The British & Irish Football Thread

[tob]

Penton we have made our first signing of the summer he is Sead Kolasinac and he join us on a free from Schalke on the first of July.
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[Geoff D]

[Steedeel]

Feel the fear Tob! It's Sunderland coming to town!

Can Arsenal outwit the mighty Moyes?

Hopefully someone will piss in his half time tea, the useless muppet.

[tob]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Feel the fear Tob! It's Sunderland coming to town!

Can Arsenal outwit the mighty Moyes?

Hopefully someone will piss in his half time tea, the useless muppet.

Pickford made good saves tonight and if you keep hold of him for next season you got a good keeper there but the first half from both teams had no pace to it you could see it was a end of the season game but Sunderland had every player behind the ball and created a few chances tonight if you can add more quality next season Steedeel you got a good chance.
Sanchez was the key player tonight for us and hope we can keep him for next season.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by tob

Pickford made good saves tonight and if you keep hold of him for next season you got a good keeper there but the first half from both teams had no pace to it you could see it was a end of the season game but Sunderland had every player behind the ball and created a few chances tonight if you can add more quality next season Steedeel you got a good chance.
Sanchez was the key player tonight for us and hope we can keep him for next season.

Pickford will be gone Tob, we have no choice. Need to raise funds with that massive debt.

Wenger was funny tonight. He looked really pissed with the fans stopping away.

congrats mate, it was nice watching my team with absolutely no nerves.

[tob]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Pickford will be gone Tob, we have no choice. Need to raise funds with that massive debt.

Wenger was funny tonight. He looked really pissed with the fans stopping away.

congrats mate, it was nice watching my team with absolutely no nerves.

But you have the parachute payment from the Premier League and your right the club is in debt but you can still bring in players next season.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by tob

But you have the parachute payment from the Premier League and your right the club is in debt but you can still bring in players next season.

180 million debt Tob. We won't be spending big. It will be youngsters and free transfers mostly.

[D-Blitz]

Arsenal with the typical too late May surge. Well, it's down to a tough final game vs Everton and either City or Liverpool choking vs relatively weak opponents. Don't like those odds but anything can happen. Given that I don't see Arsene leaving I would much rather be playing Champions League football so we have that selling point for the players we want to keep or god forbid attract here.

[tob]

Originally Posted by D-Blitz

Arsenal with the typical too late May surge. Well, it's down to a tough final game vs Everton and either City or Liverpool choking vs relatively weak opponents. Don't like those odds but anything can happen. Given that I don't see Arsene leaving I would much rather be playing Champions League football so we have that selling point for the players we want to keep or god forbid attract here.

I don't want Champions League football it might be a strange thing to say but we are not good enough at that level and don't have the squad for it.
Some fans take pride in the fact we have qualified for the Champions League season after season but i see it as a failure and not learning from it when we are in it and remember we have taken a step back this season in the league where we are not even close to be serious contenders so if we can't do it in the league then you are not going to do it in Europe.
Another reason i don't want to see our club in the Champions League is i don't want to see our reputation destroyed every time we play the likes of Bayer.M or Barcelona who are on a different level to us so if Wenger gets his act together in the transfer Market and put together a good squad with a backbone from the defence to the attack then its a start but that won't happen.

[Rob Hunter]

Do i dare watch united tonight lol.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by tob

Happy with our win today against Stoke and we handled their aggressive tactics today but it was a terrible decision by the ref to allow that cheat of a goal by Crouch.
Sorry about your results Steedeel and OceanBlue.

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Well done GVortex, Tob and Penton Man.

Ocean, that was a good effort, hard luck.

Geoff, I will just say good luck.

As for my lot, wow I didn't think we could sink any lower but we managed it. Couldn't even play with pride for the fans. Disgusting, disgraceful and good riddance to them.

We've been in limbo since we reached 40 points. Can't think of anything new to describe our results since then. With Leicester losing 6-1 to Tottenham tonight, if we draw on Sunday and Leicester win, they won't finish above us as we've got a better goal difference. Hopefully we'll get a result against Swansea on Sunday, and Southampton and Bournemouth don't get anything.

[Steedeel]

Well guys, all over after this weekend. Good luck tomorrow.

Please rate your teams season out of five stars. I will start it off!

*

[tob]

3 stars for us Steedeel but news broke tonight that Alisher Usmanov made a 1bn takeover bid to Stan Kroenke so i hope the deal will happen.

[Geoff D]

For Palace I give them * *

And a special no-prize to that clueless pillock Pardew.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by tob

3 stars for us Steedeel but news broke tonight that Alisher Usmanov made a 1bn takeover bid to Stan Kroenke so i hope the deal will happen.

Hopefully Tob. We also need a take over.

[Geoff D]

Bah. We couldn't even turn over Mourinho's kids, such is the spell that Utd hold over us in the Premier League. 8 played, 8 lost. Pffft.

Still, we finished 14th after all that. Fat Sam actually said he was aiming for Palace to win that 'mini-league' of the bottom seven clubs and we've done just that, leaving Swansea, Burnley and Watford behind us on top of the three relegated clubs (sorry again, Steedy). I'd have bitten your hand off for that in mid-December so well done Allardyce and well done Palace.

Next season is uncharted territory for us (5th straight season in the top flight, this includes the pre-EPL era) so will the board stick or twist? I only know one thing: it's gonna be a rollercoaster as it always is with Palace, so strap me in and let's go again.

[Martoto]

It was special day at Celtic Park yesterday on the final day of the SPFL season.

The supporters put on a display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the "Lisbon Lions" team winning the European Cup. And what a display!




(It wasn't until after the match that I actually got to see the what the display looked like!)

Then it was down to the business of completing the league season unbeaten! And in that sense it was business as usual for Celtic. An opener from Leigh Griffiths followed by a close range second from Stuart Armstrong allowed Celtic to put on a bit of an exhibition for the remainder of the match, with Patrick Roberts the star entertainer.

[Geoff D]

AHAHAHAHAHAAAAA, see what I was saying about the Palace rollercoaster? Allardyce has resigned...

[Penton-Man]

Europa league final is tomorrow, right?

Here's hoping that the United players play their hearts out for Manchester.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

AHAHAHAHAHAAAAA, see what I was saying about the Palace rollercoaster? Allardyce has resigned...

Really surprised about this.