OTHER FOOTBALL - Miscellaneous

Dingle-Dingle · 14-11-2021, 18:23

Manchester United are willing to sell England midfielder Jesse Lingard for £10m in January. (Sun)

I`ll chip in a fiver.

DD Cool

drewks · 16-11-2021, 18:41

Jeeeeeez - not my favourite club but you've just got to feel just a bit sorry for Derby..... been deducted a further nine points to go with their -12 earlier on this season.
Tara Mr Rooney

Blue Baggie · 17-11-2021, 01:27

(16-11-2021, 18:41)drewks Wrote: Jeeeeeez - not my favourite club but you've just got to feel just a bit sorry for Derby..... been deducted a further nine points to go with their -12 earlier on this season.
Tara Mr Rooney

Automatic relegation, by stealth.
Just relegate them and stop stretching it out.
Play on, then 12 PTS deducted, play on then another 9 PTS - just shows the stupidity of those running the show.

wba13 · 17-11-2021, 19:08

The truth is the FA bottled it everyone new Derby we’re going to be deducted points last season, but because of the FA dithering Wycombe we’re relegated last season when Derby should have been. It’s just like the Villa they hung on by breaking the rules and then Purslow somehow got them out of it. Derby hung on but had no one of Purslows expertise to get them of the hook. No sympathy from me got what they deserved a season late.

Arcane Astral Aeons · 17-11-2021, 20:01

(17-11-2021, 19:08)wba13 Wrote: The truth is the FA bottled it everyone new Derby we’re going to be deducted points last season, but because of the FA dithering Wycombe we’re relegated last season when Derby should have been. It’s just like the Villa they hung on by breaking the rules and then Purslow somehow got them out of it. Derby hung on but had no one of Purslows expertise to get them of the hook. No sympathy from me got what they deserved a season late.

now Reading Have Had 6 Points Deducted

Who Will Be Next?

Baggievicar · 14-12-2021, 21:06

Just while things are quiet - how come Conor Gallagher is so good all of a sudden? Seemed not much of anything last year.

BaggieSteve · 14-12-2021, 21:21

(14-12-2021, 21:06)Baggievicar Wrote: Just while things are quiet - how come Conor Gallagher is so good all of a sudden? Seemed not much of anything last year.

I actually thought he was pretty good last season, Vic. He brought an energy to the midfield that I felt we were missing. A bit manic at times but I always thought he made a positive contribution. If he’s gone up a notch it may be because he’s encouraged to play football by Viera rather than the role he was given at the Hawthorns

Baggievicar · 19-01-2022, 10:06

Fulham have goal diarrhoea, and we're constipated.

drewks · (This post was last modified: 01-02-2022, 21:22 by drewks.)

Maybe boredom driven, but I just googled Graham Dorrans (what a player he was/could've been!)..... amazing to see he's only 34 and still playing (for Dunfermline).
Had a couple of incredible seasons with us then it seemed to be slowly down hill from then.
Shame - but great memories of him

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 02-02-2022, 00:42

Yeah, unfortunately Dorrans's son was stillborn in 2010 and then his daughter contracted meningitis in 2012, both of which were (by his own admission) incredibly traumatic events, especially for a guy in his early twenties to deal with. He seemed to go from being a young fella with confidence to burn and not a care in the world, to someone whose head or heart just wasn't in the game, and that happened at exactly the point when he would otherwise have been making the step up to the Premier League with all guns blazing. He was never really the same player afterward, though he always put in a shift for Albion when required. I'm glad he's still going strong at 34, and hope his family are well.