Leeds snagged three points against Tranmere. Doesn't sound like it was such a good match but frankly I'm just glad for the win. From the looks of things we knocked the shit out of them in the second half (the ref booked everyone on the pitch) and managed to grab a winner in the 89th minute. Wise said in his post-game interview that he is looking to bring in even more new players. Sounds fine to me, especially when the inevitable injuries start to stack up again.
That leaves us on -12 points.
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702# Team Manager Gameweek Total
1 Lochgilphead FC Sleepkid Campbell 41 41
2 Nice Thighs United Q Chung 40 40
3 New York New Money stuart turner 35 35
4 Spur FC Nicolas Adie 34 34
5 spyforce FC kelly n 30 30
6 HumanRightsAbusesFC Nick Hoare 29 29
7 Portmerion FC Patrick McGoohan 28 28
8 Chicago Sting John B 26 26
9 Renegade Sinewaves Josef k 25 25
10 phila. trashmen matt lee 24 24
11 Tweedmouth Rovers Jon Goodwin 23 23
12 DC Hotspurs Doug Beridon 22 22
12 Sparta Hirsto John Hirst 22 22
12 HARDPOINT FC Michael Houston 22 22
15 Los Alpacas Tommy Dski 19 19
16 Wharfedale Generals Daniel Chapman 15 15
17 Garibaldi FC Sylvain Falcou 12 12
18 Red Star Chairmo Ben Hall 10 10
19 Holyhead Hydras shay hydra 6 6
19 Lithgow Shamrocks Tim Wright 6 6
Early days mind.
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703jongoodwin wrote:Sunderland v Spurs was fun. Not a great game, but an amazing ending. And the best seats I've ever had in the Stadium of Light: really high up so you got a good feel for the shape of the game. We were quite good; Richardson and Etuhu impressed and Paul McShane was outstanding at centre-back. Anthony Stokes was pretty dodgy up front and don't think he'll be beating Chopra to a place in the starting XI too often.
Spurs didn't really impress me at all.
Amazing photo in The Observor today of Keane at the final whistle. Despite a backdrop of ecstatic jubilant Mackems, presumably singing his praises, Keane looks fucking broodingly furious. Sadly I can't find it on the net yet.
One is reminded of his mentor's repsonse when Aberdeen beat Rangers in the Cup.
wikipedia wrote:Aberdeen had also performed well in the league that season, and retained the Scottish Cup with a 1–0 victory over Rangers, but Ferguson was not happy with his team's play in that match and upset the players by describing them as a "disgraceful performance" in a televised interview after the match - a statement that he later retracted.
I watched it on TV with a Spurs fan. Spurs just looked unfit and not up for it. Sunderland went for it. At times they looked a little hesitant going forward, but if they play like that and sharpen their first-time passing they'll do well.
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704chairman_hall wrote:4 Spur FC Nicolas Adie 34 34
Early days mind.
Pfff. My fans are expecting Champions League qualification, and my team will deliver.
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin
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705gjhardwick wrote:Lincoln City are tipped for the top this season.
oh yeah
y'all lost 4-0 at home to Shrewabury though, didn't you?
Curse of the BBC, clearly.
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706Yesterday I booed a seven-year old child.
After the Sunderland game we we retired to the Bluebell pub in Sunderland for a celebratory drink. Given the result and the weather, the beer garden was fairly packed.
The beer garden adjoins a Sainsburys Car Park and after we'd been there for about half an hour, EVERYONE started booing, loudly, if good-naturedly.
I stood up to see two seven-year old(ish) kids, one in a Newcastle shirt and one in a Sunderland shirt, helping their mum carry the shopping to the car. I'm afraid to say I joined in with the booing.
The mum looked mortified, the Sunderland kid looked pleased as punch, and to be fair to the Newcastle lad, he took it fairly well.
After the Sunderland game we we retired to the Bluebell pub in Sunderland for a celebratory drink. Given the result and the weather, the beer garden was fairly packed.
The beer garden adjoins a Sainsburys Car Park and after we'd been there for about half an hour, EVERYONE started booing, loudly, if good-naturedly.
I stood up to see two seven-year old(ish) kids, one in a Newcastle shirt and one in a Sunderland shirt, helping their mum carry the shopping to the car. I'm afraid to say I joined in with the booing.
The mum looked mortified, the Sunderland kid looked pleased as punch, and to be fair to the Newcastle lad, he took it fairly well.
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707Aberdeen 1-1 Hearts
I listened on the wireless (AM of course). Sounded like a shite game. Get it sorted, Hearts.
I listened on the wireless (AM of course). Sounded like a shite game. Get it sorted, Hearts.
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin
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708jongoodwin wrote:Yesterday I booed a seven-year old child.
Please let me know which is the most hated football club in the UK, so I can wear one of their shirts when I play in London.
I can feign ignorance.
"I'm an American," I'll say. "I liked the pretty colors!"
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709burun wrote:jongoodwin wrote:Yesterday I booed a seven-year old child.
Please let me know which is the most hated football club in the UK, so I can wear one of their shirts when I play in London.
I can feign ignorance.
"I'm an American," I'll say. "I liked the pretty colors!"
I'd say a Manchester United shirt would be a pretty safe bet. I'm sure Daniel Robert Chapman would agree.
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin
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710Nico Adie wrote:burun wrote:jongoodwin wrote:Yesterday I booed a seven-year old child.
Please let me know which is the most hated football club in the UK, so I can wear one of their shirts when I play in London.
I can feign ignorance.
"I'm an American," I'll say. "I liked the pretty colors!"
I'd say a Manchester United shirt would be a pretty safe bet. I'm sure Daniel Robert Chapman would agree.
Me, too! Plus they're owned by Americans, and are frequently dubbed the MU Rowdies, Team Manchester etc to reflect this, plus they made a deliberate decision to set themselves up as a global brand rather than a club, so are a common shirt choice for visitors to these shores. I reccomend the 1996 grey kit.
wikipedia wrote:One of the most famous, yet short-lived, United away kits, though, was the all grey kit from 1996. This kit was dropped after Manchester United failed to win a single game while wearing it. At half-time during a game against Southampton, when United were already 3-0 down, they switched to their blue and white third kit, but eventually lost 3-1. According to the players, the grey kit was not visible enough which led to the poor results.
Oh, how the rest of us laughed!
If you want to go for a more left-field choice, I reccomend the MK Dons. They used to be Wimbledon, and were the first English to move franchise-style to the newtown hellhole of Milton Keynes. Most old Wimbledon fans hate them, and pretty much everyone else will them to fail.
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