Season 2021/22
 

Seeing as my last one was hijacked by international tournaments let's try again

Not looked forward to a season so much for years although a lack of signings so far into close season is concerning

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Who do you support . . . Derby? ;) :D

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There is only one team TD supports and the clue is in the word nail.;)

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I'm good at these, here we go:

Nail > jimmy nail > boys from the blackstuff > blackstuff > coal > mine > claymore > scottish > thistle > Partick Thistle :D

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:nono::nono:

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not even close?

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Several hundred miles off track.;)

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Not much of a clue tbh, I have no idea, how about just saying. :sleep:

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West Ham United known by their nickname of the Hammers.

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Ah, that explains it - those sort of nails.

I thought it might be Southampton, because they’re known as "the Beauticians"… ;)

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I had no idea it was West Ham . . honestly . . no really ;)

Anyway, thanks for Pelly all those years ago :Yes:

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It's more than concerning now, the club has signed a goalkeeper on loan, yes a potentially world class centre back might be joining within days but that's not the point, less than a week till kick off and with a European campaign to come the club is starting the season significantly weaker than it finished the last one, Noble is another year older and Antonio's glass hamstrings aren't going to be any stronger, Haller still not replaced either, not looking forward to the new season as much now

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Perhaps they will seal a few deals before the transfer window ends TD as my team has not exactly been buying players this summer thus so far apart from a Centre Back.

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Talk of Origi for 15 million tonight, I'd be very happy if he joined

Ooh 17000 posts, shame it wasn't more insightful or clever

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Patience Den, we'll have Mbappe by the end of the week*.







*this might not actually happen :bigcry:

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Don't be surprised if Mbappe ends up in Spain before the seasons start as he is too pricey for us.

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Origi is a good player but l am not sure Klopp agrees with me.

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The football season is back, my first game attendance since last year. A good time was had.

As I get older seem to be going further away from cricket ('the hundred' was the last straw), and more back to 'the beautiful game'. Thought is was supposed to he the other way round when you got older !.

As for rugby union, stoppages for video refs has destroyed the international game. Each half is lasting over an hour for all the stoppages, it was supposed to be a free flowing game...

At least VAR isn't an issue in the football I watch, ref as well as player mistakes are part of the game. It usually evens out over a season.

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Just watched the second Brentford goal, how was that not a clear foul on the keeper?

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Due to the rules forever being buggered about with, I'm of the opinion that the only people who can correctly identify a foul (ha) are chicken farmers ;)

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What is wrong with the Hundred Mr K?.

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It was a clear foul.

Quite surprised that Arsenal picked the team that they did.

The Arsenal fans have already started and we are only in game one of the season.:)

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Well that was good fun, credit to Leeds they don't sit with 10 men behind the ball. Pogba has his head on today.:cool:

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United title winners Jim.;)

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Only if the can play Leeds every week.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58359561

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It will be interesting to see how much he plays or whether he is on the subs bench mostly as financially Man Utd will make plenty of money worldwide with merchandise sales as there must be millions out there who are still willing to buy anything with the name Ronaldo on it.

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Have serious reservations about this, could turn out to be Sanchez mk2, when United gazumped City for Sanchez and he was a total dead weight.:(

It will be very good for shirt sales as long as they can get Cavani to relinquish the #7 shirt.

Long term I think it may unsettle the team, Ronaldo is past his best, never tracks back or presses, you can’t afford a player like that in the Premiership like you can in La Liga or Serie A.

I sincerely hope I am wrong but time will tell.

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Let's hope Lingard sees sense now...

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Not sure Lingard is the problem, suspect United are trying to squeeze more out of the deal than is justified.;)

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Odds on Arteta as first managerial casualty this season?

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Plenty of other failures to replace him with, such is the state of 'modern football'

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l would not bet on it as the odds would be very prohibitive.

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Are/were you an accountant?

To the optimist, the glass of water is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass of water is half empty.
To the accountant, the glass of water is twice as big as it needs to be!… ;)

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No, but my wife thinks she is :D

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My Arsenal friends still won't change to Spurs fans :D

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Classic.:D

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Brighton can go top tomorrow :shocked:

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Premier League seemingly concede defeat in Newcastle legal battle.

PIF, Amanda Staveley and Jamie Reuben all in Newcastle tonight to complete the takeover of the club.

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Book's presumably closed on that now as there have been changes...

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Yep. Steve Bruce is almost certainly out next.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58821131

Very heavy rumours of an announcement in the next few hours.

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Another top team in foreign hands, think there will only be five left after this sale and we can't rely on Norwich or Brentford staying up to long plus the dildo brothers are only seeing out time on the stadium before selling :(

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Perfect timing so you guys can get Hughton back.

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Although he denies it, Mr Rooney may want to move from his present position :D

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Hardly when the sponsors are paying him.


The club is royally screwed though, from what I hear.

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Yep, it does seem their days are numbered . . Reading not looking too clever either according to some reports.

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Bissouma has been arrested for sexual assault, what a mug, he had the world at his feet and even if there's no truth in it he shouldn't have put himself in such a position where accusations can be levied at the moment, he may well have denied himself a dream move regardless of innocence or guilt. Plus if he is guilty prison FC are going to have some squad, all their games at home for obvious reasons but they could probably compete in the championship!

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Think it's wrong for the media to name players in these situations until proven guilty.


We had this sketch a while back with an unnamed Everton player who was quickly discovered by a process of elimination...

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So if i got this right the takeover can go ahead because now it's now Saudi Arabia's investment fund buying the club and not Saudi Arabia?

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Allegedly.

But not really. We all know/knew that KSA and their PIF are the same thing. It's a state owned club, its barely a secret. It's gone ahead because Saudi Arabia have been released from potential prosecution regarding piracy. They have paid Bein compensation and restored their programming in the region effective yesterday.

This means the Premier League held a takeover hostage by claiming KSA and PIF are one and the same under the shadow directors clause and disqualifying event. But as soon as Bein were happy. The league feel they're now separate :rolleyes:

For reference it was always the PIF that made any bid. Nothing has changed.

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I tell you one thing, Journalists are now going to be very careful about writing bad stuff about Newcastle United!

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The richest club in world football are currently 19th in the Premier League.

January is going to be very interesting.

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Do the Saudis know what the weather is like in Newcastle?? Maybe they'll relocate the ground to Riyadh. As long as its on tv, location doesn't matter. RIP a once great club.

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You're assuming they're competent owners. I recall when a Kuwaiti bought us...

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About 8 managers in 5 years wasn't it?

Not up to Watford standards though ;)

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Never mind Newcastle Who's going the rescue the Mighty Iron is the big question ? More managers than my local Tesco Express. ;)

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It helps not to appoint terrible managers to begin with.


Can't say I've disagreed with any of them going, apart from Sean O'Driscoll or Martin O'Neill...


Watford are a special case, but the constant changing doesn't seem to impede their progress.

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If by 'the Mighty Iron' you mean the muppets where I am, it's not so much the managers as the owners . . just another lot interfering where they know bugger all about football :D

Luton are doing OK though ;)

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Wel I must say as a neutral the Scotland v Isreal was a great game to watch.:cool:

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Bin Salman has just given Amanda Staveley a bollocking, “I asked you to buy me a New Castle you fool.”:)

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Newcastle . . that's Brucie gone then, mutual consent, and Graeme Jones as interim manager until . . . 'the price is right' new manager comes along.

That could be a while, so Newcastle fans may face a period of baffling defensive tactics and 85% possession with nothing to show for it.

Will the new manager be one of the 'old guard' that do the managerial merry-go-round, or a well established successful foreign manager attracted by the (probable) lucrative financial package offered?

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Well that was exciting in the end and I’ll take the win but the first 45 minutes was the worst I have from United in a long time. Bruno Fernandes had his worst game since his last game against the Foxes. :(

Easy game up next.:)

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ouch :Yikes:

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I did fear something like this would happen, they have been awful defensively all season. :(

Stayed until the whistle all the same.

It’s always darkest before the dawn. :)

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Obviously l am pretty happy with the result but the question is what are Man Utd going to do from here as some are saying Ole is out of his depth and others are saying its the players who are at fault.

Sacking managers willy nilly is generally not United's style.

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Well they did go through quite a few after Busby retired. And Moyes, Van Gaal and Jose have come and gone in fairly quick succession.;)

If you recall I was never in the “give Ole the job” camp.

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Yes even my poor memory tells me that you were not a fan of the club appointing Ole.

United have plenty of talented players but are not a team unit and l find it baffling why they paid all that money for Sancho and yet he sits in the stand.

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Not sure who you'd actually end up with though.


Man Utd may be more successful, but the Newcastle job is probably going to be seen as more attractive (and even then I'm not sure who they would get), and maybe even an easier task with more money to spend and more chance to actually rip up what's already there.


But whoever takes the Man U job will still probably have to do it with the likes of Rashford, Pogba, Ronaldo, etc as key players in their system and probably less money to play with to improve the team.



I didn't like his antics, but there was no doubt that Fergie was a first-rate manager, one of the greatest ever (if only Clough had been at a bigger club) and was going to be a hard act to replace, but they really have made such a fist up of it, van Gaal was probably the best but even then he didn't do much, Jose was a busted flush after leaving Chelsea the second time, his style just doesn't last for the time they needed, and Ole was an easy option who hadn't done so well at Cardiff in his only other job in this league system. Moyes needed more than a season but was always going to end up a fall guy. Though saying that Fergie even had real issues with replacing didn't he, took him ages to get a decent keeper to begin with, and when he left, they had the same issues, quite why they thought Mark Bosnich (a player they knew from having him before) had the right attitude to replace Schmeichel, then that Italian was just a joke, Barthez was too error prone, van der Sar was the keeper they should have got 5 years earlier, even de Gea isn't that convincing really.



And we lost 4-0 with Fulham only having 3 shots on target.

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Ole in

Imagine resting your first team for your cup final and then losing in Holland and East London

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Just noticed a shock result in German cup comp, Borussia MGB 5 - 0 Bayern Munich.:shocked:

First thoughts, Bayern put a weak side out but no full strength squad.:confused:

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Yeah l was shocked at that result.:shocked:

In other news Barca are on the lookout for a new manager.;)

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Gary Megson is still available

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l was thinking more along the lines of a famous Spanish word where it begins with O and ends with a E.;)

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Omelette?

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Not sure they would go for him (or indeed Megson, though that would at least be comedy).

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Allardyce begins with an A :)

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I don't think Popeye's girlfriend would be interested to be honest ;)

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A spinach diet could give any team the edge though :erm:

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No longer available, got eaten this morning

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:no:

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Nuno has been sacked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59110614

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Sadly many owners (and fans) are wanting instant results and aren't prepared to give time (and money) to a manager in order to create a team of players willing to work with the manager and his tactics towards success.

Some clubs however go the other way, and support a manager with time and money . . but they still fail.

Some weren't impressed with Moyes at one time, I bet WH fans are glad they kept him now ;)

Funny old game Saint ;)

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Things I hate about modern football.


Nuno did a very good job at Wolves and had only been there since the summer.


We also know Mourinho leaves a club in a bit of a mess because of his style.


Unless it's clearly not working behind the scenes I do feel a new manager needs a full season in most cases.

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It's 'Sacking Monday' . . .

Scunthorpe sack manager and assistant https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58857647

No real surprise, but the main problems there are (again) owner related ;)


Barnsley sack manager https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58993547

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Antonio Conte is the favourite for the job apparently.

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Why would anyone want to work for that vile bellend levy?

Why would anyone want to go to a club where the supposed best player doesn’t want to be there?

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He might be their preferred choice but I doubt they're his, the man is a winner that spends cash, neither thing you'd associate with spuds

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I wanted to give him a chance when he was appointed and didn't want him "sacked" and was happy when he returned

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Provided they keep their mitts off Steve Cooper, though I can't see why they'd be interested there.

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I wasn't looking at you ;)

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He was an underwhelming choice when first appointed admittedly

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More sackings this week . . apparently, after only 11 games into the season, that's about a quarter of the Prem managers sacked already . . with a few more to come I'm sure.

Xisco Munoz (Watford) – October 3, 2021
Steve Bruce (Newcastle) – October 20, 2021
Nuno Espirito Santo (Tottenham) – November 1, 2021
Daniel Farke (Norwich City) – November 6, 2021
Dean Smith (Aston Villa) – November 7, 2021

Championship and below are getting into the game too.

What a carry on :rolleyes:

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One wonders who will be the next manager to get his P45.:(

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A Norwegian maybe...

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You might be right TD.

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Great game eh :)

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You were the better side defensively and at set pieces.

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And at scoring goals it seems :)

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Derby take another 9 point hit with a further 3 suspended in case of any future 'mishaps' this season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59288687

Will this latest bout of punishing clubs prevent others from trying to circumvent the rules?

Highly doubtful IMO, some clubs are still risking everything on a quick push to the riches of the Premiership.

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Called it :D

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It was a bit of an odd appointment to begin with. Yes I know he was an ex player but his spell at Cardiff didn't really show that he was a good manager.



Megson is still available.

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it will have to be someone who is prepared to be Ferguson's puppet.....

Mark Hughes
Steve Bruce
Ryan Giggs
Wayne Rooney
Roy Keane
etc......

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I was about to post something similar . . although his previous 'input' hasn't turned out all that well ;)