Dyches to Watch Out For - The Football League and Beyond, 2012-13

Cos he'll be back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6f_vd6WaFY

Anyway, League Cup today and then the season proper gets going on Friday with Cardiff v Huddersfield, which should be kinda cracking.

The rumour mill's already warming up, too:

Blackburn Rovers global advisor Shebby Singh says manager Steve Kean will be sacked if he loses the first 3 games of the season #bbcfootball

And Leeds have signed El-Hadji Diouf. We cookin'.

Neil Warnock, 2011

“I think for many years I think he’s been the ‘gutter’ type of boy. I was going to call him a sewer rat, but that might insult the sewer rats. I think he’s the lowest of the low.
“I can’t see him being at Blackburn much longer because I can’t see Steve Kean putting up with someone like that in the dressing room when he’s creating a new image.
“I think he’ll be the first to go. Good riddens. I hope he goes abroad. I won’t miss watching him. Sign him? I wouldn’t want to talk to him.”

Neil Warnock, 2012

"He is good in the dressing room; he is not a bad egg. He is a good lad."

swindon trashed brighton tonight by the looks of it (check the free kick routine for benson's opener if poss), have to go as far as fancying them for the league one title i reckon unless paolo gets poached before seasons end

them, or mk dons unfortunately (good already, now with ryan lowe) (and possibly lol db7?)

will also be watching graham "everyone just fuck off" westley's preston project with great interest

championship, ooh i dunno maan

gotta be bolton really hasnt it

wolves... could collectively still remember how to win this league but might well be shocked by some of the more enterprising sides like blackpool and cardiff

quite fancy cardiff, bellamy and the iceman up top c'est formidable. malky mackay is great

birmingham.... hmmm, maybs just maybs. lovenkrands and ambrose scoring tonight, look competent

blackburn, championship's even playing field should only show kean up further than the prem already did despite a good team for this level obv

brighton still flaky it seems, forest could be on the outskirts, leicester nah, leeds most probably spoiling their way to the play offs but lets not talk about uncle neil eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFrCLRPvZe4

good luck today man!

wolves kits have 'WHAT HOUSE?' written on the back at the top. Wish it was 'WHO'S HOUSE' with 'RUN'S HOUSE' at the bottom

wide open on the break

leeds 1-0

that went much as expected. can't see either of those teams setting the division alight as it stands. defence still rotten. new guys look potentially good, Doumbia impressed me least today i think but playing alongside Karl Henry at centre mid must be like playing in a wheelchair. we desperately need to grab whatever inflated money we can get for Jarvis and Fletcher and buy some footballers with it. straw of comfort - pretty sure Solbakken knew that was shite.

btw

http://pu.i.wp.pl/k,MzQ0NjcyNzcsMzQyMTI2,f,peszek.JPG http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsG/6696-15044.gif

Cannot get on board with this Cardiff in red shirts thing at all.

Simon Grayson clearly not a man built for anything above 20 degrees celsius.

Which is worse - Notts County away:

http://www.soccerjerseysclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/239.jpg

or Scunthorpe home?

http://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/cms_images/player/ribeiro4x370-272186.jpg

i keep replaying dyche, to be quite frank

well,

why aren't there more dyche youtube content

Tonight on the Football League Show, Mark Clemmitt met the Chuckle Brothers. *sigh*

well there's an improvement

The Kate Bush poll needs your attention, nv

wait so dyche is actually pronounced dyke cuz i assumed die-sh

No, it is pronounced die-sh. I realised too late. Bugged me ever since.

fuck me Doyler's scored

I dunno how accurate the BBC's possession pie chart is but Brighton currently showing 77% possession against Barnsley. 5-1 up too :)

fuck's sake nothing like conceding an equaliser in the last minute

cabbie tonight was a watford fan

tried to discern any rage at the shoddy treatment of DYCHE but there was only mild disappointment

still, nice to be able to talk about DYCHE irl

rmde at crystal palace altering their colours to resemble barcelona

Bakary Sako looks like a beast. all we need is a back line and maybe a holding mid and by January we are gonna be thrilling

team yesterday very different to the one in the league so far, any idea what the best xi might be yet or still too soon?

mostly the new buys i think, all looking good to impressive. at the moment i'd say

Doyle Sigurdarson
Sako Doumbia Boukari Peszko
Ward Margreitter Johnson Stearman
Ikeme

but central mid is unbalanced there, Boukari is supposed to be a winger tho he looked better inside to me, and Ward, Johnson and Stearman are big question marks. need a left and right back i think, Stears or Johnson probably worth another try at CB, wd like to see Zubar given a run at CB but don't see it happening. Henry seems to be favoured for the holding mid position when he's fit but i hope this is just a hangover from the old regime, there's enough quality in Doumbia to cover him until he can be properly replaced. interesting to see if O'Hara ever gets fit and wants to play again but he looks too similar to Doumbia to put them both in there.

second 11 looks mostly shit to me but as long as we don't lose a lot of key players at once i think we're on the way to an exciting team. loving how Solbakken has paid lip service to continuity but basically admitted thru his signings that we needed a totally new team.

feel like some kind of 4-5-1 or 4-2-3-1 might be in order but not sure Doyler has it in him to be that 1 any more and don't think Solbakken rolls that way. Siggy and Nouble both look like they like to sit v. deep tho

yeah wow seriously what happened to o'hara. forgot he was there

needs a second hernia op, out for at least 8 weeks iirc, not at all sure he's interested in playing in the Champo.

Express and Star says we're chasing Glenn Whelan or Jermaine Jenas today. we'll see. wd prefer somebody a bit more stoppery tbh

was frimpong a loan? is he still crocked and back at arsenal?

got crocked and went back to Arsenal after about 3 games on loan last season, assume he's still there

real football, sporadic talk

BAKARY SAKO YOU MAGNIFICENT MONSTER

sporting of Zoob to give them a penalty in return

ah for fuck's sake i told you to buy a new backline Stale

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2012/09/03/wolves-sack-assistant-boss-terry-connor/

wishing him luck for his next step on the managerial ladder

http://i.imgur.com/jsTh6.gif

Flavio Briatore is set for a dramatic return to English football as the co-owner of Birmingham City.

The former Queens Park Rangers chief, along with long-time friend Gianni Paladini, is considering a move to buy the npower Championship outfit. Birmingham owner Carson Yeung is seeking new investment and according to the Daily Mirror, Briatore, 62 is weighing up a bid.

http://i.imgur.com/jsTh6.gif

oh my word what a combination

THE FOUR-YEAR PLAN II: THE BRUMMENING

Briatore? I could afford to buy Birmingham, and I'd run it into receivership for nowt.

Dyche plays golf in his spare time.[citation needed]

"I'm a Birmingham boy myself," Paladini added. "I've always liked Blues and I've got a good relationship with a lot of Zulu Warriors [City's hooligan element], if they're still there I don't know, because I've been at QPR for 11 years.

gianni. gianni. gianni. it was a fucking miracle you escaped from qpr alive what in gods fucking name are you doing

Paladini said: "You need people with experience of business, of course, but also experience of running a football club. You have to know football.

"If we took over, I would probably ask someone like Ron Atkinson to help me. I have known Ron for years, we are good friends. He is local, and his knowledge and expertise is great. He is a personality.

"I have offices in London and business to attend to there, so I wouldn’t be at the club all the time. I would need somebody around to help. What type of role? It would be sporting director, something like that maybe."

Birmingham are understood to be unimpressed with Paladini's public courting of the club, with other rival bids expected from consortiums in the Far East and Asia.

the last time they got a cash injection from the Far East it turned out to be Carson Yeung's overdraft

*long slow hissing out of breath*

always said Bruce was a good manager

aw how lovely to see leroy lita and marlon king getting on so well for brum

fuck me 2 wins on the bounce, forgotten that could happen

Birmingham City

i lolled

so, huddersfield minus rhodes = pretty good, apparently?

They're a very well-organised club, and they've been bubbling under this level for years - Rhodes is clearly quite the goalscorer, but I think they can do alright without him.

Also - Shebby Singh's done that "opening his mouth" thing again.

lol Chelsea 2 up already

make that 3. good night to bet on Chelsea getting double figures i think.

Kean out!

leeds fans up their old tricks last night. this caught my eye in the guardian report:

Many chants were aimed at Jones, relating to child abuse charges of which he was emphatically cleared 12 years ago.

"All the Leeds fans will be tarred with the same brush, and they should be, because from what I could hear it wasn't just one person chanting the vile things, it was quite a lot of them," said Jones. "You talk about racism in the game – what about the chanting?

"That is a form of racism – I've had it for 12 years, so I'll put up with it, but the club needs to clean its house out.

I am not God, insists Di Canio

he's right. i don't believe in God

BOOM l0u1s jagg3r

god i bet we're haplessly trying to cling onto the goal advantage now

quel ferking surp

as you were, Lewis

ILX derby finishes 1-1 ffs can't buy a win

wonder if this might be the most evenly average champ season ever

malky's a good enough manager to see this through but cardiff are still no great shakes... blackburn ought to yet be able to burn everyone off but all depends on the manager dunnit

no telling as far i can see who might put some form together after that

v happy for palace after dougie's betrayal. huddersfield thumping stands out too (i rate that chris wood on loan at millwall quite highly, kinda baby viduka steez)

the Tigers play some delightful pass and move when they feel like it, never seen a Bruce team keep the ball on the deck so much

DYCHE

So you go to games, and mostly you don't enjoy them, right? I mean, you enjoy the social aspect, you enjoy meeting up with the others you know, you like to have a bit of a sing-song, every now and then your team scores a goal, you enjoy having a jump up and down; you even see them win sometimes and that's nice; but you rarely really enjoy the actual play for any extended period of a game, right? It's usually a mix of frustration and excitement and fear and disappointment, but A Good Game is really rare.

Last night I drove to a rainy Gillingham, was a quarter of an hour late due to a traffic jam on the A2, stood on an uncovered, temporary stand in the cold and wet and watched a game which was just hugely entertaining: not especially high-quality, very affected by the weather, awesome and ridiculous in equal part, totally thrill-a-minute. I say thrill-a-minute, I don't mean a heartstopping moment of quality every minute, I mean a great pass or a ridiculous air-kick or a cover-your-eyes defensive howler or a good chance or a crunching tackle a minute. It's not impossible that my view of the game was changed by veteran goal machine Jamie Cureton heading the winning (3-2) goal in the 87th, a minute or two after missing a penalty.

It doesn't happen very often but today football feels like a love rather than a habit.

Yes!

Great post Tim!

who cd possibly have predicted that Adlene Guedioura wd return to the club that let him go like FUCKING IDIOTS and put Forest 2-1 up?

whats the line on stale these days, new mcghee, new hoddle, or still needs mooooooore tiiiiiiiiime

me, my bruv - got to give the guy more time, things not looking great tho

my old man - BUN HIM

Are there any Luciano Becchio goals that don't involve him stubbing in from three yards out then getting whacked in the face?

home to Millwall tonight, i get the feeling anything less than a win will see the lynch mobs start to form

gotta say by the sounds of it idk if he's yer man, fine he gets left a load of deadwood but don't then force them to play a new style and hope for miracles (roger johnson in a high line??) buy yourself some time ffs

moxey has totally fucked him tbf

i know a wednesday fan who swears danny batth is a big deal btw, is he anywhere near the first team yet?

on the subject idk what's happening at wednesday but it's messed up, either or both mandaric and dave jones have lost their marbles

he had a terrible season at Cologne last year, but was v. successful in Denmark which is probly a similar standard to our Championship. personally i'm all for giving the guy time to turn the club's ethos around - i'd rather go down again than do well playing McCarthyite shitkicking antifootball - but then i'm not paying to go see them play badly and lose every week. my old man, who grew up in the Cullis era, doesn't see much problem with shitkicking as long as you do it well. fair enough, chacun a son gout and all that.

Moxey and Morgan installed Solbakken far too late and i don't know exactly how tight they've been on the purse springs, there appears to be a shitload of transfer money and parachute payments lying in somebody's bank account. it is, of course, always easiest to blame it on the manager while you rob the club blind.

that was about Stale, obviously.

i've heard similar about Danny Batth, but i've gotta say none of our academy kids have set Molineux alight as far as i remember. i shudder to think what they were teaching them in the Big Mick era tho.

a high line with Johnson-Berra and the two worst full backs in the history of football is pretty insane, tbf

classic Beeb contempt for the non-Prem, no scores and no text commentary on the website atm

Nobody knows much about it

dad and bro's decision to fuck this one off looking more astute by the second

yeah rtc you know that joke about Andy fucking Keogh?

god what terrible managers are out of work at the moment?

soz bro u knew it was gonna happen

Guedioura Saturday, Keogh tonight, dude's gonna lose his job thx to two blokes he never let go.

let's be honest, Keogh's still shit.

lol Big Mick's Ipswich out of relegation zone

shd get irate/suicidal phone call from dad in the next 5 mins

Millwall are in the play-offs after 19 games. The Championship.

ikr, just as it looked like it was settling

watford coming up on the rails too

let's be honest, Bristol have looked set for relegation all season. but OH? MY? GOD? WHAT?? THE??? FUCK????

decent stream here, nice of us to start playing football in the second half so i can kinda enjoy it

absolutely butchering this bluenose shit but still just 1 in front = i prophecy disaster

1-0, not totally convincing but a sight better for most of the second half.

Hull manager Steve Bruce called Alan Lee a “cheat” after the Huddersfield striker was involved in a violent incident with Bruce’s son Alex. Bruce junior was shown a red card by Howard Webb for pushing Lee shortly after the end of Hull’s 2-0 Championship win, but Bruce senior claimed Lee had provoked his son by elbowing him first.

Steve Bruce said: “We will appeal. It was cowardly by Alan Lee, I thought more of him, I have had a pint of Guinness with him, I have played his guitar and I thought more of him. Cheat is the right word for him, I don’t use that lightly but that’s the right word for him. He’s 15-and-a-half stone and he went down like that.”

what up noodles

0-3 at home to peterborough and o'driscoll magically available, this gets done before the weekend yes?

Sean O'Driscoll will never win

"He can count himself unlucky to have lost his job..." Lovely touch there from the chairman.

"Nobody likes to see a man kicked while he's down," continued Fawaz al Hasawi, while planting a size ten into the prone O'Driscoll's guts.

wd still love O'Driscoll to get a job but i can't see it happening :(

Berg out after eleven games.

Kean In

hughes, warnock, brentford, at least the champo will be lively for us next season i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrfoyyreUbE

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/dec/27/nottingham-forest-manager-alex-mcleish

hahahahahahahhhahah those poor bastards

Tbh if by some miracle Big Eck can get them into the Prem next season I dont see what he's got lose to keep him from playing a hard-pressing 3-4-3 with a suicidally high line and seeing what happens. Worked for Martinez

kinda

Hahahaha this never even crossed my mind. Over to you Venky's.

well that was an unexpectedly nightmarish violin concerto piece

totes appropes tho brah

look hull city, no one in the whole world wants to see you, any of your players and especially steve fucking bruce back on proper telly. you've had your fun now pack it in ffs

and you, middlesbrough

City are a project of crystaline beauty that have dropped unlucky in their lumpen manageriate; still it looks like Barmby's squad will flatter that saturnine mackem cunt

in a world where Henning Berg got sacked Solbakken must be looking up the number of a few removal firms right now

We've all seen the Diouf photo, haven't we? We've all seen that.

no sir i had not. bloody hell. who'd have expected racial insensitivity from a Leeds fan?

Wolves have announced that Ståle Solbakken has left the Club with immediate effect. More details to follow.

I'm surprised they've acted so quickly tbh. if they'd shown the same instincts with McCarthy we might still be in the Prem.

now remind me not to look at any fan comments for another 12 months or at least until i'm less vulnerable to despair

Mixed emotions I guess?

i feel bad for the guy, i'm not sure he was given enough of a chance, he blatantly fucked up with the chance he was given. just looking at the number of signings he's made who've been perma-crocked is bizarre, but on the other hand he inherited one of the worst groups of players ever to appear together in the Premier League.

it's a rough old business tho and unfortunately if you get 6 months and don't show any sign of improving things then the odds are this will happen.

wd really like O'Driscoll to get a shot, but i'm very afraid this chalice is pretty much pure poison under Jez Moxey.

feel weirdly satisfied that a clownish cup exit can still carry enough charge to be the final straw in this day and age

still though worry not, plenty of okay candidates and not the end of the wor... wait what dean saunders?? ulp

Meanwhile, Intercity McLeish charges along unabated

so much low tragedy in midlands football right now

pat murphy insinuating saunders appointment is down to steve morgan scouse mafia

donny fans seem to be p gutted if its any consolation

oh jesus fuck no D:

my old man told me tonight that Solbakken was allegedly recommended to Morgan by Jan Molby. i've long suspected the bloke's a fucking idiot but tonight just about proves it.

It'd be so good if the Forest board took resolve from Moxey's decisiveness here. Is Powell now at risk d'you reckon?

Pat Murphy ‏@patmurphybbc
New Wolves manager set to be Dean Saunders of Doncaster.Compensation issues being discussed tonight. Believe SS was toast whatever 1/2

Pat Murphy ‏@patmurphybbc
2/2 happened at Luton.Never found the dressing-room to lose.Why Sean O'D never got the gig amazes.Mind you,he never played for Liverpool

Is who at risk, Ismael Klata?

you know

ffs is it that obvious

think i read something the other week that forest players were refusing to train after the sacking

not that mcleish needs the excuses to fail but he's fucked from day one p much

xp lol fooled me fwiw

tsk ffs thought we were gushing with vital new blood for a sec there

sorry, I meant Hope Powell

keep it on the DL folks, the Yankees must not know

good luck imago

can we not at least get some belated vintage hyperbole for the danny haynes golazo

ah imago's emergence from his chrysalis has turned my despair into lulz

Saunders might be alright i suppose, but i don't think Paul Daniels cd do anything with our squad right now and i've never seen Saunders waving a wand

it were a hit alright

our ilf hero is bradley pritchard, signed from non-league football at 24, has a degree and all, also been our best performer this season other than the inevitable solly

completely singular style he has too, which is to have the highest workrate in british football (covered 9k at wolves, the most anyone's done in the top 3 leagues since 2009) and to sprint - *sprint* - after absolutely everything, both attacking and defensive

add this to being small, likeable and not unskillful and you have the very model of a cult hero

not going to say anything about today's game except that I only spent £30 on tickets which is a relief

god's own wikipeda says he is 6'1 and mentions nothing about a degree although it does say he was a 'performance analyst' which sounds like the sort of title corporate gym employees with sports science degrees might be called

maybe 'slight' would have been more accurate - he's very slender of build which means that every time he comes off worse in a 50/50 the idiots behind me mutter 'not physical enough for this league' or suchlike

our results with/without pritchard starting this season would make interesting viewing for these people

he's definitely not 6'1 though, that's straight-up incorrect

and yeah he has something of the gym employee about him - he was signed because he was training at the valley during the off-season while on work experience - but he's not got yer reptile sportsciencebro vibe about him at all - he's humble and appears to value his fitness as a means to its own end rather than a territorial mating-display function

i think you should amend his wiki page based upon who you would like bradley pritchard to be, so its essential truth compensates for any merely prosaic truth-deficiencies

that would set a glorious precedent, maybe we should start a thread, 'the essential truth of footballers'

there's already a "Terry is a racist cunt" thread iirc

seems like pritchard went to loughborough, as if he were trying to fulfill the sports science bro archetype i was adumbrating on ilx some time ago

bros in Bench t-shirts at decent provincial uni sort of thing = this was the sportssciencebro thing we were riffing on a while back

that description makes me think LOUGHBOROUGH btw -- the only ppl i know who went there are all kind of athletic, sportsbro doing business studies types

definitely a lot of LADs in that contingent, but then some of those ppl are quite serious cuz they want to become brokers after all

― navihchkan (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 May 2012 23:01 (7 months ago)

Loughborough was the spiritual home of Sports Science when i were a lad, assume that hasn't changed

lol noodle i actually typed and then deleted 'what might the conservapedia entry for john terry be' in that last post

i bet pritchard went to all his lectures and never drank more than three units a night

lol loughborough uni students shd refer to their alma mater as 'lowbrow university' right

no alcohol but entire gastrointestinal canal glows orange in darkened rooms due to >3000ml/ day lucozade intake

http://truelad.com/Banter/389271

that banter moved me

head the size of a tennis ball, pathos like a roddick serve

how can you be so disrespectful of that TrueLAD

it's almost like you want him to fail

Any advice you’d give to Loughborough footballers still looking for a route in the professional game?

All I would say keep it simple. Focus on what you can do and nothing else. I’ve seen players change because they hear they have had interest from other clubs, or that scouts are at their games. I had that two seasons before while I was at Tamworth FC. I didn’t react well, subsequently my performances were way below my standard I hoped for. With all that, unfortunately luck and timing still have a huge part to play in becoming a professional footballer.

Another thing that helped me was that I worked on many of the weaknesses that I knew others felt I had. For example countless managers thought I was too small and lightweight. So I spent a long time on my jumping and ways to protect the ball. These slight improvements just helped my all round game, and although I doubt I’m no bigger than I was when I was 16 years old, I have more confidence to compete.

pritchard regards the agency of luck as misfortune

only self-determinism and graft for our bradley

surprised i haven't read a fawning broadsheet article about this dude already

traditionally i will rep for fitba players from strange backgrounds or those who make a circuitous route to the top

when he gets a zimbabwe call-up, people will notice

unless he's already been approached and turned it down on humanitarian grounds, would be just like him

a lot of successful brazilian players have pretty humble bluecollar type stories, gilberto silva was a factory worker and i think grafite was a door to door salesman

rep for ian wright, your time starts now

andres iniesta was a chimneysweep from the ages of seven to fifteen

Pritchard's an ex-BBC Sport columnist (during his time at Tamworth). Think was a year or two after Gavin Strachan Blog.

I can fully imagine Chris Powell as the lead character in a football version of Borgen.

Saunders might not be a bad choice - writing off what happened at Doncaster last season (which I don't think anyone could really have dealt with), he's got Rovers pushing to come straight back up, and he did a very solid job at Wrexham too. Putting aside the whole Sean-o Finally Gets His Shot At The Big Time dream, Wolves could probably do a lot worse.

So this week started with us finding out that Chester were expelled from the league, which means that the six points we earned will be wiped out. It does leave a bitter taste in your mouth when you think that another team's problems have had such a significant impact on us.

man's inhumanity to man

Trying to fill out the rest of the cast of Borgen: Football Edition has now led to me inventing the idea of Manish/Claridge slashfic. I am a horrible person.

only now, I get the Bloody

It was slightly surreal though to hear the booing come from behind the dug-out. When I came off, I think I actually heard one of their fans heckle me: "Oi Pritchard! You're just as bad as your blog!"
To be honest, it was great timing and delivery from that man, so I have to give him credit.

***

Passions were high, and I think the match became a bit too intense because Geebo (assistant manager Darron Gee, who was referee) had had enough of players appealing for everything, especially after Jerome (Murdock) kicked the ball out with no one around him, and his arm shot up claiming the throw-in.
He threatened to send off the next player who tried to cheat. This worked in my favour because our winning goal was set up by me taking three touches (we always play two-touch).

cmon this is awesome material, gavin strachan must have been weeping into his pillow

http://i.imgur.com/rjeno.jpg

Position:
Midfielder
Nationality:
Zimbabwean
D.O.B:
19th December 1985
Height:
6'1" (186 cm)
Weight:
14st 2lbs (90Kg)

http://ask.fm/SaraSkinnerGomes/answer/7397672823

pd nakhchivan sat back in his chaise longue, adjusted his cravat and determined to get stuck the fuck into that laudanum he'd been saving

"I have told the players that, in the first 10 minutes, we have to show the supporters we mean business.

I’m sure they will be on the edge of their seats. We have got to give them something to cheer. If the tempo of our game is too slow, it will be like sitting in a library.

Wolves supporters get excited by effort and passion and we’ve got to excite the supporters. I want to sit in the dugout and enjoy what I’m watching.”

oh christ effort and passion this is gonna be deadly

so excited to watch them tonight tho

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-20972466

New Ipswich Town signing Aaron McLean has criticised the state of town centre shopping as "rubbish".

The striker, 29, who signed on loan from Hull City last week, wrote on his Twitter account that "to say the shops are dead is an understatement".

David Ellesmere, Labour leader of Ipswich Borough Council, said McLean's comments were "disappointing".

McLean later apologised and said his remarks were no reflection on his commitment to the football club.

McLean signed on loan for Ipswich last week and made his debut on Saturday
Mr Ellesmere said: "I think that Aaron probably needs to see a little bit more of Ipswich, but perhaps he should be concentrating on his efforts on the pitch.

"Ipswich town centre, like town centres all over the country, is suffering because of the poor state of the economy.

"We've just introduced new car parking deals, we spent money on improved Christmas lights which increased footfall, we're looking at ways of improving the Cornhill and linking up the town centre and waterfront, so there are lots of plans in place to make the town centre better."

McLean later wrote on Twitter: "Listen anyone taken offence to me saying the shops in Ipswich are rubbish I apologise.

"I've been coming to Ipswich for 10 years and my lil sis is from here so it's banta wiv us.

"Please don't take it the wrong way. Club wise it's brilliant and I'm buzzing to be here."

well tempo's there, just not a braincell in amongst it

sorely need someone to put a foot on the ball and pull a string or two but i guess u might already be aware of that eh

doyler looking so stale i had to open a window

so cynical, this exciting new hump the ball forward style paid off with a whole two shots on target, which is more than enough for a home team made up of the least talented cunts in the universe.

nah joeks, Saunders is bullshit

told u doyle was shit back when he was merely shit

Doyle is a perfectly adequate mid-League One player but i take your point, he was still better that 90 per cent of the waxworks he was playing in front of

hull keeper just had the worst 2 seconds of his life

my dad just live-blogged it on the phone, dude stayed down for 10 minutes then got stretchered off, swear it was out of embarrassment

Manager Dean Saunders today insisted his side must ‘toughen up’ on the road and get back to liking the ugly stuff if they are to climb the table.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/217/7/0/why_would_a_wolf_cry__by_sianiithewolf-d59w7bl.jpg

The new Rovers manager sees it rather differently. "This is a Premier League club with a great history," he said.

"It is still one of only five clubs to have won the Premier League title, so it was a no brainer for me. There's a great challenge ahead with potentially massive rewards. I want to work in the Premier League and this is a club where I can achieve that ambition. I'd be amazed, take away the top six or seven, if there was another manager in the country who would have made a different decision."

if the famed ewood undersoil heating holds up i look forward to our boys putting the first puncture-hole in the USS Appleton (rigid-structure dirigible, hydrogen gas) tomorrow

hang on i watched Blackburn last Friday they was pish

*chicken dance*

Shots 2
On Target 0
Corners 3
Fouls 15

DEAN-OOOOO DEAN-OOOOO DEAN-OOOOO

finally convinced beyond any doubt that we are utterly fucked until Morgan and Moxey go

Brentford
2
Hayes 16′Donaldson 39′

Leyton Orient
2
Rowlands 6′Cook 86′

:D

That cunt Rowlands. Was the ref wot robbed us, apparently. A dodgy red for our only decent left-back means he's suspended for the Chelsea game (which I now have a ticket for so at least something has gone right).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOj8RtQMhfE

ouch

Pah. I spent my formative years watching football from the exact spot that video was taken. This probably explains why I never developed an understanding of shape, tactics, etc (obv the quality of early 90s Brentford didn't help).

mcleish surveys what o'driscoll has left him and says yep, darius henderson

y'know i akshully think Deano might be a good manager, unfortunately he's stuck at a club playing Blue Square wages

lol at Forest having to deny McLeish out already

>:|

It is the first time Hartley and Poole have combined to score for the third-tier's bottom side.

I saw that earlier. Beautiful. Would have been better still if they'd done it the right way round.

McLeish out

lol billy davies return, yes please

i just can't see anything that could possibly go wrong there

four b&h albion players to face retrial for sexual assault & voyeurism
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10203950.Day_14__Jury_asked_for_majority_verdict_in_Albion_players__sex_assault_trial/

Anton Rodgers said in his defence that he had exposed himself and taken pictures but it was just "boy banter".

LAD

in all seriousness, if they're found guilty then fuck their careers. still can't believe marlon king is employed as a professional entertainer

I had no idea Brendan's son was in this

yep he sure is

a little bit of good news:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/07/portsmouth-bid-football-league

now that were a good champo goal

impressive match this

kevin fuckin phillips oh yes

zaha's certainly eye-catching, frustrating bugger tho

kinda like welbeck on stilts with nani's brain

hey so I get to boo marlon king tomorrow

he will be booed. might even be SWORN AT

I'm going to kill a kitten

wwmd

ian holloway has only just found out that watford have got a bunch of udinese players. he thinks it's outrageous.

Clark said: "I witnessed possibly the worst training session in terms of a professional footballer I have ever come across on Thursday. We did our preparation work for Watford and he [Zigic] was in the team. And I was disgusted when I walked off.

"I need to tell the fans before the game because obviously the social media network will go into overload because of this. I know he's quite popular. But ultimately he's a very well-paid guy and you've got to earn that. And what he dished up yesterday was, since I've left school at 16 and been a professional footballer – not technically or tactically – the worst I have ever seen.

"And this is not the first time. This has been coming. Now, whether he has been angry he hasn't been starting enough games over the previous weeks, that could be a point, it could be valid. But does that mean you just basically down tools, don't try?

Clark added: "I think the fans deserve more than that, the football club deserves more than that. I am an honest man and I need to be honest with everyone. And there will be people who disagree and say this is a crazy thing. But what am I meant to do? Am I meant to accept that, just let people do that? All the other players see that. Or am I within my rights as a manager?

"Whatever happens tomorrow, I can sleep soundly in my bed because I know I have made the right decision, in how Lee Clark goes about the football work and his business."

I've got to admit my curiosity is piqued

how lee clark goes about the football work: apoplectically

rtc confirm or deny, Gorkss is pretty dece iirc? better than owt we've got at centre back at the mo.

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/02/14/fan-mike-tyson-is-backing-wolves-to-survive/

regional sports journalism at its heights

I strongly dispute that Tyson failed to fulfil his potential fwiw

oh yeah gorkssy's a championship trooper no worries. pace and distribution better left unsaid but headers and blocks will be meat and drink to the big man

i see the lad batth got a start, how'd he do

wish i could look forward to the champo the way reading can with their hope akpans and nick blackmans already signed up on the sly

we'll be the scoutless idiots endlessly loaning out useless prem tosser has-beens and maybe spending 13m on charlie austin or whatever

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65929000/jpg/_65929218_billy_davies_getty.jpg

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65776000/jpg/_65776149_billy.jpg

lol

Beautifully-composed image, that.

ikr? it's the still from this interview, the bbc spoilsports eventually zoom in cut the sheik out though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21384924

spare a thought for poor tom ince

They wanna sort that power lead out. Also, why are there chutney bowls on the dresser?

Haha! That lead was my other thought but I decided to kip

di canio gone

surprised it took him this long tbh, he was considering this a fortnight ago iirc?

hopefully he'll get Wenger or Mancini's job.

that would be amazing

West Ham maybe more likely - Big Sam is still waiting on a contract offer.

Leeds. Has to be.

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/02/19/dean-saunders-in-do-not-lose-message-to-wolves/

he's got this tactics shit sorted

motherfuck wolves motherfuck dean motherfuck moxey

danny haynes has literally just fucked the paradigm to death

Oi! What's Dean Moxey ever done to you?

bring on League One, bring on barbarian hordes burning Steve Morgan's property business to the ground

radge thread needs a bump, go for it noods

this iceberg has been visible for so fucking long on the horizon that i can't bring myself to get radge, just numb with amazement at the captain's inability to change direction

WIMBLEDON
Dons sign Cardiff's Darko on loan

*sigh*

cardiff are a machine tbf

any positive flickers under deano?

http://i.imgur.com/hvjbKdM.png

such realness

played better second half by the sounds of it. Seb missed a sitter, which is an axiomatic Wolves line now tbh. although i was against Saunders i've come round a bit, you certainly cdn't point the finger at him over the shower he's inherited or the lack of imagination of the owner. Deano has been pleasingly ruthless with players most of the fans know are shit, but he still has a lot of shit to offload before we can hope to have much of a squad. i hope he's kept on even if we get relegated. the next acid test will be players in and out over the summer.

we could just shade stopping up. this was always going to be a hiding to nothing and it sounds like we shd've been 2-2 at least.

i watched most of the leicester game and (besides sharper strikers) it seemed you were really crying out for someone experienced to put their foot on the ball in the middle and just calm it, too much psychological rollercoaster. although lol how many sides can you say that of in the champo tbf

i'd guess o'hara is a particular disappointment

robbie savage sagely advises bradford "you might as well get beat 4 or 5 now, have a go"

savage also daringly calling him mishu

means little bear in polish so that's nice

matej vydra translates as "matty otter" just fwiw btw

O'Hara's not properly fit I don't think. i can't tell whether he's not interested in the Champo or whether he needs a better enforcer than Henry behind him. a little of both i suspect. his more Hollywood instincts need a manager prepared to keep him on a leash anyway.

oh lol what thread am i on

Speculation links raven with move away from tower

This Cardiff guy:

"Have they achieved any success under this bluebirds brand?" [Tan] asked. "So why do we hold onto something that hasn't achieved much success?"

should apply the same logic to the England team

This yet has the potential to be the blackest farce of our times. Should poll that actually.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01682/MacDonald_1682601a.jpg
FANTASTIC CREDENTIALS ... Kevin MacDonald

ohmygod Stephen Hunt's still alive

tremendous free kick from Abdi. twat.

SAKOOOOOOOOOO

gotta love an injury time equalizer

the shame of this relegation will be that Saunders looks like he knows what he's doing

sweet touch there, Abdi offered Sako his man of the match champers and Sako gave it him back

Tonight on the Football League Show, James Richardson did the summary for the Port Vale game. His commentary on Doug Loft crashing home an equaliser from 25 yards: "THWACK! Liquid football!"

:D

Saunders now officially better than Terry Connor, clean sheet kept, cautious optimism (v. slowly) rising

fuck knows who's going down

draw away to the bottom club not good enough. Clinging to the play off place.

Bristol have improved dramatically under O'Driscoll tho, it's the same old "everyone beats everyone" comedy division we know and love

pandemic yr kinda testing my gut feeling, possibly irrational, that outwardly supporting more than 1 club is in poor taste

I mean, wanting to do well is one thing, but claiming ownership of two tribes - rly not sure about that

two? I've at least five!

yeah boo you pands tbh this is not cricket, idk if i even recall you ever piping up for the gulls before the current sudden whiff of possible success

damn billy got forest rollin, some fucked up fairytale all round but i'm liking it

dougie's bolton creeping on the come up too (trying to think of another defender with a scoring rate like craig dawson btw?)

Barnsley manager David Flitcroft: "Tomasz Cywka's work ethic has been incredible. The guy has been out of the team and he's been someone who has kept patience, been resilient and has epitomised everything I believe a human being should be."

Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy: "They're brilliant, they're a great bunch, they really are fabulous. I was really proud of the way they went about their job."

well now, i used to be a season ticket holder back in the old Goldstone days, so really they're the only club I've ever been an actual supporter of ;) But true enough LFC results are the only ones that have the capability of effecting my mood.

I'm pretty sure I've read pandemic talking about his history with the B&H elsewhere, can't remember which thread though. The one where talk about how we wound up supporting our various clubs, maybe?

Yeah, Championship in thrilling mess shocker. Looking at the front-runners, I've got an awful feeling there's gonna be loads of ends-justifying-the-means pieces about various club owners come the start of next season - whether it's That Awful Man at Cardiff, the transformation of Watford into Udinese B, the Barmby-slaying bollixes at Hull... I can't remember if Leicester's mob are particularly evil, but they did hire Sven once, which is never the greatest thing to have on the CV. Oh god, and Forest are being resurgent.

So we're pinning our hopes on Kevin Phillips doing One Last Job at Palace (which, even in other circumstances, would be awesome), and then... erm... Gus Poyet's Carnival of Playing The Right Way, and maybe Boro suddenly learning the difference between their arse and their elbow. Or Resurgent Bolton.

Then at the bottom... Yeah, no-one's gonna mind if it's Birmingham, are they?

trying to think of another defender with a scoring rate like craig dawson btw?

Hooiveld was pretty spectacular last season. So there's a portent.

And speaking of Sven at Leicester - not his fault, guv!

The news that the BBC will be showing Women's Super League highlights has brought some delightful people out to play:

Why don't the BBC air more Championship games? My team, Peterborough United, are better than any woman's team.

pretty much the ur-kind of lol but mostly sad

And back out of the play off places the Albion go. Davies is gonna take Forest up isn't he?

brighton are so flaky even i'm perpetually annoyed at them

woof tho. second automatic spot and third and fourth playoff spots are anyone's, relegation tighter than a gnat's proverbial

lol leicester having an absolute mare, 1st of feb they were three points clear in 2nd

This is the closest relegation fight in British football history, and we're in it. But an excellent win today. 8 away wins this season, 4 home

i had a look at an addicks board the other week, the pessimism was staggering

fwiw we have very negative fans for some reason (the scars of 2008/9, probably). I haven't thought we'll go down this season but there are no dead ducks just yet!

I have even posted lengthy anti-booing screeds to the main CAFC board, my logic being that it doesn't help anybody you stupid cunts

Worse than booing, really, though, is the stick given out every time a pass is misplaced. USELESS POWELL

fuck off and never watch us again

What style do you adopt in these posts? Classic freshman LJ I presume?

high poststructuralist discourse mate

My rawk posts heavily employ Burroughsian cut-up technique

Worse than booing, really, though, is the stick given out every time a pass is misplaced. USELESS POWELL

fuck off and never watch us again

― c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas le beurre (imago), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:20 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

"dale 'sideways' stephens" caught my eye yeah

ashley barnes sent off for tripping up the ref

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/bad-sport-david-prutton-tripped-up-fernando-forestieri-after-he-scored-watfords-winner-v-wednesday/

late lolz at this btw

Scheherezade that Albert Adomah goal though.

Bournemouth's current run of WWWWWLLLLL is something to behold. Not sure I've ever seen that before.

the hour of reckoning is upon us

*solemnly stuffs brick into newspaper*

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21737406

6 enlightening minutes of billy talking about hi tech prep, video scouting, performance analysis, powerpoint presentations...

http://i.imgur.com/yKPlOet.png

BOOM, COMIC SANS

20 Torquay 38 -8 40
21 Plymouth 38 -10 40
22 Barnet 38 -11 40
--------------------------------
23 Aldershot 39 -15 40
24 Accrington 38 -21 40

Fuuuuuu

great news, the ewood chicken is back

Palace. Crushed.

ah, when lady liverpool's on the rag

eh 4 wins out of the last 5 for lfc. Nice try tho.

it's cool, we're next at the amex, after yet another unlikely away win I'll let you off the banterwagon

Blackburn rovers were league champions in 1995

Oh gosh, I assumed that was just a propos of general rubbishness. They're what, two points clear of the drop?

Four according to the beleaguered fan on my right

the misfortune to come of age in 1994/95

Nine teams from that season are no longer in the top flight. Blackburn, Leeds and Forest in the top five!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhCjrthv3mw

noodles how could you keep this from us, i'm insulted

i spent all this morning trying to find that! fucking Football League had it took down off Youtube.

better yet, whilst Ikeme was arguing with Saunders about it at half time he punched a wall and broke his hand

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/03/19/wolves-goalkeeper-carl-ikeme-breaks-hand-in-dressing-room-row/

going down in a blaze of lol

belated lol at this deano quote before the cardiff game:

"And another thing that has pleased me is in Ladbrokes, we’re not one of the three favourites to get relegated and they don’t normally get it wrong.

"They have looked at our squad and thought ‘they will get out of it’ and that’s what I’m thinking."

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/03/19/wolves-goalkeeper-carl-ikeme-breaks-hand-in-dressing-room-row/

going down in a blaze of lol

― poking pocong (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 16:35 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on a positive note, it appears you have a "tactics board"

it's a big drawing of a penalty box with "shoot" written inside it

Oh man, that Ladbrokes quote! Took my breath away, that did

where's Tim

https://mobile.twitter.com/UoE_Security/status/315375791041028096/photos

Can't load that pic but I assume it's the collapsed wall behind our away end? Seems oddly typical that fate would find a way to make us look bad just as Argyle and Torquay seem to be fighting for the privilege of relegation. Bah.

your lot going up this season? know you can't possibly say at this stage but what's your hunch

Beaten in the playoffs is my guess. Two of the promotion places look nailed-on. The pack for the third is very close. Tisdale says that one of the teams will win five or six of their remaining seven or eight games, which seems right, and he wants that to be us, which also seems right, but I don't see any particular reason why it would be us rather than (say) Burton or Rotherham. We have a centre-mid injury crisis and a worrying tendency to having very bad days.

My uninformed assessment is that League 2 is rubbish this season, though I don't know how anyone (including myself) goes about measuring stuff like that.

Ah ok. You may be interested to know that Matt Taylor looks at home in the Championship, and that Dan Seaborne is not a left-back. Oh and that Ben Hamer will either play for England or throw one in his net every third game depending on whom you ask

Also dunno if L2 is rubbish but I'm fairly certain that this is the best Championship there's ever been. L1 can't be far off either.

http://www.buryfc.co.uk/cms_images/news/npower-l1-43107-204051.jpg

oh hang on

as you were. why i ever let myself entertain the slightest belief in these feckless cunts god alone knows.

Bolton's thin chance of making the playoffs slipping away...

OH GOD STOP GOING IN FRONT YOU BASTARDS FINISH THIS MADNESS TODAY

fuck off peterboro you fucking jeds

Peterboro and Wednesday wins = not good. need Hull to do a job on Huddersfield now.

:D

City did their best to throw 2 points away there but job done

Hunt's risen from the dead this month, he's suddenly the motor of the team :D

omfg

Doyler buys a pen, brought down by Butland on the penalty spot when he was clean thru. fuck knows how that's a yellow, cunt of a referee.

will take the 3-0 tho :D :D :D

i don't wanna kiss of death this but jeez

fucking Ravel Morrison dives for a soft penalty. this referee is fucking terrible as per usual.

just turning this on, has that silly cunt got "ravel" on the back of his shirt again

looking hairy for blackburn all of a sudden

grimmest of lolz if ince takes blackpool down in 5 minutes as well

said to my dad on Saturday Blackburn cd still implode.

this 2nd half is edgier than i'd like.

good last few seasons you'd already have had enough points to stay up, proper scrap this year

p much everyone up to birmingham themselves in 10th at risk - maybe higher even!!

what a bellend lee clark is, just look at that face

yeah we did the maths, i'd say Birmingham are ok, probably everybody above Ipswich wd take some mathematical insanity to get relegated

ooohhh

i know, can't imagine why we've gone to shit since Karl Henry came on.

fucking hell is 2 minutes of possession too much to ask?

every one of your lot seems five stone heavier than brum's

presumably Deano's given them some pie-eating tips

i know it's a funny old game and all that but how did going three nil up ever happen here, did karl henry come on for messi or something

looooool how'd you miss that you bluenose wankerS?

we were pretty comfortable at half time, long balls on the break mostly but good willing runners and O'Hara spraying it about a bit. start of the second half they got an iffy penalty, O'Hara got a knock and got subbed off for Henry, we've shit it.

we seem to play an unnervingly high line considering Gorkss and Johnson are the 2 CBs

if results stay the same us, Wednesday and Barnsley are about to go above Blackburn

Zigic waving that imaginary card is the most effort i've seen the cunt show all afternoon

bristol city score, wednesday back in the relegation zone, madness madness madness

we're fucking 3 points from fucking relegation, what the fuck

Bournemouth run is now WWWWWLLLLLWWWWW

two scrappy 3-2s on the bounce :D

i'd get rid of Saunders at the end of the season tbh but kudos on the fighting spirit

like to see some of those reffing decisions again

wow @ bournemouth

brb gonna stick everything i own on Bournemouth losing their next match

ouch nasty goal for wednesday there

maybe don't loan a striker out to barnsley next time eh

18th! 5 below us with a game in hand tho

Huddersfield v Peterborough Sat 6 Apr 15:00
Wolves v Huddersfield Sat 13 Apr 15:00
Blackburn v Huddersfield Tue 16 Apr 19:45
Huddersfield v Millwall Sat 20 Apr 12:30
Bristol City v Huddersfield Sat 27 Apr 15:00
Huddersfield v Barnsley Sat 4 May 12:45

6 pointer much hudds?

lol that's amazing, nice rest at home to Millwall in the middle

quick scan suggests barnsley have got the hardest run-in (although wolves' isn't too clever either)

fwiw in this league of course

got Leeds-Derby twittering away in the background but i'm too drained to give much of a fuck about a fixture with "DOUR" tattooed across its knuckles

we've got Brighton last game, am hoping we're safe by then or that they're safely in the playoff spots and play their under 7s

I'm currently constructing a number of fantasy scenarios in my head. I think my favourite is the one where, inside the next 48 hours, Leicester sack Pearson and replace him with O'Neill.

And Millwall somehow pip them to the last play-off slot.

CHAMPIONSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIP

Farewell Colin, you were too obviously desperate to get out of Leeds for this world

balls of goddamn steel

Article on harmless homophobic bantz directed at Albion fans:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10329097.Albion_fans_name_and_shame_homophobic_rivals/

Just four days later at Hull City's KC Stadium, a player was said to have rubbed his hands up and down his backside several times in front of Albion fans.

A Hull FC spokesman described the incident as a “misunderstanding” adding that the player's shorts fell down following a slide tackle and he pulled them up “a little too slowly”.

This is evasive bollocks isn't it, surely your shorts would ride up if anything in a slide tackle?

And Warnock, speaking on the Sports Breakfast, said: “I personally hope Mark Hughes follows me again and destroys another team of mine.”

can confirm that 'does your boyfriend know you're here' was wheeled out at the valley, but that I did not sing it. agree that institutionalised homophobia needs a clampdown, maybe first from the stadium announcers

http://www.mobiles24.com/static/previews/downloads/default/4/P-39645-LqbaHwG9nf-1.gif

http://www.outdoors.fi/SiteCollectionImages/siirretytkuvat.en/4984/15520.jpg

am i tipsy or was that entire league one highlights section not just the purest fitba entertainment

is it me or is the Champo pretty rubbish this season? can't see Cardiff or Hull setting the Prem alight tbh

this year is football's New Jersey

if Cardiff can't pull their stodgy fingers out and beat Barnsley tonight then i hope they get stomped into 4th place and lose the fucking playoffs

lol

godddamit last second equalizer fuck u Cardiff u shit, shit bastards, how can a team that hasn't won in 3 months still be 6 points clear?

championship is amazing this year - probably the best overall quality from top to bottom ever seen, and probably the worst champions elect ever seen as well. everyone except bristol city kinda deserves to finish on level points

fwiw cardiff's proud defensive record is absolutely hilarious when juxtaposed with my own experience of seeing them concede 5 goals in half an hour. they seriously haven't conceded more than 3 to anyone else. guys.

Claridge's assertion earlier that all neutrals will be pleased for Cardiff to get promoted is moronic even for him

GOAL - Millwall 1-2 Sheff Weds - Chris Maguire (90 mins)
GOAL - Millwall 1-2 Sheff Weds - Chris Maguire (90 mins)
GOAL - Millwall 1-2 Sheff Weds - Chris Maguire (90 mins)
GOAL - Millwall 1-2 Sheff Weds - Chris Maguire (90 mins)
GOAL - Millwall 1-2 Sheff Weds - Chris Maguire (90 mins)

CAN IT HAPPEN

12 points btwn seventh and 21st in the Championship (or 15 btwn promotion and relegation spots if you prefer) is kind of a freakish extension of a trend that's taken hold in the last couple of years, right? without being arsed to look at stats at this precise moment

yeah the old "everybody can beat everybody else" thing has got ridiculous, still not seeing any real quality there this season tho. no Southamptons.

the overall quality is much, much higher. no easy games at all, every side with a few very good players. think of it as the squeezed middle

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/thingummy99/Screenshot2013-04-13at140559.png

WARD IS BACK

sentences i didn't think i'd ever type #1

yer playing the actual worst team in the division, make hay imo

charlton appear to have entirely reversed the curbishley-era end-every-season-weakly trait, which is not unwelcome

and as I type, the Terriers equalise, which will have infuriated noodle vague and all of his fellow Wolves fans

more a grim eye-rolly sigh than acvtual infuriation

you coming to The Valley next week? will treat you to lunch + a teetotal drink or two

oh dude if i wasn't a pauper i'd take you up on that. i'll tell you after the lottery draw

well if I got you a ticket in the Charlton end...

tbf tbf since that dead cunt privatised the rail it went from two pennorth return hull to king's cross to a banker's ransom

oh shitting Blackburn score in 45+3, denying us the honour of being the only club in all 4 divisions to score twice in the first half

jeez, Peterboro winning, Blackburn winning...just make sure you finish off Barnsley

message received :D

Peterboro 2-0 up, cd really do with y'all pulling yr fingers out now boys

ahahaha

sorry, if there's one thing I've learnt this week it's that we mustn't mock the dead

we've got Dicko on the bench who's probly scored more this season than the rest of this team put together, i dunno Deano, maybe roll the dice a little for the last 20 minutes of this relegation decider?

oh ffs down we go

Peterboro 3-0

Saunders out, entire squad out, reopen the dog-track

WHAT THE SHITTING FUCK?

O'Hara appears to have been sent off, cunt probly wants to get out of the ground before time

might pass on that trip to the Valley dude

aw

at least my brother's 20 quid at 20-1 looks solid now

in fact they'll probly pay out tonight, maybe i shd tap him up for train fare

70:33
Unfair challenge on Jamie O'Hara by Keith Southern results in a free kick. Free kick taken by Dorus De Vries.

71:04 Dismissal
Dismissal Jamie O'Hara is shown a red card.

71:35 Booking
Booking The referee shows Keith Southern a yellow card.

hmmmm

Keith Southern was sent off at The Valley, got a bit of cunt in him aye

i'm reading that as "foul - punch - sending off"

there are still twunts on Facebook et al going "we should never have got rid of McCarthy"

time to start following Warwickshire in earnest i guess

foul - move head towards face - dive - sent off - 22-man-'brawl' - woeful dispersion

funny u shd say that vague but I'm a hardened Pear. we must now be foes

haha don't worry about it, it's not like you're gonna play us this year

u fkn wait until the twenty20s, we've got fkn jacob oram

i thought Saunders was gonna stay but on this showing i'm not sure Morgan wd have the balls

xp oooh big man on the tip and run scene

what time's the FLS then

as a great man once said "bollocks to football"

not even Millwall getting into Europe could ruin this day

wd kinda like a Millwall-Chelsea final

also any opportunity to see Daniel Day Lewis in his hilarious football hat is welcome

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http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/04/16/dean-saunders-insists-wolves-wont-go-down/

Deano is some kind of treat

alright Saunders i'll give you that one

Thanks a bunch Charlton

9th place Charlton are mathematically not safe from relegation yet :\

Three games left and fifteen teams in contention for the remaining two slots. Kind of amazing the playoff spots aren't more open tbh.

Bolton loss today hurts, but other results at least contained the damage. In with a chance!

What can I say, their keeper pulled off save of the season. They're shit obviously and they'll finish 20th next season. How much money does their owner have? Will they continue to play that ghastly football?

The hope, presumably, is killing Noodle V right now. Sure you don't want to come chez nous? We really, really have nothing to play for now...except schadenfreude...

i checked the train price on Saturday and reluctantly i'll have to pass. we can do it next season when we stay up cough cough

I think I speak for the supporters of Charlton and Wolves when I say that Stephen Cunt really is that sort of player and can fuck off, for good

who did he fuck up?

Nearly did our keeper, got a yellow, subbed immediately

on the bright side, Karl Henry hit the bar from 45 yards though

Hunt's a combative little sod but i wouldn't say he was evil. lucky to have caught a rare glimpse of Henry kicking a ball forward tho.

anyway yesterday i'm like "we're still okay" but this morning i'm thinking we're a bit screwed

We've all had nights like that tbf

need an absolute minimum of 3 points from Burnley and Brighton, probably need 4, can't see it

If Brighton can beat Leeds next week then they may 'rest' most of the team for the last game vs your boys NV

i'm banking on Brighton not exerting themselves in that last match, but them not exerting themselves could be enough to get something from us. not confident of beating Burnley at home either.

mind you, anything could still happen. home draw next week, everything looking finished, then an away romp against Brighton's kids for a last second reprieve.

kinda worried if we stay up that Saunders will keep his job tho.

Oppet! Fizzles! You nervous?

My phone just autocorrected Oppet to Popey. I'll go with the latter henceforth

Hello, yes I am. To a quite unsettling degree. I keep thinking back to 2002, when we were in the same situation and drew with Reading. This is the only football team I actually care about and I don't think I actually enjoy football as a thing. I've been thinking about whether it's reactionary, small minded idiocy to insist on supporting one crap club and ignore yr European football and yr modern tactics etc. Is it the equivalent of proudly only listening to oasis? Anyway.

I'm heading the same way, with concessions to the Premiership (seven seasons tends to inculcate certain longings...) - not at all the equivalent of Oasis fanship. It's less a sporting contention, a matter of theory and technique (as watching 'top-level' football is for me) and more a communitarian affirmation, a society in microcosm, a my-village-versus-yours, which scratches a different and possibly more satisfying itch

And so...apologies, but today is all about BWP versus Arter and Francis

I'm teaching someone in Hounslow today (currently Acton Town). Will wish fortune upon encountered Bees

Also, just realised that you're playing Doncaster, not Bournemouth. Idiot

Ha, I did wonder. That was a good explanation of the purpose of football for me. I'll try to think on it some more once today's over. BWP has been going well the last few matches. Seems like a 'decent bloke' as well, which I wasn't expecting.

I mean, obviously there's some aspect of sporting contention in local club support, but it's more subjective, more sublimated into the nature of support, which makes it perhaps less pure but perhaps more open to interpretation, perhaps even more exciting (or at least relatable, redolent - tactical considerations suddenly demand empathy).

BWP's a lovely guy unless you're a handbag

load of camra cobblers

I'd say it's more like being in a band, as opposed to being into music xps. It's an interesting topic though, and I'd say give it its own thread if football wasn't all but dead to me nowadays.

Last game of the season in League 2, no teams definitely relegated yet, 2 of 7 possible teams will go down - off to Wimbledon game, if we win we stay up, lose or draw and we're down - never been to a game with such a nervous atmosphere!

smoke bomb in the donny box, put out with a large pile of sand

pile of sand too large to continue game, being stamped down

stewards now on with shovel and are putting sand into bucket

local radio

you can tell phil parry's a ranger cos he can't mention tommy spurr without repeatedly adding he was once linked with us in 2008

looks like we're gonna get this farce over today, nice work lads

gonna have "diagouraga" floating round my head for a month after this

p conflicted about hull right now, v glad they might be blowing auto promo but sad for the wolves

sounds like michael oliver's bungled a clear sending off at griffin park, why am i not surprised

i want City to go up but this choking is hilarious and we're dead in the water anyway

Bruce out

lads i was speaking to last night all thought City wd lose today

Not like you to eschew subtlety, rtc

Looks like our juggernaut came one game too late. Great season though.

tell you what Deano, why not pick the same SHOWER OF SHIT that got beat last weekend, that should work huh?

hull home to cardiff last day, watford home to leeds

hmmm

play offs look mouthwatering either way, bolton are flying (and have just gone above palace), could shock brighton at this rate

bolton palace dougie final would be some shit

oooh but forest play leicester last day in case either of those slip up

Would like to think Brighton are a lock for the playoffs. Never works that way though.

noodles why is sako on the bench????

because Dean Saunders is a cunt

also he's been injured for a couple of weeks

He was an ever-present in the league until he tore his hamstring in the 2-1 win over Bristol City on March 16.

The injury was expected to have ended his season, but with Wolves’ need desperate, the former France Under-21 international has been rushed back into full training and is battling to be involved in tomorrow’s crucial game with Burnley.

longer than i thought

psyched for the Walsall derby

another for barnsley, another for burnley

just need Sam Vokes to score now to make the humiliation perfect

wimbledon score!!!!!!

wimbledon concede equaliser cuh

and Sako's on, let's count the seconds til he breaks down

sounds like the ref is robbing brentford blind today

Womblespenalty

really don't want to have to listen to my old man crying on the phone for an hour tonight

dons score, dag & red concede, barnet concede and fall to drop zone

brighton pegged back, play off placements down to last day

barnet 2 down now, it's all in wimbedon's hands

spurs... still spurs

a shudder through walsall as leigh griffiths bags another couple of goals

let the poor sod stay at Hibs imo

the comeback is on

Brighton!

god we desperately need Brighton to be safe for next weekend

Ward, Johnson, Henry, Doyle, O'Hara, Foley, Saunders, get tae fuck the lot of you

need Barnsley and Peterboro to lose next weekend plus we win at Brighton = stick a fork in us and for fuck's sake sell the club to somebody who gives a shit Morgan

PENALTY BRENTFORD 90TH MIN!!!!

given, still to take

Wimbledon stay up

omg

trotta to take............

HITS THE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crossbar

played 7 minutes of injury time at Wimbledon, that must've been agony

Doncaster straight down the other end

un

be

lievable

and that's 0-1 f/t, doncaster promoted

Crikey

aw man my sincerest condolences to oppet and fiz

not that you'll accept it from me but still

What does all that mean for Brentford? I can't keep up.

Haaaaa, o dear

who knew we had one last crumble left in us, nae bother tho

xp brentford in 3rd had to win to snatch the promotion spot from doncaster in 2nd

now they're in the play offs to play swindon, and then yeovil or sheff utd

oh and that donny goal leapfrogged them above bournemouth (who drew 0-0 v tranmere) to finish as champions

nice for Saunders' last team to be able to give his current one a wave as they sail past us

Farewell Barnet, u clung

Oh jeez, I couldn't get my head round that at all. Sorry Brentford types.

I've never said this before and I'll never say this again, but: absolutely gutted mate. There are no other words.

Today 17:10 #345 Boscombe Bee

Richard Lee said that it was planned all week that Kev would take the penalty even studying what Sullivan does at penalties. Trotta has just f***ed that up completely. Richard Lee said he was 'disgusted' at what he saw.

(lee = brentford reserve keeper, kev = o'connor captain and club legend)

And Trotta's on loan from Fulham. I just can't. It's exquisite.

Pretty hellish last 15 minutes at Wimbledon - tension broken by elderly Fleetwood drunkard dressed as bananaman flaunting his inflatable banana phallus ( and by the final whistle)

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI3s7bLCYAEtHF9.jpg

O_O

i would probably kill myself... well, maybe trotta first

how could o'connor let anyone take that moment away from him, idgi

I don't even want to think about it. Doesn't reflect well on any of them. So many missed penalties this season. Jesus fucking Christ. There's no hope of a playoff win after this.

Congratulations to Wimbledon anyway.

pitch invasion at Molineux, shd've lynched Morgan and Moxey while they were on

saunders there, awesomely pathetic

Saunders you pitiful tosser do the decent go home and seppuku

lol beaten to it

what kind of fucking excuse for a manager

he's got no backbone. would love to hear an RTE job on him

Rosler :(

yeah, horror never sounded so lucid as in a german accent

A suggestion for Mr Morgan to consider.

Wolves are now at rock bottom, Mr Morgan say's he is passionate about putting Wolves in the Premiership, if he is passionate to see his team back in the Premiership, I would suggest.

The ethos of the Club, the management and team is totally rebuilt.

A quality tried and tested Premiership Manager to be appointed, yes I know we are in League 1 but think of this, a Premiership Manager like Rafa Benitez for example would have no problem building a team of players to be the best team in the league, the fans would have no gripes because of who he is and what he can do, The fans and players would know he was risking his reputation for the good of the club, what better way to motivate a team, motivate supporters, ie" bums on seats".

Mr Morgan would give him a 5 year contract to get the team back into the Premiership. This would show the fans just how passionate he is about Wolves and his commitment.

The manager would be given total control of players and their contracts.

If this was to happen, someone of the quality of Rafa Benitez would not squander Mr Morgans money, keep the club in the black and build each year, bringing in quality players as we move up to the Premiership, part of the costs of this would be covered by the renewed interest of fans returning to watch the football of a team led by a quality Premiership Manager.

The high cost of the Premiership Managers salary would in some part be covered by the resignation of Mr Moxey's as CEO. The salaries of players with limited ability and who cannot grasp a new way of playing to be sold off a.s.a.p. Renewed interest from supporters and fans would bring back revenue.

what's the emoticon for burying your head in your hands and crying?

Have you had a response from Mr Morgan yet?

he's a scouser, he probly thinks Rafa is the dog's bollocks too

i'm going to the brighton game tomorrow NV, stoked for the sadness

if you could encourage them to get a couple of goals in early i can concentrate on watching Hull throw the automatic promotion spot away

this is gonna be "great"

Former Leicester striker Steve Claridge at Vicarage Road:
"For me, it has not been a seminal Championship."

just seen a kid from college in the crowd at Hull

forest move into 6th

1-0 BRIGHTON

cheers lads, really don't need any excitement today

good to know that with a mere half a season there was nothing Dean Saunders could do to keep this shower of shit in the Champo

yeah i know that line

some might suggest that playing 1 upfront in your last home game when you desperately needed the win was a poor decision, but clearly no blame attaches to Saunders

Barnsley winning?

lol chris o'grady for barnsley again

dave jones still got that transfer magic

wouldnt be sorry to see ferg jr get relegated again tbh

blackpool leading bolton, super kev

oh no wait it's the other one

still kinda got a feeling peterborough will sneak the win, bolton will stage the comeback, palace will miss out

City-Cardiff looks like a cup final, loads of space at both ends, good stuff

Leicester equalize, Pearson not sacked quite yet

wanted to stick to the radio but mark mcghee on one match and phil brown on the other i cannae stand it much longer

peterborough score, commentators eye

wait are millwall in trouble now

somebody at Watford on the deck with a bunch of paramedics round him

hate cov obv but would be p sweet if mark robins went down now

you'd like to think getting sonned by a 36 yo steve howard might be a wake-up call to mowbray's lofty pretensions

it's only just dawned on me that he hasn't started Hunt despite him being the only one who's done anything for the last fucking month

dear god don't let this clown keep the job

2-0 Brighton don't let the cunts on the bus home imo

ooh leeds score

just seen the crowd at City reacting

and leicester into 6th

shit, i heard is Leicester didn't go up then Pearson was on the way out to make way for O'Neill

Ah balls, rooting for Watford today I think. Fuck a team that's coming second with goal difference of +9 .

Forest got rattled

Oh I fucking hope Bolton don't stage a comeback from this now, boooooring

1-1 palace murray pen

lol thought the commentator just said lily tomlin had been the scorer for peterborough

2-2 bolton!!

16 minutes added time at watford

sets it up beautifully for a last second watford win

City play some nice football, Watford will have to get a new first team for next season so bollocks to a Watford promotion imo

who was injured at Watford, their keeper?

really hope the camera stays on at hull after f/t to watch the crowd listening to the radio

yeah the keeper. almunia injured himself in the warm up as well so the teenage 3rd backup is on

watford score!!

Just fancy someone a bit different in the Prem for a while tbh, would also like Brighton come up this year xxp

Yes, bad neck injury. He was already the sub, so they've got a child on now.

http://i.imgur.com/vWLeFdW.jpg

only the return of this kit could make me ever root for hull tbh

City play some nice football, Watford will have to get a new first team for next season so bollocks to a Watford promotion imo

― Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 May 2013 13:36 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

watford play nicer football plus they'll probably just free transfer everyone over surely? it's all the same omniclub to the owners anyway

really not sure what they'll do, assumed Watford was the feeder tbh

anyway there's no logic to this, my adopted home has suffered enough

they are the feeder, but i doubt any of those players are gonna be off to play for udinese straight away next season. might as well send them off to the better shop window permanently

idk if they do right by all their clubs and keep them competitive it's a p cool structure imo

although the watford v udinese 2016 champions league final might be a bit awkward

"this could turn out to be a rout here"

you said it, son

Fraizer Campbell on for Cardiff, stage is set for a crushing goal

COMMENTATOR'S EYE

ouch that is amazing

Well whaddaya know NV?

I hate Steve Bruce's face so much.

hating Steve Bruce is my main consolation here.

got the sound down so i can listen to the Wolves commentary, can imagine how that goal was met by the home fans

Hahaaaa, Jesus Christ son!! What a miss! Commentator fucked up nearly as bad as the player

i thought that was in the back of the net, thought it'd been disallowed

Barnsley back in the bottom 3

CITEEEEEEEEEEH

1-1

That Cardiff player done fucked up. Who was that giving it away? That is diabolical

some kamikaze passing out from the back by Cardiff

Oh wow, where's this come from? Hull 2-1 up!

days you wish you could go to the pub :\

5 C Palace 46 69 9
6 Bolton 46 68 8
7 N Forest 46 68 5
8 Leicester 46 66 22

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxs6jeObsz1r8d9kto1_250.jpg

barnsley back in front, hudds going down unless millwall concede to derby

deeney sent off for watford, it's coming up hull

god knows why i'm still listening to Brighton having a training session

hudds equalise

WHOOOOO this shit is real

ikr

McGhee defending Saunders = no game recognise no game

2-2 peterborough just to spice it up some more

derby score aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

oh shi

Barnsley's GD still worse than Millwall's tho

wd kill for a stream of forest leicester right now

palace score! barnsley saved!

leicester score!!

wait, if Huddersfield score and we can get 7 quick goals i think we're safe

Ah shit, pitch invasion at the penalty. What a mess

lol penalty and the idiots run on

stonewall peno

lol saved

oh please score cardiff please please

OMG PNEALTY CARDIFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omg omg

hahahaha, no fucking way! Hull miss peno, Cardiff get a peno at t'other end! 94th minute

LOOOOOL

scores!!!!

lol srsly gonna have a heart attack here

Hull City first ever team to do a celebratory pitch invasion then not go up?

JESUS CHRIST

life bans for every City fan who went on the pitch

Gwarn the Hornets!

and now 16 mins of watford leeds

it just don't get realer than this

shit, to the Watford stream

Multiple games on red button, I don't know when Sky implemented this but, srsly, thank fuck for that

omgomgomgomg what a double save

can see Leeds throwing this now just to spite City

danny poodle is a great name, never mind how it's spelt

aw shame

LEEEEEEEEEEEDS

ahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa OH MY GAAAAAD THAT IS INCREDIBLE

that poor lad