Today’s Games 2023-2024

[StaffordWolf]

We've only won 1 more game than Everton.

Don't think they've had the dodgy on field/ var decisions we've had though to be fair.

 

[wwbug]

We've only won 1 more game than Everton.

We have won 13 games which isn’t too shabby .
We won 15 to come 7th . And it could have been 6th but for goal difference.

 

[Norman Bell]

Bill Parcells who is one of the true all time great NFL Coaches has a number of excellent sayings, my favourite of his is " The best ability is availability "and another one is " You are what your record says you are "

One of the great things that makes the English who we are is the love of the gallant underdog battling away, which is Luton. Yet as Coach Parcells would point out one win in fifteen says it all about Luton in reality.

 

[CelebrityWolf]

We've only won 1 more game than Everton.

Yep. people seem to think they are much worse than they are. One of the few prem sides that can actually defend as well.

Glad to see them survive. now hopefully Forest do the same.

 

[CelebrityWolf]

Awful quality in the Luton vs Everton game.

Best league in the world they say.....

Actually amazed anyone would watch that game. There isn't enough money in the world for me to watch it.

 

[Oh When the Wolves]

Yep. people seem to think they are much worse than they are. One of the few prem sides that can actually defend as well.

Glad to see them survive. now hopefully Forest do the same.

They e cheated the rules , and stayed up as a result.

Don’t know how you could be glad

Agree they are a good side though

 

[Norman Bell]

I decided to watch Dundee United v Partick Thistle in the Scottish Championship last night. There was nothing at stake as The Arabs * have won the title and Thistle had clinched third place in the play offs. Still it was a cracking game with plenty of action with Dundee winning 4-1. Partick rested a lot of players and it showed !

There was a disgraceful dive by Louis Moult ( ex Stoke player ) that incredibly the ref bought, awarding a penalty ! The reaction of the Partick players was instant as they knew Moult had dived. Justice was served when he himself had the pen saved

Great to see The Terriers back in the top division as their support is on average at home games 3 times what Ross, Livingstone and some others get in the SPL for games that do not feature the ' Ugly Sisters ' . Also I am old enough to recall the eighties when Dundee United won the Scottish Premier League and made it to the European Cup Winners Cup Final where they were defeated Gothernburg who were managed by some chap called Sven-Goren Erickssen ( I often think what became of him ) Then they beat Roma 2-0 in the 1984 European Cup Semi Final only to lose 3-0 in Rome to shall we say some rather strange decisions that clearly favoured the home team
Richard Gough, Paul Sturrock, David Narey and Maurice Malpas were all excellent players from that side. Jim Maclean was the manager and a man with a reputation for dourness and a short temper. Jim actually stuck one on BBC Scotland reporter John Barnes live on air ( it is on YouTube ! )

* Dundee United ended up with one of their nicknames being The Arabs ( these days it applies more to their fans than the team who are known as The Tangerines or Terriers ) because in the season of 1962/63 that was bitterly cold the Tannadice pitch was unplayable due to it being frozen. They bought in burners but that did not unfreeze the pitch enough to make it playable. So they brought in lorry loads of sand, so much of the gold stuff that the pitch resembled a desert, this did make the pitch playable and Dundee United players adapted so well to the conditions they became known as The Arabs

 

[clivewolves]

Hopefully the gods are smiling and that lot down the road fall out of play-off places today.

 

[Bradstonian]

Hopefully the gods are smiling and that lot down the road fall out of play-off places today.

I'll be cheering-on Preston and Hull today...

 

[SuperGran]

Hopefully the gods are smiling and that lot down the road fall out of play-off places today.

I thought it was the play off already due to the excitement of the stripy lot

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

I thought it was the play off already due to the excitement of the stripy lot

What are they so excited for??

 

[SuperGran]

What are they so excited for??

Chance of getting in the playoffs at a guess

 

[Spitfire]

I decided to watch Dundee United v Partick Thistle in the Scottish Championship last night. There was nothing at stake as The Arabs * have won the title and Thistle had clinched third place in the play offs. Still it was a cracking game with plenty of action with Dundee winning 4-1. Partick rested a lot of players and it showed !

There was a disgraceful dive by Louis Moult ( ex Stoke player ) that incredibly the ref bought, awarding a penalty ! The reaction of the Partick players was instant as they knew Moult had dived. Justice was served when he himself had the pen saved

Great to see The Terriers back in the top division as their support is on average at home games 3 times what Ross, Livingstone and some others get in the SPL for games that do not feature the ' Ugly Sisters ' . Also I am old enough to recall the eighties when Dundee United won the Scottish Premier League and made it to the European Cup Winners Cup Final where they were defeated Gothernburg who were managed by some chap called Sven-Goren Erickssen ( I often think what became of him ) Then they beat Roma 2-0 in the 1984 European Cup Semi Final only to lose 3-0 in Rome to shall we say some rather strange decisions that clearly favoured the home team
Richard Gough, Paul Sturrock, David Narey and Maurice Malpas were all excellent players from that side. Jim Maclean was the manager and a man with a reputation for dourness and a short temper. Jim actually stuck one on BBC Scotland reporter John Barnes live on air ( it is on YouTube ! )

* Dundee United ended up with one of their nicknames being The Arabs ( these days it applies more to their fans than the team who are known as The Tangerines or Terriers ) because in the season of 1962/63 that was bitterly cold the Tannadice pitch was unplayable due to it being frozen. They bought in burners but that did not unfreeze the pitch enough to make it playable. So they brought in lorry loads of sand, so much of the gold stuff that the pitch resembled a desert, this did make the pitch playable and Dundee United players adapted so well to the conditions they became known as The Arabs

Also beat Barcelona home and away in the UEFA cup in 86/87.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Today we could see Blackburn or Blues relegated most likely blues. Can’t see they have enough to get past Norwich sadly

 

[Matt]

As Gianni Infantino famously said; Today, I feel Norwich.

 

[Norman Bell]

I thought it was the play off already due to the excitement of the stripy lot

I hope you don't think I am being picky with your spelling and grammar but surely your post should read

I thought it was the play off already due to the EXCREMENT COMING out of the stripy lot

 

[maws]

I’m still laughing at villa, Facebook is going to be full of flights and hotels in Athens for sale late May, in the Sutton Coldfield selling pages

 

[Norman Bell]

I see the Artful Tax Dodger Ratcliffe at Manure is moaning about the state and upkeep of Old Trafford. Jesus Jim, try looking in the mirror as you are hardly the image of sartorial elegance yourself

 

[Alienwolf]

Right then, decisions decisions.
Ipswich on the TV and Blues on the iPad or the other way round. This is a real dilemma. First World problems hey

What? Arsenal kick-off at lunch-time as well. I need a lie down

 

[moseleyite]

Today we could see Blackburn or Blues relegated most likely blues. Can’t see they have enough to get past Norwich sadly

Indeed. I’ve been out in Brum city centre this morning and there are a lot of nervy-looking blues fans mooching about!

 

[StaffordWolf]

Hope blues win today, got no I'll feeling towards them.

 

[Bugsy911]

Watching Blues hope they get relegated.

 

[The Wolf In The North]

I'm torn, as I don't want to see Plymouth relegated - which a defeat could well cause - but also want Hull to win, obviously, to scupper Albion. Then again, Preston are abysmal, there's no way they beat West Brom, so I may as well just bite the bullet and go with Plymouth.

Huddersfield cheering any and every Ipswich goal against them because they know it screws Leeds will be the highlight of the day.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

I'm torn, as I don't want to see Plymouth relegated - which a defeat could well cause - but also want Hull to win, obviously, to scupper Albion. Then again, Preston are abysmal, there's no way they beat West Brom, so I may as well just bite the bullet and go with Plymouth.

Huddersfield cheering any and every Ipswich goal against them because they know it screws Leeds will be the highlight of the day.

If Leicester beat Blackburn and Birmingham win could be the Rovers that drop

 

[The Wolf In The North]

If Leicester beat Blackburn and Birmingham win could be the Rovers that drop

I think Leicester definitely beat Rovers as they go for 100 points, but Blackburn only go down if Blues and Plymouth both win and Wednesday get a point. Plymouth still have to match Birmingham's result, realistically.

 

[JohnB]

I'm torn, as I don't want to see Plymouth relegated - which a defeat could well cause - but also want Hull to win, obviously, to scupper Albion. Then again, Preston are abysmal, there's no way they beat West Brom, so I may as well just bite the bullet and go with Plymouth.

Huddersfield cheering any and every Ipswich goal against them because they know it screws Leeds will be the highlight of the day.

Easy - Norwich and Hull win, WBA lose. WBA out of play-offs and Blues go down.

 

[NJ Wolves]

Come on Norwich!!!

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Jay Stansfield wonder if he will get a chance at Foolham after his goals for Birmingham??

 

[SuperGran]

cundleinho with a goal

 

[Skrilla]

Tractor boys on their way.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

cundleinho with a goal

That’s our Scholesy. Big future ahead of him

 

[old wittonian]

Cundle puts Stoke 1 up.

 

[moseleyite]

That’s a chance for Blues!


And immediately for Norwich!

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

That’s a chance for Blues!


And immediately for Norwich!

Come on you Blouse get a goal

Bacuna their most creative player on the bench. No wonder they are about to go down

 

[moseleyite]

Leeds behind again.

 

[old wittonian]

Watching Ipswich. Commentators continually inferring you have to be brought down for a penalty to be given. Surely not right?

 

[JonahWolf]

Watching Ipswich. Commentators continually inferring you have to be brought down for a penalty to be given. Surely not right?

Well, if they mean in a practical sense, then yes.
Very rare any of the incompetent officials give a pen for an obvious foul when the player foolishly tries to stay on their feet.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Pen for Arsenal

Goal for Plymouth

Leeds falling apart again

 

[Royal wolf]

Dive

 

[moseleyite]

Hull losing.


The Championship really has been a tale of teams desperately trying not to get in the play offs.