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.

 

[Raven]

Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner

US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yeah, fuck the world cup.

 

[Gwadien]

Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner

US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yeah, fuck the world cup.

I actually can't comprehend it

Why the actual fuck is the world playing to his tune

are we fucking nuts

 

[caLLous]

They somehow managed to find someone even more corrupt than Blatter in Infantino. Watch as they quietly forget about this bullshit "Peace Prize" as soon as Trump is out of the picture. Infantino is of course famous for saying we should keep politics out of football.

 

[Embattle]

Infantino is such an arse kissing fuck monkey.

 

[Scouse]

are we fucking nuts

He is. We are too.

At least they're keeping jury trials.

 

[Gray]

As per my prior post about getting 6 points before Christmas, I'm absolutely delighted we've had 9 points with two games to go, albeit it'll take something special to dare getting anything from the London teams.

Getting up to 5th, at least before Sunday's games at this point in the season is a dream.

On the flip side... Liverpool is still in the mire, and after today with Salahs' outburst, I sense an implosion from either the fans, players or Slot. Everything has been undone, but just watching Match of the Day I can't believe they're still hanging on to Jota

 

[Embattle]

Aka a team of fatheads:

Xabi Alonso: Why chances of survival at Real Madrid are slim

Xabi Alonso's Real Madrid fate has not yet been decided, but Wednesday's Champions League game against Manchester City at the Bernabeu could prove crucial, writes Guillem Balague.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Scouse]

I mean. I like Wrexham and have friends who are Wrexham fans. But this is not just unfair - it's bent:

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney sell Wrexham stake to US private equity group

Club gets boost for development of Racecourse Ground, but move comes months after it received £14m state aid

www.theguardian.com

 

[Scouse]

VAR shit twice in the lollerpool game.

First they take over five minutes to rule a perfectly good goal out for handball and then they give us a soft penalty that shouldn't have stood.

 

[Embattle]

VAR shit twice in the lollerpool game.

First they take over five minutes to rule a perfectly good goal out for handball and then they give us a soft penalty that shouldn't have stood.

I saw both events going either way, but as usual, the referee decided.

 

[Scouse]

Nope. The ref decided (rightly) a goal for the first one, but the interminable VAR check overruled that, and took ages to come to the wrong decision on something that wasn't 'clear and obvious' - and when refs go to the monitors to watch slowmo freeze frames they go with the VAR.

The second was soft - Arne Slot admitted it. Soft pull on a shirt and Wirtz threw himself to the ground. Ref didn't give it (rightly) and VAR called him. Again, slow mo shite.

And wait wait wait. Boring boring boring.

 

[Embattle]

Nope. The ref decided (rightly) a goal for the first one, but the interminable VAR check overruled that, and took ages to come to the wrong decision on something that wasn't 'clear and obvious' - and when refs go to the monitors to watch slowmo freeze frames they go with the VAR.

The second was soft - Arne Slot admitted it. Soft pull on a shirt and Wirtz threw himself to the ground. Ref didn't give it (rightly) and VAR called him. Again, slow mo shite.

And wait wait wait. Boring boring boring.

So the ref watched VAR and decided it, good to know.

 

[Scouse]

Gayyyyyyyyyy

 

[Scouse]

Trump shockingly wants to rename American Football but people online actually like it

If you're from the US, football is an incredibly physical sport where teams aim to get an oval ball into the endzone to score touchdowns and kick the ball between goalposts to score points.If you're from anywhere else in the world, football is where you kick and head a round ball to score...

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