25/26 - Non Saints Games

[Football Special]

 

[Harry_SFC]

Wednesday down to 10 men, Bannan sent off. Can't see them holding out now. 

[LiberalCommunist]

Inevitable, but fun while it lasted. 

[Saint NL]

Leicester winning, booo

[Harry_SFC]

I don't think any of the 3 relegated sides have been great this weekend but we've all scored goals in the last 5 minutes. The best teams find a way. 

[Football Special]

11 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

I don't think any of the 3 relegated sides have been great this weekend but we've all scored goals in the last 5 minutes. The best teams find a way. 

Am I missing something with Leicester, they found the money to part ways with RVN and haven't really lost their best players? When did we last finish above them in the league? 

[Give it to Ron]

Fatawu was a real handful same as against us Sulemana with an end product 

[Sheaf Saint]

2/1 on Leicester at HT was like a licence to print money.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Leicester, Sheff Utd, West Brom, Coventry and Middlesbrough have all made highly risky, if not outright foolish, managerial choices. It can only play in our favour.

[Saint86]

4 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

I don't think any of the 3 relegated sides have been great this weekend but we've all scored goals in the last 5 minutes. The best teams find a way. 

Just goes to show how big the gap is from the prem. I agree with you, and yet you would expect all 3 sides to be there or there abouts at the end of the season with minimal trouble.

[CB Fry]

8 hours ago, Ex Lion Tamer said:

Leicester, Sheff Utd, West Brom, Coventry and Middlesbrough have all made highly risky, if not outright foolish, managerial choices. It can only play in our favour.

Bit weird. Some of those appointments are no less risky than the appointment we've made.

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

8 hours ago, Saint86 said:

Just goes to show how big the gap is from the prem. I agree with you, and yet you would expect all 3 sides to be there or there abouts at the end of the season with minimal trouble.

When you think that the lowest premier league team received £110m in broadcasting rights last year and the first year parachute payment is 55% (ie approx £60m), that's money that teams like Oxford can only dream of. Appreciate Luton have shown parachute payments aren't a guarantee to being there or there abouts, but that gap is getting wider every year.

[AlexLaw76]

10 hours ago, Ex Lion Tamer said:

Leicester, Sheff Utd, West Brom, Coventry and Middlesbrough have all made highly risky, if not outright foolish, managerial choices. It can only play in our favour.

Really?

Lampard for example has a 100% record of reaching the Championship playoffs with non-parachute payment clubs.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Really?

Lampard for example has a 100% record of reaching the Championship playoffs with non-parachute payment clubs.

Leicester - Cifuentes did ok with QPR but it wasn't hard to improve on the performances under Ainsworth. He's not at the level Leicester should be looking for.

Shef Utd - got rid of one of their best managers who had them overperforming. Selles pretty unremarkable track record.

West Brom - Mason is unproven. Could be great, could be terrible.

Coventry - ok I forgot Lampard got them to the playoffs last season. Still think he's living off his reputation as a player a bit and benefiting from the work Mark Robins did at the club. He had resources at Derby and should have done better I think. He's probably solid at this level but certainly nothing to fear.

Middlesbrough - Rob Edwards was relegated twice with Luton and sacked by Watford.

Edited 11 August, 2025 by Ex Lion Tamer

[Saint NL]

Game week 1 team of the week

[sockeye]

Just now, Saint NL said:

Game week 1 team of the week

Manning robbed

[Saint86]

Portsmouth lolololol 😂

[S-Clarke]

2 minutes ago, Saint86 said:

Portsmouth lolololol 😂

Hopefully someone fancies finding that ''Portsmouth lose at home, Southampton win away'' thread. Been a long time.

[Smirking_Saint]

What is it with Leicester, just lost their keeper and Ndidi and apparently offers are in for El Khannous, Fatuwu and Winks

Not seen them linked with much either

Are they skint or just absolutely bollocksed by PSR ?

[S-Clarke]

4 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

What is it with Leicester, just lost their keeper and Ndidi and apparently offers are in for El Khannous, Fatuwu and Winks

Not seen them linked with much either

Are they skint or just absolutely bollocksed by PSR ?

They still need to make at least 1 big sale this window to bring themselves back inline with PSR in 'this' financial year, which will then allow them some flexibility in the market. Without 1 or 2 more 'big' sales, they can't move.

Everton won't pay what they want for Fatuwu, so it will probably be El Khannous who leaves as he has a fixed release clause - under £30m I believe.

[LuckyNumber7]

Just noticed Mislav Orsic got a goal and an assist for Pafos in their Champions League qualifier tonight.

[SNSUN]

PSG, with one of Europe's best squads, so far have been schooled by Chelsea in the CWC and now Spurs in the Super Cup thus far. Premier League, greatest League in the world innit. 

[AlexLaw76]

Watching Birmingham... They attack at speed...and in numbers

I can see why they could well be right up there at the end of the season, as most Championship clubs won't stop them from scoring

[SNSUN]

31 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

PSG, with one of Europe's best squads, so far have been schooled by Chelsea in the CWC and now Spurs in the Super Cup thus far. Premier League, greatest League in the world innit. 

Retract that. Spurs doing what they do best.

[Harry_SFC]

Leicester and Ipswich both out to lower league opposition 🥳

[AlexLaw76]

What is it with players doing a wanky, stuttery, stupid run up when taking a penalty?

[SNSUN]

Seriously, if Spurs want to drop the Spursy tag, they really need to stop being Spursy.

Edited 13 August, 2025 by SNSUN

[sockeye]

1 minute ago, SNSUN said:

Seriously, if Spurs want to drop the Spursy tag, they really need to stop being Spursy.

Thought Thomas Frank was meant to be their saviour 

again

[East Kent Saint]

8 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What is it with players doing a wanky, stuttery, stupid run up when taking a penalty?

After they were banned from stopping and starting during the run up so they have to keep moving some how , doesn't work if you miss the actual goal after the keeper has dived though 😄

[saintant]

4 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

After they were banned from stopping and starting during the run up so they have to keep moving some how , doesn't work if you miss the actual goal after the keeper has dived though 😄

A lot of these modern day approaches to penalties are ridiculous. Tiss and Lambo had the right idea, pick your spot, put your foot through the ball and no keeper saves it.

[LuckyNumber7]

🤣

 

[Saint NL]

14 mins into the new PL season before VaR messes up.

A new record, surely 

 

https://x.com/AmorimEra_/status/1956434838564565391

 

 

Edited 15 August, 2025 by Saint NL

[benjii]

8 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

14 mins into the new PL season before VaR messes up.

A new record, surely 

 

https://x.com/AmorimEra_/status/1956434838564565391

 

 

It would have been a penalty?

[whelk]

Surely the game should now be abandoned after a racist comment from the crowd?

[Saint NL]

4 minutes ago, benjii said:

It would have been a penalty?

It was near the halfway line, but the Liverpool player might have been through on goal.

[aintforever]

4 minutes ago, benjii said:

It would have been a penalty?

No it was miles from the goal, VAR didn’t intervene because they didn’t think it was a red card offence. 

[Saint NL]

2 minutes ago, aintforever said:

No it was miles from the goal, VAR didn’t intervene because they didn’t think it was a red card offence. 

It was deliberate as can be 😂

[aintforever]

19 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

It was deliberate as can be 😂

Think as it was so far from goal they didn’t see it as denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity, just a possible goal scoring opportunity.

[SNSUN]

27 minutes ago, whelk said:

Surely the game should now be abandoned after a racist comment from the crowd?

Someone getting banned early into the new season. 

[AlexLaw76]

I would not have been a Liverpool fan racially abusing a player. They are the most specially special fans, who never walk alone. 

[Whitey Grandad]

49 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

14 mins into the new PL season before VaR messes up.

A new record, surely 

 

https://x.com/AmorimEra_/status/1956434838564565391

 

 

In your very humble opinion,  of course. 

[whelk]

Great substitutions you fucking twat Slot

[Colinjb]

Seeing Brooks play so well here makes me wish he had any other manager then Martin to work under while here. Let him run into space!

Edited 15 August, 2025 by Colinjb

[Whitey Grandad]

I'm on Virgin Media and the picture is breaking up and unwatchable. Technology really is rubbish.

[ChrisPY]

Virgin media are cunts.

[Badger]

20 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

I would not have been a Liverpool fan racially abusing a player. They are the most specially special fans, who never walk alone. 

No definitely not.

Seen on the BBC site sports pages earlier.

Scouse not English don’t forget. “Calm down, calm down …”

Or perhaps they’re tourist fans. 

[StrangelyBrown]

7 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

Seeing Brooks play so well here makes me wish he had any other manager then Martin to work under while here. Let him run into space!

Brooks has been properly decent. Much better than the other number 7 on the pitch!

[AlexLaw76]

What a goal. Thought he was being a bit selfish there

[Colinjb]

Just now, AlexLaw76 said:

What a goal. Thought he was being a bit selfish there

Love it when it comes off though. That was thrilling.

[Whitey Grandad]

A brilliant break away equaliser by Semenyo. I wish I could have seen it.