2024/25 Premier League & General Football Thread

[DK]

They need those extra 4 years to finish turning Saudi Arabia into a sandy Scandinavian-style social democracy.

/s

 

[Liquid]

If you object, you're the bad guy.

 

[Omnis]

Sportswashing works. Khashoggi was a mistake but the Saudis have been pretty good with respect to most other stuff, like the Abraham accords, being against Iran and its terror proxies, Jeddah as an international maritime-hospitality port city (prior to Houthis attacking everything in the red sea), and its Riyadh season tourism efforts.

 

[Famine]

 

[Liquid]

It's been a while since there was "Woe" in Wodnesdæg.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Man utd might be bleeding relegated this season at this rate

 

[Famine]

Man utd might be bleeding relegated this season at this rate

Genuinely amazed how much they've regressed. It's like one of my old SWOS saves, where I'd manage them but spike the squad, win everything (because I still have my pride) then leave and watch them just evaporate.

Losing 2-0 to a team that couldn't buy a win, which sat in the relegation zone at the start of play, and only just replaced its own manager is... real bad. It's hilarious that their only point in the last five games was the win against similarly imploding Manchester City.

The table is crazy right now too. Forest in third? Bournemouth goal difference off Europa League qualification? City splitting them and Fulham and Villa (on goal difference)?


Anyway, football... it's a game of two halves.



Also "Wed" not "Weds", dicks.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Aaand we lose again. Liverpool next so Southampton are the next match Man Utd can win.

 

[Famine]

Ruben Amorim says it's possible Manchester United could be relegated.

Meanwhile, nobody saw this coming at all.

Wayne Rooney leaves Plymouth Argyle with side bottom of Championship

Plymouth Argyle part company with head coach Wayne Rooney with the Pilgrims bottom of the Championship.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jim Ratcliffe has the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Liverpool have rejected an offer for Trent Alexander-Arnold from Real Madrid to buy in January, no idea how much but Trent is out of contract in the summer and looks like he will leave anyway, Mo Salah and Virgil Van Dijk are also out of contract in the summer.

January transfer window opens tomorrow.

 

[Famine]

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Was wondering when that was going to get posted!

Insane goal to be fair.

 

[Famine]

Given that Hillsborough's pitch is 116yd and the centre circle is a mandatory 10yd, I make that a roughly 67yd goal...

 

[Jimlaad43]

One of the biggest downgrades in journalism for this season's Premier League has to be replacing Garth Crooks with Troy Deeney on the BBC's Team of the Weak column. Crooks' columns were always great, as he'd write really detailed paragraphs going over what that player did to deserve a spot, how they affected the whole team and loads more. Troy's columns have been woeful in comparison. A half-assed paragraph under a few obvious names most of the time. I write this because I checked this week's and was surprised to see a few two-paragraph explanations. This needs to become more regular because it's a shame to lose such a good review column.

 

[Famine]

That rarest of things has happened: Sheffield Wednesday being discussed in an actual BBC website article. Usually, even if we're the only game that day, we get at most a match report buried eight reports in.

Anyway, it's about the Windass goal vs others from range (by outfield players; Steve Ogrizovic I think holds the record at Hillsborough ) and it's been measured at 62.2 yards. Not sure how, as that's only four yards into our half and he wasn't exactly centred either.