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Welcome to the Football Thread 2019/20!

https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-premier-league-football-on-tv.html

Your place to discuss all Premier League, Champions' League, Europa League, FA Cup, League Cup, European leagues, women's, Euro 2020 Qualifiers, Nations League, basically all football that isn't EFL (their thread is thisaways). Once again, many thanks to Preezy for some top drawer thread-running over the past year, but things move on (unless you're Arsenal, where things stay pretty much the same but you have a different bloke in charge...)

The Fans
Q) Why am I not on this list?!

A) Because we've had a tidy up! I went through the list and if you haven't posted on the forum for well over a year then I've taken you off, in order to make the list more useful. I have tried to keep up with name changes but the thread in Feedback is dormant as far as I can tell, so if I have made a mistake and you want to get back on just let me know below. Goes without saying, but even if they're off this list everyone is still welcome regardless of any previous strife or bad feeling they've had discussing football here. New season, new start, let's all not be dicks, yeah?


Schedule
04/08/2019, 1500 - Community Shield: Liverpool vs Manchester City

Game Week 1


Question of the Indeterminate But Finite Time Period
A new feature, QOTIBFTP is a bit like your standard Question of the Week feature, except it might run for longer or shorter depending on how much traction the subject gets and how many questions I can think of! Obviously this is not meant to replace just chatting about actual football that is happening right now, but it might stimulate some interesting chat on the quieter days.

What is the best game you've ever seen live?
Recommend a football podcast...

Wanted to get this up and running tonight, will tweak as needed over pre-season, enjoy!

Hi. When you say Live do you mean in the stadium?

I've never been to an actual game, maybe I will one day. Like to watch on the telly but it's never appealed to me enough to actually go. Armchair fan for sure.

Best game I've ever seen live? Easy:

Celtic 2-1 Barcelona

Best Premier League game I've ever seen live?

Blackburn 5-2 Newcastle

Worst I've ever seen live? Toss up between:

Blackburn 0-4 Middlesbrough
Blackburn 1-4 Coventry City

New football thread ahoy

Best game I've seen live - Man United 2-1 Benfica, UCL 2005.

Watching Ruud van Nistelrooy score a late winner at Old Trafford was just great. Can't remember the rest of the match, but a quick glance shows both Kieran Richardson and Phil Bardsley played so it must have been a cracker.

Special mention - England 5-1 Kazakhstan, because there were loads of goals and it was my first trip to new Wembley.

Can I request the subtitle be "Norwich run farke-ing rampant" when they beat Liverpool Friday night?

Don't know about best game, but the worst game I went to was the Swansea Bradford League Cup final. I'd entered a Facebook competition to win some tickets and then won them. Most awkward football match of my life.

Edit: Can answer best game, it was this year on Boxing day when we were 3-0 down and got one back in the 78th minute and then scored the equaliser in the 98th minute.

Ecno wrote:Can I request the subtitle be "Norwich run farke-ing rampant" when they beat Liverpool Friday night?

Don't know about best game, but the worst game I went to was the Swansea Bradford League Cup final. I'd entered a Facebook competition to win some tickets and then won them. Most awkward football match of my life.

Edit: Can answer best game, it was this year on Boxing day when we were 3-0 down and got one back in the 78th minute and then scored the equaliser in the 98th minute.

Your worst is one of my best

I know the game wasn’t great for the neutral but as our first major trophy it meant a lot. We’d beaten Liverpool at Anfield and Chelsea over two legs to get there too so it wasn’t like we had an easy run.

Incidentally, can I get on the list as a Swansea fan please.

Bring on another season of mediocrity

Greatest game live is probably either the Brighton 5-0 (and you can't go home) or the final 10 minutes of "Crystanbul"...

Palace have more great moments than actual great games

Best live game for me was the second leg of the 2008 Play Offs. Bristol City 2 Crystal Palace 1. I lost my strawberry floating mind when Trundle scored in extra time.

I'm hoping to get tickets for the Community Shield. I've never been to Wembley, in fact the final in Madrid this month was my first ever away game. Tickets still aren't on sale though, and the requirements to be able to purchase them aren't available either.

Not sure what the "best match" I've seen live was in terms of the actual football, but the best live experience was going to see Barcelona vs Osasuna at Camp Nou in '09. It was their last home game of the season so we saw the trophy presentation and all that fun stuff, but mainly the excitement was just from the stadium itself - that place is incredible, and the amount of noise that gets generated in there is deafening!

The actual game was complete wank because the league was already won and Barcelona had Man U in the Champions League a few days later so pretty much none of the 1st team were playing!

Wembley is crap - so 'corporate'. ive been there a lot (no bragging) so ive had a chance to really weigh it up, its a bit crap.
the best bit about it is the walk towards the stadium!
incidentally best game ive watched live is the Bayern-Dortmund CL final at Wembley. German fans were going mental

Thursday's League Cup draw will take place in Morrison's.

Just popping to the shops, need bread, eggs, butter and maybe the League Cup.

Moggy wrote:Best live game for me was the second leg of the 2008 Play Offs. Bristol City 2 Crystal Palace 1. I lost my strawberry floating mind when Trundle scored in extra time.

We missed a last minute penalty that one of I recall (in either normal or extra time, my memory is foggy)...

Nothing comes close to Play-Off drama, for good or bad...

PatSharpsMullet wrote:Thursday's League Cup draw will take place in Morrison's.

I strawberry floating love cup draws, if I still lived in London I'd try and go

Arsenal had a club shop in the London Colney Savacentre (it was close to the training ground so apparently you'd get players coming in as well). They had the Makita Cup on display there in 1994-5 (we actually won the last iteration of that pre-season tournament #thistimeitsforkeeps). On one of the quieter afternoons they got it out of the cabinet and let me wave it around the shop like I'd won it. It. Was. Awesome.

I was going to say Swansea beating Reading in the playoff final for my best game but thinking about it I’d probably go for the semi final second leg v Forest. We went in half time 2-0 up from a couple of great goals, and the Liberty was bouncing. Then towards the end they pulled one back and hammered us trying to get the equaliser. I think Earnshaw hit the post at one point and it felt like extra time was inevitable. Then it got to injury time and Lee Camp, the forest goalie went up for field a corner. Doris de Vries our keeper punched the ball clear to the edge of the box, an air shot by a Forest player led to Darren Pratley breaking down the pitch with an empty goal infront of him. Just before Chris Gunther caught him, he launched it forward from the half line and the ball bounced into an empty net. Pandonmium. Brendan Rodgers was off down the touchline and the crowd went berserk from the combination of pure relief, ecstasy and a ridiculous goal

Tomous wrote:I was going to say Swansea beating Reading in the playoff final for my best game but thinking about it I’d probably go for the semi final second leg v Forest. We went in half time 2-0 up from a couple of great goals, and the Liberty was bouncing. Then towards the end they pulled one back and hammered us trying to get the equaliser. I think Earnshaw hit the post at one point and it felt like extra time was inevitable. Then it got to injury time and Lee Camp, the forest goalie went up for field a corner. Doris de Vries our keeper punched the ball clear to the edge of the box, an air shot by a Forest player led to Darren Pratley breaking down the pitch with an empty goal infront of him. Just before Chris Gunther caught him, he launched it forward from the half line and the ball bounced into an empty net. Pandonmium. Brendan Rodgers was off down the touchline and the crowd went berserk from the combination of pure relief, ecstasy and a ridiculous goal

Corazon de Leon wrote:

Tomous wrote:I was going to say Swansea beating Reading in the playoff final for my best game but thinking about it I’d probably go for the semi final second leg v Forest. We went in half time 2-0 up from a couple of great goals, and the Liberty was bouncing. Then towards the end they pulled one back and hammered us trying to get the equaliser. I think Earnshaw hit the post at one point and it felt like extra time was inevitable. Then it got to injury time and Lee Camp, the forest goalie went up for field a corner. Doris de Vries our keeper punched the ball clear to the edge of the box, an air shot by a Forest player led to Darren Pratley breaking down the pitch with an empty goal infront of him. Just before Chris Gunther caught him, he launched it forward from the half line and the ball bounced into an empty net. Pandonmium. Brendan Rodgers was off down the touchline and the crowd went berserk from the combination of pure relief, ecstasy and a ridiculous goal

DDV played for Celtic?! I had no idea.

He jumped ship after helping us get promoted and signed for Wolves on a free. Famously (amongst Swans fans anyway) said “the difference is Swansea will hope to stay up whereas Wolves will expect to stay up”. We then stayed up and Wolves went down...

Best Game i've seen
Arsenal vs FC Barcelona 2-1 @ the Emirates stadium
The ground was bouncing after a good comeback.