Throwing Bad Money After Good - the EFL and Beyond 2017-18

dang - jodi jones, our best player by far, out for the season :(
only 20 yrs old too, hopefully there'll be no lasting damage

isn't it just fucking hateful when a team has one good player and he cunts in two 25-yarders when you've been on top

Stood in a bar with a lot of Hull fans who haven't even got the energy to be disappointed any more

QPR scored in the 93rd and 94th to come back from two down!

Fucking A! Buzzing for r|t|c

you know how the last hope of a scoundrel club outside of a transfer window is out of contract wasters

LEON BEST IN THE BUILDING

lol! I used to rate him when he was at Yeovil.

another injury time blitz!

:D

completely off topic...

Went to watch the local 'Town' play in the FA Vase last night. We were stood near a corner flag and a corner was about to happen. My friend says "Oh this will be interesting to see whether he places this ball in the 'D'"

Not kidding. The guy placed the ball at least ONE METRE outside the D, ref did nuffing. We just laughed our socks off.

~fitba~

Haha love it.

Last season we had a midweek match* at Mangotsfield. Immediately after kickoff we could hear that the ball didn't sound right when it was headed or kicked and told the linesman. He said "it must be fine, the players would complain if it wasn't". Straight after the ball went out of play next to him and when the player picked it up he said it needed more air. Lino bursts out laughing and when the confused player asks why he pointed at us and said "I was having a laugh a minute ago about players being too stupid to know when a ball's flat".

*This was in fact a rescheduled game, after the chief exec tried to thaw out a frozen penalty spot with a kettle of boiling water first time round and the ref was having none of it.

I am also getting used to players being given offside in their own half, seen it 5 times so far this season. The ref knew all about the one the other week, he made the player move the ball to take it twice.

A Stanley player got sent off after full time last weekend. Apparently his misdeed was to perform a little mime for the ref to show how (he thought) poor innocent Jayden Stockley had dived to win a penalty.

I don't know if it was a second yellow, but I think a mime is probably worth a straight red.

Dean Windass once got three reds in a game for Aberdeen I think

Windass was initially dismissed for two bookable offences, but his initial dissent at Dougal earned a further red-card equivalent.

To compound matters Windass ripped up the corner flag and threw it on to the ground on his way to the tunnel, securing another eight points.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-windass-sent-off-three-times-1293795.html

I can remember Windass repeatedly moving the ball a few yards forwards and making gestures behind the ref's back, in his face every decision. This was in his 2nd Bradford City stint, and I've never seen a player undermine a ref's authority and continually take the piss out of him so much and only get one yellow for it. He was a complete arse, but it was a very entertaining bit of pantomime villainy I suppose.

managed to get my ticket for Wolves v Brentford, 2nd of Jan. nearly sold out already. as my brother said: "where were they when we were shit?"

In this age of digital season cards and big data, there must be a reasonable way to fuck off glory supporters to the back of the queue and make them feel like the shallow opportunists they are. just jokin

They have a fan categorisation thing at Town that puts some fans to the front of the queue and it is has been quite controversial, they have a sliding priority scale of P1 (priority) onwards or something. I love the amount of butthurt it creates amongst people who see themselves as uberfans but don't make the P1 cut. When I read some of these fuckers comments I start siding with the glory fans tbh.

Leeds corner, Big Chris Samba gets absolutely sonned by Big Pontus Jansson, 1-0 to the scum. a very EFL goal. apparently theyve had 70% of the possession so far, Bruce OUT ffs

Missed the goal, half watching in the pub, more cheering on Norwich than owt else

lol youve got a game in hand, stop being greedy!

another Saturday, another Sunderlol

Worst goal we'll ever concede.

BT have already confirmed they're screening the replay, apparently.

wonder if Tim was at the Ecotricity Arena or whatever it's called

xp just saw it on Final Score, took an eternity to go in

Can't work out where it hits him last - chest? Stomach?

Not sure you can blame Horse for losing the flight of the ball because of it.

i thought it was off his thigh but i only saw it once

I gave VegAnfield a miss I’m afraid. Sounds like it was fun.

the Allam family are a fucking disgrace

It looks like they approve of the Oysten method.

or Oyston even.

not sure our goal crossed the line, def sure their cunt shd've been sent off, OK for a derby so far

Am I reading it correctly that there is goal line tech in the Championship, but it still couldn't determine if it was over the line?

Let's not quibble over mere details. the score is blues 0-1 wolves, leaving the blues in the relegation zone on goal difference. that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know

Oh absolutely. Still a bit too cagey for my liking tbh

scrappy ugly derby win, seems appropriate given the opposition. 10 points ahead of 3rd

Super Leon Clarke!

Leon Clarke almost breaks the net as United equalise.

The striker picks the ball up on the right after a lovely ball from midfield. He cuts inside, fronts up with Baker in the box and pulverises it past Frank Fielding. There was no way he was stopping that.

who'd've guessed Cattermole would end up in the "red card for kicking lumps out of Jota" club?

I am very pleased to have reached the third round of the cup for the first time in a while. West Brom at home! It doesn't get any more exciting than that IIRC.

if you're lucky you'll draw a big club in the fourth

(Actually I would really really like a replay, never been to the Hawthorns. Sadly two of our brightest performers these last few weeks have been on loan from West Brom.)

They likely won't much enjoy our two-sided ground, our microscopic dressing rooms or the various fungi that are alleged to grow in the showers.

good!

Harry Winks would pick the night Alli gets dropped to turn in an absolute shocker

Lamela looks bright tho

Jesus our passing

claude puel shitting on soton

It's not great but surely not so bad you need to post it on the EFL thread

Was just gonna say

FA Cup nerves. And the memories of the score last time we were on the telly.

Excellent goal.