Football Season 2021/22 Cont...

[Soulman58]

City home and dry bar an almighty meltdown

[Mike]

On 15/01/2022 at 14:36, Soulman58 said:

City home and dry bar an almighty meltdown

up in the air now?

As It Stands

Team P GD Pts

1 Man City 26 46 63

2 Liverpool 25 44 57

3 Chelsea 25 31 50

4 Man Utd 26 10 46

5 West Ham 26 11 42

6 Arsenal 23 10 42

7 Wolves 24 5 40

8Tottenham23039

9Brighton25-333

10Southampton25-532

11Leicester23-627

12Aston Villa24-627

13Crystal Palace25-426

14Brentford26-1524

15Leeds24-2123

16Everton23-1222

17Newcastle24-1922

18Watford24-1918

19Burnley22-917

20Norwich25-3817

View full Premier League table

[Soulman58]

3 hours ago, Mike said:

up in the air now?

As It Stands

Team P GD Pts

1 Man City 26 46 63

2 Liverpool 25 44 57

3 Chelsea 25 31 50

4 Man Utd 26 10 46

5 West Ham 26 11 42

6 Arsenal 23 10 42

7 Wolves 24 5 40

8Tottenham23039

9Brighton25-333

10Southampton25-532

11Leicester23-627

12Aston Villa24-627

13Crystal Palace25-426

14Brentford26-1524

15Leeds24-2123

16Everton23-1222

17Newcastle24-1922

18Watford24-1918

19Burnley22-917

20Norwich25-3817

View full Premier League table

I'd still rather have the points in the bag but the City/Liverpool clash to come could be massive.  City just need to learn that all out attack, and forgetting degence, for the whole game isn't always the best way to win a game.

[Mike]

An interesting Premier day

SUNDAY 6TH MARCH 2022

Watford 14:00 Arsenal

Man City 16:30 Man Utd

Am going for a Man C and Arsenal double today

Whatcha reckon easy money?

[Leicester Boy]

2 hours ago, Mike said:

An interesting Premier day

SUNDAY 6TH MARCH 2022

Watford 14:00 Arsenal

Man City 16:30 Man Utd

Am going for a Man C and Arsenal double today

Whatcha reckon easy money?

Yes

[Mike]

interesting article

 

 

[Leicester Boy]

9 hours ago, Mike said:

interesting article

 

 

Very interesting that Mike. I think a couple of German clubs are virtually ran by the"fans". There is a lot of talk at my own club Leicester that for all our recent success, that we are losing our working class roots and atmosphere to a much more sanitized orchestrated " American sporting dayout that many diehards fervently dislike. Don't know about other clubs but there certainly at premier League level seems to be a mindset of changing the match going support from the traditional working man to the more affluent middle class family type who are going to spend plenty in the club shop. Football in this country is at a crossroads and not for the better in my opinion. I long for the old days when we were crap but it felt like my club. Anyway many probably think success is worth selling your grandmother for. Cheers.

[Mike]

3 hours ago, Leicester Boy said:

Very interesting that Mike. I think a couple of German clubs are virtually ran by the"fans". There is a lot of talk at my own club Leicester that for all our recent success, that we are losing our working class roots and atmosphere to a much more sanitized orchestrated " American sporting dayout that many diehards fervently dislike. Don't know about other clubs but there certainly at premier League level seems to be a mindset of changing the match going support from the traditional working man to the more affluent middle class family type who are going to spend plenty in the club shop. Football in this country is at a crossroads and not for the better in my opinion. I long for the old days when we were crap but it felt like my club. Anyway many probably think success is worth selling your grandmother for. Cheers.

yep the Bohemian FC approach at first look made me think of FC St. Pauli and to a lesser degree the whole German football modal

anyone involved or aware of any uk clubs doing similar?

 

 

 

[Mike]

 

 

a good fa cup weekend?

Edited March 20, 2022 by Mike

[Leicester Boy]

I think it proves the"big6"is actually 3 and that might become 2 soon, depends on Chelsea new owners!

[Soulman58]

1 hour ago, Leicester Boy said:

I think it proves the"big6"is actually 3 and that might become 2 soon, depends on Chelsea new owners!

In terms of the teams absolutely. 

An interesting summer ahead, re Chelsea's new owners, how many players leave and what will their buying power look like.  Also if Man U are outside of the top 4, can they attract their main targets.

Add in Newcastle looking to upscale, the top 4/6 becomes just as hard as this year.  Arsenal will need to buy as not being in Europe this year has helped them.

Will Conte stay?

Will my team West Ham lose Rice and Bowen.  If so will need at least 5 new players, hard to get exactly what they require, especially as last Summer's buys all look poor now.

 

 

[Mike]

A big big match tomorrow for the homeland

Uefa World Cup 2022 play-off fixtures in full

 

Path A

Wales vs Austria (Thursday 24 March)

Scotland vs Ukraine (postponed until June)

 

Path B

Sweden vs Czech Republic (Thursday 24 March)

Winner will face Poland in the final (Tuesday 29 March)

 

Path C

Italy vs North Macedonia (Thursday 24 March)

Portugal vs Turkey (Thursday 24 March)

 

Portugal/Turkey vs Italy/North Macedonia (Tuesday 29 March)

[Mike]

bit of an enjoyable night

 

[Leicester Boy]

Can't help thinking bale for all his success could have achieved so much more!

[Shinehead]

Not surprised by the Wales result they always seem to rise to the occasion .

Shame that Bales career has stalled at Madrid and seems to have wasted years there .maybe the body is not up to the cut and thrust of domestic football bit he sure turns up and turns it on for Wales.

What happened to Italy Euro win to World Cup humiliation on less than two years 

 

 

8 minutes ago, Leicester Boy said:

 

Edited March 25, 2022 by Shinehead

[Leicester Boy]

Arguably the best footballer these islands have produced since prime gazza.

[Shinehead]

51 minutes ago, Leicester Boy said:

Arguably the best footballer these islands have produced since prime gazza.

Possibly but Gazza seemed more in love with the game playing through with his injury problems and personal problems too .

Who knows what went wrong at Madrid he had a great couple of years then it seemed to go awry .

Thought he might have flourished at Spurs but the Special One seemed to not fancy him.so that went not to plan .

 

 

[Soulman58]

2 hours ago, Leicester Boy said:

Arguably the best footballer these islands have produced since prime gazza.

Interesting, similar in that niether fully delivered, but great to watch at their peak. 

[Wilxy]

6 hours ago, Mike said:

bit of an enjoyable night

 

Extremely Happy with the outcome, albeit I was beginning to think we were going to rue the missed opportunities following their goal......Onto the play-off final, Scotland or "The Rest of the World" (If Ukraine overcome Scotland in the delayed play-off semi??? Tough one to call regardless!

[Leicester Boy]

1 minute ago, Wilxy said:

Extremely Happy with the outcome, albeit I was beginning to think we were going to rue the missed opportunities following their goal......Onto the play-off final, Scotland or "The Rest of the World" (If Ukraine overcome Scotland in the delayed play-off semi??? Tough one to call regardless!

Probably not the rest of the world.... Russia China and north Korea would be fully behind you. In all seriousness sentiment shouldn't matter and the best team on the occasion should go through.

[Wilxy]

3 minutes ago, Leicester Boy said:

Probably not the rest of the world.... Russia China and north Korea would be fully behind you. In all seriousness sentiment shouldn't matter and the best team on the occasion should go through.

I just hope it's Wales then, as I was only 4 when we last qualified for the World Cup Finals, so didn't know a lot about it at the time

[Leicester Boy]

1 minute ago, Wilxy said:

I just hope it's Wales then, as I was only 4 when we last qualified for the World Cup Finals, so didn't know a lot about it at the time

For what it's worth, my gut feeling is Wales will do it.