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

can i just FUCKSAKE

― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, September 19, 2009 4:27 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

echoed (ipswich fan)

we maybe need a reading fan now

is it possible to NEED a reading fan?

90 mins +3, yes i see your pain

this happened a few times last season, and it is happening again. we had better merk exeter (sorry tim!) next week. erm and i am totally visiting my brother (studying at Leeds Uni) on the 3rd

Just watched the FL highlights show. Seemed to be a shitload of penalties awarded today, with about 1/3 of them missed. Three or four quality contenders for missed sitter of all time.

Hold on Louis, what's happening again?

Chances are your lot will win next week, City are looking decidedly shaky right now despite out awesome unbeaten run stretching to a mighty TWO games.

The way it's looking for the Argyle, it is imperative that we stay in this division.

The conceding of 93rd/94th/95th-minute equalisers in 2-2 draws. Happened about 3 times last season. :(

Pretty sure you'll stay in L1 tbh, there's enough weakness elsewhere

Am watching FL show on iPlayer. Luggy Sturrock looks like shit these days, eh? I mean, he more or less always looks like shit, but at the moment he really looks awful.

That Sammy Clingan goal for Coventry, tho. Whoa.

The future of Sol Campbell, the former England centre back who joined Notts County last month in one of the most surprising moves of the year, is shrouded in doubt after reports last night suggested that he had walked out on the Coca-Cola League Two club.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01487/sol-campbell_1487179c.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/notts_county/8270272.stm

lol

change in a month:

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Campbell seals Notts County move
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/notts_county/8218136.stm

I'll play for at least three years and then go from there. They've got a lot of ideas but I'm here as a footballer, to keep on winning promotion and getting them up into the Premier League.

"It's going to be different but I don't mind starting again. League-wise it is moving down but they've got ambitions to move up and I think we will.

Notts County set to be docked 30 points for financial irregularities regarding the takeover of the club by Munto. Information stating ownership has been denied thus far to the football league and a 30 point sanction will be in place as a measure and a warning to future clubs.

oh wow

!!!! (O)_(0)

ok, that rumour has apparently been doing the rounds since the weekend but has not been picked up by any newspapers. any source yet?

The incredibly reliable football-rumours.com

HEY SOL

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/mantfu.jpg

kinda feel for dude tbh

no wait fuck that fuck

"I'm never quite sure how far to go with praising young kids because the next thing you will see him probably driving a Mercedes and he'll have his socks over his knees and four earrings in and a Walt Disney hat."
Norwich boss Paul Lambert on his young midfielder Korey Smith.

As BBC quotes of the week go, this is actually quite funny. Like Stewart Lee on rappers, but for footballers.

xpost

Was gonna say "he doesn't like it up him" but then reconsidered.

i've taken the high moral ground and no longer post anything that could be considered even mildly slanderous against sol campbell

Sven-Goran Eriksson took time out from perusing his copy of League Two For Dummies this afternoon to conduct an interview with Sky Sports News in which he confessed that he hasn't "met the people" who own Notts County and admitted that he didn't really care who they are as long as "the money comes". It was revelatory stuff that showcased a side of the Swede the Fiver had never seen before.

But while he didn't say as much, the serial football lottery winner managed to convey the impression that he'd rather not meet his benevolent benefactors, lest they should turn out to be a consortium comprised of Gary Glitter, the hunter who shot Bambi's mum and other characters unsavoury enough to force him into an examination of his conscience that might, just might, force him to think up a really, really good reason why he shouldn't resign.

"Money comes in and everything is good. Everything we are asking for, we get it," explained Eriksson, as a truck pulled up in the background and the driver shouted "Oi, Speccy! Where d'ya want these bespoke giant chocolate swans?" Of course while the loot that continues to pour in from Notts County's unknown backers may be able to buy most things, one thing that has proved elusive is the loyalty of Sol Campbell, who left the club after deciding that 90 minutes of getting kicked around desolate landscapes such as Christie Park week-in and week-out wasn't worth £2m per year.

"I'm very disappointed, very much so," smirked Eriksson. "We signed him and we thought we'd have him for a very long time." With Campbell choosing to forego an explanation for his decision in favour of being papped wandering the streets of London looking distant and angst-ridden, Sven could only guess at the ageing defender's reasons for taking the extraordinary decision to walk away from 1,796 bumper pay-days. "Ah, well, ahh ... I really don't know," he said. "He didn't like the training pitch or the dressing room. But he knew that when he signed. We're not perfect, it's a long-term project. You can't build a new training ground in four or five weeks. We feel very sorry he's gone but the project goes on." As will Sven. You won't find him walking away from any long-term projects, at least not as long as money comes in and everything is good.

Oh, why is it more disappointing to narrowly lose (Charlton only really scraped past Exeter in the end, despite completely murdering us for the first 25 minutes or so) than to receive an expected stuffing.

We looked much better than I'd hoped, and Charlton looked pretty brainless past being big and fast and strong, but having anticipated losing by three or four, I should be pleased with a decent performance shouldn't I?

I gather it was like our worst performance of the season tbh...we've played some pretty neat stuff

Annoyed I overslept thus missing the train I needed to go to Carlisle, cos I was looking forward to going to Brunton Park. Even more so when the Saints' Twitter feed revealed the extent of the media facilities.

Guys, should I go and shack up with Swygart my Leeds Uni-studyin' brother this weekend replete with ticket or does the outlay not justify the trip?

also lol @ that pic

also am thinking I'd rather do Halloween Brunton Park than this, if forced to choose

Gotta give major props to my man Micky Adams, gonna try his strategy on Football Manager real soon.

Come up, dude. We has booze. Might still be early enough you can get advance return.

this is seriously mega-tempting you know...cannot promise anything but yeah this sounds like it could be worth it, wd kill numerous birds with one stone

most of all finally meeting Swygart and discussing the lamented career of Noel Whelan and other such luminaries, a conversation I am confident I could not have with anyone else

ffs it ain't letting me buy tickets online

That said, I have never been Elland Road itself, but the Leeds fans I know are nice enough. I would say, though, that Huddersfield is a nice day out, but you're not there til March, so plenty time to save up.

:D

Well, I'll do my best to come this weekend. If not then I'll doubtless be around some time sans Charlton, as my brother is definitely owed a visit. The scoundrel. Weren't Huddersfield meant to be bossing this league?

I'm not sure what happened in that regard - a 0-0 home draw with Stockport isn't exactly the way to go, but they've started steadily enough. Leeds, honestly, look like they've finally got all their pieces in place - they look like they're gonna need to go some to fuck this up.

The real story thus far, though, are Brizzle Rovers. We buy their best player, and all their other players suddenly become well good instead. Tssk.

Up the Gas etc.

lol roy keane.

why arsenal fans on this thread?

aka "if it's tuesday it must be the champion's league"

fckoff

why are you being a cunt? i also started a world football thread, am I not allowed to post on that because it specifies non-english speaking leagues? are supporters of league teams or scottish teams not allowed to post on the premiership thread now?

how am i being a cunt? pls explain.

as a gunner your keane lols are premiership-based. keep them to the premier league thread if you want to lol.

ok sorry

lol micky adams

eh?

ok do i have to laugh at port vale managers in the premiership thread as well?