Today's Football 2016 / 2017 Season

[polish]

Boro playing good football? Really? Every time I watched them it was as exciting as watching paint dry.

Burnley are twice the team.

 

[Connor]

Boro playing good football? Really? Every time I watched them it was as exciting as watching paint dry.

Burnley are twice the team.

The pair of them are boring to watch. Burnley just hard to beat at home.

 

[MikeH72]

Barcelona? One season as their manager and he'd be hated more than Franco.

Karanka: Unlike Dyche he's not going to need two bites at the PL cherry. And unlike Pulis he can play football.

Haha have I missed something or are they 2 points off the relegation zone and have about 13 games left? Crying at this thread today.

 

[Blues Harp]

A lot of Boro fans can't stand Karanka....mate of mine who goes to quite a few of their games says their football is turgid and boring...without the threat of traore they would be in the bottom 3....

 

[MikeH72]

A lot of Boro fans can't stand Karanka....mate of mine who goes to quite a few of their games says their football is turgid and boring...without the threat of traore they would be in the bottom 3....

Boro fans clearly know nothing to be fair. They play pulsating football and Negredo is the sole reason they're not above us.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Boro fans clearly know nothing to be fair. They play pulsating football and Negredo is the sole reason they're not above us.

*Reported for breaking privacy rules and posting a pic of @davek

I suspect you'll get away with the nudity though.

 

[toffeejack]

Chance of a Spurs vs Arsenal final. Think that would be a good one.

which one would bottle it less?

 

[spence03]

which one would bottle it less?

Wenger going out beating Spurs in the final would be a good way to go?

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Wenger going out beating Spurs in the final would be a good way to go?

That would be insane. Bet you could sell 300,000 tickets to that.

By the way, Spurs haven't won a one-off cup tie against Arsenal since 1991.

 

[DrEFC]

He also had Baines stabbing him in the back.

  lollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollollol

 

[toffeejack]

Wenger going out beating Spurs in the final would be a good way to go?

i dunno, i would like to see the miserable old fool limp out of his arsenal reign with a wimper. I respect him, but he's such an arsehole it's hard to want to give him a fairytale ending.

 

[davek]

http://thesefootballtimes.co/2016/10/18/zemanlandia-the-truth-behind-the-cult/

That's your kind of guy

Good read that, thanks.

Interesting character. I certainly admire that commitment to playing to a method and sticking with it. He's obviously a special case, but I think there are some managers who's commitment to playing football rivals their commitment to getting the result. There's always been that tension within football between the pragmatists and the idealists. In reality though, with few exceptions, there are no polar opposite positions, just managers who gravitate more toward one end of the spectrum than the other.

 

[Rook]

Team P GD Pts
1 Brighton and Hove Albion 32 28 68
2 Newcastle United 31 35 66
3 Huddersfield Town 31 7 61
4 Reading 32 6 60
5 Leeds United 33 11 58
6 Sheffield Wednesday 32 11 58
7 Norwich City 33 11 51
8 Fulham 31 15 49
9 Barnsley 33 4 49
10 Preston North End 33 4 49
11 Derby County 31 7 47
12 Cardiff City 33 -2 45
13 Ipswich Town 33 -7 41
14 Birmingham City 33 -14 40
15 Brentford 31 -1 37
16 Queens Park Rangers 32 -11 37
17 Aston Villa 31 -6 36
18 Nottingham Forest 33 -12 36
19 Wolverhampton Wanderers 31 -4 35
20 Burton Albion 32 -13 34
21 Bristol City 31 -4 32
22 Wigan Athletic 32 -9 30
23 Blackburn Rovers 31 -13 29
24 Rotherham United 33 -43 17

Holy @#$% Villa could get relegated. Just checked their results and they have 2 pts in their last 8 matches.

 

[hallamblue]

Good read that, thanks.

Interesting character. I certainly admire that commitment to playing to a method and sticking with it. He's obviously a special case, but I think there are some managers who's commitment to playing football rivals their commitment to getting the result. There's always been that tension within football between the pragmatists and the idealists. In reality though, with few exceptions, there are no polar opposite positions, just managers who gravitate more toward one end of the spectrum than the other.

That stubborn streak gets in the way of a good manager. The best managers adapt their methods based on the challenges confronting them. Look at Mourinho when Chelsea won the league the season before last. They were playing pulsating football for the first half of the season. Then they started leaking goals, so he changed the style, made them more pragmatic, they stopped leaking goals and won the league. Meanwhile Wenger maintains his commitment to "passing" football (ie taking 15 passes to do what you could do in 3) and Arsenal haven't won the league in years. Don't get me wrong, when it clicks I love watching Arsenal, but when they won stuff they had players who could do the ugly stuff, like Petit and Vieira. Same with Martinez, one way of playing. Fergie had no problem in his teams hoofing it when necessary.

 

[Yid4life]

A Spurs v Woolwich final would be mental.

IF we were to win that to finish off Wenger it would never be topped.

Personally I think we will be playing Sutton in the semi though.