SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2021/22

Jurgen Klopp renowned epidemiologist and Hegelian proponent.

 

You ought to be glad that he's so committed to football that he's not had time to give this other thing 60 seconds of rational thought.

 

Hut, I know the Glesga clubs have declined somewhat but the Edinburgh sides seem to be performing well this year from what I've seen. Is it just typical early-season success or could you see them hanging around for the long haul like Hearts in 2006?

 

I actually hope so tbh, itd make the season more interesting, but generally even the best hearts/hibs teams hit a wall in March latest due to squad depth issues. But as you say....they might never have a better chance than this season.

 

HA! that's one way to put it.

Don't get your vaccine, it's like drinking and then driving a 2 tonne machine into somebody!!

JA!

 

Hibs blew it. Just a junkies club at the of the day. Still it's better than being a repository for inbreds

 

Here's a fucking idea:-

Shove your fucking notions about Covid up your hole and stop asking James Milner to get tabs on Phil Foden.

Now, fuck off Jurgen.

 

I remember you saying once that if Edinburgh had one club as opposed to two they would be genuine contenders to the Old Firm, can definitely see that reasoning.

 

I saw a stat this morning - in the league games so far celtic have missed 22 'good chances' (xg >0.7) the next team in the league 8.....rangers only 5. Rangers are toothless, they're not creating - when their legs tire they'll stop pulling these tight games out the fire. If we can stay in touching distance then address that midfield in january I think we'll romp the second half of season

 

The owner of Hearts tried to do that in the early 90s when Hibs were close to going bust....tbh im glad it failed, i really like hibs as a club.

 

Same. My sister moved to Edinburgh this year, might try and pop down to Easter Road next time I visit.

 

Its a cool wee stadium in a really good wee area. Easter road itself has some good pubs. Thats something i envy the Edinburgh clubs for - the old firm stadiums are both marooned in post apocalyptic shite holes

 

Suddenly last weeks 3-3 vs Fake Kew seems a better result.

 

Aye, never been to Ibrox but when I visited Celtic Park that was definitely the impression I got

 

I mean, it's Glasgow vs Edinburgh.

Ibrox looks like a cross between a Dickensian mill and some sort of a reform school for very naughty children.

 

Always thought that stand looked really cool to be fair (sorry Hut).

 

There cannot possibly be three 0-0 in the same weekend of football, can there?

 

It's an imposing example of hyper-Victorian architectural chauvinism.

"We CAN build this, so we will, we got the bricks and labour is truppence a week, so up-yours"

 

The area's actually seeing a lot of development now but there's a fucking *insane* amount of land to fill out that way. Tabula rasa

 

Not at all, I agree. Im a guy with pictures of warehouse architecture on my wall, i can put my bias aside for that at least

 

DeBruyne is a damaged, inbred, fragile Walloon, a thin-skinned, freckled, porcelain milksop ......

 

Need to win those sort of games.

That's 4 points pissed away now on not being able to finish teams.

 

Oh, I can fucking assure you that Little Nicky has a plan for how to fill it.

Fill it like they fill Scarborough Hotels mate.

 

It was a fantastic game I have to say, elite-level football. Salah's goal was wonderful, I've missed seeing individual brilliance like that.

 

Speaking of bias how has there not been a sectarian building inspector finding all sorts of "problems" with Celtic Park or Ibrox and shutting them doon?

 

Mutually assured destruction mate.

Whatever harm one could cause the other could easilly be reciprocated and then of course they basically needs each other to stay alive.

Look what happened to Celtic when Rangers went DOON.........Rangers had full houses and cunts cashing their giros as fast as they got them to send £££ to whatever Charlatan/Govt apparatchik was cooking the books at the time.

Celtic basically self-liquidated so Dermot could buy a half a gallon of racehorse cum or whatever.

 

Yokohama Japan had two clubs. Yokohama Marinos & Yokohama Flugels. In 1998 the rival clubs merged to give the city a power club. They became Yokohama F Marinos & have had great success since.

But Flugels fans were left scratching their heads about the merger. They kept the Marinos colors. They kept the Marinos name. They play in the north of the city where Marinos have always played. They basically took the Flugels money, dissolved the club, added an F to their name and called it a merger.

A protest club, Yokohama FC was born. With the Flugels old colors and in the heart of the city.

Given their stories, I wanted to be a Yokohama FC fan. But I just can't. They're so short on money and talent.
They make it up to the top league, J-1, every five years or so and have absolutely no chance of ever staying up. I loosely follow this league and only go every other year so I need a team that's at least going to be on TV in the top league. So I support Yokohama F Marinos.

 

Most of these so called "mergers" seem to be takeovers designed to avoid any kind of anti-competitive action from governing bodies. Looks like in this case they barely even tried to hide it.

 

Newcastle deal moves a bit closer after Saudis and Bahrani's settle centuries old "His Goat ate my olives" dispute.

In the meantime, these people actually take themselves seriously......

 

Footballer charged with attempted murder