25/26 - Non Saints Games

[Gloucester Saint]

Great win for Leeds. With the easiest run in and better GD, they should be OK from here. Farke doing a great job.

1 from three out of Spurs, West Ham and Forest. 

Edited Monday at 21:11 by Gloucester Saint
Corrected by H&W

[Holmes_and_Watson]

6 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Great win for Leeds. With the easiest run in and better GD, they should be OK from here. Farke doing a great job.

2 from three out of Spurs, West Ham and Forest. 

Sadly, short of a Trump appearing as JC, miracle for Burnley, it's just the 1 of the 3.

A nice moment of enjoying 2 of them going though. Thanks for that.

[suewhistle]

I fancied seeing Spur's and West Ham's new stadiums as I'd been to the old ones but there's a possibility I might have to wait another season or so to do both. What a shame..

[John Boy Saint]

3 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

I fancied seeing Spur's and West Ham's new stadiums as I'd been to the old ones but there's a possibility I might have to wait another season or so to do both. What a shame..

If you do get to go to West Ham invest in some Opera glasses, especially if you end up on the upper deck of the away fans: you’ll be closer to your house than the pitch! 🤪  

[Gloucester Saint]

Nasty injury and if it isn’t fully healed probably out of the WC as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98mqrpz50vo

Take a risk too early and could be out 12 months instead. 

[bpsaint]

Chelsea away penultimate game for Spuds, can you imagine 🤣
 

10 years since they officially stopped them winning the Prem too.

Edited Monday at 22:11 by bpsaint

[SNSUN]

57 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Nasty injury and if it isn’t fully healed probably out of the WC as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98mqrpz50vo

Take a risk too early and could be out 12 months instead. 

Without making light of a bad injury which is terrible for the player, but it seems as though the stars are aligning for Spurs relegation. 

Also with Leeds pretty close to safety, that's two promoted clubs surviving. It shows it can be done with the right signings and decisions. 

 

[Lighthouse]

3 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

The whole hair pull red card thing is stupid.

It's stupid from Martinez, I can't get my head around why any player would do something that daft, especially with VAR around. It's in the same boat as those ridiculous, leaning in pseudo headbutts, like the incident with BBD at Newcastle last season. You're basically trying to get sent off for violent conduct, without actually being violent.

[Baird of the land]

5 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

It's stupid from Martinez, I can't get my head around why any player would do something that daft, especially with VAR around. It's in the same boat as those ridiculous, leaning in pseudo headbutts, like the incident with BBD at Newcastle last season. You're basically trying to get sent off for violent conduct, without actually being violent.

After being whacked in the face(not violent conduct) reaching to grab hold of something was probably instinctual. Still a bad modern law invention.

[Whitey Grandad]

6 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

After being whacked in the face(not violent conduct) reaching to grab hold of something was probably instinctual. Still a bad modern law invention.

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

[Baird of the land]

6 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

So is shirt grabbing also a red card offence?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

50 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

Quote from the Bazunu school of football handbook. 🙂

[Behind Enemy Lines]

28 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Quote from the Bazunu school of football handbook. 🙂

Hands are only to be used to pick the ball out of the goal each time you concede. 

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Baird of the land said:

So is shirt grabbing also a red card offence?

Not at present but much less likely to cause physical harm. Shirt grabbing is 'holding' whereas pulling someone's hair is a physical assault. 

Not long ago shirt pulling was a mandatory yellow card. 

[karlb79]

18 hours ago, SNSUN said:

That Man Utd fan not cutting his hair until they win 5 in a row could be waiting years. 

 

 

My 12 year old lad decided to take on that challenge before the Watford game on the 7th Feb. I thought he'd be waiting 60 years for a haircut, but he had a smart new trim after 60 days!

[Dark Munster]

4 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not at all. Grabbing at someone's hair deserves a red card all day long. You don't play football with your hands. 

Throw ins?

[Tommy Mulgrew]

2 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not long ago shirt pulling was a mandatory yellow card. 

IMO, it should be again.  Football matches would then be more what they are supposed to be like instead of imitation wrestling matches.  Ban holding and shoving at corners and free-kicks and obstruction with no attempt to play the ball as well and, before you know it, football will be fun again, even if we are not winning.  If a way could be found to get rid of falling down at the slightest of touches (shades of Shane Long and Leo Scienza), I’d be a happy man.

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

Throw ins?

There was a time when the ball was kicked in instead of thrown.

I suppose it could be argued that the hands of the thrower are not on the field of play.

There is an exception for goalkeepers of course. 

[IOWSaintDaz]

Bit strange seeing that Skate Connor Chaplin in the Sky studio as a pundit when his team are playing tonight VS Ipswich also???

[benjii]

2 hours ago, IOWSaintDaz said:

Bit strange seeing that Skate Connor Chaplin in the Sky studio as a pundit when his team are playing tonight VS Ipswich also???

Not as strange as being relatively pleased that the Skates won!

[Saint NL]

Sky sports are reporting that West Brom will be punished for their FFP shenanigans, and the punishment will be dished out this season.

It's said to be a small punishment though, not sure if that means points reduction or not. But might impact the relegation situation if it is.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, Saint NL said:

Sky sports are reporting that West Brom will be punished for their FFP shenanigans, and the punishment will be dished out this season.

It's said to be a small punishment though, not sure if that means points reduction or not. But might impact the relegation situation if it is.

I read that it was £5 million interest from a loan taken out by a previous owner. But footy finance expert reckons they might just be £1 million over.

As for the impact? who knows? I thought Leicester would get a larger punishment, as they were something like £20 million over.

[LiberalCommunist]

There has to be a cut off point where the deduction cannot fall on this season. Its ridiculous they could be penalised while so few games are left. Also, it allows the law makers to allow a deduction to fit, when in reality there should be a standard point deduction that fits the case and is strictly followed. Leaving it this late is unsettling to quite a few teams.

I'm starting to think the powers that be would prefer just to decide football match results in a boardroom somewhere.

[trousers]

I can't remember why our 10 point penalty was carried over into our first League One season rather than being applied whilst still in the Championship.... Was that a timing thing, or were the rules different back in the day? 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 minutes ago, trousers said:

I can't remember why our 10 point penalty was carried over into our first League One season rather than being applied whilst still in the Championship.... Was that a timing thing, or were the rules different back in the day? 

From wiki

"From 2007–08, any club entering administration after the fourth Thursday in March would have their 10-point deduction suspended until the following season."

Leeds and Boston did it towards the end of the season, when they were down anyway, and so they closed that loophole.

[CB Fry]

9 minutes ago, trousers said:

I can't remember why our 10 point penalty was carried over into our first League One season rather than being applied whilst still in the Championship.... Was that a timing thing, or were the rules different back in the day? 

There was definitely a timed cut off because as you can't just apply it if you are going down anyway because then it isn't a punishment. 

And we took the piss with the Southampton Leisure Holdings vs Southampton FC bullshit as well so didn't have a huge amount of moral high ground.

[Saint Pete]

Arsenal doing their best to f*ck up leg 3 of the quadruple! Very nervy performance so far. I can see them being pipped by City for the title on this form.

[Lord Duckhunter]

Real Madrid are so classless when they lose…

[Badger]

4 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Real Madrid are so classless when they lose…

At what point of the match was one of their players racially abused tonight ? 

[Lighthouse]

A player rather than a game but RIP Alex Manninger. In goal for Arsenal for the last game at the Dell, conceding perhaps the most iconic goal in Saints history.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4g84l14e5eo

 

[SambaMaverick]

Bednarek sent off inside 10 minutes for a nasty nasty "tackle" on Chris Wood

[Turkish]

On 15/04/2026 at 18:36, Holmes_and_Watson said:

From wiki

"From 2007–08, any club entering administration after the fourth Thursday in March would have their 10-point deduction suspended until the following season."

Leeds and Boston did it towards the end of the season, when they were down anyway, and so they closed that loophole.

 

On 15/04/2026 at 18:25, trousers said:

I can't remember why our 10 point penalty was carried over into our first League One season rather than being applied whilst still in the Championship.... Was that a timing thing, or were the rules different back in the day? 

Didn’t they say that if we stayed up we’d get deducted 10 points then so we’d have gone down anyway but if we’d have gone down anyway they’d roll over to next season? Pretty sure that happened 

thought we got a bit stitched up at the time by that but as @CB Fry the trying to make out it was a different company was taking the piss itself 

[saint michael]

33 minutes ago, SambaMaverick said:

Bednarek sent off inside 10 minutes for a nasty nasty "tackle" on Chris Wood

Bad tackle but no intent by Jan, Just really poor clumsy timing can understand the red though 

[bpsaint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

 

Didn’t they say that if we stayed up we’d get deducted 10 points then so we’d have gone down anyway but if we’d have gone down anyway they’d roll over to next season? Pretty sure that happened 

thought we got a bit stitched up at the time by that but as @CB Fry the trying to make out it was a different company was taking the piss itself 

Yeah the points deduction caused a lot of uproar at the time, not so much the fact that we got one, but the way the Football League didn’t action it straight away and left it hanging over us if we went down. Administrators were threatening legal action as they believed it could put off potential buyers. That didn’t happen of course thankfully but we did miss out on the playoffs as a result of the minus ten.

Lord Mawhinney was the fucker in charge of the Football League at the time, he had the “honour” of being presented to the team before the JPT final kicked off and was roundly booed.

Back to West Brom they’re fuming apparently as they’d been working directly with the EFL for the last 2 years to ensure they stayed within their means with regards to PSR, and whoever the EFL appointed has missed something that led to the breach. If it is a points deduction and it leads to a relegation that will drag on for a while with appeals.

By all accounts we got Fellows at a cut price as they had no choice but to let him go. Not that it feels like we’ve had much of a bargain so far.

[trousers]

6 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

By all accounts we got Fellows at a cut price as they had no choice but to let him go

Maybe we should retrospectively slip WBA a few more quid for him in order to get them back in the PSR good books, and potentially help relegate Pompey in the process...?

[LiberalCommunist]

At some stage, pompey are going to be really bloody irritating once again. But this season I have found them to be the least offensive version of themselves for many a year. 

There's three other teams who have been run atrociously, I'd prefer to see drop before them. 

Be warned, if Boro beat Town on Sunday I might well post something nice about them as well!