Moses Julep

TIL there is a UK version of That 70s Show and I am morbidly interested in seeing it. 

Aston Villa 1-0 Bournemouth (Sat 3pm)

Brentford 2-0 Leicester (Sat 3pm)

Southampton 0-2 Tottenham (Sat 3pm)

Wolves 0-2 Leeds (Sat 3pm)

Chelsea 0-1 Everton (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)

Everton 1 vs. 2 Brentford (Sat 3pm)
Leicester 2 vs. 0 Chelsea (Sat 3pm)
Tottenham 2 vs. 0 Nottm Forest (Sat 3pm)
Fulham 0 vs. 2 Arsenal (Sun 2pm, Sky)
Newcastle 0 vs. 1 Wolves (Sun 4.30pm, Sky)

Hope Potter stays in charge forever at Chelsea. 

5 hours ago, King Ellis said:

Not sure what's happened at Elland Road today. Leeds scored a goal and Southampton didn't. Apparently it's called a 'win'? Can't say I've ever heard of it myself.

Leeds are building on Jesse March’s good work.

Leeds 2 vs. 1 Southampton (Sat 3pm)
West Ham 2 vs. 0 Not tam Forest (Sat 3pm)
Bournemouth 0 vs. 5  Man City (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)
Crystal Palace 2 vs. 0 Liverpool (Sat 7.45pm, Sky)
Tottenham 2 vs. 0 Chelsea (Sun 1.30pm, Sky)

Aston Villa 0 vs. 2 Arsenal (Sat 12.30pm, BT)
Everton 0 vs. 0 Leeds (Sat 3pm)
Wolves 2 vs. 1 Bournemouth (Sat 3pm)
Newcastle 2 vs. 1 Liverpool (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)
Man Utd 1 vs. 0 Leicester (Sun 2pm, Sky)

West Ham 0-0 Chelsea (Sat 12.30pm, BT)
Crystal Palace 0-2 Brighton (Sat 3pm)
Leicester 2-2 Tottenham (Sat 3pm)
Bournemouth 0-2Newcastle (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)
Leeds 1-2 Man Utd (Sun 2pm, Sky)

Brighton 2 vs. 1 Bournemouth (Sat 3pm)
Wolves 0 vs.  2 Liverpool (Sat 3pm)
Newcastle 2 vs. 0 West Ham (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)
Nottm Forest 0 vs. 2 Leeds (Sun 2pm, Sky)
Tottenham 2 vs. 3 Man City (Sun 4.30pm, Sky)

Liverpool 0 vs. 0 Chelsea (Sat 12.30pm, BT)
Bournemouth 2 vs. 1 Nottm Forest (Sat 3pm)
Crystal Palace 0 vs. 2 Newcastle (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)
Leeds 2 vs. 1 Brentford (Sun 2pm, Sky)
Arsenal 0 vs. 2 Man Utd (Sun 4.30pm, Sky)

1. Tottenham

1. Tottenham

Man Utd 0 vs. 2 Man City (Sat 12.30pm, BT)
Nottm Forest 0 vs. 2 Leicester (Sat 3pm)
Wolves 0 vs. 1 West Ham (Sat 3pm)
Brentford 0 vs. 1 Bournemouth (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)
Tottenham 2 vs. 2 Arsenal (Sun 4.30pm, Sky)

Chelsea 1-2 Man City (Thurs 8pm, Sky)

Wolves 1 vs. 3 Man Utd (Sat 12.30pm, BT)
Fulham 0 vs. 1 Southampton (Sat 3pm)
Man City 5 vs. 0 Everton (Sat 3pm)
Brighton 0 vs. 2 Arsenal (Sat 5.30pm, Sky)
Nottm Forest 0  vs. 2 Chelsea (Sun 4.30pm, Sky)

Brentford 0 vs. 2 Tottenham (Mon 26th 12.30pm, Prime)
Crystal Palace 2 vs. 1 Fulham (Mon 26th 3pm, Prme)
Southampton 0 vs. 2 Brighton (Mon 26th 3pm, Prime)
Leicester 1 vs. 3 Newcastle (Mon 26th 3pm, Prime)
Aston Villa 0 vs. 3 Liverpool (Mon 26th 5.30pm, Prime)

This is the first time in my life I have won anything!

I tried to be like Robert Pires and fall over and cry and pretend someone pushed me.

I’d be happy with either team winning the final; so should be a fun final.

5 minutes ago, Tigerstyle said:

Mate farming farmers with one good game where their one man team and one other player from that other good team is just proving my point. Glad I affected your life so much though.

I’ve read what you’ve written eight times and I think it’s gibberish? Or I’m very tired. 

Some wonderful low-level xenophobia from the Canadian press (but mostly Quebecois press) pondering if Canadians of Moroccan origin would be celebrating this vociferously at Canada’s successes. I don’t recall this type of punditry whenever Italy wins anything and our major cities turn into gridlocks.

8 minutes ago, METALMAN said:

Why is Gianni Infantino using Szumi’s account?

Fully expecting Szumi to start telling us he’s a gay Qatari now. 

10 hours ago, damhausen said:

England could've/should've won in 2006. As said it was very crowded at the top without a clear favorite. A France team most of us thought was after its sell-by date and an Italian team that just played very tough football but never blew anyone away. Germany, Portugal, England, and Brazil I remember all having some level of hype. I will say whether it be marketing or just living in the Anglosphere, the aura of England in 2006 was of a team with the most talent it had ever had. They just never had that cohesion they needed, and a lot was Gerrard and Lampard being unable to play together but surely a lot comes down to management not identifying where to put players in order to succeed.

In my memory Brazil in 94 and Spain in 2010 are the only nations that went into the World Cup marketed as the favorites and won. 2002 I recall most of us expecting a France repeat. 2006 was very much an "any of these half dozen or so teams" situation and England was certainly one of them if not at the top of the list.

Brazil were totally the favourites in 2006. Reigning champions with Ronaldinho and Kaka at the peak of their powers, with Robinho, Ronaldo, Adriano, Emerson, Cafu, and Roberto Carlos all in the background. Not to mention the coach that led to the World Cup on 1994. But this was another case of a team of individuals that couldn’t coexist and didn’t go too far. 
 

That World Cup stands out for two things for me: Italy frankly cheating in every other game to win the thing (Grosso with Australia would never happen with today’s VAR) and Zidane and Henry essentially deciding they wanted to the win the cup and playing like their lives depended on if until Henry literally keeled over in exhaustion during the final and Zidane lost his cool with Materazzi.

13 minutes ago, Naitch said:

Sven and Capello both had pretty good resumes, they just clearly weren't capable of dealing with the lack of cohesion in the squad. In Capello's case, I'm sure that was as much down to the issues having been left unchecked for so long.

Steve McLaren, much like Roberto Martinez, was absolutely the wrong choice to manage such a star-studded team. I'm not sure who would've been a better choice at the time, mind. Maybe Allardyce, based on his strong reputation at the time, but his first corruption stuff happened around the same time so you'd just have ended up with his brief run happening a decade earlier. That would've led to Peter Taylor taking the role if the same approach was taken as in 2016, much more likely to have ended up with McLaren anyway though.

It was never going to happen but imagine if Fergie had taken on the England job in 2006?

Sven was absolutely the wrong choice for the squad. With the firepower he had, how often did he simply choose to defend a 1-0 lead and get bitten for it?

Capello was fascinating because it seemed like he gave up very early into his reign. A tactical magician that’s not afraid to drop players was now suddenly toeing the English’ line of “we need to play with passion”. That’s when you knew he’d given up and that’s when you knew the environment surrounding the team was so hopeless that no one could get anything out of them.