Realest Of Football, Realest Of Talk: Football League, Blue Square & Beyond, 2009/10

OH SHIT

probably the greatest part of finally meeting Swygart last weekend was attempting to pronounce Exodus' full name and being corrected by the master with scarce a beat missed

Disappointed they didn't work 'Player Exodus' into the headline.

is his name not just pronounced like "gay-gun" or what

There's an England C team?!

yeah, an amateur-only team. or semi-pro. something like that.

Insert England joke here

England C team = English players playing in the Blue Square Premier or below is eligible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_C_national_football_team

they normally pick players in their early 20s

That's pretty cool, we should feature them more on this thread, even if they did get their arses handed to them by Bosnia B. Not too many of the C lads seem to make the big step up - nice to see Sam Ricketts notching goal of the week last Saturday though.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46807000/jpg/_46807671_89569998.jpg

BBC subs bringing the image quality again

poor barnsley :(

Kettering 1 - 0 Leeds United L

lol graham taylor and elton john etc

kinda waiting for rtc's verdict

props to gordon strachan btw, keep up the good lolwork.

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be churlish of me to change my tack now tbh.

haaaaaaaaa

anyway i am watching this watford bullshit now so LET'S LIVE IN THE PRESENT EH. having just fired it up i have no grasp as of yet of what's going on but i see idiot napoleon jim has RUNG THE CHANGES by dropping all our actually good players and leaving in his beloved fitz "one cunt" hall. this bodes brilliant.

oh wow and leigertwood's back in midfield as well. this is extra fantastic cos jimbo's whole fecking purported reason for playing hall is his donna sammer "passing game" (which is obviously way better than our reigning players of the year gorkss & stewart comprising one of best defences of last season's division) - legs in the middle booting everything into touch is really gonna further this noble aim while wilkinseque passmaster faurlin dawdles away on the wing.

game is a bunch of haplesss balls so far btw, we look like a john gregory era timewaRP YESSSSS GET THE FUCK IN NEVERMIND WAHEY

looooooooooooooooooooooooool

we're still absolute pony so far mind. neither i nor jim have any belief in the moral validity of this game whatsoever but let's all just grind it out and get back to fannying around next time. watch & learn gooners!

oh tits.

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poor qpr

taarabt was just unbefuckinglievable those last 10 minutes. every single shooting or passing opportunity that opened up he elects to turn the defender a third time or do twenty-six stepovers and fall over. he is a wind-up merchant on a wild, cosmic level; an agent of pure anarchy untrammelled by any regard for friend or foe, for right and wrong; cruel loki incarnate. bastard.

Fitz Hall looks like an easter island statue and has less mobility than one

XD especially @ rtc's outpouring - do a whole mini-essay and it'd put that grimsby rant in the shade

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1234340/Under-QPR-manager-Jim-Magilton-faces-axe-headbutt-Akos-Buzsaky-threatens-press-charges.html?

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this fucking football club

eh i only clicked in to find out from those in the know how our loanees are doing.

eh and specifically taraabt.

i'll get me coat, then.

So yeah, Kettering were basically nowt short of heroic last night, pushed Leeds to within 10 minutes of penalties.

How has chairman Imraan Ladak congratulated them? By sacking assistant manager John Deehan for the substitutions he made in the second half of extra time.

That seems a dumb move on Ladak's part.

I love watching the amazement on the part of "we're football people" types when they find out that the kind of chaps who like to sink £££ into loss-making football clubs in order to create personal fiefdoms turn out to be the kind of chaps who make crazy and impulsive decisions.

Poor Mr Deehan's sacking is as much a part of English football's stupid business model as Leeds's horrible last few years, and for that matter Kettering's full-time squad.

(I know nothing about Kettering's finances or governance structures, by the way, so the above constitutes a complete guess based on other clubs I do know a bit about, and knowing that Kettering keep a full-time squad going on attendances of about 1000.)

managers are just employees guys, if they publicly fuck up then sack em imo

they were knackered and lost a scrappy goal then the roof fell in. I don't think the subs had anything to do with it.

this fucking football club

^
This

Tim: I agree with what you have written there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/notts_county/8405269.stm

Notts County's owner Munto Finance has put the club up for sale, reports BBC Radio Nottingham.

It is understood that Munto is already in contact with interested parties.

One option is thought to be a buyout involving ex-England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, the director of football, and executive chairman Peter Trembling.

I believe that the Notts County Supporters Trust effectively *gave* the club (with debts included, admittedly) to Munto Finance in June this year.

Paul Sturrock - a fat man, in a jacket, who sometimes managed Plymouth Argyle but sometimes managed other clubs, and occasionally forgot to shave.

Still think we got rid of him too early.

what the hell is happening today

All the "I wondered when that would happen" things seem to be coming true! I wonder what's next?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/11/notts-county-john-armstrong-holmes
I wonder what Dave Boyle has to say about this?

apparently the conclusion of stockport-charlton was ridiculous

hahahaha some rotherham player scored the figueroa goal!!

you wait decades for an intentional 50-yard free-kick goal....

That'll be half an hour of Soccer AM sorted next week then.

FUCK YOU WINKLEMAN

looooooooool home park loooooooooool but yeah mk dons is possibly even more o_O

the outcome

No to: Leicester, Derby and Hull

Yes to: Nottingham, Plymouth and Milton Keynes

2018 host cities

Milton Keynes among winners as England 2018 host cities revealed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/dec/16/england-2018-world-cup-cities

Birmingham – Villa Park; Bristol – New Ashton Vale Stadium; Leeds – Elland Road; Liverpool – Anfield or New Anfield; London – Wembley, Emirates Stadium, New White Hart Lane or Olympic Stadium; Manchester – City of Manchester Stadium, Old Trafford; Milton Keynes – Stadium MK; Newcastle – St James' Park; Nottingham – New stadium; Plymouth – New Home Park; Sheffield – Hillsborough; Sunderland – Stadium of Light

assume stadium mk hits lolmodernspecs in some way that noone but fifa care about, right?

Portsmouth City Council pulled out last month, a bunch of cowards that didn't want to raise / guarantee 20 Million

Nottingham bagged the East Midlands slot, so they can now brag over their local rivals Leicester and Derby