The Football News Thread 2017/18 - everything not Wolves

[The Bear]

Piss off. 11/10.

 

[Trips]

Heard someone on the radio last night compare Simeone to Allardyce (a caller, not a presenter) - couldn't stop laughing

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I've seen Pep make tactical changes on the fly and deploy players in totally unexpected positions. Just what Saunders did here. Peas in a pod.

 

[James]

Saw this being put up outside EFL house in Preston

 

[YoungWolf]

The Barry Town story is MENTAL. If that was a storyline in Dream Team, it'd be dismissed as too unrealistic.

Did you see that Twitter thread, YW?

I did - unbelievable stuff!

 

[b3h]

Wanted to know what happened from May 2013 to now for Barry Town, not much on Wiki but:


In the years that have followed, Barry would win two consecutive league titles, reclaiming their place in the second tier, while continuing to develop as a club, on and off the pitch. Today, the club competes at senior, development, youth and junior levels, along with various ladies' teams and pan disability sides in the over and under-16 age groups. In 2016–17, the first team reached the final of Welsh Premier League Cup for the first time since 2001, becoming only the second side from outside the national top flight to achieve this feat since the competition was expanded several years prior. In April 2017, the club secured its return to the Welsh Premier League as champions of the Welsh Football League, continuing this remarkable revival.

 

[Kenny]

Wanted to know what happened from May 2013 to now for Barry Town, not much on Wiki but:


In the years that have followed, Barry would win two consecutive league titles, reclaiming their place in the second tier, while continuing to develop as a club, on and off the pitch. Today, the club competes at senior, development, youth and junior levels, along with various ladies' teams and pan disability sides in the over and under-16 age groups. In 2016–17, the first team reached the final of Welsh Premier League Cup for the first time since 2001, becoming only the second side from outside the national top flight to achieve this feat since the competition was expanded several years prior. In April 2017, the club secured its return to the Welsh Premier League as champions of the Welsh Football League, continuing this remarkable revival.

Barry Town United are now in the WPL (they don't use the United bit much), they are effectively a phoenix club (not sure if they host Talent Trek or anything though) as the fans took over from the clusterfuck left behind and kept them going.

 

[playtheace]

Hopefully the end to the stupid semi-finals of the FA cup at Wembley. Use it for finals if we must and I'm another for seeing the England team tour around the country at different stadia.

Amen
The papers have shit bricks about selling Wembley today,total over the top nonsense.
I usually cant stand Hawksby & Jacobs (on talkshit) but they just went on a rant about Wembley and i had to agree with all of it.

 

[Tredman]

The daily express front page was even more bollocks than normal today.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The FA didn't own the old Wembley so this wouldn't be a goodbye to nearly 100 years of tradition, selling off the long-held family silver or anything. If England chose to carry on playing there as tenants and the FA rented it from Khan for finals then we'd simply be exactly where we were 18 years ago and for all the years before that.

 

[Kenny]

Did the FA own Wembley before it was rebuilt?

Edit - Dan answered before I asked!!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It was privately owned because it was built for the British Empire exhibition.

 

[Lord Knows]

Old Firm wage levels, Celtic players average 26k a week while Rangers average 9k a week, Good luck with your recruitment Stevie G.

 

[lemonjelly]

Carroll sent home after bust up with Moyes. Left the dug out mid game this weekend it seems.
Loving the falling apart at west ham. Genuinely would LOVE to see them go down.

 

[Kenny]

Carroll sent home after bust up with Moyes. Left the dug out mid game this weekend it seems.
Loving the falling apart at west ham. Genuinely would LOVE to see them go down.

Carroll was fuming when Moyes made a triple sub and ignored him.

Moyes hasn't really been a fan of Carroll since he arrived.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Loving the falling apart at west ham. Genuinely would LOVE to see them go down.

Absolutely. I would be delighted if they were relegated.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Huddersfield look in serious peril to me. They aren't going to get another point all season and 35 probably won't be enough, Southampton should win one game.

 

[The Bear]

Brighton safe? I think they just about have enough with too many teams below them, but can't see them picking up another point with their fixtures (Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool). They could end up just squeaking it.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah, I think 37 is enough. Stoke and Albion can't catch them already and like I say, Huddersfield will do well to get one point (which would only take them to 36).

 

[Tredman]

Got to assume that albion are gone, stoke are going to really struggle especially as Lambert has gone back to bore draw specialist. So its one from Saints, Swansea, West Ham and Huddersfield I think.

Huddersfield for me, though I would love to see West Ham go down.