2017/18 Premier League & General Football Discussion

[Liquid]

But that wasn't premier league so it didn't happen.

- Oldest player (Stanley Matthews; 50y 5d in 1964/65)
- Oldest goalscorer (Billy Meredith; 46y 193d in 1920/21)
- Youngest goalscorer (Jason Dozzell; 16y 57d in 1983/84)
- Most consecutive games scored in (Jimmy Dunne; 12 games in 1932/32)
- Most goals scored in a season (Dixie Dean; 60 goals in 1927/28)
- Fewest games to score 100 goals (Dave Halliday; 101 games)

Not Burridge.
Not Sheringham.
Not Vaughan.
Not Vardy. (Nor Mortensen, who also scored in 11 consecutive games)
Not Cole, Shearer, Ronaldo nor Suarez.
Not Shearer.

All top flight player records still not broken in the Premier League era, despite what Sky might have you think. Granted, some records have been set in the Premier League era:

- Longest clean sheet sequence (Edwin van der Sar; 1,311 minutes in 2008/09)
- Fastest goal by a substitute (Nicklas Bendtner; 6 seconds in 2007/08)
- Most titles won by a player (Ryan Giggs; 13)

At least the transfer record has well and truly been smashed.

 

[Jimlaad43]

What about fastest hattrick?

 

[Liquid]

What about fastest hattrick?

That is a Premier League record actually. Sadio Mane did it in 2 minutes 56 seconds in 2014/15 for Southampton against Aston Villa.

The Football League record is quicker (James Hayter; 2m 20s), as is the overall world record (Tommy Ross; 1m 30s), but out of the English top flight that's the best.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Hodgson got the Palace job yesterday, two-year deal.

 

[Famine]

Hodgson got the Palace job yesterday, two-year deal.

It'll feel like eight.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Nah he'll be alright, he did well at Fulham and West Brom, its with England where he cocked it up.

 

[Famine]

Nah he'll be alright, he did well at Fulham and West Brom, its with England where he cocked it up.

That's as maybe, but his face looks like his voice is putting him to sleep.

We had Gary Megson as manager for about seven years. It was only 55 weeks, and yet he had the third (now fourth) best win ratio of any Wednesday manager ever.

And then we had Dave Jones for 18 months, and that felt like a century.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

So Friday Night Football is back tomorrow, and that sort of requires me to post this a day earlier than usual.

Here are this weekends games.

Friday Night
Bournemouth v Brighton (8pm Sky)

Saturday
Crystal Palace v Southampton (12.30 Sky)
Huddersfield v Leicester
Liverpool v Burnley
Newcastle v Stoke
Tottenham v Swansea (5.30 BT)
Watford v Man City
West Brom v West Ham

Sunday
Chelsea v Arsenal (1.30 Sky)
Man United v Everton (4pm Sky)

Big day on Sunday.

Should've had some news on Paul Pogba's hamstring injury after he had a scan yesterday but no news, reports saying he's out for six weeks.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Full times.

Bournemouth 2-1 Brighton
Palace 0-1 Southampton
Watford 0-6 Man City
Huddersfield 1-1 Leicester
Liverpool 1-1 Burnley
Newcastle 2-1 Stoke
West Brom 0-0 West Ham

Spurs v Swansea to come.

Man City have scored 14 goals this week!

 

[Liquid]

Redknapp sacked.

16th September - Harry Redknapp (Birmingham City, sacked) Championship

Sacked: 3

Total: 3

 

[adamp93]

Announced while Villa are winning 3-0. Amazing.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Signed 14 players in the Summer, played 8 won 1 and lost the last 6 having only scored 3, its all sounds very much like him!

You would think that that's it for him now...

 

[m8h3r]

Signed 14 players in the Summer, played 8 won 1 and lost the last 6 having only scored 3, its all sounds very much like him!

You would think that that's it for him now...

Someone will sign him up on gameweek 30, probably Crystal palace.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Very good point for Swansea away to Spurs, hard fought and the defence worked tirelessly to keep a clean sheet, Fernandez was almost superhuman and got man of the match.

Been an OK start to the season picking up 6 points, big problem is the lack of goals and chances created, just two goals scored and six shots on target so far in the league is pretty shocking.

 

[Famine]

Redknapp sacked.

16th September - Harry Redknapp (Birmingham City, sacked) Championship

Sacked: 3

Total: 3

Along with Gary Caldwell at Chesterfield and Michael Brown at Port Vale...

Crystal Palace didn't half get that ball rolling!

 

[C-ZETA]

"Niko Kranjcar and Peter Crouch would have kept me in the job" - Harry Redknapp, probably

 

[Vegard]

Wenger didn't learn his lesson at Anfield and starts Ramsey and Xhaka in midfield again.

I predict a 4-0 thrashing.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

0-0 at half time, good game, both teams had chances...

Aaaannnnddd 0-0 its finishes, Chelsea better in the second half, Luiz sent off late on for a reckless tackle.

United v Everton next...

 

[Phoenix]

Wenger didn't learn his lesson at Anfield and starts Ramsey and Xhaka in midfield again.

I predict a 4-0 thrashing.

Well Arsenal didn't score, so you were right there. But Chelsea didn't either so 0-0 it is.

Luiz sent off late in 2nd half.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Valencia has just scored a thunder-bastard of a goal for United, 1-0 already.

What a strike!!

 

[Phoenix]

Contender to goal of the year by Valencia!!!

 

[Jimlaad43]

It was a goal from outside of the box, nothing special...

 

[MUSC4EVER]

United 1-0 at HT, pretty much all United as we try for a second, Lukaku's miss was extremely painful!

 

[Phoenix]

United with 4-0 once again!

Valencia with the screamer early on, Henrik Mkhitaryan scores after an assist from Lukaku and Lukaku also scores one himself.

Martial ends it all with a penalty goal!

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Frustrating second half when I thought it would be 1-1, but a great final flourish with three goals in last six minutes won us the game, loved the Lukaku celebration!

City and United top the table, same points and GD but City on top on alphabetical order, going to be a tight season!

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Wayne Rooney was in court earlier for his drink-driving to which he pleaded guilty, he got a two-year driving ban and 100 hours community service.

 

[Liquid]

Along with Gary Caldwell at Chesterfield and Michael Brown at Port Vale...

Duly added. Both teams currently occupying the trap door into the Conference. Not surprised at Michael Brown; Port Vale have been in financial distress for years and mediocre football is all they have to show for it. Caldwell is a little more surprising; he did a fine job at Wigan in the classic "get them promoted, then get sacked in the upper tier relegation zone" scenario. Couldn't put my finger on why Chesterfield have had such a rotten start to the season.

16th September - Michael Brown (Port Vale, sacked) League Two
16th September - Gary Caldwell (Chesterfield, sacked) League Two

Sacked: 5

Total: 5

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Interesting story this morning; in a rare case of positive discrimination, Kick It Out are appealing to Man United fans to stop singing a chant about Romelu Lukaku and the size of his penis.

Racist stereotypes are never acceptable, irrespective of any intention to show support for a player.

I think a lot of fans who sang it had no racist intent and don't see it as racist - they see it as funny.
[...]
It is a chant that is racist and Manchester United fans need to face up to that fact.
[...]
It does perpetuate a racist stereotype and I don't think it's a chant that is going to survive for any great length of time because people are realising that fact.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

League Cup stuff tonight and tomorrow, Leicester v Liverpool and Man United v Burton are the TV games on Sky.

Silly news of the day is Rio Ferdinand's taking up Boxing, the whole thing is completely stupid and all about money as its backed by Betfair....

 

[88GTA]

Barcelona's newest star Dembele out at least 3.5 months.

 

[Liquid]

What the fig is the League Cup called this year...?

Anyway, great use of goal line technology. On the real-time look, I'd say that that would have been given in years gone by.