[Closed] A 2015/16 Football Thread

Erm, help me.

I don't know what to do, bring on Satdee

You can still see and type - you're not trying 🙂

Going to be quite a party on Saturday, I'd imagine the trophy will be there too !

As a lifelong Spurs fan i'm obviously a bit disappointed that we haven't won for the first time in my life. If you had asked at beginning of season I would have taken Champions league so overall it's a great season. Team is looking good going forward, all young too.

All season I was cheering on Leicester though (until spurs had a chance) and don't begrudge them winning at all. It's been amazing to see tbh.

In other news. Tico into UCL final at the expense of Bayern.

If City got into the final and lost to Tico, they'd be like Pep's ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. 🙂

That was a cracking game of football.

Jeeezo> Fernando Torres is in another Champions League Final. Does.not.compute.

Sweet pass from Tores for the first goal - justice was done on the penalty as it was oitside the box

City will be hiring Pep after two mediocre seasons

Oh well. Not to be for Citeh.

Will be cheering Tico on in the final.

Well at least Citeh fans had a nice day out in Madrid. Went out with a whimper

Neutralised by Real. Not many teams roar at the Bernabou to be fair. Disappointed they couldn't muster a bit more. Toure was bloody woeful. Vasquez should have seen red for that challenge too.

Thursday musings....

Given they now have 2 players banned for violent conduct and got 11 yellow cards in one match, should Spurs have points deducted? If I remember right both Man U and Arenal had points deducted for scrapping, and this is not that different is it?

On a non Premier League front - if Burton Albion get promoted to the Championship would that be an equal to Leicesters achievement?

Well at least Citeh fans had a nice day out in Madrid. Went out with a whimper

As expected really. Probably did well to keep the deficit to one, but would have been a travesty if they'd nicked one to go through. Toure has looked shockingly casual this season, Sterling was a terrible buy, as was Bony, Kompany looks pretty much perma-crocked. Silva hasn't had much of a run in the team, ditto Nasri.

De Bruyne and Ihnenacho are the bright spots of the season.

[url= https://mobile.twitter.com/robert_huth/status/728899273979465729 ]A touch of class from the suspended Robert Huth[/url]

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Great start although judging by the chanting Bocelli was a bit too high brow!!!

Vardy early goal -great to see

Are Evertin going to get trounced here?

If only they had your breeding they would have been as respectful as you were there.

Excellent first half from the new champs - glad they are celebrating in true style. Fun to watch.

A touch of class from the suspended Robert Huth

Not sure if I'm happier that Leicester are champions or that Terry gets the indignity of having to sit out the last two games of the season and probably his Chelsea career, denied a last goodbye, whilst watching his team die a death.

Great win for the Saints, now just the small problem of getting past Citeh, who unfortunately after 45 mins are well up for it!

That's a great result for us! It's a massive game on Tuesday night now. We could potentially finish top four at the expense of city! Who'd have thunk it? 🙂

Anyone who'd watched City recently. 🙁

Pep's not going to like it.

And West Ham have conveniently fallen out of form too.

Fair point! City have been almost as awful as us recently. Which is quite an achievement! The City players are presently doing a 'lap of honour' to an empty stadium 😆

It's been a good day today. I put bets on a city draw and Southampton win. 😀

I won't even try and predict what it'll be on Tuesday. I certainly wouldn't put any money on it!

We could potentially finish top four...

It's a thing really to see fans sinking to this kind of "It could be our year..." desperation. 🙁

And West Ham have conveniently fallen out of form too.

Last game at Upton Park so they will be well up for it and anything can happen when Man United are in town - except lots of goals.

We dont deserve CL football for how we have been this season but it looks like City just dont want it either

Yesterday was utterly incredible on every level.

Early start with friends who have been ever present with me over the last 15 years, celebrating in the city streets.

Andrea Bocelli performing live for us, he's one of my real passions and have always dreamt of seeing him live.

Partying in the streets into the wee hours with city fans and hundreds of Italians who had come over just for the day, simply sublime fun.

Today I am suffering, but not as much as my old man who quite simply had day of his life watching a 50 year investment come good.

Claudio, the lads, the owners, Leicester City.....I ****ing love you for this 😥 😀

There's no way we deserve to be even in with a sniff of the champions league. Yesterday summed up our season. A mind numbingly tedious, totally uninspiring, turgid display against a team you should be trouncing, and somehow managing to come away with 3 points from pretty much the only shot on target.

Bravisimo- have a word with yourself! There wasn't a single United fan who thought it was 'our year'. We knew this was as much as we could expect. At best!

Oh... and well done scandal! Glad you enjoyed it! Well and truly deserved. You've shown everything that we've lacked, in spades!

There wasn't a single United fan who thought it was 'our year'.

I know binbins. But it appears that UCL qualification in 4th place is now "your year" for you. I'm pleased for you mate.

Grim innit? I could live with it if we looked like we were having a go, and looking like it mattered! But the whole approach of VG is just soul-destroyingly awful to watch!

Whereas Leicester have won the title playing some great football!

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36241344 ]Leicester's main hospital has experienced an influx at its A&E department after Leicester City's Premier League title party.
Leicester Royal Infirmary said twice as many people as usual had arrived at the unit overnight, with many suffering alcohol-related injuries.[/url]

The amusing thing is.....if United manage to avoid the draw against the Hammers and actually win, they face the prospect of another year of LVG! Tee hee 🙂

From my point of view, almost perfect weekend of football.

Indeed, good result for the Mackems which made me smile after the excellent treatment from the Sunderland fans when we went to the away game this season.

Fighting relegation and we came and won but you were still giving us the plaudits and warm reception.

Good luck

Am I right in thinking Sunderland winning their next game technically sends Newcastle (and Norwich) down?

Jaysus...they'll bloody enjoy that if it's true. You couldn't write that sort of stuff. 😀

EDIT: And congrats from me too scandal. No doubt you've been enjoying the last week but I hope you have anyway. Leicester must have been rocking all weekend.

So...BIG game tonight! Well, big after the proper stuff has been sorted anyway.

Man U desperate to sneak past their noisy neighbours and put Pep on his arse next year, whilst West Ham are playing their last game at Upton Park* also desperate to win for different reasons. Form guide is a bit off, so I'm going to stick my neck out and go for......1-1. 8)

*Boleyn ground!

Who knows with Man U

I wish were just actually good to watch

Martial injured and we look much worse without his flair and penetration

Draw is probably the most likely and I don't think we really deserve the fourth place but if we beat them I would { keegan voice] bloody love it[/keegan voice]

It could be anything tonight. A lot depends on whether LVG feels the need to take a striker with him this week. Mind you... if he does then he'd probably play him as a left back. You'd hope they'd be up for it tonight though, with the chance of seeing Pep playing in the arse end of nowhere against a side nobodies ever heard of, in the Europa league.

On the West Ham front, a good statement today from them about the new stadium. David Gold has come out and basically said 'Its not our fault that some bloody stupid politicians spent a fortune of other peoples money on some daft white elephant vanity project!! What the hell else are they going to do with it now?

Hard to argue with that really

I cannot decide whether it would be better to have Utd or Man City in the Champions League next season.

If Pep misses out it would indeed be very funny but he would also only have the league to concentrate on.

The again, he would have the Europa league to deal with.

"Thursday Nights, Channel 5" is the very worse place to find yourself. Better to do a Rednapp and throw your last couple of games, than end up flying back from Bratislava on a Friday morning, with a game on Saturday

Agreed scandal - who would you least mind sneaking/least like to sneak into CL?

Pep in the Europa League would be mildly amusing (although I was hoping that City would give Pellegrini a better send off as seems a decent bloke) but LVG engenders such an immediate negative reaction that its hard to root for Utd these days.

On balance? C'mon the 'ammers

(although I was hoping that City would give Pellegrini a better send off as seems a decent bloke)

Well compared to how they waved Mark Hughes off - also a thoroughly decent bloke - the 3 blokes and a dog slow handicapping in an empty stadium was positively magisterial

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Well lets hope that he has his own Ranieri moment at some point in the future

Part of me hopes both utd and city make it at the expense of arsenal...

That's assuming Arsenal can't beat the mighty Villa. 😐

Part of me hopes both utd and city make it at the expense of arsenal...

I suppose that's possible. Certainly Arsenal are one place above their usual spot, so one of the two Manchester clubs could help them out with that.

I didn't know until today that Ed Balls is the chairman of Norwich!

Down you go Canaries...

[i]I didn't know until today that Ed Balls is the chairman of Norwich!

Down you go Canaries...[/i]

me neither....good call! 🙂

I think all genuine football fans would prefer Man U to get in above Citeh....who frankly are no better than Chelski! (just slightly more likeable personel) Now that would be ALMOST as big a surprise as LCFC winning, both Citeh and Chelski not making the top four.

Priceless!

I'd say that city fans are far more discerning and just generally better than Chelsea fans.

Chelsea fans seem to think that their inheritance was fully deserved and just a matter of time. City fans appear to view the whole sheikh thing with amusement and like winning the lottery. Just another haphazard chapter. Prefer them all day long to Chelsea.

Not a city fan btw.

CIty kept massive support when they went down the divisions

Most that I know like the sucess but hate the method

No question that City are considerably more likeable than CFC, but its just the unlimited quantities of cash they are able to throw at it that makes me hope they fail, cos basically its not remotely fair on the rest of the league.

yes there "not breaching the Fair play rules" involved the kind of accounting that Cameron's dad would admire.

I'd say that city fans are far more discerning and just generally better than Chelsea fans.

As benchmarks go... we're not setting the bar high, are we? 😉

I remember when City got relegated for the second time (how we laughed!), my mate Mike, a season ticket holder since the year dot, threw his season ticket away in disgust. An old bloke picked it up, handed it back to him and said "If I have to keep enduring this shit, year in, year out, then so do you!" Theres that sort of Spirit of the Blitz about the club. They still can't believe their luck.

Chelski on the other hand. Well Alan Davies pretty much nailed it...

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Its been brilliant watching Chelski wallowing in mid-table obscurity this season. And the thoroughly deserving ignominious end to John Terry's career - going out on a self-inflicted whimper - has been the icing on the cake. Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke

He has a point but the vitriol of[ some] football fans makes me ashamed to admit I like the game.
I know you will defend it as banter but honestly much of this is just hateful bile that shames us all.

Roman is a modern day mafioso don though, Terry is unlovable and the train incident was shameful. I am not sure meeting their hate with your hate helps much and leads to Man u "fans" chanting about Hillsborough Whilst pool "fans" chant about Munich and make aeroplane arms.

Sometimes what thy say about football and its fans is true

I know you will defend it as banter but honestly much of this is just hateful bile that shames us all.

Why would I defend it? I think there are lines that shouldn't be crossed. Into out-and-out racism for example. Something that attaches itself to certain clubs, and their fans. And Chelsea are most definitely one of those clubs. Thats one of the main reasons I dislike them so much.

And as a United fan, I find the whole 'Murderers' thing, and the chants to Wenger at OT an absolute embarrassment that shames the club!

Why do you think I wouldn't?

I clearly meant you would defend the hate and you did.

As i said yes some clubs have issues, some players and some fans.
I shall leave you to decide where you sit on the helpful / hindering scale of harmonious football fans interacting peacefully together with mutual respect.

The point is. Football fans create a narrative & it seems that even rational, sensible people buy into that narrative. So Leicester are everyone's favourite football club, even though Vardy makes racist comments in a Casino & Simpson(?) was convicted of domestic abuse. The truth is none of us really know what these people are like. We just accept the story that gets told.

Sorry to disappoint you JY but I don't think we're ever going to arrive at your "I'd like to teach the world to sing' worldview on the terraces. Too much history. And christ, it'd be dull if we ever did. Maybe you could introduce some bongo workshops or something to create an atmosphere? Basket weave some non-threatening inclusive banners?

Well done though. For giving your completely non-judgemental, and not even remotely patronising black and white opinion of what you assume to be my opinions.

Clearly if we're not going to be part of forming a multicultural, inclusive human chain, all smiling and holding hands, from Old Trafford to Anfield, then we're part of the problem

but I don't think we're ever going to arrive at your "I'd like to teach the world to sing' worldview on the terraces. Too much history. And christ, it'd be dull if we ever did. Maybe you could introduce some bongo workshops or something to create an atmosphere? Basket weave some non-threatening inclusive banners?

Well done though. For giving your completely non-judgemental, and not even remotely patronising black and white opinion of what you assume to be my opinions.

Your right what you have been preaching has been near Gandhi levels of tolerance and respect between fans

I retract all my points in the face of your overwhelming use of [s]abuse and straw men [/s] logic

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Meanwhile at West Ham, as we prepare to say goodbye to the Bowling Ground, the home fans have just given the late arriving Man Utd coach a good pelting. 😆

(West Ham no better than Chelsea IMO - just poorer.)

EDIT: Can you two leave one another alone? It's like watching two of my wee-stained aunts from the dodgy end of my family fighting over the last of the bottle of gin. 😀

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DOdgy suggest there is a good end to your gene pool 😉

Bizzies bizzyin' around as usual spoiling everyone's fun.

No CL for Pep would be Golden particularly if that guaranteed no Man U job for Jose. So for one night only, United !

Apologies to Newcastle fans here but that club needs to be relegated to get itself sorted out

All this would make for a near perfect season assuming Spurs don't F-it all up by finishing third which is looking a distinct possibilty 😐

Chapeau a million times to Ranieri and a big mention for Koeman who's done another fine job this season

I don't know a single Sunderland fan who wants to see Newcastle go down.

Where else are they going to get the guaranteed 6 points every season? 😉

I'm with Binners on this and whilst Junky makes some reasonable points, we have to accept that Football does engender incredible emotions..,,,which is great isn't it! Unfortunately, like most things, it's the few that ruin it for the many and sadly that's how people view the game.

Every Club has supporters so thick, they don't understand or care about the damage they do, but it's for the rest of us to rise above it.

Some dont even try.

we have to accept that Football does engender incredible emotions..,,,which is great isn't it!

that is great the hate and tribalism , which West ham are showing so well today, is not great.

JY knows I love him anyway. Group hug?

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Just a few thick ****s....don't let it spoil yer evening. Kick off delayed to 8.30pm so we watching endless reruns of THAT goal by di Canio !

I think we both know there is no malice here and not much photoshop skills either 😉

Why is Teddy Sherringham in fancy dress?

Missed the Peakey Blinders auctions by months....

This means Teddy can do or wear whatever he likes 😀

The West Ham co-chairman, David Sullivan, said: “Manchester United should have got here at four o’clock. They know it’s our last game.” He added that he felt sorry for the West Ham fans over the delayed kick-off. “We have got a great show after the game and some won’t be able to stay and that’s such a pity.”

response to the smashed up coach

RESPECT

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Dave Suillavan is a prick of the highest order. Its almost like he hasn't seen the news regarding football over the last few weeks. Same for some of the West Ham supporters what a bunch of knobs.

What's the big fuss over a destinctly middle of the road London club leaving their ground anyway?

What a lovely simple goal...

(ignoring the deflection...)

Ooh...lots of happy Hammers already! 1-0

All a bit giddy, this. More end of season London club mentalness.

Is Rooney a defender these days? When did LVG make the switch?

Jeez what a let off for Man U their in big trouble here I reckon!

Are you sure United arent still on the coach? It'd be nice of them to turn up at some point.

Apparently there's a champions league spot still going begging. You wouldn't know it!