*Official* English Football Season 2022/23

[GIMH]

It was harsh on the individual. Nigel Adkins, ex-TRFC btw. But football fans on the whole do attach a sentimentality to managers that we don’t to players. Nobody gives a **** when a newly promoted club replaces the striker who scored 25 in the championship to get them to the prem with a better player.

 

[GIMH]

Also Adkins has been very poor everywhere since. And he was offered the Tranmere job in late 2020 but said he’d only do it until a better offer came in so we didn’t bother

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I bet when Southampton pulled off that master stroke it wasn’t in their plans that he’d bugger off a year later.

 

[grecian]

I keep on trying to remember the quote Brumbers had in his sig once, something about how no situation has ever been made better by Piers Morgan's involvement, and it keeps on being apt.

 

[sledger]

Nice of Ronaldo to do something massively disruptive and dickish just as Utd are showing signs of improvement tbf

 

[Furball]

To be fair, I thought that was a very harsh sacking at the time, even though bringing in Poch obviously proved a savvy move.

That's the thing, a better manager was available so the club took the opportunity available to them.

 

[Furball]

It was harsh on the individual. Nigel Adkins, ex-TRFC btw. But football fans on the whole do attach a sentimentality to managers that we don’t to players. Nobody gives a **** when a newly promoted club replaces the striker who scored 25 in the championship to get them to the prem with a better player.

Likewise if Manchester United had come in for Adkins nobody would have batted an eyelid if he'd asked to speak to them and taken the job. Yet when a better manager becomes available Southampton are supposed to decline him because...?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I don’t agree with sacking managers unless they deserve to be sacked based on performance, but that’s just a matter of opinion.
In Poch’s case I’m not sure many people had even heard of him unless they were avid followers of European football in general. It would be a bit churlish to say he was a failure, but he never actually won anything in England.

 

[wpdavid]

I keep on trying to remember the quote Brumbers had in his sig once, something about how no situation has ever been made better by Piers Morgan's involvement, and it keeps on being apt.

Probably from Einstein, as it's pretty much a law of physics.

 

[wpdavid]

Interesting read, and the programme on All 4 may be worth catching.

Jesse Lingard: ‘Nobody really knew about my struggles. We’re all human’

Jesse Lingard tells David Hytner his depression during a lost period at Manchester United left him not wanting to play football and opens up on how lockdown helped him reset

www.theguardian.com

True to form, I'd forgotten that he was a regular in the 2018 WC. More evidence of how unlucky Southgate's has been with the loss of form of people who had been regular starters for him.

 

[social]

Nice of Ronaldo to do something massively disruptive and dickish just as Utd are showing signs of improvement tbf

From what I know, Ronaldo’s salary makes him almost impossible to trade unless United continue to pay most of his wages

Can player & club agree to terminate contract and walk away?

It’s not as if Ronaldo needs the coin

 

[GIMH]

Dismissal for gross misconduct should be viable for United

 

[sledger]

Yeah they'll either sack him outright or reach some sort of settlement I imagine. Either way, one imagines he's finished there now

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Sad that such a humble, team-first man was forced to put his own reputation on the line like this in his quest to heal the club.

 

[Furball]

Sad that such a humble, team-first man was forced to put his own reputation on the line like this in his quest to heal the club.

Morgan is an Arsenal fan, why would he...oh wait, I see what you did there.

 

[GIMH]

Apparently he slated Gary Neville so chalk me up as Team Ronaldo

 

[hassan918]

Not many thought that Arsenal will be clear by 5 points at the top of the table at this time of the year but they've done really well till date in the season and at the moment it looks like Arteta side is gonna win the league and Pep side will finish at number 2.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Not many thought that Arsenal will be clear by 5 points at the top of the table at this time of the year but they've done really well till date in the season and at the moment it looks like Arteta side is gonna win the league and Pep side will finish at number 2.

With a measly 24 games to go it's hard to see how Arsenal could lose it from here.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Ivan Toney has been charged with 232 bet related offences. I wonder if uncle Gareth was told not to pick him. Could result in quite a long ban.

 

[GIMH]

Ivan Toney has been charged with 232 bet related offences. I wonder if uncle Gareth was told not to pick him. Could result in quite a long ban.

He almost certainly was. In fact a great poster suggested this at the weekend.