The General Football Thread

Speechless. What a game.

Magic

 

Incredible atmosphere

 

Extraordinary stuff. Pleased as well, purely because I've always thought Darren Ferguson looks a bit of a bellend.

 

And their owner, Darragh MacAnthony, certainly is.

 

I mean what a come back. Only downer on it for me is Moore had to suffer racial abuse from his own fans after the first leg.

 

Listening to the High Performance podcast with Phil Giles DoF at Brentford. He’s talking about how they tried to build quickly from scratch, hiring lots of new faces and signing lots of new players and finding that it didn’t work. Now firmly believes in slow incremental growth and change. How it’s about people now not just data. I wonder how different it was because it feels like he’s referencing the recent past when RAnkersen was in charge.

 

Last night I went to see Real Mallorca v Valencia in La Liga. While the match itself was quite ordinary, several issues stood out for me.
Firstly, on entry to the ground, we were given an anti-racist card, and quite rightly so given the treatment directed at black players in general and Vinicius Jr in particular. Le's hope action can be taken against these bigots that blemish the great game of football. The second thng that I noticed was the age and demographic mix. In order to fill the ground, Real Mallorca gave thousands of tickets to schoolchildren, the potential supporters of the future. These children represented the wide demographic mix of the population here in Mallorca.
Thirdly, after entering the ground we went to the bar to get a drink. No alcoholic beverages are served. Quite how UK fans would cope with that, I do not know.

As for the game itself, one feature that was absent, that is seen so frequently in the UK game, being that the players did not surround the referee if a decision went against them. But the best moment came at the final whistle. As the referee blew his whislte, two Valencia players lay prostrate on the ground in the Mallorca penalty area following a corner. At that moment a young supporter raced on to the pitch towards Cavani. The stewards were not best pleased but let the matter proceed which involved the young supporter begging Cavani for his shirt. To great applause, Cavani granted the youngster his wish. Happy with that, the boy raced back to rejoin his family with a smile as broad as Palma Bay. While it is wrong to invade the pitch, and I hope the boy is reminded about this, I feel the stewards acted correctly in observing what would happen rather than taking a harsher approach.

 

Goztepe lost their playoff!

 

Surely Dortmund aren't going to throw the title away?

2-0 down to Mainz at home. Missed a pen at 1-0.

 

They remind me so much of spurs

 

I know why, they were my home banker in my acca...

 

Koln level!

 

Crazy

 

Ljubicic stuff.

 

Bayern back in front

 

Former Southampton youth player Jamal Musiala...

 

A battle between two of my favourite kits of the 70s, hope Cov win it...

 

Have to cheer for Luton, because becoming the first team to go from the top division to non-league and back to the Premier League is pretty remarkable. Definitely not because it would be incredibly funny if they were in the PL and Nathan Jones was not.

 

Get in Luton