Footy - 2018/19 & 19/20 & 20/21 etc

[smithdown]

11 minutes ago, Redwire said:

I've got a bit of a soft spot for Coventry from living right near Highfield Road in the mid eighties, going to lots of games there when I wasn't travelling to see Liverpool and being there when they won the FA Cup in 87 and having a great time in the city that night...but then I remembered Frank Lampard.

Got bladdered in a pub right on the corner of that ground one summer around then.  Like right between the stands iirc.  
Locals were actually dead sound and friendly even when I was playing darts erratically after a load of ale.  
 

Sunderland disgracing themselves here by singing along to Oasis to celebrate going through.  Tacky mackams.

[stressederic]

55 minutes ago, Redwire said:

I've got a bit of a soft spot for Coventry from living right near Highfield Road in the mid eighties, going to lots of games there when I wasn't travelling to see Liverpool and being there when they won the FA Cup in 87 and having a great time in the city that night...but then I remembered Frank Lampard.

Coventry feel like a club who should be back in the top flight. Not with Lampard though clearly. 

[Redwire]

51 minutes ago, smithdown said:

Got bladdered in a pub right on the corner of that ground one summer around then.  Like right between the stands iirc.  
Locals were actually dead sound and friendly even when I was playing darts erratically after a load of ale.  
 

Sunderland disgracing themselves here by singing along to Oasis to celebrate going through.  Tacky mackams.

The Binley Oak I reckon.  It was a big Two-tone pub back in the day.  The Specials and The Selecter rehearsed in the back room I think.

It was a sound city back then but I've not been back in decades.

[psl]

Taiwo Awonyi is in an induced coma following surgery after an injury when he collided with a goalpost at the weekend. Horrible news.

[Nebraska Red]

6 minutes ago, psl said:

Taiwo Awonyi is in an induced coma following surgery after an injury when he collided with a goalpost at the weekend. Horrible news.

Just saw this. That's really scary.

[Redwire]

7 minutes ago, psl said:

Taiwo Awonyi is in an induced coma following surgery after an injury when he collided with a goalpost at the weekend. Horrible news.

Hopefully not as bad as it could be.

"There is no suggestion that the 27-year-old’s condition is life threatening and it is understood the coma will help restrict his movement and regulate his heart rate."

A bloody awful outcome from a collision with a post though.

[psl]

2 minutes ago, Redwire said:

Hopefully not as bad as it could be.

"There is no suggestion that the 27-year-old’s condition is life threatening and it is understood the coma will help restrict his movement and regulate his heart rate."

A bloody awful outcome from a collision with a post though.

That's reassuring, cheers.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

in other 'not horrible' news - 

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Watford appoint Paulo Pezzolano as 18th permanent manager since 2013

Former Valladolid manager is ‘the leader we need’

 

 

[Conrad]

7 hours ago, Redwire said:

Hopefully not as bad as it could be.

"There is no suggestion that the 27-year-old’s condition is life threatening and it is understood the coma will help restrict his movement and regulate his heart rate."

A bloody awful outcome from a collision with a post though.

It is horrendous

elanga was offside also, but game had played on - I really think they need to look at that rule again

[D.Boon]

7 hours ago, psl said:

Taiwo Awonyi is in an induced coma following surgery after an injury when he collided with a goalpost at the weekend. Horrible news.

Yeah awful. Another reason to f*** VAR off.

[dyl]

6 hours ago, Sir Tokyo Sexwale said:

in other 'not horrible' news - 

 

And Sampdoria relegated to Serie C after going through 4 managers this season:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5y649vq8pqo

 

[stressederic]

6 hours ago, Sir Tokyo Sexwale said:

in other 'not horrible' news - 

 

Only a matter of time before one of us becomes Watford manager just through process of elimination

[Candystore]

1 hour ago, D.Boon said:

Yeah awful. Another reason to f*** VAR off.

He's a big unit as well, could have been even worse if it were another player. 

[Greenoak]

11 hours ago, stressederic said:

Coventry feel like a club who should be back in the top flight. Not with Lampard though clearly. 

Staggered they got back to play offs after selling their decent players and putting Fat Frank in charge. Fair play to them.. 

Fact is if they got to premiership Darby's points total would be challenged.

[Redwire]

I'm sure that there are people out to exploit footballers' naivety and that HMRC are poor at targeting the fraudsters, but this bit made me laugh.

"The campaigners argue it was wrong that footballers who invested in failed film schemes later received huge tax bills, penalties and demands for interest payments from HMRC. Comparisons were made with the Post Office Horizon scandal."

Yeah, just like the Horizon scandal lads.  Sorry that scheme to avoid you paying loads of tax wasn't actually legal.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/may/14/former-footballers-claim-financial-grooming-took-them-to-hell-and-back

 

[PhilM]

11 hours ago, Nebraska Red said:

Just saw this. That's really scary.

The video is horrible as well, he hits it really hard, like potentially end up in a wheelchair hard.

[Nebraska Red]

7 minutes ago, PhilM said:

The video is horrible as well, he hits it really hard, like potentially end up in a wheelchair hard.

I remember the Phil Babb collision.

 

 

[PhilM]

It's worse.

https://wwos.nine.com.au/videos/football/football-news-2025-nottingham-forest-vs-leicester-result-taiwo-awoniyi-injury/cman4kje5000q0hmw9rsq4ivb

[Cobs]

2 hours ago, Redwire said:

I'm sure that there are people out to exploit footballers' naivety and that HMRC are poor at targeting the fraudsters, but this bit made me laugh.

"The campaigners argue it was wrong that footballers who invested in failed film schemes later received huge tax bills, penalties and demands for interest payments from HMRC. Comparisons were made with the Post Office Horizon scandal."

Yeah, just like the Horizon scandal lads.  Sorry that scheme to avoid you paying loads of tax wasn't actually legal.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/may/14/former-footballers-claim-financial-grooming-took-them-to-hell-and-back

 

"Murphy, who has become a leading pundit for the BBC and TalkSport since his retirement, was hit with a £2.5m tax bill after investing in a film scheme that promised tax breaks to investors. The former England international lost a court case in 2019 over £1m he borrowed from the private bank Coutts to invest in the scheme....

Murphy, who said there was no intention to avoid tax,...  "

[Gerry]

5 minutes ago, Cobs said:

"Murphy, who has become a leading pundit for the BBC and TalkSport since his retirement, was hit with a £2.5m tax bill after investing in a film scheme that promised tax breaks to investors. The former England international lost a court case in 2019 over £1m he borrowed from the private bank Coutts to invest in the scheme....

Murphy, who said there was no intention to avoid tax,...  "

Borrowing £1M to invest for some dodgy scheme FFS. 

And he was obviously trying to avoid tax, the daft wassock; it sounded like the whole point of the scheme. It's whether he was trying to evade tax that's the question innit.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

just remembering - ManU are in the UEFA Cup bc they won the FAC but it took an absolute shambles of a VAR decision in the last min of the semi to get them to penos

Absolute blag-artists

[takanohana]

Kulusevski out of Europa final. Man Utd are winning this aren't they...