Premier League 2017/18

[Bobfoc]

It's Cow & Gate, surely.

[MDK]

[9 to 5]

 I know what sites you use now, but yeah, the second best football related drawing in a newspaper I have ever seen! The first will take some googling.

[hugobomb]

It's a good job my decision to bench Willian this week in my Fantasy team isn't biting me on the arse!

 

Though so long as Fabregas doesn't make a cameo later on I might get him on as a sub

[Adam]

'Champions of England, you'll never sing that', sing the Chelsea fans to Huddersfield who won their first league title 31 years before Chelsea

— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceTel) December 12, 2017

 

Absolutely embarrassing from Chelsea fans, that. Sums up everything that is wrong with modern football culture, the Premier League in particular.

[MDK]

There was football before the Premier League? 

[Hobo]

There was but you could pass back to the goalie and he could pick it up.

It was barbaric.

[hugobomb]

But the lower leagues were more civilised back then and didn't believe that finishing rock bottom of the Football League was any reason to see them relegated.

[Hobo]

That still happens in Ireland. The teams that finished bottom of the Airtricity First Division this season were 19 and 21 points off the team third from bottom.

Always feels a bit stupid to me. Although I'm not sure that it would work any other way.

[MDK]

1 hour ago, Hobo said:

There was but you could pass back to the goalie and he could pick it up.

It was barbaric.

World Cup '90 had an Irish team that spent 6 minutes passing back to Packie Bonner.

[Hobo]

And that was the best world cup!

[MDK]

2 minutes ago, Hobo said:

And that was the best world cup!

Apart from the World Cup with the only team to play one game and one loss, obviously

[stokeriño]

11 hours ago, Adam said:

'Champions of England, you'll never sing that', sing the Chelsea fans to Huddersfield who won their first league title 31 years before Chelsea

— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceTel) December 12, 2017

 

Absolutely embarrassing from Chelsea fans, that. Sums up everything that is wrong with modern football culture, the Premier League in particular.

Of course, there's a reasonable chance that the number of Huddersfield fans in attendance who were around to sing it in 1926 was nil, so... Technicalities?

[DavidMarrio]

12 hours ago, MDK said:

There was football before the Premier League? 

Aye. We were pretty good at it too.

[stokeriño]

I reiterate my position that all teams who haven't won a major trophy in the 19th century "ain't got no history".

So congrats to Aston Villa, Preston NE, Sunderland, Everton, Sheffield United, Blackburn Rovers, West Brom, Wolves, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest, and some other teams that no longer exist.

[MDK]

18 minutes ago, Davidmarrio said:

Aye. We were pretty good at it too.

Do the '70's and early '80's exist? I would like proof please.

[stokeriño]

Given that I was born in 1985, I have no reason to believe that the 1970s are anything other than an elaborate hoax and/or conspiracy. #epistemology

[The Lusophone]

13 minutes ago, stokeristmas said:

I reiterate my position that all teams who haven't won a major trophy in the 19th century "ain't got no history".

So congrats to Aston Villa, Preston NE, Sunderland, Everton, Sheffield United, Blackburn Rovers, West Brom, Wolves, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest, and some other teams that no longer exist.

I like how all the early winners of the FA Cup were teams either made up of former public school boys or University or Army teams, and then there's a solitary win for Clapham Rovers in like 1880.

[MDK]

58 minutes ago, MadJack said:

I like how all the early winners of the FA Cup were teams either made up of former public school boys or University or Army teams, and then there's a solitary win for Clapham Rovers in like 1880.

Queens Park are the first non-English team to get to the final and Cardiff are the first non-English team to win it.

I love the FA Cup. Such a rich history. I know some of us get the arse about the Beeb banging on about "The Magic of the Cup™" but I love it.

World Cup > FA Cup> Euros> Whatever league we are in> FA Trophy> Mickey Mouse cups.

[Hobo]

3 hours ago, stokeristmas said:

I reiterate my position that all teams who haven't won a major trophy in the 19th century "ain't got no history".

An interesting metric since it would disqualify the team you support from having history