The Football Thread 2023/24: Derby promoted, Brian Clough Trophy up for grabs in 24/25?

[Hypes]

The Conference?!

[Cuttooth]

Klopp to hand over the keys to Alonso after Liverpool and Leverkusen meet in the final.

[Peter Crisp]

The Conference?!

The winners get to play in the vauxhall conference next season.
Best cup ever!!!!!!

[Peter Crisp]

Klopp to hand over the keys to Alonso after Liverpool and Leverkusen meet in the final.

Whoever follows Klopp has huge boots to fill and is in an almost impossible position given the success rhe club now demands.

Klopp is almost universally liked as a manager as well as he seems like a lovely bloke.

[Jenuall]

Actual conference:

Quarter-finals
Club Brugge vs PAOK Salonika
Olympiakos vs Fenerbahce
Aston Villa vs Lille
Viktoria Plzen vs Fiorentina

Semi-finals
Aston Villa/Lille vs Olympiakos/Fenerbahce
Viktoria Plzen/Fiorentina vs Club Brugge vs PAOK Salonika

[Benzin]

Olympiakos vs Fenerbahce

[Cuttooth]

Olympiakos vs Fenerbahce

Do they have a rivalry? I can't see them having met more than twice before.

[Winckle]

Olympiakos vs Fenerbahce

Do they have a rivalry? I can't see them having met more than twice before.

Turkey vs Greece

[rinks]

Oh, Coventry. You daft bastards. One up until 83min, then let two in within five minutes.
EDIT: 97min equaliser. Oof!
EDIT2: Fuuuucking hell! 99min goal to go to Wembley!

[BOR]

Crazy scenes!

Coventry were the better team!

[jawa_]

What an ending to the game - incredible stuff from both teams!

[Curls]

Olympiakos vs Fenerbahce

Do they have a rivalry? I can't see them having met more than twice before.

Turkey vs Greece

Yeap thats gonna be very violent, Greece recently had stadium fan lockdowns, both sets of fans are louts and the countries hate each other.

[jawa_]

I don't think I've seen a game broadcast from the Etihad stadium in quite a while.

Really don't like the double-height advertising boards all around the pitch; far too intrusive imho.

[Preezy]

Confidence levels at 24% for this afternoon's game

If it's another pasting then ETH should be expecting his P45.

[mcjihge2]

If it's another pasting then ETH should be expecting his P45.

What score do you think should trigger a sacking? Liverpool are expected to win this, Liverpool should be capable of scoring 3 or 4 goals with Salah and Darwin on the pitch. Its not as though its a loss to say Fulham or someone.

[Lotus]

Urgh, Jonathan Pearce is surely up there as one of the worst commentators, probably along with Vicki Sparks. Both unbearable to listen to.

Something really unlikeable about Chelsea - shame they look like winning this one now.

[Rex Kramer]

Cole Palmer aside, this Chelsea side are strawberry floating rubbish. I hope they kept the receipt for Jackson because calling him a striker should be against the trades description act.

[Tomous]

Cole Palmer does indeed look class despite the players around him. You have to wonder if City made a mistake there.

[Preezy]

If it's another pasting then ETH should be expecting his P45.

What score do you think should trigger a sacking? Liverpool are expected to win this, Liverpool should be capable of scoring 3 or 4 goals with Salah and Darwin on the pitch. Its not as though its a loss to say Fulham or someone.

4-0 would be a trigger for me, but even a 3-0 is stackable if United don't offer any threat, so it depends if they come out swinging.

[KK]

I thought United/‘pool started at 3:45 and I missed the start.

All these different start times, grrrrr.