The Natural Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Meant to post in this topic recently. Better late than never. Leicester City, incredible sporting story. What a job by Claudio Ranieri and the team. That Liverpool comeback. Aston Villa. Fucking disgrace. Bradford City and Phil Parkinson doing the business again. Great times after a long shitty spell. Justice for the 96. YNWA. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Addition, Kelvin MacKenzie is a twat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Quote Burnley: 1st, 87 pts, +33 goal differenceRemaining fixtures: QPR (h) 2 May, Charlton (a) 7 May Middlesbrough: 2nd, 87 pts, +32 goal differenceRemaining fixtures: Birmingham (a) 29 April, Brighton (h) 7 May Brighton: 3rd, 87 pts, +30 goal differenceRemaining fixtures: Derby (h) 2 May, Middlesbrough (a) 7 May This is why I freaking love the Championship. Gank the Premiership six-pointer between Boro/Brighton on the final day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Hummels to Bayern seems like a lock. Question remains if Bayern is willing to pay enough for him to transfer coming summer. Just as it seemed we had a team to rival them in Bundesliga...but that's the way it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 You wonder why the European Leagues are so keen to follow the Scottish model... except with Spain you at least had the two big name teams, and then Athleti overperforming to add an extra dimension. Whereas the Bundesliga seems to have decided they want to be like Scotland, only if Rangers had to sell all their best players to Celtic every summer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Love that analogy. I talked with a few friends yesterday and we discussed what has changed. Truth is that when I started watching football with the 1990 World Cup and following Bundesliga season, the top 12 Bundesliga clubs had rosters that had 2-3 top players and a few good hands to support those. Bayern already was outstanding for having a few top guys more than the rest. Over the last few years however, Bayern have two squads that are good enough to win the Bundesliga (minus Neuer maybe). Dortmund has one and a half. The rest of the top 7 has a few top players and lots of good hands to support them. The lower table half has good hands and workhorses. There is a big gap between Bayern and Dortmund, a gap between those two and the rest and a huge rift between 3rd to 7th and the rest of the Bundesliga. The only way for the Bundesliga to improve would be a Bayern implosion (which would hurt German football quite a lot in international competition) or a cutback on games in European club competition prompting less need for a great number of quality players. Which is not going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Do I have this right? There are three games left in the Premier League. Leicscter City has to win one over the course of those three games. Or Spurs have to lose one. Is this right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Yup, 7 point gap so it will be over if Spurs lose. Or if Spurs draw and Leicester wins it's over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Boro drew at Birmingham 2-2 tonight. Beat Brighton next weekend and they're up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Middlesborough to go up, Sunderland and Newcastle to go down? Nice. Leicester need two points from three games, assuming Spurs gets maximum points. The question is, will they play for a draw away to Man U on Sunday, so they can clinch at home against Everton a week later, or do they go all out to beat Man U and arrive at their last home game already as champs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 I wonder which of the 3 teams ends up screwed in the playoffs, because you cant just have all of them get promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Metro seal clubbed FC Dallas tonight 4-0 and the game wasn't as close as the score would indicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 At the moment, Newcastle jyst saved a pen and are up 1-0 over Palace and Sunderland are down 1-0 to Stoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Sunderland scores a penalty in the dying minutes of time added on for a draw. Five minutes of added time at Newcastle, it's definitely squeaky bum time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 On April 29, 2016 at 10:52 PM, AxB said: except with Spain you at least had the two big name teams, and then Athleti overperforming to add an extra dimension. Things are changing next season. The money is going to start being distributed differently and will be divided up more evenly. On April 29, 2016 at 7:17 PM, AxB said: Middlesborough to go up, Sunderland and Newcastle to go down? Nice. Leicester need two points from three games, assuming Spurs gets maximum points. The question is, will they play for a draw away to Man U on Sunday, so they can clinch at home against Everton a week later, or do they go all out to beat Man U and arrive at their last home game already as champs? I don't watch the EPL regularly aside from every now and then and even I'll be watching tomorrows game to see if Leicester City pull it off. I hope they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Let's go, Leicester. Write some history -- and push van Gaal to the exit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setsuna Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Man I hope Leicester wins here and takes the League. I much prefer football's approach to titles with the national knockout tournaments being distant second and third priorities. However, it is always nice to see a team get that big win to seal it as opposed to the number two team losing and handing the title over. If Leicester doesn't win or draws this match I hope Spurs get the win tomorrow. Good start so far. I thought Leicester was going to have a hard time coming back from that first goal but it didn't take long at all. Edit: Quote Yup, 7 point gap so it will be over if Spurs lose. Or if Spurs draw and Leicester wins it's over Or if Leicester draws and Spurs draw too if my math hasn't regressed too far... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Both teams put up a fun fight imo. Point is a good result for Leicester, truly keeping huge pressure on the Spurs who have to go for a perfect record now to win it. With the away game at Chelsea this is going to be hard enough I assume. This is truly amazing. Bundesliga is still not officially finished, Bayern drawing Gladbach at home 1-1 and Dortmund battering Wolfsburg 5-1 at home. Bayern still need a point to pratically seal it (being 20 ahead on GD which is the first tiebreaker in Germany) and a win to get it done on paper. First time in quite a while the championship isn´t already done before the last two matchdays. 4 way battle going on for 4th place, Gladbach (49 pts), Hertha (49), Schalke (48) and Mainz (46) still having a shot. The first Monday game in 16 or so years between Bremen and Stuttgart could spice up the relegational battle even more. Werder is under severe pressure after Frankfurt scored a win. Stuttgart has had a horrible spell over the last few games. Hoffenheim seems to be out of the worst, aswell as Hamburg and Augsburg, but all of them can still hit relegational playoff rank or even worse, should Bremen win tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Burnley are back in the PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 BTW, if you haven't seen it, there's a mini-doc on how John Green (the YouTube/Author guy) is sponsoring AFC Wimbledon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 *it's happening GIF* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Which Tottenham player didn't get a yellow card yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 So it's over huh, Leicester is 7 points clear with 6 points left to play for and they have won the Premier League! Congrats to the Foxes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 This was 2014. Joy over promotion to the big dance at all. What a story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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