Thread: The Premier League 2017/2018

Well done Pep

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

If it's any consolation for fans of the teams going down then check this out...

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95/96? Weren't you supporting Blackburn or Newcastle then?



Better to be a real team going down, than some Arab Fantasy Football team that could have been any club, but they bought one near you for cheap.


Will Foden get a medal, or will it a PL winning team that hasn't one local or academy player among it's winners?

22 year and he's leaving and the first words out of Wenger's mouth are thoughts for Fergie.

I doubt we'll ever have manager of that class again.

I did ask some of the WOBs if I can have their commemorative shirt, but they were too busy singing "One Arsene Wenger" the fucking hypocritical twats.

Originally Posted by Luigi

95/96? Weren't you supporting Blackburn or Newcastle then?



Better to be a real team going down, than some Arab Fantasy Football team that could have been any club, but they bought one near you for cheap.


Will Foden get a medal, or will it a PL winning team that hasn't one local or academy player among it's winners?

They were dark days for the fans of the only team to come from Manchester.
50+ professional players on the books nearly sent the club bankrupt.

Still averaging 40K + fans in Division 2.

The turning point was City's promotion in the play off finals against Gillingham, i have some old hard copy pics that i'll scan up when i get a chance of that day.

Thaksin helped with his investment in Eastlands and his rich connections that brought in the money.

Whenever you watched truevisions remember you contributed to City's good fortune.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

averaging 40K + fans in Division 2.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Hmm.

More like 'took part in an exhibition match'.

Try telling that to the Huddersfield players after the game. Maybe the heat and sunshine played a part (as did the tremendous away support, vocal throughout the whole game). But that sort of determination and grit hopefully will see the Terriers back at the Etihad next season.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I doubt we'll ever have manager of that class again.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Thaksin helped with his investment in Eastlands and his rich connections that brought in the money.

Always dirty money eh.

Originally Posted by cyrille

*cough*



https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ootball.russia


^The words of then Chairman Peter Hill-Wood on Alisher Usmanov, now owner of over 30% of AFC.



Yes, he seems a thoroughly upstanding chap by all accounts...



https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ootball.russia

Yes, he's a wrong 'un alright.

That's why they won't let him have a seat on the board.

It's Deino's fault for selling him his shares, and the FA for not doing due diligence.

No Gooner I knows wants the fat cnut involved apart from probably Claude and the rest of the "Arsenal Fan TV" thickos.

He is known as "Jabba the Uzbek".

Only a draw can save the Baggies until closing day....

I'd hate to be a Baggies fan watching this.

Congrats!

I reckon saints deserve to stay up.

Albion's goose was cooked before DM took over.

^ Fair play.

Another dead rubber of a final day awaits. Might have been semi-interesting having 2 or 3 teams competing in earnest for 3rd or 4th and something similar at the bottom.

Shame we won't get to see South Wales and Black Country derbies next year too.

Terriers stay up..... Two back to back draws away to the Champions elect. You fucking beauties!!!!!!!!!!

If you could pick two results to save your season, gritty draws away at the champions reigning and elect would probably be the perfect option. You’re never in a position of complacency or even confidence, but that only makes for a sweeter finish. They are staying up.
This is just reward for an away support who have endured difficult journeys to parts of England where West Yorkshire might as well be in a foreign country. This is just reward for those watching on back home, looking out for loved ones on the telly as they sing their hearts out for 90 minutes and more. The last three winners of the play-off final have been relegated, but not Huddersfield Town. They are staying up, and they’ll be humming that ditty until August.
When David Wagner was appointed manager of Huddersfield in November 2015, his initial brief was to keep the club from being relegated to League One. They were 18th in the Championship at the time. Having endured 11 straight seasons until 2012 outside English football’s top two tiers, back to the days of Delroy Facey and Kevin Gallen, Huddersfield took the plunge on Borussia Dortmund’s reserve team coach to help them survive.
Eighteen months later, one of Wagner’s protégés scored the winning penalty as Huddersfield Town returned to the top flight for the first time in 45 years. Christopher Schindler was magnificent in the Championship and he has been magnificent in the Premier League. At £1.5m in July 2016, Schindler was the club’s most expensive ever signing when they won promotion. That is astonishing in itself.
The finances are remarkable. It is estimated that Huddersfield will earn £170m out of their season in the sun, now rising to £290m with Premier League football confirmed next year too. In 2015, this club’s entire revenue was £10.4m. In the season Wagner was appointed, they had the fourth lowest wage bill in the Championship.
As Wagner is keen to stress, there are no secrets to this success and no magic either. His players have been asked to work harder and longer than they have ever worked before. The insistence from Wagner and his coaching staff is that application can account for a shortfall in finances and natural talent. You bet it can.
As his players dived in front of every shot and ran down every ball at Stamford Bridge, just as they had done at the Etihad three days earlier, Wagner’s point was proven. The entire second halves of both games were played like the last five minutes on repeat, attack vs defence with no respite.
There were individual heroes, because unexpected success inevitably crowns men as kings. Laurent Depoitre is nothing more than a jobbing striker, but his perseverance in hassling and harrying created the chance and goal that Huddersfield needed to cling to. Jonathan Hogg is a Football League midfielder by CV, but a Premier League stalwart by audition.
And then, when the layers of defence were finally broken, Jonas Lossl produced surely the best save of this Premier League season. On the eve of the game, Lossl spoke about following in the footsteps of that other great Premier League great goalkeeping Dane. Peter Schmeichel would have been proud of those strong fingertips.
The final minutes were agonising, a period of extended added time entirely provoked by the away team’s desperation to slow down the match. But when every throw-in, free-kick and clearance is treated like a goal, the full-time whistle felt like footballing Nirvana. Players celebrated for a few seconds before realising they had run out of energy. Down to the turf, with nothing left to give.
As I watched on as a near neutral, a lump appeared in my throat. It will have done in lounges and pubs across the land. That’s not just because I’m a soppy football romantic, who gets tearful at the sight of away supporters hugging men, women and children who they have never spoken to or even met, but spotted on train and coach journeys to far-flung Premier League stadia over the last nine months.
No, it’s because clubs like Huddersfield Town matter, and so does their success. It sends a message to umpteen middling clubs in the second and third tiers of English football that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and that dreams really can come true.
It is usually said as a chilling warning of financial mismanagement, but not now: If it can happen to their club, it can happen to yours. Just find yourself a Dean Hoyle and a David Wagner, and don’t you ever stop believing.

The Huddersfield Town message: Don't stop believing - Football365

^I bet there are a lot of EPL managers and fans throwing up a bit when they see HTFC's wage bills and season ticket prices.. Read it and fucking weep.

^ congrats mate

Everything you need to know ahead of Manchester City’s trophy parade on Monday 14 May...

It’s been an incredible season for the Blues, and now it’s time to celebrate together in the city centre.
On Monday afternoon there will be an open top bus tour with Pep Guardiola’s title-winning squad departing at approximately 6pm from Victoria Street, behind Cathedral Gardens, before taking a 1.5km route through Manchester city centre, finishing on Deansgate.
Players will be presented on stage at the end of the parade route, on Deansgate close to the junction with Peter Street, at approximately 7pm. All of the players will be speaking on stage at the final destination of the parade.
The parade route is Victoria Street, Deansgate, John Dalton Street, Albert Square, Mount Street, Peter Street, finishing on Deansgate close to the junction with Peter Street.
ROUTE MAP

For anyone wishing to watch, this is on a non-ticketed, first come first served basis.
The parade will be hosted by our City presenters Mike Wedderburn, Hugh Ferris, Danny Jackson and Natalie Pike, who will be joined by whole host of guests including the likes of Colin Bell, Tony Book, Mike Summerbee, Paul Dickov, Shay Given, Nicky Weaver, Mike Joyce, DJ Wingman, Cel Spellman, David White and Kevin Parker.
We will also be welcoming a few special guests to celebrate with us on Monday evening… But you’ll have to wait and see!
Commenting on the parade Manchester City Captain Vincent Kompany said: “The support from our fans throughout the season has been fantastic, so I’m delighted that we’ll have the opportunity to celebrate with them in the city centre after what has been an unbelievable Premier League campaign.”

We all know there's more money around than before but...fook...ing...hell

Greater Manchester Police advise that there are no expected disruptions to normal traffic in the city centre area for this event, though motorists are warned that delays to commuting could occur in the Macclesfield area in particular, and Derbyshire in general. There is the possibility of longer than usual queues at bus and tram stops.



A police spokesman also added that this occasion is one to be celebrated, and would be a good rehearsal for what will be a much larger parade when Manchester United hold a procession with their newly won FA Cup.

Well done Mo Salah.. now the all time top scoring foreign player in the Premier League, 32 goals in 34 games.. more than Ronaldo or Suarez.

Fat Sam has got the tin tack.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/sa...ge-843186.html