British football gossip

I see The Scum are reporting that United are after £4.5m-rated Bayern Munich right-back Willy Sagnol.

Another Gooner Scum Fan with his finger on the pulse.

12 Games!!!
Wigan manager Chris Hutchings shown the door.

Really, the Premiership is just not worth bothering with anymore.

I think Hutchings must be suffering from deja vu, the exact same thing happened to him when he took over from Jewell at Bradford City.

Another 1-0 win, another 3 points and back to 3rd. Job Done!

All credit to Roy keane btw, thought he'd whine but he didn't.

Who has been the worst signing of the season?
3557 votes since Mon 05 Nov

Answer Result Percentage Number of votes
Claudio Cacapa 26% 935 votes
Gerald Cid 12% 418 votes
Rob Earnshaw 19% 662 votes
Emerse Fae 6% 231 votes
Greg Halford 8% 280 votes
Tuncay Sanli 29%

Only heard of Rob Earnshaw from that little lot, was this a poll purely amongst League clubs without the Premiership?

Not heard of half of them... the absence of Sky Sports is taking its toll!

Stephen Ireland not to be disciplined for dropping his shorts.


Twas quite funny, cos one of the commentators pointed out that taking off his shirt after scoring would have got him a yellow card, whereas dropping his shorts got him nary a telling off.

Probably a good job 3 Lions hasn't heard of them, or they'd be in his fantasy footie team by now.

I had Tuncay in the team at the beginning. He was the star transfer for Boro

What a joke.

Wow ! Liverpool real team hit 8 !

i'm annoyed that liverpool stuck in 8, its take the shine off arsenals stunning seven. especially how one of the goals came off the guy's arse

They still have to win both remaining games to progress though.

An annoying win last night considering how dire we played against them in the away fixture. I seriously doubt we will progress but you never know.

Hmm... 3rd place and it could be Bayern in the UEFA cup !

How the mighty can fall...

Oops, another Manager bites the dust. Steve Cotterill leaves Burnley ' by mutual consent '.

Fook me, Spurs won away at Tel Aviv 2-0.

Just how fuking stupid is this...Setanta will be asking for Advert breaks next

Man Poo asked to play at 8pm on Christmas eve

BBC - Strachan predicts 3-tiered Euro League

Apparently Gordon Strachan has a time machine and has seen a future where Rangers and Celtic (quite rightly) will be competing in a 60 team, three-tiered European Super League of sorts.

Looks like Brucie is coming back to the North West to manage Wigan, no surprise really, he still lives in Stockport.

The fat geordie twat will kill Wigan. He'll spend all their money and leave them in the shit. It worked ok for him at Birmingham as he has the money to back him up and the club has a big enough fanbase.

What a sickener eh?

Talk about double bluff,
In other words,


Frightening thing is he probably will!

McGinga has deployed Becks to prance about in a thong in the Croat's dressing room. I'd fear this too.

Very cryptic message on the BEEB website concerning Brucie boy.

Yes I just read that. An issue between Bruce and Birmingham. Strange.
He wants to go so if it's a financial problem we should cut our losses and just let him go. We'll be turning Chinese soon enough and getting a new manager then anyway.

Its likely the fat geordie twat wants a pay off as the club have allowed him to leave and he has not asked to go.

Lippi turns down Birmingham job

What next? Oldham Athletic make approach to Mourinho? Alex Ferguson to manage Gillingham?

Sublime. Ridiculous.

That does not sound so bad to me

What is really bloody annoying is that i've just seen Steve Gerrard smack an absolute screamer into the net against Newcastle, where was that kind of form on wed?

Oh! These boys can do the business no problem. They just need a bit of decent management, and I wouldn't call Benitez a top-top manager. But then he's a damn sight higher up the managerial ladder than McGinga.

Yeah, but he'd rotate 26 different Englishmen for every game.

Yes I agree with bluedave. I won 4 pints cos I said that Gerrard would score against Newcastle after his useless show on Wednesday. It was ineeeeevidabidale.!!

Derby part comapny with Billy Davies.

Oops, Sam Allardyce has received the dreaded vote of confidence.

Losing 3-0 at home to FC Shit on a Stick will do that for you. Any takers on Big Sam being out before the season is done? He's been doing far worse than Roeder.

Times was strongly suggesting that Benitez won't make it past Xmas either.

Auntie is saying that Rafa has seen the error of his ways and wants to kiss and make up.

I thought Rafa wanted to get fired, and then probably take up the England job (if offered).

Bruce at Wigan, Keane at Sunderland and Ince at Derby?. Three ex-scum players getting relegated from the premiership this season...Oh how I'll laugh!!

It seems fans want to keep Benitez and they are preparing in only the way Liverpool fans can prepare, (by getting legless in what must be the largest pub in Liverpool)


for the full report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/t...ool/7116414.stm

Incredible fightback going on by Spurs at the mo, from 2-0 down to 3-2 up.

Yeah, I saw that too. The Yiddish Cocks have pretty good strikers. Shame their defence is pants (apart from Bale, a striker playing in defence). I think their tactic for this season is to try to score more than they conceed. It's a very dangerous tactic too.

@Sin, sorry mate, not like you, but that is the tactic of most teams that want to win, in fact it is a pre-requisite.
Except if your name is McGinga and then the logic escapes you

FA Cup third round draw:

Preston v Scunthorpe
Port Vale/Chasetown v Cardiff
Colchester v Peterborough
Bolton v Sheffield United
Blackburn v Coventry
Brighton v Mansfield
Northampton/Walsall v Millwall
Charlton v West Brom
Watford v Crystal Palace
Luton/Nottingham Forest v Liverpool
Plymouth v Hull
Aston Villa v Manchester United
Tranmere v Hereford
Tottenham v Reading
Burnley v Arsenal
Bristol City v Middlesbrough
Fulham v Bristol Rovers
Huddersfield v Birmingham
Horsham/Swansea v Havant & Waterlooville
Sunderland v Wigan
Oxford/Southend v Dagenham & Redbridge
Everton v Oldham
Derby v Sheffield Wednesday
Southampton v Leicester
West Ham v Manchester City
Ipswich v Portsmouth
Wolves v Cambridge
Barnsley v Blackpool
Chelsea v QPR
Stoke v Newcastle
Swindon v Burton Albion/Barnet
Norwich v Bury

Ties to be played on 5/6 January

Im a VILLA fan, and I'm sick and tired of getting drawn in aginst Utd in the FA Cup. 4 times in 7 years.. and guess what.. we got thrashed in them all!

Everton away for Latics, great draw. I dont expect to go through, but we'll earn a bit of money from it, maybe we can be lucky and get a draw from it and a replay at Ice Station Zebra.