The General Football Thread

It's mildly amusing that he might be forced to take TAA after all.

He'll play Trippier ahead of him though, which I'm not entirely against.

 

My guess is that Southgate would have wanted to select Walker, James and Trippier.

I also guess that he'll see White as Walker's replacement (if needed) and Trent as James' replacement (if needed).

So I think KWP is still at least one more injury away yet (assuming that Trent's current injury is only minor), even if Walker and James were to both miss out.

 

KWP can provide left back cover to. It's something for Southgate to consider probably not for long though.

 

Sutton away. Annoyingly not local and not a home fixture.

Portsmouth got Hereford away, which is about equal journey time by train. Not sure which, if either, match to go to. Though I don't really want to be in the depths of London after dark

 

10 matches into the season and the leader of the Bundesliga is still Union Berlin, a club that only reached the top tier for the first time in its current incarnation in 2019, and whose last-known wage bill was 11% that of Bayern Munich.

In other Union Berlin news, the club president is named Dirk Zingler, which is an objectively good name. The club president was also a member of an elite unit in the East German Stasi, which is an objectively bad thing to have been even if you are named Dirk Zingler. Can't win them all.

 

Eastleigh away to Boreham Wood in round 1 of the FA Cup proper.
Could be tough given that Boreham beat Bompey in the 4th round of the same competition in February this year.

 

Hope they catch and ban the idiot.

 

Well, looks like I won't be going to either Portsmouth or Farnborough away in the fa cup because of train strikes on the 5th

To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson, I've had it with these motherfucking strikes in this motherfucking country

 

Sadly (and I know I’m bringing politics into the wrong thread) it’s the only way of getting the government and management to understand that they cannot dictate ridiculous terms to the workers. Without these strikes (and we should be getting behind them, not complaining) this country is likely to descend into an even more desperate place …….

 

If you think workers striking is the worst thing about this country at the moment you have misplaced your senses.

 

And likely haven’t seen anything yet.

 

I never said I think that, but my views on the rest of what's happening in this country are irrelevant to a thread about football. I'm just tired of the strikes, regardless of who is to blame. I just want them resolved now so I can go to football matches

 

Fair comment.

 

Going to watch Tella play to see what the Burnley fans are raving about...

http://www.hesgoal.com/news/Burnley vs Norwich.html

JayRod and Jack Cork playing too.

 

Well, his shooting has improved, tested the Keeper with a stinging shot from outside the box.
Nearly an assist with a lovely pass too.
I know it's a level below but he looks like a totally different player.

 

Burnley playing some nice fast attacking football under Kompany, I could see them coming back up,

 

I'm having difficulty looking at Gunn's worried look without major flashbacks to that game.
But yes, Tella seems more interested here than he did with us.

 

Little bastards. Hope they catch them

 

I would have thought that the incdient with Peter Tatchell outside the national museum in Doha might have merited more discussion in this chatroom regarding the merits or otherwise of allowing Qatar to hold the World Cup. It had crossed my mind that the football-loving public have lost their appetite for criticism of Qatar and that this latest protest seems a bit predictable and tawdry. Having twice visited Qatar this year I am still struggling to understand this country. It certainlydid not feel to me to be a country that was particularly repressive and my experiences are that the powers that be will only come down on your hard if you do something untoward. It is really a matter of respecting the cutlure.

There are elements which make me uncomfortable such as working in extreme temperatures and the issue of working hours / holidays. I did not find it to be a particularly intolerant country and the people were usually friendly and helpful. Even the souk in Doha seems quite swish. If you are polite when chatting to the locals, I found them quite friendly but on 5% are naturalise Qataris. The rest are forreign nationals, some of whom might take a different view. I was fascinated by Karen Blixen's book "Out of Africa" when I read it abiut 20-odd years ago and the chapter after how cultures are different and cannot be accurately classed as being right or wrong. Thinking about this in conjunction with Tatchell's protest, I am thinking that perhaps he might benefit from respecting other people'sculture - especially as he probably has no intention of watching the football. i think most fans going to Qatar are going to enjoy the experience.