Football The 2025-26 Football Thread

[Deebs]

What a pleasant start to the game. Ajax get a red, 1min 18secs later we get a goal.

 

[Deebs]

Dear lord what is happening in this game?

 

[Bodhi]

Dunno, still trying to figure out why a predominantly Jewish team aren't allowed to come and play football in our country.

 

[Embattle]

Enzo Maresca style of football is really beginning to piss me off, it is a Pep style that doesn't work if you don't vary it with anything else.

 

[Raven]

Dunno, still trying to figure out why a predominantly Jewish team aren't allowed to come and play football in our country.

Maybe because their fans are throwbacks to the 80s?

Not that Israel have any place in a European competition, because, you know, they aren't in Europe. But, we really don't want their nationalist bollocks in our game. A country, actively carrying out genocide, should not be welcome anywhere.

 

[caLLous]

Joey Barton found guilty of sending offensive posts on social media

Former footballer guilty over posts directed at football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko, and broadcaster Jeremy Vine

www.theguardian.com

JFC

At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”

 

[Gwadien]

Joey Barton found guilty of sending offensive posts on social media

Former footballer guilty over posts directed at football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko, and broadcaster Jeremy Vine

www.theguardian.com

JFC

What's the odds on him bring the next reform mp

 

[Gray]

It's like the gift that keeps on giving

 

[Raven]

Hopefully he loses his house.

 

[Raven]

Slot looking like he might need to be on suicide watch. How much spent?!

 

[Scouse]

Staggering really. But I've not really been amazed by the football since January tbh.

He doesn't press. He doesn't like it. I've seen it before - players under a good old manager taking on a new managers ideas and outperforming. Then it going not as well as the new managers ideas erase the old patterns.

 

[Embattle]

It is all very odd, although slightly pleasing, Anfield used to be a fortress.

I can't believe we are in second place.

 

[Gray]

Prior to tonight, it was going to be leading up to being an horrific pre-Christmas with 6 difficult matches.
Out of those 6, I felt it would have been a massive success if we even got 6 points/2 wins. Beating United was not on my radar given they sort of picked up form.

The fact we did it at Old Trafford, with 10 men for literally 80 minutes is bang on. Absolutely delighted with that.

Unsure about this lead up to the sending off though, we don't need any of that silly drama, but thankfully we didn't capitulate from it

 

[caLLous]

Prior to tonight, it was going to be leading up to being an horrific pre-Christmas with 6 difficult matches.
Out of those 6, I felt it would have been a massive success if we even got 6 points/2 wins. Beating United was not on my radar given they sort of picked up form.

The fact we did it at Old Trafford, with 10 men for literally 80 minutes is bang on. Absolutely delighted with that.

Unsure about this lead up to the sending off though, we don't need any of that silly drama, but thankfully we didn't capitulate from it

You can never just do things normally, can you? Don't sell the performance short - you were at 0-0 when Gueye got sent off, you then scored 15 minutes later and prevented United from scoring for 70-odd minutes after that, at their place.

 

[Embattle]

Lucas Paqueta being an utter dick and talking himself in to a second yellow.

 

[Embattle]

We were the better side, and we go and get a red card....I wouldn't be surprised if Marc Cucurella got another yellow.