The Football News Thread 2022/23

[White Wolf]

It's all relative to be fair, by the standards of a Premier League team Everton do have it pretty depressing. They're shit, always lose to their rivals (often in humiliating fashion), never challenge for trophies, have had to watch their rivals have massive success, had a rich owner come in and waste hundreds of millions on absolute shit, hire bad managers, always completely shit the bed in Europe.

If you offered me the last 10 years of Wolves or Everton I'd take ours. we've had lower lows but higher highs. Not much to get excited about if you're always bottom-half Premier League - whenever I go to Goodison the atmosphere is absolutely awful, probably the worst in the league.

All of the Everton fans I know are pretty grounded and just bleak about their situation, which is understandable as there's never much cause of optimism. By comparison Liverpool fans often tell me how bad they've had it just when they fail to win a couple of games, or cite that 2010 to 2016 spell (which included a trophy won, an FA Cup final, Europa League runs, a title run...).

 

[Lupo]

It is certainly relative and I agree, Everton are a pretty meh club

Over the past year or so I have moaned about us quite a bit to Mrs Lupo but always feel a bit bad about it as she is a Derby fan and I often add that I shouldn't be moaning too much as her lot have it far worse than we do!

 

[Alan]

Relative to an extent but not many clubs that I'm aware of become a verb because they were so spectacularly and consistently shit.

I'm sure there were articles during our League One season asking if one/any of the just-relegated-from-Prem clubs in the Championship would "do a Wolves".

 

[White Wolf]

Relative to an extent but not many clubs that I'm aware of become a verb because they were so spectacularly and consistently shit.

I'm sure there were articles during our League One season asking if one/any of the just-relegated-from-Prem clubs in the Championship would "do a Wolves".

Sunderland have since been consecutively relegated and taken the focus away from us on that one, not to mention the documentaty which while interesting mainly wallowed in their miserable state. Doing well right now but there's a club that has definitely had it bad over the past decade.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

I don't think our triple relegation in the 80's gets enough stick! In a decade where football was largely unfashionable it never got the media attention then and since that the 'feat' deserves.

 

[Alan]

I don't think our triple relegation in the 80's gets enough stick! In a decade where football was largely unfashionable it never got the media attention then and since that the 'feat' deserves.

Hadn't the Bhattis asset-stripped the team at that point? Mitigating factor in the perception, mayhap.

 

[Keef]

Think Doug Ellis ex chairman of 1982fc up the road helped with that as well, somebody on here will put me right no doubt

 

[Tony Towner]

Ellis: A Wolves Perspective – Wolves Heroes

Differing Slants On Sir Doug's Short Molineux Chapter The passing of Sir Doug Ellis has invoked many tributes, anecdotes and recollections on the life of a man who was larger than life and who inspired and infuriated his associates in equal measure. He was universally known as Mr Aston Villa...

www.wolvesheroes.com

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Not asset stripped but did try get us on the cheap by allegedly putting into unnecessary receivership.

 

[Alan]

Javier Tebas is a cunt.

 

[Kenny]

Yep he needs to pay it back by midnight Saturday,

Not paying it back today

 

[jd1981]

Not paying it back today

There’s a shock not sure on the implications now

 

[WsWolf]

There’s a shock not sure on the implications now

There are none, he owns the club and he's hardly going to start proceedings against himself. He'll never pay it back.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Which means they have no transfer kitty. He has also hung the CEO out to dry whom he got to make statements saying the money would be paid. I can see Gourlay fucking off.

 

[Kenny]

In football terms the amount he owes is tiny. Especially for a Championship club recently in the Prem.

£4m should not be a concern to them. Somehow they are on a promotion or bust run

https://twitter.com/x/status/1609255291752964096

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

"Let's walk from a pub we were going to anyway to a match we were going to anyway. That'll show 'em!"

"Good stuff. What are we protesting about and what do we want to happen, by the way?"

"Dunno, lol"

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

City fans are universally a bunch of pricks

 

[jd1981]

They have a very high opinion of themselves as a club

 

[Alan]

"Fans not customers"

Wait until they hear about the global economic system!

 

[Tredman]

Best place for this I think

https://twitter.com/x/status/1609998320298074113

 

[Alan]

Best place for this I think

https://twitter.com/x/status/1609998320298074113

Food service workers have it so rough.

That said, I'd have been furious with anyone who handed out something like this while I was on shift. People are just trying to get some grub, man.