English football 2021-22

[yuppie]

Some Leicester supporters also went on a rampage round the city centre after the game.

There seems to be new firms setting up and causing problems. As you say SP there seems to be a movement back to the old ways.

[sussexpob]

Some Leicester supporters also went on a rampage round the city centre after the game.

There seems to be new firms setting up and causing problems. As you say SP there seems to be a movement back to the old ways.

It's up to the authorities to sort this out. Leicester shod be banned from attending away games for the foreseeable, and teams like Rotherham should play to empty stands. We need to make sure the message is loud and clear....this is not football

[sussexpob]

And similar to racism, referees should take players off. I couldn't believe for instance when grealish was assaulted the match went on, and I couldn't believe it at forest either. I don't expect players to be forced to play when their safety has been jepordised..

[Durhamfootman]

On a more sour note, the amount of fan incidents in UK football at the moment is very, very worrying. In recent weeks we had incidents at Wycombe (player being abused with chants about him being a paedo all through the game, without grounds), Everton (Villa players being pelted with missiles), Southampton (three fans fighting with stewards and setting off fire works), Spurs (Chelsea player hit with a bottle), West Ham (a fan was arrested for assaulting an attending paramedic), Forest (pitch invasion and a fire work set off in the Derby v ..er Derby)....

This weekend it took a darker turn, with some idiot fan running on attempting to hit (the Fleetwood manager says he did hit him, but the fan doesnt get much contact on him judging on the video) a Fleetwood player as he was attemping to take a penalty and score a late equalizer in a game at Rotherham. He had booted the ball from the penalty spot before that..... after a melee lasting a few minutes, Fleetwood then missed the penalty. And then at the City Ground a Leicester fan ran onto the pitch yesterday at the Forest players and landed a few punches as they celebrated a goal. To top off a shameful weekend, Oldham fans invaded the pitch and set off fireworks after scoring a late winner in Scunthorpe.

To put it simply, if I am manager of any of these teams I take my side off the pitch and we get the bus home. I would not watch my players get assaulted and continue to have them out on the field unprotected. Disgraceful behaviour, and it real feels its heading back towards the hooligan behaviour of the 1980s.

Fleetwood should be awarded the win v Rotherham. The FA need to start dishing out some massive fines.

don't forget the scenes at Wembley for the Euro's final

[Durhamfootman]

Newcastle's revival continues with a more than handy point away to West Ham, and despite being without Trippier, Saint Maximin and Wilson. Unbeaten in 6.... 12 points from a possible 18.
Amazing what a bit of confidence, increased fitness and some competition for places does for a team.

Still a long way to go, but for the first time this season they don't feel to me like a team that are completely dead in the water

[Durhamfootman]

On a busy day in the Premier League, Christian Eriksen makes his return to competitive football and Abramovich hands over the keys of Chelsea to its charitable trust, before someone tries to take the club off him and presumably before someone asks him to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Delighted for Eriksen, but still a little worried about him

[mikesiva]

Liverpool beat Chelsea 11-10 in a fascinating penalty shoot out to win the League Cup.

[Durhamfootman]

I believe it was the goalie who'd been subbed on solely for the pens who missed.

[sussexpob]

I believe it was the goalie who'd been subbed on solely for the pens who missed.

Subbed on as the penalty specialist, didnt save 11 chances, missed his own...

Managers dont learn do they. Dont bring players on cold for penalties.

[Durhamfootman]

I believe it was the goalie who'd been subbed on solely for the pens who missed.

Subbed on as the penalty specialist, didnt save 11 chances, missed his own...

Managers dont learn do they. Dont bring players on cold for penalties.

not rocket science

I've only seen it work once when Krul was brought on a few years ago

[Gingerfinch]

I believe it was the goalie who'd been subbed on solely for the pens who missed.

Subbed on as the penalty specialist, didnt save 11 chances, missed his own...

Managers dont learn do they. Dont bring players on cold for penalties.

I think Tim Krul was used in this way for Holland. It can imo work but not on this occassion.

[Durhamfootman]

the Boro march on. Having despatched Man Utd on pens at OT in the last round, they followed it up with a 1-0 win over Spurs.

[mikesiva]

Everton 2-0 Borehamwood

The dream run has finally come to an end.

[Durhamfootman]

Newcastle continue to put distance between themselves and the relegation zone. 5 wins in the last 6, unbeaten in the last 8. First 18 games yielded 10 points, the last 8 have yielded 18.
Likely to hit a wall now with away trips to Southampton and Chelsea, but at least they aren't looking over their shoulder quite as much as they were

Howe showing Bruce what a fitter, better drilled, if still unspectacular squad can do once confidence is restored. Doubtless people will point to an £85 million January spend, but the whole squad have been improved under new management and this is showing in this impressive series of results..... without Wilson for all of it and recently without Trippier and Saint-Maximin too.

I'll go as far as to suggest that the team is doing so much better, that had Brighton not pulled a goal back today ASM might very well not have come on for the last half hour

[Durhamfootman]

Newcastle continue to put distance between themselves and the relegation zone. 5 wins in the last 6, unbeaten in the last 8.

make that 6 wins in 7 and unbeaten in 9, and finally a goal for Wood. 10 points clear of the zone and finally any thoughts of the drop seem like the sort of bad dream you get after eating too much cheese

The run is now getting so good, that recent key players in Joelinton and ASM are missing for a tricky away trip to a side in a fair bit of form, yet their replacements can still carry the momentum forward. I confess that I thought the run would come to an end tonight, but not so

Even though the Newcastle supporters are hundreds of miles away in Southampton I can still hear the Geordie whale song from here...... "Toon.....Toooon...... Toooooon"