SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2020/21

Like you, I'm something of a casual when it comes to cricket, but in terms of sporting theatre there are very few things which come close to an epic run chase. That might have been the most epic of them all, certainly in test matches.

Archer is a wonderful bowler, he's actually a fairly decent lower order batsman, but yeah he lacks the experience.

 

He was trying a Stokes on it...........home run on every ball.

When he walked I thought that was that.

The bookies had England like 12-1

By the final ball it was 8/11 for both.

 

5:04 mark is Epic ....we have all been there.


Ashes 2019: 3rd Test, day 4 – Highlights

 

Painful.

Bolton Wanderers: Where next as financially troubled club face liquidation?

 

Cricket?

PRICKet, morelike... amirite?!?!

 

There'll be plenty more of this the next ten years

 

I'd make it 5 or less.

In the 2005/2006 Season, Bolton had the beating of every team in England.

Now they are basically not even a team.

 

In 2005 Bolton finished 3 points off a Champions League spot.

 

I remember them as being a team I hated playing. Fat Sam with his Vibrating panels and exercise bikes and headsets and the two Kevins up front.

 

Yeah they were horrible to play. Clever set up though, buying top players like Okocha and Hierro who were past their best but still useful and mixing them with workhorses. I remember they were good enough to get a draw against Bayern Munich in Germany.

 

Sad stuff about Bury. They were actually the opponents for the first QPR match at Loftus Road I ever attended. Have always had a little soft spot for them as a result.

 

Another great but depressing piece on the situation:

Bury and Bolton Wanderers in crisis: 'Football teams are our collective history'

 

Poignantly written ... the picture at top of the little boy is particularly affecting

 

It's also why I don't like The EFL Championship - it must be horrible to play in that division.
Sheer desperation and ultra-competitiveness to get out of it or flounder.
You look at the team in the next division, League One, and they'll never see Premiership football again - God knows how many will be eliminated from the league.
Growing up, teams like Coventry City, Ipswich Town, Sunderland, Blackpool, Bristol Rovers, Bolton Wanderers - they all were (then) Division One or at least Division Two teams - Bolton used to get 60,000 in at Burnden Park!

 

As a football fan it is a great league, very competitive with no plastic supporters, proper fans. However, yes you're right in terms of the financial pressures. Last time I checked I think three-quarters of Championship clubs were operating on losses. To go up you either have to get very lucky, be a relegated big club that can hold on to a few good players for a season in the hope of bouncing straight back, or you have to spend, a lot of the times dangerously beyond your means. It's totally fucked.

 

Bolton Wanderers saved.
Good to hear.

At least saves us a cdoggism of "Bolton Wanderers?
Bolton Gonederers, morelike.

Amirite???"

 

No idea what 'tenterhooks' are but whatever they are, im on them & looking at that starting 11 hardly inspires confidence either. An early goal to kill these butterflies, please god. Attack, attack, attack.

 

GROUP A

• PSG
• Real Madrid
• Bruge
• Galatasary

GROUP B

• Bayern
• Totteningham Hotspur
• Olympiakos
• Red Star Belgrade

GROUP C

• City
• Shakhtar Donetsk
• Dynamo de Somewhere
• Atalanta ..........money well spent by City. Very well spent.

GROUP D

• Juventus
• Atl Madrid
• Bayern Leverkusen
• Lokomotiv Moskau

GROUP E

• LIVERPOOL
• Napoli
• Salzburg
• Genk
  
  Cannot really complain about that in fairness. Only Napoli should be giving us a game there.

GROUP F

• Barcelona
• Borussia Dortmund
• Inter Milan
• Slavia Prague

GROUP G

• ZENIT
• Benfica
• Olympique Lyonnais
• Leipzig.......

GROUP H

• Chelsea
• Ajax
• Valencia
• Lille

Defender of the Season in Europe

Virgil van Dijk

 

VVD improved in leaps and bonds once he progressed tae Soothampton, like.

 

Faced fucking Napoli last year

 

Midfielder of the Season.........has to be James Milner or Jordan Henderson or Mane.

No, they gave it to some fucking brothel keeper from Amsterdam.

Here come Frenky the Wong to say the usual platitudes.

"OH yes, I am very surprised we got past Real and Juventus and then spunked our pants with a 3-0 lead vs Tottenham, I can't understand it".

Good lad Frenky.

 

City............Dynamo and fucking Shitcar Donyetsk

 

Messi gets forward of the Season...............

"Got mashed on Merseyside, couldn't even listen to the radio on the bus cos they robbed it in Anfield Road.........got home and my dog had eaten the sofa and shit a great big Bulgari sign on the bedroom floor. Thanks"

 

Cannot complain about Liverpools group.

Liverpool
Napoli
FC Salzburg
Genk

 

Nice to see City getting dragged across Europe a few times.

Spurs group is not too bad but trips to Greece are never easy.

Then there is Chelsea's group...the tightest of them all I surmise.

 

Van Dijk is man of the season, justly deserved, the other two did fuck all last year.

 

Bury?

Morelike Buried...

AM


I



RITE?!?!?!

 

There's no definitive group of death really

Meanwhile, Celtic in good shape now thanks to AIK's keeper

 

We're lucky this mob are quite so shite. When ajer went off i feared the worst