General Football Banter

Football clubs are starting their end of season kit sales. Best deals are probably Chelsea shirts at £15. Swansea & Southampton are also £15 for home & away shirts. Man Utd home & away £18.

Shearer on Twitter is pure gold. Doesn't take any shit and is quite funny a lot of the time. This was tonights latest, fucking love it.

I loved it when Shearer went to manage Newcastle as their saviour and got them relegated. And he still appears on MOTD analysing matches when he doesn't have a fucking clue.

Anyone catch Van Gaal's press conference after the Leicester game today? Pure gold. It's okay for Fellaini to use his elbow because he was having his hair pulled from behind... and that's only allowed in sex masochism.

Here's an odd one. Defender, Ritchie De Laet won promotion today with Middlesbrough. Then he headed south and picked up a Premier League winners medal with his parent club, Leicester City. That's nearly as crazy as Leicester City winning the Premiership.

Also, are Peter & Kasper Schmeichel, the first father, son duo to win Premier League medals? You've also got Ian & Shaun Wright Phillips but they're not blood related.

Last edited by Rossman (Sat-7-May-2016 19:02:11)

Never liked the West Ham owners and Sullivan has come out with an absolutely retarded comment this evening.

Man United turn up for the West Ham game, the last at Upton Park. Kick off is delayed futher because West Ham fans for some reason decide that they're going to attack the Man United coach, smash windows and all that. But according to Sullivan, it's Man United's fault and he's disappointed for West Hams supporters. FOR them, not disappointed AT them.

"I'm gravely disappointed, more for our supporters," said Sullivan. "What people forget is they've got trains and buses to get home and we've got a wonderful, wonderful show after the game for them. Many just can't stay any more. Man United should have got here at 4pm. They know it's our last game. They had the same problem at Tottenham a few weeks ago."

Fucking hell. So according to him it's okay for West Ham fans to act like hooligans. Any owner who wasn't a class A cunt would have condemned the fans for shaming the club with such actions... but not the West Ham owners. He had the exact same attitude at Birmingham when he owned them. Him and Gold have always annoyed me though, usually making stupid comments like this. A pair of owners that shouldn't be allowed to speak to media on football related matters.

Francesco Guidolin is staying on as Swansea manager. I'm happy for him he deserves another season.

Francesco Guidolin is staying on as Swansea manager. I'm happy for him he deserves another season.

He's done surprisingly well. I thought that it would be a pretty poor move from the Swansea board, but it seems to be working out well enough.

I think there's something seriously wrong with Watfords owners. They're ending Quique Sanchez Flores contract after the final game. He's done a fantastic job, fulfilled his job remit of keeping them in the Prem despite not really have a good enough team - and it comfortably kept up as well. Flores is the seventh manager to depart Watford since the Pozzo family completed their takeover of the club in 2012. Seven  managers in 4 years. That's just ridiculous. I thought the Leeds owner was bad. Flores is a good manager, with a great record. They'll struggle to do better I think.

The fans are so bias they defend the Watford bosses decision too, a lot of them. Flores did a good job, was never in any real relegation threat this season.

Martinez on the other hand, was on borrowed time. Good manager but it somehow all fell apart this season.

Yeah, Martinez deserved to be sacked really. They've been shocking this season - how they're finishing mid table is beyond me. Some serious luck is involved as they should have been involved in the relegation battle.

Martinez is an odd one though. His teams can usually attack pretty well, but fall apart defensively. He never seems to be able to build a good defence. He needs to work out the balance of that... no point in trying to play attractive football when every attack against you looks dangerous. Think he needs to take a step down to the Championship and learn a few more things - just not with Newcastle... our defence is bad enough as it is.

Everton have got a good team of players. Their form has just dropped off a cliff the past couple of months. Usually Everton start slowly and then pick up in the 2nd half of the season. Martinez had a 38% win percentage, compared to Moyes' 40% and he was heralded as Fergie's successor. At least they didn't spend too much money in the transfer market this season. They could have wasted £80m on a stack of shit who will enjoy trips to Burton Albion next season. If Everton get Frank De Boer in, that will be a good appointment.

I can't think of another team that would desperately need defenders, and with £80m spent, only spend £8m on one defender and then the rest overloading our midfield. Most are good players, but we've left our defence so weak - we have 1 right back, 4 centre backs (one who is 34, one who is ridiculously injury prone, one new to the league and one youngster) and 2 left backs both of which are injury prone. Absolutely ridiculous that with the money we had to spend we didn't strengthen the one area that has been our weakness for years. And we sign one striker who has taken some adapting but wouldn't sign more because he have a load anyway, even though they're shit like Riviere. Only Newcastle.

Martinez's win percentage is only good though because of his first season with Everton. Take that out and I'm sure it'd drop. Should have done a lot better with their team. But he's one of those managers who labels players exceptional when they're good at best and on poor form. No doubt he has potential to be a good manager in the future, but he's not there yet. Still has a lot to learn - I was talking to someone the other day about it and they seemed to think that even the best managers like Ferguson were successful straight away. No, they weren't. The only ones that have been that I know off are the ones handed brilliant teams like Guardiola is.

Man Utd vs Bournemouth was abandoned due to "the discovery of a suspicious package" which was apparently later confirmed to be an explosive. Crazy. I can see security doubling from here on out at football stadiums.

Yeah it's nuts. Apparently Man Utd have been on high alert all season after rumours that they would be targeted. They've been checking bags, cars (even with mirrors to look under them), etc... So it's pretty nuts that one still got in. They need to review their procedures.

But yeah, the sad thing is that this will surely affect other Premiership teams now as it'll be something that needs to be looked out for.

Man Utd vs Bournemouth was abandoned due to "the discovery of a suspicious package" which was apparently later confirmed to be an explosive. Crazy. I can see security doubling from here on out at football stadiums.

Turns out it was a Premier League trophy.

I'm off to Wembley. Can't wait. Been there before for a stadium tour, but never been there for a match. So looking forward to that. Plymouth vs AFC Wimbledon. I'll be devastated if Plymouth lose - first and possibly only time I'll see them at Wembley, so need them to win.

So, Mourinho is in at United.

Calling it now, he'll offload Mata to Leicester. And Fellaini somewhere abroad.

And rumour is he's bringing Ibra in.

Yeah Mata will surely go now. Not sure why Mourinho doesn't rate him, but never mind. It's not like he's done great for Man United apart from a few games here and there. Definitely not had the impact that he could have had.

Yeah Mata will surely go now. Not sure why Mourinho doesn't rate him, but never mind. It's not like he's done great for Man United apart from a few games here and there. Definitely not had the impact that he could have had.

Yeah. I feel like that's largely because his best position is central attacking midfield which also happens to be Rooney's best position, so he's not getting the time he needs there. We're having a similar problem with Silva and KDB, pushing one of them out to the wing isn't getting the best out of them.

Well my first experience of a match at Wembley was absolute shit. Plymouth were so poor. I wouldn't have said either team deserved to win, both teams struggled to make 5 yard passes regularly throughout. Overall I'd say Wimbledon deserved it, but purely on the basis that whilst they were poor, Plymouth were shit.

Was one of the worst performances I've seen from Plymouth.

I went to see Swansea lose a play off final too in League One so I feel your pain.

New Swansea home/away kits for 16/17 season.

Simple and nicely designed. I like them.

People are complaining about the new City kit. I quite like it, looks casual af.