sledger
Spanish_Vicente
To say nothing of those who thought Thierry Henry was quite good too.
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*Official* English Football Season 2016-17
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grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Ahh those were the good old days, oh actually they were horrible.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Aussie was here too, never forget that rasclath.
Cabinet96
Hall of Fame Member
Onside, and that Giroud goal really was absurd.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I thought you had your own footy thread this season?
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Just seen today's results - I see your problem now
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
got to say the conference fixtures seem pretty odd this year, all those mid-week matches early in the season, when the attendances will be mashed, and yet not a decent xmas/new year programme (comparative for lower leagues) just seems ****ing stupid.
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
It would have been great if you decided to do this after Christmas with Spurs. Back to back 4-1 wins.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
The early season midweek schedule was done last season and I believe is common place - been a while since you were down here I guess - but that part actually made sense when explained to me, as the reasoning is apparently to get as many games in before the bad weather and FA Trophy combine to **** up the schedule
But that just makes the lack of Christmas footy all the more bizarre. There's no programme on Jan 14 because of the trophy, I'd wager most games on Feb 4 will be off for the same reason. A few games, including ours, are off next sat because of the FA Cup. Instead of lots of rearranged games, a packed Xmas scheduled something like this would have made sense:
Boxing Day
28th Dec evening game
New Year's Eve
Bank holiday Monday
Brutal but so what, half the teams in the division will be Tuesday-Saturday throughout March and April when the postponed due to weather and trophy games are rescheduled. Could have done it now when attendances would have been better and the part timers wouldn't have needed time off work. And you could even have done two double headers rather than just the Boxing Day/new year one.
Oh well. Tinpot league gets a tinpot schedule.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
See I think a lack of football in January makes a bit of sense; people are skint after Christmas so can't afford to attend many games in January, particularly as there's so much football on over the festive period. Would be good for the players as well to get a break after such an intense schedule.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
All well and good but it's not a planned break, so just means you wind up with late season congestion. In a league where half the teams are part time this is a perfect period to have extra games. Plus for some godforsaken reason the 'so much football on over the festive period' hasn't applied in the conference, we've just played on Boxing Day and New Year's Day
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
WAG.HFB's goal:
Damn.
On a related note, I quite enjoyed the performance of Iwobi yesterday. He's obviously still fairly unpolished, but what is really standing out to me is that it seems he has a great eye for a pass. There's something about him as a player I really quite like just generally too. Not sure what it is, but there's something sort of straightforward about him that appeals to me in the same way Ray Parlour did.