverpool and City are nailed on to go head to head for the league title again and are the two main candidates. Not the sole ones, but still easily the two best teams around, then there is Chelsea and it might sound funny but United will go deep, too IMHO and the thing is that all this four teams have better attacking players than Spurs.

You might think Spurs will park the bus v the big teams like they truly did v us, City and Arsenal, but they did not look that good v Burnley, West Brom and Brighton either, three wins in which they shot less than 8 or 9 shots on goal combined. In three matches...

It's like a honeymoon period for them now and Kane looks like he's playing the Kante role now. They will fall apart as soon as they go on a winless streak and Mourinho starts blaming someone, anyone. In his mind they are now first because of him, soon Son or somebody else is going to be at fault for not tracking back on Ola Aina.

On another note happy for Arsenal's brilliant title challenge yet again, fuck that obnoxious and deluded fan base.

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, petre.ispirescu said:

Listen, I simply cannot understand why there is 'Spurs are going to win the title' vibes around and people are truly afraid they might go all the way. I mean ok maybe Mourinho might have done it this way in the past, but not when he's had that many quality, and I mean really, really good teams that are challenging, too. For me Liverpool and City are nailed on to go head to head for the league title again and are the two main candidates. Not the sole ones, but still easily the two best teams around, then there is Chelsea and it might sound funny but United will go deep, too IMHO and the thing is that all this four teams have better attacking players than Spurs.

You might think Spurs will park the bus v the big teams like they truly did v us, City and Arsenal, but they did not look that good v Burnley, West Brom and Brighton either, three wins in which they shot less than 8 or 9 shots on goal combined. In three matches...

It's like a honeymoon period for them now and Kane looks like he's playing the Kante role now. They will fall apart as soon as they go on a winless streak and Mourinho starts blaming someone, anyone. In his mind they are now first because of him, soon Son or somebody else is going to be at fault for not tracking back on Ola Aina.

On another note happy for Arsenal's brilliant title challenge yet again, fuck that obnoxious and deluded fan base.

As you alluded to there, Spurs have their X factor in Mourinho right now because he's been there and done it before. If Pochettino was still in charge or a lesser name was at the helm instead, think people wouldn't be so concerned about them. Time will tell if Spurs will last all the way but so far, they are picking up the results and beating the big teams, boring/defensive approach or not. 

[Jase 43,479]

7 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

The annoying thing is the number of bandwagon fans that have jumped on the Spurs bus parade in recent weeks simply because they are leading by goal difference atm.

I don't want to be hypocritical, because we've utilized the same style of play to get results in recent seasons, but we supported it because it helped Chelsea win.

I can understand if Spurs fans are okay with it, but for mainstream football fans to claim that this is a new found football philosophy and display of tactical genius that trumps others, is a bit much for me. 

As someone pointed here out yesterday, you would think Spurs are 10 points clear at the top instead of just 2 with the way people are going on about them. Yes, they are getting the results and all that but it's only 11 games in and Liverpool, who of course are the champions, are level on points with them.  

On the other hand, it's funny to see everyone's darling last season Liverpool barely getting any love in the title race so far this season, despite being joint-top. 

[Atomiswave 6,120]

Kane plays DM and Son as a fullback, let them have their fun, they will struggle at some point.

[NikkiCFC 8,528]

13 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

 

The annoying thing is the number of bandwagon fans that have jumped on the Spurs bus parade in recent weeks simply because they are leading by goal difference atm.

I don't want to be hypocritical, because we've utilized the same style of play to get results in recent seasons, but we supported it because it helped Chelsea win.

I can understand if Spurs fans are okay with it, but for mainstream football fans to claim that this is a new found football philosophy and display of tactical genius that trumps others, is a bit much for me. 

 

5 hours ago, Jason said:

As someone pointed here out yesterday, you would think Spurs are 10 points clear at the top instead of just 2 with the way people are going on about them. Yes, they are getting the results and all that but it's only 11 games in and Liverpool, who of course are the champions, are level on points with them.  

On the other hand, it's funny to see everyone's darling last season Liverpool barely getting any love in the title race so far this season, despite being joint-top. 

It is not the same. Spurs are underdogs. Basically for starting 11 they got just two new players Reguilon and Hojbjerg. If Mou wins it with them it would be story similar to Conte winning season with us. Neutral fans love stories like that.

Also if he wins major trophy with Spurs that would go on top3 list in his career with what he did in Inter and Porto. And all of that have much more value than whatever Pep and Zidane did in their careers because it is huge overachievement.

[NikkiCFC 8,528]

They dont even know how to do thrown in...