The English Football Thread

[cosmicway 1,333]

Missed the two Brtn goals.
Had to eat my fish.

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by cosmicway

[Laylabelle 9,408]

19 minutes ago, Pizy said:

No chance you can look at Newcastle or Spuds or any of these usual midtable or lower sides that are above us currently and say they’re more talented than we are. I’d argue that if all our players were at their peak level we’d have the second most talented squad in the league after City. 

Arse have a bunch of players who everyone would’ve said are bang average prior to this season. Everyone was saying United’s team were all bang average as recently as a few months ago when they got off to that dreadful start. 

What these clubs have that we don’t right now is completely buy-in to the manager from their players. 

That's it..when Man U made their signings there was a lot of meh what a load of average people no one to fear etc etc. And how quickly it's all changed! He is getting a lot lot lot from them! Got rid of egos didn't convince Ronaldo to stay after that interview...

Same like you say with Arteta. Jesus injury a lot of ooo they'll now suffer yet apart apart from Newcastle which wasn't a bad result they're doing find still!! 

Ours just don't know how to play together..or how to play. Or how to give a crap atm! 

[cosmicway 1,333]

It's not true that football has become more physical so players are injured.
Players like Rattin do not exist any more.
The truth is football has become over the years a lot faster - so things happen.

[whats happening 1,554]

24 minutes ago, milka said:

Brighton are a joy to watch

yep. we should try to bring in their manager. 

[Fulham Broadway 16,977]

Brighton going above Liverpool. Klippety out !

[milka 3,362]

I don't know - they humiliated us, now they are doing the same with Liverpool with Solly March and Danny Welbeck 

Edited January 14, 2023 by milka

[Laylabelle 9,408]

Just now, Fulham Broadway said:

Brighton going above Liverpool. Klippety out !

All we need to do is score 10 tommrow then go above Liverpool! 

[Fulham Broadway 16,977]

1 minute ago, Laylabelle said:

All we need to do is score 10 tommrow then go above Liverpool! 

12 isnt it ? Think we scored 13 against Jeunesse once 😉

 

[Fulham Broadway 16,977]

Everton fans about to riot

[Gundalf 804]

43 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Fair enough. Still it is amazing how quickly it has gone from bad to worse. Eva has a sketchy reputation herself btw

Yet, there are plenty of great physios and orthopedics out there. Boehly himself has employed some at the dodgers and lakers... why did we still hire those common cold quacks?

I think its just not so easy to rebuild a medical departement so quickly. So these guys who are here atm are surely only placeholders, and a lot of sources told us that the hierarchy is already looking for a better solution. This transformation process is going to take a lot of time. U cant just force pep to work here, u have to find some, convince them and so on. 

Sometimes I feel like some people underestimate what actually happened with this club and how quickly it happened.  

Edited January 14, 2023 by Gundalf

[Strike 7,300]

5 minutes ago, milka said:

I don't know - they humiliated us, now they are doing the same with Liverpool with Solly March and Danny Welbeck 

Next week in the Premier League - stoppable force vs movable object

[Laylabelle 9,408]

4 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

12 isnt it ? Think we scored 13 against Jeunesse once 😉

 

Maybe we'll end the season in double figures! Just been bouncing around - numbers to mostly 0 so far 

[milka 3,362]

3 minutes ago, Strike said:

Next week in the Premier League - stoppable force vs movable object

Debut goal from Gakpo and Salah - we know this history already .

[Pizy 18,537]

We’ve been so monumentally shit that I haven’t even glanced at the table or watched a single minute of any football other than ours in months. So finding out just now that Liverpool are having an almost equally as shit of a season as we are is nice.

[Laylabelle 9,408]

3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

We’ve been so monumentally shit that I haven’t even glanced at the table or watched a single minute of any football other than ours in months. So finding out just now that Liverpool are having an almost equally as shit of a season as we are is nice.

Oddly ours is quite neat looking if think about it! We've won 7...lost 7 so thats even lol. Scored 21..21 against so goal difference 0 again even..10th place. 

And atm as it stsnds we are 10 points from the bottom 3 and top 10 from top 4!

[HEREIAM 83]

Everton are going down, Lampard is hopeless as a coach, don’t know why we don’t try for Ward-Prowse, just for his dead ball skills

[chelsea_4_eva 1,167]

Anyone watch the match? How was Colwill?

[Blue Armour 4,336]

Liverpool going from 2nd in the table last year to a likely Europa League finish this year.

That's why I find all this talk about us needing a massive rebuild for 2 years to become challengers again, pointless.

We could just as easily return to top 3 next season (injuries notwithstanding) and still finish outside top 6 in the season after that.

The league is just that much more competitive now, and you have at least 7 teams in contention. 

If you don't get it right with transfers or injuries, it will cost you, and that's just how it will be for seasons moving forward.

Only the clubs with infinite resources could hold an iron grip on top 4.

UEFA also realizes this., and it won't be to long before they expand the Champions league slots to at least 6 teams from each of the major leagues.