Football

Thoughts from today:

- Manchester City may be too good

- What a way to get a first win by Palace

(Bolton got a win too, may not keep both from being relegated)

Funny how you still have Chelsea fans who argue that it wasn't a mistake for Mourinho to sell Kevin De Bruyne.

I'm no great lover of Man City and of course there's a heck of a long way to go this season, but we're probably witnessing some of the most entertaining football of the Premier League era from their current side, right up there with the best of Ferguson and Wenger's teams and possibly even better.

Compare and contrast that with watching Jose's United, which at times is like being locked in solitary confinement.

On 10/15/2017 at 12:42 PM, Michael* said:

I'm no great lover of Man City and of course, there's a heck of a long way to go this season, but we're probably witnessing some of the most entertaining football of the Premier League era from their current side, right up there with the best of Ferguson and Wenger's teams and possibly even better.

I love the change of narrative in terms of KDB. From 60 million pound failure to greatest midfielder in the premier league.

I mean, he was laready the reigning Bundesliga player of the year when he arrived in England.

Thank God the allure of live League 2 action prevented me from watching Dortmund's scintillating draw with APOEL. To Europa!

KDBs agent wants a new deal worth 500K per week for his client.

Artistic impression of KDB and his agent after they sign this new deal.

There is something quietly hilarious about Antonio Conté and Arsene Wenger now having the exact same amount of points in the Premier League.

The possibilities are endless now for Everton. Giggsy, P-Nev, The Moyesiah, Big Steve, Pardiola, Wee Gordon or, er, Craig Shakespeare.

On 10/24/2017 at 10:21 AM, Michael* said:

The possibilities are endless now for Everton. Giggsy, P-Nev, The Moyesiah, Big Steve, Pardiola, Wee Gordon or, er, Craig Shakespeare.

Arise, Wayne Rooney: player/manager. 

16 hours ago, Frederick said:

Arise, Wayne Rooney: player/manager. 

Would be bitterly unjust for fans of all those teams who have already played Everton. Although they still can play Liverpool, of course.

There goes Simon. A good man who'll come again at this level but whichever way you want to proportion blame the numbers do tell a sorry tale. Thoughts, Michael?

On 11/1/2017 at 1:28 PM, Frederick said:

There goes Simon. A good man who'll come again at this level but whichever way you want to proportion blame the numbers do tell a sorry tale. Thoughts, Michael?

The problems at Sunderland obviously go far deeper than Grayson, but when you can't get a home win against the only side below you in the league, I suppose you can't really have many complaints about being shown the door. And while I'm not daft enough to expect the current squad to be pushing for promotion, staying comfortably clear of the bottom three certainly shouldn't be beyond them. In the long run though, it would seem that the club is going to need new ownership for anything to really change, preferably with the remit of rebuilding, writing off all the dead wood and getting a decent manager who has time to work.

Anyone here supports Real Madrid??

Terry finally got injured and it's a bad one. Who could've foreseen such a tragedy befalling the lively youngster? Hands down, everyone Not Called Steve Bruce. Just as things were actually trucking along quite nicely, too. Samba and Elphick to the rescue? More chance of Moyes qualifying for Europe with his newly fashioned Anichebe/Carroll front line.

On 11/6/2017 at 8:40 PM, maria22 said:

Anyone here supports Real Madrid??

The next best thing.

Seriously though, a few of our members always seemed fond of Real, but I'm not sure how often they visit us these days.

21 hours ago, Frederick said:

More chance of Moyes qualifying for Europe with his newly fashioned Anichebe/Carroll front line.

You can certainly set your watch to the kind of rinse and repeat cycle that middle order Premier League clubs get stuck in. They really love an 'exotic' flair manager, until they have a bit of a wobble and replace him with a dreary, result-grinding British manager. Of course, the problem West Ham now have is that the Moyesiah's ability to grind out results, regardless of what the likes of Leon Osman, Joleon Lescott and Danny Murphy would have us all believe, clearly deserted him after he left Everton.

2 hours ago, Michael* said:

 

You can certainly set your watch to the kind of rinse and repeat cycle that middle order Premier League clubs get stuck in. They really love an 'exotic' flair manager, until they have a bit of a wobble and replace him with a dreary, result-grinding British manager. Of course, the problem West Ham now have is that the Moyesiah's ability to grind out results, regardless of what the likes of Leon Osman, Joleon Lescott and Danny Murphy would have us all believe, clearly deserted him after he left Everton.

Being an owner is very simple. You do the old press release trick of jabbering on about "projects" if the new man is a well groomed foreign Charlie and heck, you might sell a few more season tickets under the guise of a sophisticated assault on the glass ceiling of 7th but then amnesia hits once Stoke rip you and your 2-4-3-1-1 formation apart on August 29th so then you parachute in an old granite chinned, Bein Sports tanned oil tanker who spends the week before the sacking saying "Slaven is a good man....but..." while Richard Keys cackles and prods you like a dancing Russian bear. 

On 11/8/2017 at 4:14 PM, Frederick said:

Being an owner is very simple. You do the old press release trick of jabbering on about "projects" if the new man is a well groomed foreign Charlie and heck, you might sell a few more season tickets under the guise of a sophisticated assault on the glass ceiling of 7th but then amnesia hits once Stoke rip you and your 2-4-3-1-1 formation apart on August 29th so then you parachute in an old granite chinned, Bein Sports tanned oil tanker who spends the week before the sacking saying "Slaven is a good man....but..." while Richard Keys cackles and prods you like a dancing Russian bear. 

No doubt Keys and Gray will be thrilled with the Chosen One's appointments of Pearce, Irvine and McKinlay as coaches. I still think West Ham are too good to go down, although they mightn't be in January when Jagielka, Pienaar, Osman, Gibson and Howard arrive.

Netherlands, Chile, and now Italy.   

Not that Italy weren't utterly rubbish on the night of course, but repercussions perhaps from the Northern Ireland fiasco there. It was very evident that the ref had resolved not to give a penalty for anything less than first degree murder in the box.