The General Football Thread

What typo?

 

You should have left it as it was really funny!! The "S" and the "W" are adjacent to each other so no poblems with that. What if we type a message but make it interesting by typing an adjacent letter. Here goes.

What is the club?
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Forest Green Rovers are promoted to the Football League. Another Southern team [Gloucestershire, IIRC] rises at the expense of a Northern team, Tranmere Rovers.

For a few seasons now, I've not failed to notice the way teams from the south have been pushing their more traditional northern counterparts aside. Gary Neville made mention of his concern about this just last month. FGR aren't an example like Bournemouth or Brighton, but from little acorns...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39850996

 

Don't know why Neville thinks it's a concern....a fact maybe, but why shouldn't Southern clubs do well.

 

Ajax played a team today which featured Davy Klaassen as the calm old head in a team of young guns.

Klaassen is 24. None of the other ten were over the age of 21.

 

He explained it quite well, and was echoed in his concern by Carragher. Simply, they don't like their traditional football areas failing. It's pure old sentiment and favouritism. Like you, I say why not.? However, as we know from the evidence of the football media, demonstrated every week, they barely acknowledge clubs from the south, outside of London. They are traditionalists too. It's why we need to pack out the Premier and Football Leagues with as many southern, and especially south coast, clubs as possible. Basically, the northern clubs have had the limelight for too long. It's our turn now.

 

My mate is an Ajax fan. He's been on about the average age of this side all season. Youngest one for ages; younger than the Kluivert team That emerged in the 90s

He's over tomorrow so I'm sure I'll get the low down tomorrow Over dinner!

 

Many years ago, before many of us were born, clubs from the West Midlands were power houses - Wolves, West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa. Maybe things are cyclical. OK, let's look at the teams from 8th to 17th and we find 2 from London, 1 from Hertfordshire, one from South Wales, a Lancastrian, 1 from the West Midlands, another from the East Midlands, 2 from the South Coast and one from North Staffordshire. When Saints were first promoted to the top division in 66/67 I think we had maybe 8 Lancastrian teams, at least, 2 from the north east, 3 from Yorkshire, but only four from the capital. There was Villa and WBA from the West Midlands, Forest and Leicester from the East Midlands. Fast forward to the start of next season and 12 of those teams are in the PL!!

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/news/apos-didn-apos-t-expect-231537474.html

Manager saying (of Joe Hart) that he didn't expect so many mistakes from an England international. Know how he feels. *

*Though feeling that Forster has turned a corner...but being reasonable is never humorous.

 

And giving those of us with BT broadband accounts a rebate......?

Thought not!

 

Better than watching it in poor SD on the Showcase tv channel.

 

It's very nice of BT Broadband to do this for non-BT customers, but it really must piss you off a bit.

The nice thing for me is that, should I want to watch either final, and that's by no means sure, I get all my TV through the Internet anyway, so clicking through to Youtube is zero sweat. I can choose my resolution and sit back. Pretty much the best form of free streaming I can think of. If only Google wasn't sneakily adding to my viewing data in order to throw inappropriate adverts at me occasionally it would totally sweet. But one has to pay for it somehow, and they never miss an opportunity.

 

No BBC, it's a Vespa scooter. Not a bloody moped. A moped is a small motorbike with assist pedals, hence moped. Jeez, does anyone have any knowledge of motorbikes at the BBC these days. Since they let BT have MotoGP they've lost any vestige of expertise: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39939981

 

Cancelled my BT sport just over a month ago

 

Move over Vergini, this is how it's done!....



http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39947732

 

So where do our sympathies lie in the Championship play-off. Both clubs seem likeable in their different ways. I really do feel that promotion for Huddersfield would balance the loss of Boro and Hull in the PL, so I would like the Terriers to emerge as victors there. They could well be replaced by Bradford City who I expect to defeat Millwall. There's a lot of Championship clubs in Yorkshire so surely one of them has a good chance of gaining promotion next season. How about the Blades emulating our achievement? Although, do they have in their ranks any players with the calibre of Rickie Lambert and Adam Lallana?

 

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39962886

Retrospective bans for diving. Good news if you ask me.

 

There will still be a few "taking one for the team" if gaining a penalty wins three points for his team. Obviously that shouldn't apply to Saints because we can't score penalties.

 

At last. As long as they they get it right though. Although they will never be able to make everyone happy.