Today's football.

ijjysmith · March 24, 2014

rascal said:
I've always felt that we should have Metallica - Enter Sandman before or after 'z cars' lol

I liked it when Saints came out to 'The Saints Are Coming' by U2 and Green Day.

Then they stopped it.

Bells.

Yid4life · March 24, 2014

@LinekersLegs

I think we all know that Sherwood is a stop gap but at least his heart is in the right place. The football under AVB was dire! So from the entertainment value point of view it has been a bit more enjoyable to watch under Sherwood.

Re- the RS. We have nothing to lose, no-one expects us to get any sort of decent result there so the pressure is all on them. I would take a draw now!

Foot Long Hot Dog · March 24, 2014

Yid4life said:
@LinekersLegs

I think we all know that Sherwood is a stop gap but at least his heart is in the right place. The football under AVB was dire! So from the entertainment value point of view it has been a bit more enjoyable to watch under Sherwood.

Re- the RS. We have nothing to lose, no-one expects us to get any sort of decent result there so the pressure is all on them. I would take a draw now!

I think you've been riding your luck in the league of late and if you attempt to play with that high line at the pit, they'll destroy you.

Sherwood needs to watch the way Villa and WBA frustrated the RS, and then looked to hit them on the counter,

roydo · March 24, 2014

Yid4life said:
I would love it if EFC beat Woolwich to 4th. I might even buy some of you a pint to celebrate next season.

As for us, 4th is just paper talk. Even 5th is highly unlikely but not impossible.

Always fun to put SCBC in their place, 2-0 & you.............

Trying to work out what that means. Arsenal related I guess.

@Yid4life

LinekersLegs · March 24, 2014

Yid4life said:
@LinekersLegs

I think we all know that Sherwood is a stop gap but at least his heart is in the right place. The football under AVB was dire! So from the entertainment value point of view it has been a bit more enjoyable to watch under Sherwood.

Re- the RS. We have nothing to lose, no-one expects us to get any sort of decent result there so the pressure is all on them. I would take a draw now!

Given how much more I'm enjoying watching our football this season know what you mean and if the action on the pitch goes thru a slow patch you can always watch Sherwood off it!

Yid4life · March 24, 2014

@roydo

It was back from when we 'nicked' Hoddle as manager from Southampton & their then Chairman Rupert Low was larging it about how they were as big as Tottenham (something along those lines anyway). Ever since we have called them SCBC - South Coast Big Club.

Sherwood is good sideline entertainment for sure. We really need to find out if the rumours about him having a Woolwich tattoo are true though.

As for riding our luck, we have lost to Norwich, Woolwich & Chelsea of late & had two reds (both rescinded) which led to opposition pens in recent games. Who needs luck like that!

Librarian · March 24, 2014

Yid4life said:
@roydo

It was back from when we 'nicked' Hoddle as manager from Southampton & their then Chairman Rupert Low was larging it about how they were as big as Tottenham (something along those lines anyway). Ever since we have called them SCBC - South Coast Big Club.

Sherwood is good sideline entertainment for sure. We really need to find out if the rumours about him having a Woolwich tattoo are true though.

As for riding our luck, we have lost to Norwich, Woolwich & Chelsea of late & had two reds (both rescinded) which led to opposition pens in recent games. Who needs luck like that!

Not knocking it, sometimes you make luck by chasing games instead of settling for a point. When you look at Spurs goal difference and their league position, its fair to say they've come out the right side of some close games which could have gone either way.

BluenosePaul · March 24, 2014

So whose ridiculously excited about Southend v Oxford tonight then?

bluestevon · March 24, 2014

Librarian said:
Not knocking it, sometimes you make luck by chasing games instead of settling for a point. When you look at Spurs goal difference and their league position, its fair to say they've come out the right side of some close games which could have gone either way.

They've also been given some right old hammerings mate which is part the reason

radiostar · March 24, 2014

4th is ON !!!!!!!

tsubaki · March 24, 2014

anyone bored enough to watch the Southend vs Oxford game?

if so, the Oxford keeper has managed to give a penalty away and yet be absolutely world class

evisublue · March 24, 2014

anton66 said:
Wow, according to the press Spurs are only 6 points away from Arsenal and a Champions League place. No mention of if Everton win our two games in hand over Spurs we would be only be 2 points behind Arsenal. Should we let the press know or keep it quiet?

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...find-arsenal-have-finished-fifth-9212193.html

A few days ago it was being suggested that Arsenal might stay the title course — a prelude to Arsene Wenger’s signing of a new contract in his 18th year.

As for Manchester United, they were so stuck in the doldrums that David Moyes had only until tomorrow’s Old Trafford derby to earn a second season in the job.

So much for cold gossip. Every week, it seems, presents us with a fresh batch of scenarios and, for Arsenal especially, the latest makes particularly uncomfortable reading.

It argues that this, for all the promise that lingers in the form of an FA Cup semi-final, could be the season in which Wenger’s men lose their status as Champions League perennials. It is what I believe they call a nightmare scenario and it involves Everton. The plot opens with Premier League matches tomorrow night and begins reassuringly from the Arsenal point of view for, although a home win over Swansea goes nowhere near to atoning for the collapse at Chelsea, it contributes three points to the cause of Champions League qualification.

Everton remain eight points behind by winning at Newcastle. Tottenham, despite yesterday’s thrilling eclipse of Southampton at White Hart Lane, now trail by nine points.

Then at the weekend a fear begins to nag, because Everton cut the gap to five. They win at Fulham on Sunday, less than 24 hours after Arsenal have run out at the Emirates to face Manchester City and once again, anxious though they are to perform — we presumed they would need no motivational lectures at Stamford Bridge — are beaten by title contenders.

The next match takes them to Goodison Park. Romelu Lukaku and Ross Barkley wreak enough of the havoc caused by Samuel Eto’o and Andre Schurrle in Saturday’s early stages to reduce the deficit to two points. And Everton have a match in hand. Didn’t Roberto Martinez say that he reckoned one of the top four would crack? He was too polite to name them. But it looks as if he was right.

At this stage Arsenal break off to revisit Wembley for the confrontation with Wigan, whose lucky ground the national stadium has become; for Arsenal the most recent memory will be of a League Cup defeat by Birmingham. But at least it’s a rest from the cares of the League. Or would be if, on the very same day — April 12 — Everton were not fulfilling yet another winnable fixture, at Sunderland.