Football 2011/12 Football Season

[mjo]

Spurs 0-1 Shamrock Rovers. My shardenfreude has hit epidemic levels...

Still half an hour to go though.

3-1 now. My hope has finally dwindled (as an Arsenal follower as well as an MK Dons fan there isn't much of that around).

 

[FB]

Yeah I know. BOO!

 

[Galahad]

And the Spurs go marching on...

 

[Jos the Boss]

Well I remember when spurs played the Manchester sides, does anyone else? What about you G?

 

[Galahad]

Well I remember when spurs played the Manchester sides, does anyone else? What about you G?

I don't think losing to the two Manchester clubs (yes, heavily) precludes Spurs having a good season. My target at the start wasn't to actually win the title, funnily enough.

Finishing above Woolwich and the scousers would do me nicely.

 

[teabagyokel]

Anyone heard of the murky underworld way that the Arsenal were last promoted in 1919? I'm sure Galahad knows...

 

[Galahad]

As a friend of mine is fond of saying, no, they've never been relegated, but they were never promoted either.

 

[teabagyokel]

And, of course, you know who were forced not to take up a First Division spot because of the intrigue!

 

[Galahad]

Just checking, it seems to have been Barnsley?

Spurs were relegated that season, but I think it's churlish to complain about that since we had finished bottom of the division.

 

[teabagyokel]

True. Wolves also finished above the Arsenal. Chelsea survived relegation because Manchester United fixed their last match of 1914-15 with Liverpool, and the Liverpool chairman was a little guilty!

[Just to sum that up, 97 years ago, the bottom three were Man U, Chelsea and Spurs. Man U stayed up because Liverpool (of all clubs) took pity on them, and Arsenal talked their way up after the war!]

Arsenal have not been relegated since, and Man U have rarely been relegated either!

 

[cider_and_toast]

Man U have rarely been relegated either!

1974, after loosing 1-0 to Man City thanks to a back heeled goal by Dennis Law who arrived from Man Utd to City on a free transfer at the start of the season. He refuses to talk about it too this day.

The Man Utd manager at the time, Tommy Docherty, in his biography, blamed the Man Utd team bus driver for the relegation for either arriving at games too early or too late.

 

[mjo]

So close to the perfect scoreline.
But it was only East Fife 4 Forfar 3.

Preston lost
the mighty Dons won

but we need to stop Charlton!

 

[teabagyokel]

1974, after loosing 1-0 to Man City thanks to a back heeled goal by Dennis Law who arrived from Man Utd to City on a free transfer at the start of the season. He refuses to talk about it too this day.

A victory for Birmingham that afternoon left the derby score at Old Trafford an irrelevance. It means Carlisle's only season in the top flight ever did not include those trips to Old Trafford!

 

[McZiderRed]

Bristol City lost 5 nil at Blackpool on Saturday. City manager, Keith Millen, was sacked today.

I wonder who will be appointed as the new manager and will it be by City's next match on Saturday 15th October?

 

[FB]

I'll see if Steve Cotterill is available, can't see he'd be missed at Fratton Park!

 

[cider_and_toast]

Bristol City lost 5 nil at Blackpool on Saturday. City manager, Keith Millen, was sacked today.

I wonder who will be appointed as the new manager and will it be by City's next match on Saturday 15th October?

And about time too. Sorry Keith but you shouldn't have been given the job as far back as the moment you were employed to be Tinnion's assistant manager. I had a feeling that the time that if Brian Tinnion had been given an experienced number 2 / director of football to give him a leg up then he wouldn't have fallen apart so quickly. As for Millen, ok, he almost worked as a stop gap after the Coppell walk out last year but he was never good enough to take City forward.

So where do City go from here? I guess the board are going to put SW in charge for the time being and then after 4 or 5 games with a couple of wins and some more mediocre football, SW will have done just enough to get a full time contract and will then be forgiven by the board when City get relegated and sacked after a few months of the next season when it's clear we won't be going back up again. That's the normal thing we've come to expect at City.

 

[McZiderRed]

So where do City go from here? I guess the board are going to put SW in charge for the time being and then after 4 or 5 games with a couple of wins and some more mediocre football, SW will have done just enough to get a full time contract and will then be forgiven by the board when City get relegated and sacked after a few months of the next season when it's clear we won't be going back up again. That's the normal thing we've come to expect at City.

Let's hope not!

In Colin Sexton's press conference statement yesterday, he said that Wigley would be overseeing training (apart from when he's with the England U21's) and then they'd see how thing's are on Monday.

Let's hope the board have learned from their mistakes and appoint someone with experience and then try to keep them sweet, so that they stay (unlike Coppel).

 

[cider_and_toast]

I must admit that some of the names that seem to be popping up so far don't exactly fill me with hope but it's far too early to speculate yet.

 

[MCLS]

Preston scraped into the JPT third round after beating Morecambe 7-6 on penalties after a 2-2 draw where they scored twice in the last 10 minutes

 

[FB]

Steve Cotterill has left Fratton Park to become Nottingham Forest's new manager. Wonder who the Russian oligarchs have in mind to replace him?