*Official* English Football Season 2014-15

[sledger]

It was a particularly painful operation, I heard.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

It's amazing how often losing to Plymouth is the final straw.

 

[Cabinet96]

My brain: https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/521605090386649088

 

[GIMH]

Feel sorry for Edwards but that's modern football and we can't risk getting further into the mire while we sink towards non league

Plus this way Barnes can stop saying he'd have kept the job if he was white as he got exactly the same amount of time Edwards did

 

[Pothas]

Any obvious candidates?

 

[GIMH]

Dave Jones apparently

 

[sledger]

My brain: https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/521605090386649088

Haha wtf is this? What a ridiculously stupid poll.

Edit: Can't believe this is even a story ftr. You know it's a slow news week when the story getting the most attention is something about a player being rested. Since it's international week I suppose this is perhaps more interesting than half the games being shown.

 

[Jarquis]

Holland are so bad atm.

 

[Burgey]

Still the best video on the internet.

Videos like that make me realise I don't think I'll ever understand people who don't like/ love sport.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Just watched it again. The tears are real.

 

[cpr]

90% sure the guy refusing to look at the screen at the 3.02 mark is my mate Chris..... He's the only red in a family of blues, so wouldn't surprise me.

There were tears in our pub that day, and trust me they were not of joy....

 

[Pothas]

Videos like that make me realise I don't think I'll ever understand people who don't like/ love sport.

Haha I can accept they don't but their lives are just that little bit worse.

 

[Uppercut]

Haha wtf is this? What a ridiculously stupid poll.

Edit: Can't believe this is even a story ftr. You know it's a slow news week when the story getting the most attention is something about a player being rested. Since it's international week I suppose this is perhaps more interesting than half the games being shown.

Hodgson's such a dick for telling the press about that. He could so easily have said "wasn't quite fit enough to start" or something like that. He's just thrown Sterling under a bus to cover his own arse.

 

[MW1304]

Haha I can accept they don't but their lives are just that little bit worse.

Tbh their lives are probably better for 70% of the time, but then infinitely worse for those occasions when something good actually happens to your team. I love sport more than anything but it takes a bloody toll.

 

[cpr]

Hodgson's such a dick for telling the press about that. He could so easily have said "wasn't quite fit enough to start" or something like that. He's just thrown Sterling under a bus to cover his own arse.

I see it as him using Sterling as an excuse to have a pop back at Rodgers, and Liverpool in general.... Nothing like poking an old wound...


Being brilliant analysts we are (well, better than those ITV employ), we did discuss exactly this happening to Sterling a few weeks ago. Do feel for him a bit over this - nice to see people like Ferdinand dish it out in his defence

 

[duffer]

Chelsea are going to win the league. I've made peace with it. Only hope is that they don't go unbeaten.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Everybody does this every season about Chelsea. I don't care how good they ****ing look, they've gotta prove it to me because they always start like a house on fire, everyone says they're gonna run away with it and then they **** it up. Make them prove it before crowning them.

 

[Cabinet96]

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[Ikki]

Hodgson's such a dick for telling the press about that. He could so easily have said "wasn't quite fit enough to start" or something like that. He's just thrown Sterling under a bus to cover his own arse.

He's stupid enough that I think it could just be that he's a dumb **** instead of being political about it by leaking it out there. Here's what he said last year when Sturridge got injured under him:

"It was important for me, if you like, to test his resolve a little bit."

"I suppose you could argue we did put his resolve to the test. I might have been guilty of that but I don't apologise for it. I am delighted he did get out there, even though he maybe didn't feel 100%..."

"They are better [off] getting injured now"​

Personally, I don't have a problem with a player saying they're too tired. What's better, them getting injured by overplaying?

 

[Nate]

Don't even know how it's a debate tbh. As a manager, don't you want to win the game? And as such, don't you want your players being honest about their physical condition? #openandshut