Match Day Thread 2017/18 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

I'd take Alonso back right now.

 

Steady on

 

I'd take Dalglish

 

Nah. Too old.

 

Needs must.

 

#deluded

 

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...sment-over-harry-kane-tweet-tottenham-hotspur

"Mauricio Pochettino labels FA an embarrassment over Harry Kane tweet"

You, Kane, and Spurs in general are an embarrassment

 

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He's still got it

 

Good man.

Kidney Research UK.

Let’s keep @Tobes as bet master.

 

Done

 

****ing faggots

 

TEARS, TEA AND PSG
The first story snapped on the Press Association’s news wires at10.02am.The Everton manager, Sam Allardyce, had revealed what he was going to be doing next season: precisely what he is doing now. “We discussed plans for next season yesterday,” he said. “We have some clarity moving forward now.” Did this mean, he was asked, that he would definitely still be at Goodison Park in August? “Didn’t I just say that?” he barked. Well, not in so many words, thought the audience. “For clarification, yes.”

At12.45pmReuters reported that Paris Saint-Germain’s boss, Unai Emery, had revealed what he wasn’t going to be doing next season: what he is doing now. “I have told the players I’m leaving,” he sniffed. “I thank President Nasser al-Khelaifi, the director of sport Antero Henrique, the supporters and all the players for these two seasons.” Justfive minutes lateranother story broke. As Emery released his statement Barcelona’s Andrés Iniesta revealed that he too would be packing his bags come the summer. “This is my last season here,” he sobbed. “There are still things to be sorted. I have said I will never play against Barça, so I won’t play in Europe. Barça has given me everything.”

Sam Allardyce insists he is making plans to be Everton manager next season

In early January, just after the denizens of Britain have trudged unwillingly back to work following the end of the Christmas and New Year festivities, there is a single day which travel agents identify as their busiest of the year. It is as if, after digesting our turkey and recovering from our hangovers, we collectively decide that we need something to look forward to, and that a sunshine break in Lanzarote could be it. A couple of weeks later, at the start of the third full week of the year, there is a day that has come to be known as BlueMonday, in which we are generally – according to a possibly made-up press release once that everyone was too depressed to disbelieve – at our most miserable.

But football runs to a different calendar, one that starts with pre-season training in June and ends for most in May. For a player there is little to be decided in January except for the perennial glove/legging question about whether to prioritise looking cool over feeling warm. Where most of us crumble after Christmas, footballers ebb after Easter. And here we stand, on the last Friday of April, with league fixtures running out, cup glory still within reach of very few, and people at the top of the game in three different nations coming to conclusions about their futures.

Something, it seems, is in the air. Allardyce would probably insist that he was acting independently, as the only things he likes to see in the air are footballs, but this simply cannot be coincidence. We only require a publicity-hungry psychologist to coin a term for it, and it will officially be a Thing. Expect more bandwagon-jumping departures over the next few days, starting with relegation-bound West Brom: frequently off-target, finally on-trend.

 

It's not only the rags blaming Liverpool fans for the Roma fans behaviour. I found this on Grand Old Team [EFC website] an article about LFC by an Everton fan........

''They have certainly managed to exploit, deliberately or otherwise, the darker episodes in their history to their own advantage.
The cult of victimhood pervades much of their identity and the media have not only fallen for it, but have taken on the mantle of pushing it for them.
I still can't believe for their home game against City recently. I was half following it online, through the BBC football page and all of a sudden it stated "Radio 5Live falls silent for You'll Never Walk Alone" It was a football game for gods sake, not an act of homage at a war memorial. What is it that inspires this level of cultishness towards them?
They have made crying foul into an art form and respond vehemently and aggressively to anything perceived as being even mildly questioning of them or against them.
Fair play to them in one respect for that but I'm afraid they have to bear some indirect responsibility for that dreadful, appalling attack on one of their supporters the other evening.
You can't look the other way when a section of your fanbase has been incubating an atmosphere of fear and frenzy towards visiting teams and fans, heralded and publicised in advance, promoted on social media, in full media glare and with nobody to take a stand against it, and then wonder why that poor unfortunate chap found himself on the receiving end of such viciousness and thuggery.''

Our fans have made it a tradition over years to welcome the buses on Euro nights with never a problem. The man city episode is inexcusable but stands alone - never been done before or since, granted there's only been one more bus welcome since. Yet in this Evertonians mind, our fans somehow must share in the responsibility for what the Roma fans - with decades of history of violence both at home and abroad - did in an unprovoked attack on a 53 year old man going quietly about his business.

How do you get through to people like the author of the piece above?

 

You don't.

 

I know. Do people like this ignore the facts on purpose?

 

Even if any or all of the above were true, it doesn't excuse or provide any mitigation for an unprovoked attack on an innocent party. The idea that any individual bears the responsibility for others who just happen to follow the same club, or is fair game through association is a very dangerous mind-set to have.

 

I agree completely. It's how racism, sexism, and every other 'ism' takes hold.

 

Just a note... iniesta.

Why can't they admit that they are going to a low tax zone to claim deferred image rights payments and make a killing.

Him and xavi...... just admit it

 

Arsene Wenger says Arsenal have clear objective v Atletico Madrid after Europa League draw
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11348877/arsene-wenger-says-arsenal-have-clear-objective-v-atletico-madrid-after-europa-league-draw​

 

Well done arsene. Does it involve going full lovren?