SOCCER - AUTUMN 2025

[Dolfan in NYC]

WOO~!  

[Pete]

FA Cup third round draw in full. Potential giant killings in italics.

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Wolves vs Shrewsbury Town

Doncaster Rovers vs Southampton

Tottenham vs Aston Villa

Port Vale vs Fleetwood Town

Preston North End vs Wigan Athletic

Ipswich Town vs Blackpool

Wrexham vs Nottingham Forest

Charlton Athletic vs Chelsea

Manchester City vs Exeter City

West Ham vs Queens Park Rangers

Sheffield Wednesday vs Brentford

Fulham vs Middlesbrough

Everton vs Sunderland

Liverpool vs Barnsley

Burnley vs Millwall

Norwich City vs Walsall

Portsmouth vs Arsenal

Derby County vs Leeds United

Swansea City vs West Brom

Salford City vs Swindon Town

Boreham Wood vs Brackley or Burton Albion

Grimsby Town vs Weston-Super-Mare

Hull City vs Blackburn Rovers

Newcastle vs Bournemouth

MK Dons vs Oxford United

Cheltenham Town vs Leicester City

Cambridge United vs Birmingham City

Bristol City vs Watford

Stoke vs Coventry City

Macclesfield vs Crystal Palace

Manchester United vs Brighton

Sheffield United vs Mansfield Town

 

Macclesfield (6th tier, National North) pulling Palace at home is nucking futs.

[odessasteps]

They just had John Rooney on 5 Live talking about it. He took over when Savage left. 

[sabremike]

2 hours ago, Pete said:

FA Cup third round draw in full. Potential giant killings in italics.

Macclesfield (6th tier, National North) pulling Palace at home is nucking futs.

The guy who owns The Hamlet (British import shop) and The Ambelside Pub in Mount Kisco is a huge Macclesfield supporter (he has a kit hanging by the entrance of The Hamlet). I actually ordered a kit on clearance directly from the club a few years back.

[Pete]

3, 16, 18, 19.

[SirFozzie]

Today in "Footy Fans overreacing", Your team get relegated? BURN THE STADIUM DOWN.

(BTW, FC Haka is a great name. There's the rugby Haka that I could reference, or (and this is probably esoteric knowledge, the Finnish Light Cavalryman shout "Hakaa Palle!" as they charged towards the enemy.. the battlecry meant "Cut them down!" meaning it was too late for their target to surrender)

 

(Decided to put it in spoiler text for people who remember the Bradford City fire)

 

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[odessasteps]

Viking funeral 

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

On 11/30/2025 at 11:41 AM, Stefanie Sparkleface said:

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF NOW THAT BRIGHTON IS IN THE TOP 5

okay girl breathe breathe AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Note to self: don't be openly happy again

[Pete]

Pettiness at a HOF level. And I'm here for it.

[The Natural]

Martin O'Neill steadied the ship as Celtic caretaker manager. Wilfred Nancy becomes the first Celtic manager to lose his first three games and today the League Cup final vs. St Mirren. Whoever thought it was a good idea to appointment him right before Hearts, Roma and a Cup Final should be shit canned.

[The Natural]

Just now, The Natural said:

Martin O'Neill steadied the ship as Celtic caretaker manager. Wilfred Nancy becomes the first Celtic manager to lose his first three games and today the League Cup final vs. St Mirren. Whoever thought it was a good idea to appointment him right before Hearts, Roma and a Cup Final should be shit canned.

Third time the charm for St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson having lost his previous two cup finals with Motherwell to Celtic.

[odessasteps]

They had fo make up for that time in the FA Cup, was it last year?, when they put all the Newcastle merch in the visitors luxury boxes to make them feel,welcome? And everyone killed them for it.

Edited December 14, 2025 by odessasteps

[sabremike]

3 hours ago, The Natural said:

Martin O'Neill steadied the ship as Celtic caretaker manager. Wilfred Nancy becomes the first Celtic manager to lose his first three games and today the League Cup final vs. St Mirren. Whoever thought it was a good idea to appointment him right before Hearts, Roma and a Cup Final should be shit canned.

Having MON finish out the season (or an assistant on his staff if he didn't want to go till the season's end) and then handing it off to Nancy so he could shape the team to his liking (which is what he did with the Crew to great success) would've been the smart thing to do.

#SackTheBoard

[Pete]

1, 11, 12, 18.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Michael Bradley has been named the Head Coach for the NY Red Bulls

[sabremike]

22 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Michael Bradley has been named the Head Coach for the NY Red Bulls

Not surprising as he just led our MLS NXT PRO side to a league title a few weeks back.

[odessasteps]

 

[Pete]

I'll be dipped - they found a way to make the "rain" shirt work.

[odessasteps]

No more free trips to Craven Cottage for him. 

[Pete]

 

[odessasteps]

Martin O Neill the smartest man in the room.

[The Natural]

Keane Lewis-Potter scored his first Premier League goals since January as Brentford piled more misery on Wolves.

His second-half double settled a largely forgettable game as Wolves continued to rewrite the history books on a miserable afternoon at Molineux that ended with Jorgen Strand Larsen's late penalty being comfortably saved.

This defeat extends their club record to 10 successive top-flight defeats and equals the league's longest winless run from the start of the season.

Their 17 games without a victory matches Sheffield United's run set in 2020-21.

They are 14 points from safety and appear destined for relegation with just two points - putting the record of Derby's record low of 11 under threat.

They go to Liverpool and Manchester United to finish the year with no win in sight under Rob Edwards, who has lost all of his opening six matches.

Bbc.co.uk/sport

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Hope Wolves break the Derby record.

[AxB]

I hope Derby keep their record. I don't see any way Wolves avoid relegation, but Derby going down in history as the worst Premier League team ever is exactly what they deserve. Cheated their way in.

[The Natural]

8 hours ago, AxB said:

I hope Derby keep their record. I don't see any way Wolves avoid relegation, but Derby going down in history as the worst Premier League team ever is exactly what they deserve. Cheated their way in.

I don't remember. Please can you remind me?

[AxB]

Financial Fair Play rules. Both times they got promoted to the Premier League (and one of the times they almost made it, but missed out), they did it by illegally overspending. They only got punished for it the last time (hence the 21 point deduction when they were in the Championship - 12 points for going into administration, plus 9 for breaking finance rules), but it was their owners philosophy of success the whole time. These rules are here to ensure a level playing field, so let's break those rules and tilt things in our favour - it won't matter if we get fined because we'll have Premier League money to pay the fines off with.