The Football Thread 2017-18

[Irene Demova]

Weird how city have done a much better job of challenging city than most other teams who city've played

Phil Neville has been named as the new England women manager.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42709928

Already had to delete his twitter because of a bunch of sexist jokes in 2012 lol

[Blue Eyes]

Weird how city have done a much better job of challenging city than most other teams who city've played

Phil Neville has been named as the new England women manager.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42709928

Already had to delete his twitter because of a bunch of sexist jokes in 2012 lol

Is that really true? What a strawberry floating banana split he is.

[Irene Demova]

Weird how city have done a much better job of challenging city than most other teams who city've played

Phil Neville has been named as the new England women manager.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42709928

Already had to delete his twitter because of a bunch of sexist jokes in 2012 lol

Is that really true? What a strawberry floating banana split he is.

Pretty tame but he clearly realises he strawberry floated up. The deleted account https://twitter.com/fizzer18

[Oblomov Boblomov]

"You women of always wanted equality..."

Jesus Christ. The man wants shooting just for taking should of would of could of to the next level.

[Tomous]

The state of those tweets

Cos of you Phil Neville, I hope England get relegated

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Too be fair to him, the first tweet is in reply to his sister so they are clearly messing around with each other. It hardly suggests that it was his real opinion. As a famous name though he should have been more clued in as to putting stuff like that on social media though.

I haven’t a clue about the circumstances of the second tweet.

[Peter Crisp]

The state of those tweets

Cos of you Phil Neville, I hope England get relegated

England can actually get relegated soon because of competition replacing friendlies.

http://www.uefa.com/community/news/newsid=2079553.html

[Return_of_the_STAR]

The state of those tweets

Cos of you Phil Neville, I hope England get relegated

England can actually get relegated soon because of competition replacing friendlies.

http://www.uefa.com/community/news/newsid=2079553.html

The draw for this is tomorrow, I tried reading the rules about it again and it’s still very confusing. Also the prize for winning each group is a euro 2020 place, but why are they bothering with a 3rd/4th place match at the end. What’s Uefa and FIFA’s obsession with it? No one cares if they finish 3rd or 4th in football. In some other sports fair enough, but football rarely celebrates being runners up, let alone 3rd place. Usually if you do you are slaughtered for it.

[Peter Crisp]

The state of those tweets

Cos of you Phil Neville, I hope England get relegated

England can actually get relegated soon because of competition replacing friendlies.

http://www.uefa.com/community/news/newsid=2079553.html

The draw for this is tomorrow, I tried reading the rules about it again and it’s still very confusing. Also the prize for winning each group is a euro 2020 place, but why are they bothering with a 3rd/4th place match at the end. What’s Uefa and FIFA’s obsession with it? No one cares if they finish 3rd or 4th in football. In some other sports fair enough, but football rarely celebrates being runners up, let alone 3rd place. Usually if you do you are slaughtered for it.

As far as I can tell all the teams are put into a league which is then split into mini leagues (4 teams per mini league I think but it could be 3) with the winners going into a winners cup and the lower league teams can win promotion and the bottom of the groups go into a relegation dogfight.
It's a lot harder to explain than it actually is. I have a feeling it's like the champions league but with promotion and relegation.

All I know is England are going to be gooseberry fool and manage to avoid relegation but that's about it.

[Blue Eyes]

Too be fair to him, the first tweet is in reply to his sister so they are clearly messing around with each other. It hardly suggests that it was his real opinion. As a famous name though he should have been more clued in as to putting stuff like that on social media though.

I haven’t a clue about the circumstances of the second tweet.

Yeah I can’t really get too outraged about those idiotic tweets to be honest. I’m more annoyed he’s got the job despite not applying for it.

[Lotus]

Finally an English manager who's willing to start at the bottom of the game and work his way up.

[Saint of Killers]

The players who stuck with Sampson through "Eni Aluko saga" deserve him and more besides.

[Blue Eyes]

The players who stuck with Sampson through "Eni Aluko saga" deserve him and more besides.

I guess the FA thought that he looks so sexless he probably won't touch the players or insult them.

[Photek]

Phil Neville is a pleb at times but I do think the tweets are out of context. He seems to be a far nicer guy than that sampson dude.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

So the Nations League draw has happened. I know you are all off discussing it with your friends or work colleagues. Maybe looking to book annual leave off to watch all the matches so i just thought i would provide you a list of the home nations opponents.

England have been drawn against Croatia and Spain in League A, Group 1.

Northern Ireland take on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Austria in League B, Group 3.

Wales face Denmark and the Republic of Ireland in League B, Group 4.

And Scotland are up against Israel and Albania in League C, Group 1.

Matchday 1: 6–8 September 2018

Matchday 2: 9–11 September 2018

Matchday 3: 11–13 October 2018

Matchday 4: 14–16 October 2018

Matchday 5: 15–17 November 2018

Matchday 6: 18–20 November 2018

Nations League Finals draw: early December 2018

Nations League Finals: 5–9 June 2019

[TigaSefi]

Is this to replace friendlies?

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Is this to replace friendlies?

Yes, and thus create a new super tournament where players will give 10% less strawberry floats than they gave about friendlies.

[Benzin]

Leeds Utd unveil new club badge:

[Christopher]

Shouldn't that say Yorkshire White?

[Preezy]

Worse than the holocaust.