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

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?

ok i get it.
look, i support ipswich.
we're going through a very un-ipswich time but i'm ok with stuff.
lol keane refs just feel like other prem fans having a nice schadenfreude moment.

which don't relate to itfc as a league club, i should have added.

ok mayne, it's cool. micky adams putting the whole squad up for sale in september is pretty funny though.

Most neutrals are reasonably affectionate towards Ipswich I reckon. If there's any schadenfreude - really it's more wtfenfreude - it's directed squarely at Keano, and I don't think he'll be around to bother y'all much longer.

i wouldn't put it past keane to turn up with a semi-automatic at the next training session

he's only got a 2 year contract so there's a get out on either side.
fuck we were a goal down away at bramall lane, get 3-1 up and contrive to draw...
but that's no different to where we were with magilton.
this was only his 12th league game in charge.
trying to keep the faith.

I'm sure he deserves a proper chance but he's partly a victim of the media shitstorm that is being Roy Keane.

can't be arsed to moan tbh

well done to colchester united and their supporters

Poor the East London's Mighty O's.

oh lol southampton, that is much much much worse than what happened to us, also shit rovers might overtake us this weekend

soz for curmudgeonly posts last night

nah i feel you dogg, almost lashed out myself a while ago when qpr were flopping and goonerboy dropped the "Supporting Reading is not fun. Now I know how it feels to follow a shite team" ho-ho bullshit. (not mad about it now mind.)

anyway classic night in the championship yesterday - just when you thought you had it vaguely figured out the snowglobe gets the brisk shake and it's anyone's again. and from dreading a home game v palace i'm now positively licking my chops over rangers heading up to st james park tonight...

lol damien delaney btw :)

Ha, I am young and naive in it all, my bad. Trying to be less of a typical arsenal supporter comes in embarrassing leaps and bounds.

lol damien delaney btw :)

is there a col (cry out loud) equiv of lol? cos delaney's non-defending in the newcastle game made me want to weep.

sure i can see why you're glad to see the back of him, and for 750K? a fool and his money....

and rtc good point tonight, props

wellll i've got nothing to smirk at tbh - pretty sure we paid a million plus for the poor sod in the first place. have to say in his first season playing kamikaze footer under gigi de canio i thought he was quite fun, in an uh ineptly buccaneering sort of way...

and yeah, gotta be happy with the point tonight - fair play to jimbo, he seems to finally be finding himself the right balance between the dowie defence & de canio attack regimes. ironically as much as i poke fun at ahoyhoy rangers are probably the closest thing to the championship's random arsenalesque wildcard: butter when it clicks, utter clowntown when it don't. plus steve stone on the radio tonight was giving it the old "let's see how they cope on a windy december night in wherever" spiel (inbetween repeatedly suggesting his lads should hoof it up to carroll more often) so there you go.

During pre-season, Ipswich's players were taken on a survival course for a couple of days which saw them left to their own devices in the wild. The idea, naturally, was to take the players "out of their comfort zone" which for Keane sounds disappointingly like bullshit.

The centrepiece of this jaunt was the production of a live pig which was then transformed into a dead pig in order to provide the squad with something to eat for the next 48 hours. A few were said to have wondered how this would help them defend set-pieces but the headlong rush out of "the comfort zone" is one of the great orthodoxies in the age of bullshit and cannot be questioned.

John Barnes at last sacked !

seen on twitter:

Q: What do John Barnes, Charles Bronson and the Kaiser Chiefs all have in common? A: Fucking horrendous records.
http://twitter.com/bornengland/statuses/4731852937

McParland sacked by Notts County
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/notts_county/8303078.stm

damn, another last minute goal let in, tractor boys still without a win :-(

Have to admit that Magilton has us playing very, very good football at the moment, it's almost enough to start believing.

Middlesbrough sack boss Southgate

Wow, didn't expect that, especially as they're only a point behind the leaders.

I feel a bit sorry for him, I've always liked him for some reason - think cos he seems calm and reasonable, plus he looks a little bit silly, and I'd always assumed that team would come good given the time. Might be completely wrong tho.

Apparently rumours of Hope Powell becoming the next Grimsby manager, would be a huge story

Strachan In (?)

same as suedey, tbh, i like southgate, although i'm not sure he's a football manager. assistant job for him at a premier league club?

I'd have him.

Something is really rotten at Grimsby Town F.C. and I'm not sure any manager's gonna be able to turn it around on their own.