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.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Well the game hasn't been called off. There went Man Utd's best chance of not losing.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Well the game hasn't been called off. There went Man Utd's best chance of not losing.

Wanted to extend the "Man United are unbeaten in 2025" record a bit longer?

 

[Tired Tyres]

2-2 and man utd could have won it right at the end.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Our best performance of the season by a mile, even better than winning at City. It was much improved compared to recent weeks and were more compact and had more fight, need to do it every week and not just every now and then.

Ugarte, Maguire, Fernandes and Amad were all immense and Yoro's challenge got us the point, what a tackle that was!

 

[Liquid]

Our best performance of the season by a mile, even better than winning at City.

Says a lot when it's a draw.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I know but although we did play well at City I thought we were gifted the win as City imploded and gave away the penalty.

We looked so much more up for it today.

 

[Famine]

Weird week.

West Ham sack Lopetegui.
West Ham appoint Potter.
Luton mutual consent Edwards.
Everton sack Dyche.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Weird week.

West Ham sack Lopetegui.
West Ham appoint Potter.
Luton mutual consent Edwards.
Everton sack Dyche.

Everton Appoint Moyes.

 

[Famine]

I wonder who Spurs are going to appoint next... 😬

 

[MUSC4EVER]

FA Cup round-up.

All the big teams in the Premier League are through, a few shocks which are Brentford getting knocked out by the Championship bottom team Plymouth at home, League One Wycombe beating Championship Portsmouth, League One Exeter beat Championship Oxford and League Two Doncaster beat Championship Hull on penalties. Spurs needed extra time to beat National League Tamworth in an under-par performance but they got through 3-0, holders Man United just beat Arsenal 5-3 on penalties an a great game, pretty much all the other PL clubs had convincing wins over Championship or lower league opposition. There is no replays from this stage forward anymore and no VAR until the fifth round.

FA Cup Fifth Round Draw.

Man United v Leicester City
Leeds United v Millwall or Dagenham & Redbridge
Brighton v Chelsea
Preston or Charlton v Wycombe
Exeter v Nottingham Forest
Coventry v Ipswich
Blackburn v Wolves
Mansfield or Wigan v Fulham
Birmingham v Newcastle
Everton v Bournemouth
Aston Villa v Tottenham
Southampton v Burnley
Leyton Orient or Derby v Man City
Doncaster v Crystal Palace
Stoke v Cardiff

Ties to be played between 7th and 10th of February, still four third round ties to be played as three of them were postponed but those three will be played on Tuesday night, Millwall v Dag & Red is set for tomorrow.

 

[OooAhh Cantona]

FA Cup round-up.

All the big teams in the Premier League are through,

Arsenal 1-1p Man United

 

[Dave A]

Arsenal 1-1p Man United

It was a very interesting game, a very stressful game to watch as a United fan. United were resilient, Arsenal were equally wasteful. I managed to enjoy it at the end.

@Famine Gareth Southgate might be open to it in the summer.