The Football News Thread 2018/19 - everything not Wolves

[Kenny]

FA Cup will be on ITV and BBC from the 21/22 Season. More games on ITV than BBC but at least all games will be free.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Good news indeed. Of course they will both show the final like the good old days and you chose the channel by which set of commentators piss you off the least.

 

[playtheace]

Citeh players filmed singing their version of the Allez Allez song.

Liverpool relate song to Sean Cox getting beaten up at "home" against Roma

Media go OTT about it all

Song is about the Kiev match, not Rome (at home) but Kiev...it even mentions Kiev.

fucking ell.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Chelsea go away and play some nonsense friendly match in Boston. And now Loftus-Cheek is injured and will miss the Europa League final.

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48279772

 

[Del Woppio]

It's great that help is so readily and freely available to footballers. Just a shame about the rest of us

 

[Tom Hark]

Interesting* article about Mourinho and the shambles at Man U:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48299387

*well, I found it interesting, anyway

 

[Keef]

The problem at United all stems from Alex Ferguson,he was running the whole show,so the club was geared to operate around him,when he retired they had no "systems" for want of a better phrase in place to carry on and move forward,they are well behind other clubs now,and may never catch up,let alone lead.it could take five years to put the staff in place and another five years for it to start bearing fruit,where will Man City,Liverpool, and even possibly us be then?

 

[Tom Hark]

I think it would be worth putting money on us finishing ahead of them next season if you can get better than evens.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

There's a lot of pressure on United to revamp their squad in this window. Not just improve but be seen to improve. If they don't get who they want straight away, perhaps they will just throw money at a few so-so players and finish up with a worse squad than they have now.

If they don't get it right, it could go seriously wrong (hopefully).

 

[Tony Towner]

Ferguson obviously left a void but United's biggest issue stems from putting a Marketing guy in charge of the football side. Poor managerial appointments, missing out on signings, paying over the odds for the ones they did land and now looking for a DOF whose number one qualification requirements seems to be 'did he used to play for us'.

 

[Lord Knows]

Good piece on Chris Wilder and Sheff Utd.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spo...will-be-ready-for-premier-challenge-1-9776839

 

[Lord Knows]

Length of pass.

http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2018/263/en/

 

[Pablowolf]

https://twitter.com/Lixinct/status/1130547543966998528

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

FIFA screwing up with tickets for Women's World Cup:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/so...omens-world-cup-tickets/ar-AABDIfX?li=BBnba9I

 

[Donegal Wolf]

UEFA have put their own man in to run the FAI for the next 6 months.

Oh and they also have to lend them €8-10million quid to pay the bills

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48336453

Many UK fans see selling off stadium naming rights as sacrosanct.

Yet everything else is sponsored, the shirts, shorts, socks, adverts all over the stadium, throughout the programmes, on the big screens. |Players and their kits are sponsored. So why not stadiums?

FWIW, I know what the reaction would be if Molineux were to change its name...

 

[Langers]

It would still be Molineux. Personally, I wouldn't give a shit if it had a prefix before it for a few extra million quid - we'd never call it anything else.

Similarly, the FA cup is only ever the FA cup no matter who sponsors it.

 

[BGreenWolf]

I don't actually agree with the report, insofar that any stadium worth sponsoring will uniformly fail to have its name overwritten by a sponsorship in the eyes of the public. There's no chance that Old Trafford would be called the Chevrolet Stadium or Molineux the Thomas Cook Stadium by anyone at all, so what's the point? It's not actually effective marketing.

Kit's a different matter- anyone who buys a shirt's going to be subjected to the branding. That's not true with a stadium.

 

[machin05]

They'd announce it on programmes like Match Of The Day and Soccer Saturday as the Thomas Cook Stadium though, which will have a much bigger audience than the 30k people attending said stadium.