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Post by Robbie on Apr 15, 2018 15:42:40 GMT 1
What a result! I'm a fiver down but I honestly didn't think we'd win but I'm happy that I was proved wrong!
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Post by Robbie on Apr 15, 2018 17:55:20 GMT 1
Man City have won the Premier League as Man Utd have lost at home against West Brom! The look on Mourinho's face at the end was priceless
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Post by suedehead on Apr 15, 2018 20:37:01 GMT 1
No doubt Marine Boy had a good excuse. The grass was the wrong shape or something like that.
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Post by Shireblogger on Apr 15, 2018 20:51:06 GMT 1
(1) No one can say football is predictable. It has been an extraordinary week.
(2) Manchester City have played a lot of really beautiful football this season. I'm very glad they are Champions.
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Post by o on Apr 15, 2018 21:32:31 GMT 1
Man City have won the Premier League as Man Utd have lost at home against West Brom! The look on Mourinho's face at the end was priceless I thought that was his normal look
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Post by frag on Apr 20, 2018 10:19:04 GMT 1
Wenger is out! He's finally leaving at the end of the season!
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Post by o on Apr 20, 2018 10:24:28 GMT 1
Yeah, he should have left last season after winning the FA Cup imo, don't envy the poor sod who has to replace him and meet the expectations of Arsenal fans!
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Post by Robbie on Apr 20, 2018 10:37:08 GMT 1
I also don't envy who will take over from Wenger. However I think he stayed perhaps two or three seasons too long as it was a shame to see some Arsenal supporters turning on him when he's been their most successful manager in the modern era.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 20, 2018 13:42:55 GMT 1
They need to see who is fired this season for underperforming at a club that expects everything.
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Post by o on Apr 20, 2018 13:50:48 GMT 1
Mourinho?
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Post by suedehead on Apr 20, 2018 15:47:21 GMT 1
The trouble with Wenger is that he had no respect for tradition. He took over a club that had long been known for its boring football and turned them into a side that was entertaining to watch. They need someone to restore their former tradition. How about Tony Pulis or Sam Allardyce?
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Post by Robin on Apr 20, 2018 16:22:16 GMT 1
Benitez, Tuchel, Ancelotti? All a good shout!
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Post by Robbie on Apr 21, 2018 17:47:00 GMT 1
Sunderland have been relegated from the Championship to League One after losing at home to Burton Albion. A few of my mates aren't going to be happy. It's a disaster for a club who are struggling both on and off the pitch. The fans want a new owner and the current owner has been trying to sell the club with no success at all. He's already says he no longer has any interest in the club and regrets buying it.
It's going to be a struggle next season as attendances are going to fall drastically and the club had already announced that they were going to close the upper tiers of the ground next season whether the club stayed up or not.
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Post by Shireblogger on Apr 21, 2018 18:50:46 GMT 1
It is very sad for Sunderland, who have some of the most passionate supporters there are. But I hope it proves to be a lesson to lots of potential foreign owners who think they can make a fast buck from English football.
One day, there will be a better balance between player wages and investment in the future, within football. But as long as there are people buying football clubs who know nothing about the game, then there will always be a ludicrous amount of money spent on the wages and transfer fees of semi-talented mercenaries who aren't capable of delivering what the owner expects.
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2018 10:08:59 GMT 1
Ultimately, they haven't been good enough at home this season. They're one of only two clubs (the other being Burton) who have lost to us at home since the beginning of December! But they've dropped points in the last couple of weeks, late equaliser against Norwich, from listening to their game against us at the Mad Stad last weekend and seeing the highlights they were unlucky not to win, and then yesterday lost a game they could have won. Had it not been for all that they'd still have a chance of staying up, though I think they've got tough games to finish with so it was probably just delaying the inevitable.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Apr 22, 2018 10:57:01 GMT 1
Wenger lost the plot 3 year ago. Guardiola and Klopp were both looking for a job in England around that time. Hanging on too long has probably cost them any chance of a successful transition because all I see in the running are makeshift managers, untested managers at that level and failed managers. Is a Tuchal or a Rodgers a step forward?
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Post by Shireblogger on Apr 22, 2018 12:13:08 GMT 1
What about the guy at Athletico Madrid ?
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 22, 2018 12:21:12 GMT 1
Wenger helped Arsenal to win 3 FA Cups and they could win the Europa Cup this year. Difficult to win the league with all the big money, but obviously they came 2nd to Leicester so many would say that should have been their season.
In 2014-2016 combined seasons they got more points than any other club in the Premier League but obviously didn't win it in either season.
Note: Spurs did the same 2015-2017..
but they haven't won any cups whilst Arsenal have won 3 which could become 4. When Spurs won some cups in the early 80s that is considered a golden period for them.
It is very noticeable that Arsenal's last title was 2004, the last season before the Abramovich machine was in full effect, and even Manchester United had to wait a bit but they already had it all in place to continue competing for titles. Then the big money of $ity joined in and it just felt in 2007-8 and 2013-4 that Arsenal couldn't maintain it, although Arsenal may have gone on to win it in 2008 but for that horrible injury to Eduardo. 2014 was also the season Liverpool were up there at one point but couldn't see it through.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Apr 22, 2018 12:31:54 GMT 1
Diego Simone, he likes his teams to play like Mourinho, 10 men behind the ball, full of graft, no luxury players. Arsenal don't have a single player that has it in them to adapt to that style of play, it would be such a messy transition and at the end if it even works, best case scenario they will be playing some of the most boring football they have ever seen, they needed a high press, dynamic, high tempo manager that enhanced what Arsenal already have not a Big Sam, Mourinho, Conte type, I think they missed the boat on the two best candidates, all the rest are a big gamble
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2018 13:50:54 GMT 1
Luis Enrique has been mentioned, could see him fitting in.
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