Football in general (non-Wolves)

[Pagey]

Yep, they'll be four behind us!

I'm not sure tbh, they're going to have big decisions to make when the inevitable happens in a few weeks. When Europe is back there's going to be less space to reschedule. Genuinely don't know what they'll do.

With the euros in the summer they can't extend the league, I really can't see this season completing

 

[Oh When the Wolves]

Villa games are man city spurs Newcastle and Everton

be tricky to rearrange the first two

 

[Blast tyrant]

They are due to play City next Wednesday I think. They should have had there 10 day clearance time by then. Not sure what happens though if they are still missing some players.

 

[Golden_Wolf]

Ings tested positive for Covid too.

State of the PL atm.

 

[Fenrir_]

Villa v Everton postponed this weekend because of their Covid.

Yet they (Villa) are back in training tomorrow, two days before the game was scheduled. Really surprised they've postponed that with what is inevitably going to be crazy schedule, I'd think Everton are fuming

 

[Frank Lincoln]

I can see the cup and all European games being postponed, with the priority given to trying to finish the league season across all nations of Europe.

 

[Boss Hogg]

Yet they (Villa) are back in training tomorrow, two days before the game was scheduled. Really surprised they've postponed that with what is inevitably going to be crazy schedule, I'd think Everton are fuming

Looks from the outside that Villa are playing the system

 

[Deleted member 9788]

@Burford T Justice I'm stunned. Our boys Sazi are winning for a change! Zarei scored 4th minute

 

[Burford T Justice]

@Burford T Justice I'm stunned. Our boys Sazi are winning for a change! Zarei scored 4th minute

Sadly its 1 all now

I think once we start ground sharing maybe we can player share too and they can have Neto and Silva up top see how that works.

 

[Deleted member 9788]

Sadly its 1 all now

I think once we start ground sharing maybe we can player share too and they can have Neto and Silva up top see how that works.

I'm trying not to lose hope but things are looking bleak for us

 

[Burford T Justice]

I'm trying not to lose hope but things are looking bleak for us

I think the draw against Zob killed of their confidence. Conceding an 89th minute equaliser after playing against 10 men since the 2nd minute was a real sucker punch.

Definitely bleak

 

[Pagey]

I'm trying not to lose hope but things are looking bleak for us

Your going down with the Albion!
Down with the Albion
Your going down with the Albion!

 

[rincewind]

Lovely headline on news now "Wayne Rooney gives up football to manage Derby County"!

 

[BlahBlah]

Ings tested positive for Covid too.

State of the PL atm.

It's making the whole thing meaningless and plenty of professionals and managers are becoming depressed, our own manager included.
A lot of what is happening is out of anybody's managerial control, so we are all going through the motions to keep the businesses going....nobody is enjoying this **** anymore.

I think a lot of the benefit of keeping EPL football going to give supporters something positive to cling onto in lockdown is being diminished, as the overall playing and viewing experience becomes progessively more negative for everybody involved.
I'd shut the whole lot down for 3 months and use the stadiums for vaccinations.

 

[Stratman Wolves]

Lovely headline on news now "Wayne Rooney gives up football to manage Derby County"!

FLDCFC becomes WRDCFC

 

[Kford]

See BBC are featuring they favourite club on football focus . They seem to forget there is a BCD today .

 

[Fenrir_]

Brighton reporting a £67.2m loss for the 19/20 season. Some of the numbers we're going to see in the near future as clubs report their accounts are going to be frightening

Brighton (Sky Sports)

Brighton Football Club team news on Sky Sports - See fixtures, live scores, results, stats, video, photos and more..

www.skysports.com

 

[SuperGran]

Jesse Lingard is such a typical West Ham signing

 

[SuperGran]

Spurs had a thread on their forum, called can we win the league this season? Now the title changed to can we finish in the top half
Made me laugh

 

[The Wolf In The North]

Spurs had a thread on their forum, called can we win the league this season? Now the title changed to can we finish in the top half
Made me laugh

What have we changed the title of our "Are we in a title challenge?" thread to?

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[SuperGran]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1356359944744951824

Shame ay it

 

[Golden_Wolf]

State of the PL allowing stuff like this. "Fit & Proper" test my ****.

 

[Titch]

Liverpool now not allowed to travel to Germany for the champions league game on the 16th February!!
Arsenal probably also can't travel to play Benfica in the Europa league.

 

[YouGottaRaulWithIt]

With the euros in the summer they can't extend the league, I really can't see this season completing

Euros this summer is a really stupid idea. Only slightly worse than the Olympics or club18-30 in magaluf.

 

[Mighty Thor]

Was just watching some Ronaldo highlights from his time in the premier league on the BBC website.

Then started watching some other old goals from the likes of Henry, Van Nistletoj, Drogba, Overmars, Lundjberg, giggs, Yorke....even Kanchekskis on YouTube. Is it just me or is the standard of the premier league massively inferior to how it was in the late 90s and 2000s. There doesn’t seem to be so many absolute wonder players as there was.

 

[Pagey]

Was just watching some Ronaldo highlights from his time in the premier league on the BBC website.

Then started watching some other old goals from the likes of Henry, Van Nistletoj, Drogba, Overmars, Lundjberg, giggs, Yorke....even Kanchekskis on YouTube. Is it just me or is the standard of the premier league massively inferior to how it was in the late 90s and 2000s. There doesn’t seem to be so many absolute wonder players as there was.

Unbelievable that he's 36 today, the bloke is a machine.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Was just watching some Ronaldo highlights from his time in the premier league on the BBC website.

Then started watching some other old goals from the likes of Henry, Van Nistletoj, Drogba, Overmars, Lundjberg, giggs, Yorke....even Kanchekskis on YouTube. Is it just me or is the standard of the premier league massively inferior to how it was in the late 90s and 2000s. There doesn’t seem to be so many absolute wonder players as there was.

Perhaps or perhaps the standard of the average players is higher which makes it harder for the "stars" to shine.

 

[SteveBullsKnee]

Was just watching some Ronaldo highlights from his time in the premier league on the BBC website.

Then started watching some other old goals from the likes of Henry, Van Nistletoj, Drogba, Overmars, Lundjberg, giggs, Yorke....even Kanchekskis on YouTube. Is it just me or is the standard of the premier league massively inferior to how it was in the late 90s and 2000s. There doesn’t seem to be so many absolute wonder players as there was.

Do you not think that you are looking at a 20 year period and comparing it to now. Average tells you that more played over a 20 year period and it will throw up more great players than a single season or even 2/3 seasons.

For every Henry there was a Wiltord, Drogba a Mutu, Giggs a Kleberson etc.

A better comparison would be to look at an individual season then and compare it now.

 

[Hot Fuss]

Was just watching some Ronaldo highlights from his time in the premier league on the BBC website.

Then started watching some other old goals from the likes of Henry, Van Nistletoj, Drogba, Overmars, Lundjberg, giggs, Yorke....even Kanchekskis on YouTube. Is it just me or is the standard of the premier league massively inferior to how it was in the late 90s and 2000s. There doesn’t seem to be so many absolute wonder players as there was.

It’s the tactics that stop the players shining these days.
All safety first, “if we lose it everyone get back behind the ball”, pass for passings sake now.
Technically the players are better than they’ve ever been but the entertainment value is awful by and large.
The boring tactics, generic grounds, modern fans with there selfies, play acting, idiotic rules, VAR all add up to making top level football pretty **** in my opinion.

 

[manchesterwolf17]

It’s the tactics that stop the players shining these days.
All safety first, “if we lose it everyone get back behind the ball”, pass for passings sake now.
Technically the players are better than they’ve ever been but the entertainment value is awful by and large.
The boring tactics, generic grounds, modern fans with there selfies, play acting, idiotic rules, VAR all add up to making top level football pretty **** in my opinion.

So true.

How few characters we have in the game as well. I put that down to the media, along with Social Media dissecting every aspect of some form of personality ever coming out from a player.

And VAR has just added to that now. No one can get away with anything. Christ, Muscat would have never completed a 90 minutes. The height of any squabble now is a square up, where any remote head contact results in a sending off after a nerd has watched it over and over again.

Talent wise, I'd argue it's as good as ever. But entertainment wise, is the total opposite. Like you say, pragmatic, safety first tactics certainly don't help.

 

[WickedWolfie]

So true.

How few characters we have in the game as well. I put that down to the media, along with Social Media dissecting every aspect of some form of personality ever coming out from a player.

And VAR has just added to that now. No one can get away with anything. Christ, Muscat would have never completed a 90 minutes. The height of any squabble now is a square up, where any remote head contact results in a sending off after a nerd has watched it over and over again.

Talent wise, I'd argue it's as good as ever. But entertainment wise, is the total opposite. Like you say, pragmatic, safety first tactics certainly don't help.

Muscat probably never should have completed 90mins truthfully. A complete and utter psycho on the field.

 

[manchesterwolf17]

Muscat probably never should have completed 90mins truthfully. A complete and utter psycho on the field.

Hard to disagree. He's an extreme example. But there used to be a real ******* in most teams for the crowd to get at and vice versa. These players don't really exist anymore.

 

[pacamac]

Hard to disagree. He's an extreme example. But there used to be a real ******* in most teams for the crowd to get at and vice versa. These players don't really exist anymore.

Games full of ****ing prefects

 

[The Wolf In The North]

Was just watching some Ronaldo highlights from his time in the premier league on the BBC website.

Then started watching some other old goals from the likes of Henry, Van Nistletoj, Drogba, Overmars, Lundjberg, giggs, Yorke....even Kanchekskis on YouTube. Is it just me or is the standard of the premier league massively inferior to how it was in the late 90s and 2000s. There doesn’t seem to be so many absolute wonder players as there was.

There's a lack of expressiveness now, compared to 15, 20 years ago, certainly. Not sure quality overall has dipped.

It's why everyone went batty over Traore last year. We watch every minute so we know his flaws, but there was a time last season where he was a weekly highlights reel for fans of other clubs, a real throwback to that 2000s era of wildly skilful, expressive players.

There's definitely a decline in superstar forwards of a certain type. Kane is clinical but has the verve and personality of custard. Rashford, Salah, Sterling, all excellent, but no devil about any of them.

Maybe it's the social media age where everything gets smoothed over and there are no more edges, so it's more difficult for players to stand out.

 

[Golden_Wolf]

Yan Dhanda: Swansea midfielder suffers racist abuse on social media after FA Cup defeat

Swansea say Yan Dhanda has been the victim of racist abuse on social media; the abuse came after the Sky Bet Championship sides defeat to Manchester City in the fifth round of the FA Cup; Swansea say they are saddened and appalled; South Wales Police are investigating the matter

www.skysports.com

I despair

 

[clivewolves]

It looks James Justin is out injured with an ACL injury. He had a terrific game against us the other day and had a great shot of getting in the England team for the Euros. Hopefully, he will make a similar recovery to Otto.

 

[VancouverWolf]

Great article here on Barcelona and finances. The amounts are huge.

Barcelona and the Crippling Cost of Success (Published 2021)

The world’s richest soccer club is facing a financial crisis. Executives blame the pandemic, but many of its biggest problems, including its enormous debt to Lionel Messi, are its own fault.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Deleted member LP 3925]

Wolves in the EFL: Do you remember Jack Price? Here's how he is getting on these days..

Wolves have had a remarkable rise in recent years, with Nuno Espirito Santo transforming the club since he was appointed.

www.google.co.uk

Nice to see he’s doing very well.

 

[Boss Hogg]

I was very disappointed to hear that the National League North and South are to be declared null and void over funding issues.

National League season to continue but North and South divisions declared null and void https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56119952


My second team (and home town team) Gloucester City were riding high at the top of the North division and was hoping that this was finally going to be the year that they started to catch up with our near rivals Cheltenham and Forest Green

 

[Fenrir_]

I was very disappointed to hear that the National League North and South are to be declared null and void over funding issues.

National League season to continue but North and South divisions declared null and void https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56119952


My second team (and home town team) Gloucester City were riding high at the top of the North division and was hoping that this was finally going to be the year that they started to catch up with our near rivals Cheltenham and Forest Green

I work with a Kiddy Harriers fan and he's really disappointed that it's now ended after they got off to a solid start.

Seems weird that they've chosen to end it now, when the levels below ended a few weeks back but I guess all these clubs have their breaking point. It's a shame they couldn't get some assistance to help them get through the season but I suppose if curtailing it helps a couple of clubs to stay afloat then it's worth it...probably??