I find it interesting that FC United did their climb up the league which basically falters the moment Salford come along. It that causal, or just coincidence? I'd say that FCUM have just about reached the level that their size and funding model allows; the level where the next step up is a whole lo...

Only realised recently just how far from Salford the Peninsula Stadium actually is. Old Trafford and the Etihad are practically the same distance away, whereas I'd assumed they'd just be over the water from OT. I was going to do a game at Salford, thinking it would be walkable from either Salford C...

Think DK could turn out to be an inspired signing. He was raw at the start of the season but the improvement in recent weeks has been great to see. Sadly many of our other summer signings have been disappointing so far in comparison. When we last did a big changeover of staff in a summer (2023-24),...

rabidbee So… is that on the telly?

Should be!

Its no extra cost but I don't know if you have to ask for it.

Go to TV guide, go to Sports, go to Football.

We're not as shit as people think, and I'm sure we'll pick up. So we should win imo. Then everyone will decide we'll make the POs because we won an away game and Richardson is the second coming, only for us to fluff the next game and we're back to being the worst team in the history of the division...

rabidbee I’m not a Sky subscriber, and my father-in-law can’t find it on his telly guide. Is it on the red button or something?

Sky Sports Plus app - need to go through to Sports --> Football, if you've got the app.

I've already bought coach travel, so I'm in. Reminder to everyone, this match is on Boxing Day - so no public transport to get down to Plymouth. No trains you mean. There's a flixbus leaving Reading at 09:25 arriving in Plymouth at 14:20. There's a flixbus from Brum, leaving 23 and frozen stiff Chr...

The laws of the game don't dictate that he had to get a red either. If the ref deems it violent conduct, then it is a straight red. The situation from Monday is written out explicitly. In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person...

Royal Rother Pretty pathetic decision that.

Has been the case since at least the mid-nineties*.

(*I had thought Le Saux had been sent off that game, but apparently not. Still got a broken hand for trying to give Batty a slap. That said, ref in that game should have sent Le Saux off, by letter of law then.)

While they have some fairly big stadia, the drop off is pretty rapid (6 stadia > 40k, but 6 20k and below in the top flight). Gut feeling is stadia are big but basic. Looking at the ten stadia they're planning on using, and they're all modern stadia - at least 21st century. Seems Turkey had a footb...

Final thought: I think people forget just how much Turkey improved its national football team in the late 80s to 90s. Mid-80s, the league was one of the worst in Europe, England donged them 8-0 twice and 5-0. While they have some fairly big stadia, the drop off is pretty rapid (6 stadia > 40k, but 6...

Obvs people on here and esp crappy Twitter were going to be negative etc after the game, but I’m not totally sure what people were expecting. Suddenly start pinging the ball round like prime Barcelona and smashing every team we come across? Same basic issues are there - lack of a suitable striker, ...

Semi-serious Richardson OUT comments will be posted on here by January. Same squad, reset the clock on it starting to gel, many of the problems are injury/fitness related rather than competency related so even if new team fix them it will take time to see positive results. But we weren’t shit and S...

Yeah, Italy/Former Yugoslavia would be much more preferable.

You’d think Turkey probably could host a 16 country tournament but then Austria/Switzerland and Poland/Ukraine probably tells you they couldn’t.

I don't mind it at all when its countries that that wouldn't typically be able to host it on their own. I like the idea of football taking place somewhere where they usually wouldn't get that kind of thing. Italy doesn't need to joint host it though. and I don't think Turkey really does either. Tur...

Semi-serious Richardson OUT comments will be posted on here by January. Same squad, reset the clock on it starting to gel, many of the problems are injury/fitness related rather than competency related so even if new team fix them it will take time to see positive results. But we weren’t shit and Sa...

https://uploads.dailydot.com/2024/09/swole-doge-template.png?auto=compress&fm=png "do you remember when the helicopters nodded to each other?" https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8jCJc4_FODwCHkoMdhld6EFllKGSe8Oaswg&s "American man do fireworks :x "

any beefy tensions between these nations that could make games interesting? The only one that jumps out to me is Bosnia & Kosovo, but I think they are unlikely to play each other. The one tie that UEFA could have ruled out from being drawn but they've ended up in the same pot. Probably for the ...

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They may turn out to be just as bad but hopefully BBC commentators and the (un?)necessary co-commentators will be better at the World Cup than ITV's Matterface and Dixon-they IMHO are even worse than Tyldesley. Yesterday they kept on and on about our record qualifying stats and Dixon just can't sto...