Football 2014/15

[Manoverboard]

I like my Hornetto style ' Italians ', they saved us from a bunch of crooks .... albeit they were also Italians

Long before that we had a good old Brit called Elton John, he spent 3 million on a whole team that eventually got us promoted to the 1st Division but that sort of money will now only buy a squad player from the Foxes and even then not a very good one.

[oldbluefox]

Why should we sell cheap to you when you wanted a King's ransom for Deeney!! And didn't we give you Lloyd Dyer( ) for free!!! Bloody nerve!!!
Bring back the days of hot Bovril at half time instead of this fancy gastro (enteritis) stuff!!!

[Manoverboard]

Lloyd Dyer ... was so good that we in turn gave him away to Tranmere or some such where he can only manage to play the last 10 minutes every fourth week

ps ... did he used to smoke ?

pps .... Deeney's price is up to 20 million now

[oldbluefox]

Don't say I didn't warn you!!! Can you believe some of our supporters still think we shouldn't have got rid. Muppets!!!

[brillo]

ARSENAL, for both cup and premiership !!!,

Well it is still possible.

Gooners rule !

[oldbluefox]

Goal fest at Huddersfield and a good result for them but Mob and I will be smiling tonight. It looks like our great escape is on!!

[Manoverboard]

Late equaliser at Bournemouth so the Hornets are top of the league .... for the coming week

.... and a win for Barney too but Huddersfield vs Derby has to be ' the ' match of the day.

[Mervyn and Trish]

If the season ended now I'd get my pint from my brother for the second year running. However.......

[RB1961]

We got lucky yesterday. I turned it off before extra time and went for a curry.
We didn't look interested and let Reading dictate everything.

RB

[oldbluefox]

But you got there in the end RB, courtesy of a lucky goal. The gods were smiling upon you.

[gfwgfw]

Lucky Arsenal

[Manoverboard]

Extremely lucky but I would certainly prefer to watch Arsenal on a good day in the final than Reading who, let's face it, have done sod all of note all season.

[gfwgfw]

Bournemouth: Eddie Howe named manager of the decade

[Manoverboard]

Great Manager, no doubt about that but his biggest test will surely be next year, when they are ( or should be ) in the Prem.

AFC Bournemouth themselves however are raising a few eyebrows at the moment due to their ' reported ' theatrical and some say feigned fouls for free kicks in goal scoring positions. Generally just the once and usually to coincide with the scoring of their first goal. Fifteen penalty awards, for example, so far this season is far more than most teams manage.

It was briefly discussed on the Footy League Show this past weekend ... tis tantamount to cheating if true, point docking should apply if proven.

[Romig1]

Great Manager, no doubt about that but his biggest test will surely be next year, when they are ( or should be ) in the Prem.

AFC Bournemouth themselves however are raising a few eyebrows at the moment due to their ' reported ' theatrical and some say feigned fouls for free kicks in goal scoring positions. Generally just the once and usually to coincide with the scoring of their first goal. Fifteen penalty awards, for example, so far this season is far more than most teams manage.

It was briefly discussed on the Footy League Show this past weekend ... tis tantamount to cheating if true, point docking should apply if proven.

Blimey, I think we went 2 whole seasons without a single one, a few years ago.

Tom Daley eat your heart out.

[gfwgfw]

MOB

The Giant with his massive "club" and his Ferrets are sitting comfortably in their Pony and Trap en route to your wee patch of God's County with a gert big bottle of horse lineament to wash out your bleedy gert gob daring to cast expletives agin Mr Eddie and his "Playfair" footie boys

We a nod and and a fikin great wink

Luboooo lots


Graham

[Manoverboard]

Don't shoot the messenger Jolly G

Could be an unfortunate set of coincidences of course although I did witness, courtesy of TV broadcasts, a couple of dodgy examples during Hornet fixtures, ironically involving the same Watford player ... two red cards plus a penalty and a free kick for ' fouls ' committed by a Watford player yet both were rescinded.

Actually it is an interesting point, you know a tad about the beautiful game so watch them carefully in the final third and then decide for yourself if the tactics adopted are genuine or if they are perhaps designed to fool the poor old ref.

ps ... good luck in the Prem, we are of course hoping to join you

[gfwgfw]

MOB

Sadly u r spot on, the great game has a many cheating players aid-on and ab-bitten by their coaches

Referees are being crucified by the trillion slow mo for the TV pundits to injest and spit out

Kindly

Graham

[oldbluefox]

The rugby union guys seem to have the problem of cheating sorted with their fourth official and his slow motion replays. For me cheating has no place in the modern game.
Has anybody noticed how it now seems acceptable for defenders to literally manhandle the attacking team at corners? Some of them are not even looking at the ball or where it's coming from. Since when did that become legal?

[qbman1]

I fear they have so much money, they seem to think that they are above any form of law whether in sport or the world in general

[oldbluefox]

Congratulations to Mob's lot on being promoted to the Premier Division. Well done the Hornets!!!
That's an easy six points for us next season then!!

[Romig1]

Congratulations to Mob's lot on being promoted to the Premier Division. Well done the Hornets!!!
That's an easy six points for us next season then!!

Yes, congrats from Huddersfield too.

Good luck for next season.

[Romig1]

An excellent result for the Foxes yesterday...the great escape is definitely possible.

Town had a typical day yesterday.... bossed the game, right up to the point that Blackburn scored twice! Jordan Rhodes scoring yet against against us - I think that's 6 goals in 4 games since we sold him!

We showed some resilience however, and fought back for a 2-2 draw, which on balance was a fair result. If we avoid defeat at Blackpool next week then we will have finished the season with 7 games unbeaten - which would be a huge positive to take into the close-season.

[barney]

Well done Moby

Supping at the top table now.

The Fox's escape is definitely on now and well done to them for sticking with Pearson.

[Quizzical Bob]

Congratulations to Bournemouth, not mathematically promoted but effectively they are now Premier League.