The English Football Thread

[Fernando 6,451]

Southampton still have some nice money from the summer.

They could buy if they wanted this January to help them freshen up and fight for that top 4 till the end.

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Awwww agree with Hodgson diddums poor ole Rooney England Captain and Man U Captain...no one has ever had that responsibility before

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Lol, spurs down, 0-1 Stoke

[Pizy 18,368]

My goodness, Spuds are fucking dreadful!

[Thendo 1,088]

0-2 now...Spurs have been terrible at home this season!

[Hamilton 2,120]

0-2

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Just sayin'...

[didierforever 7,349]

Just sayin'...

the most over rated keeper in the world. cant believe people actualy say he is a top5 gk.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

the most over rated keeper in the world. cant believe people actualy say he is a top5 gk.

His technique is very good, imo, but his decision making is erratic to say the least, and I don't mean that in a good way like Neuer for example.

[illmatic 901]

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[Barbara 15,149]

I wish Southampton had the endurance and whatever it takes to keep their position or at least spot #3 after their busy schedule against 'bigger' teams. I don't think they do though. I predict them to lose at least 7 points.

In hindsight it's a nice thing UCL is keeping us grounded. With everyone struggling to pile points, with Saints likely to go down a couple of positions when all is said and done in December, those struggles we had in UCL, those draws in EPL and scrapped results in COC will keep the boys grounded.

If we were getting all possible results, keeping the high scoring, I'm absolutely sure this squad would relax and it could be more jeopardizing than those draws (the draws really aren't jeopardizing imo).

Once you relax too much, you may go through a slump and going through a slump in December can cost a lot. All in all, I think things are just the way they should to keep us in control of winning the league from beginning to end.

[Tomo 21,733]

He'll probably just choose the easiest job with a ready-made team and continue with being 'lucky' in football management...

He hasn't actually had it easy. Barca he inherited a mess and turned it into one of the greatest teams off all time.

In Bayern, taking over a treble winning team doesn't make the job easier, if anything it makes it harder (look at Rafa with Inter), how do you motivate player's who have just won it all to not only go again but buy into new ideas?

I can't stand Pep but as a manager he is an absolute genius, I fear the day him and Simeone take over at one of our competitive rivals.

[Tomo 21,733]

so where are the people who were saying that lovren was worth 20mil?

Lovren is actually a good defender, even Thiago Silva would look crap playing under Brendan Rodgers, the guy has no clue how to coach defending.

Maybe not worth 20m but he's a lot better than he's showing here.

[TheOneChan95 225]

Overall, I don't mind the draws. Keeps the players focussed and grounded

I guess there is a positive in every setback. I think Mou can now really see that we are not the Chelsea 10 years ago who can shut up shop easily and won't close a 1-0 lead with Mikel now.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Lol, spurs going down to 10 man

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Nah times before where seem to switch off in the last few mins as well.Before felt ooo 1-0 is fine now can be a bit nervey

[Nike 373]

Tottenham have kaboul, fazio, rose and naughton.

Give Thibo these 4, lets see how well Thibo does...

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Slowy but surely Newcastle just 2 point away from 4th spot. The effect of sackpardew.com is still on. Hopefully Pool fans will not copy that move and create brendanout.com