The Football News Thread 2022/23

[Lupo]

The majority are fine but there will always be vocal minorities of idiots like the Everton fans apparently making heart attack gestures towards Christian Eriksen yesterday whenever he took a corner

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The daily fucking mail can't help themselves though can they? In the story on their website reffered to him as 'She'. Fucking cunts.

If it was any other paper i'd imagine that was a mistake. But...

 

[Lupo]

Robert Biggs, 30, £55k pa STH (former) jailed for 24 weeks:

Man, 30, pleads guilty to assault after headbutting Sheffield striker

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Biggs, 30, of Derbyshire, entered his guilty plea at Nottingham Magistrate's Court this morning after being held in custody overnight.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Tredman]

Totally unrelated

Football fans taking cocaine at matches face five-year bans

Move comes in response to significant increase in disorder at games, much of which, police say, is driven by class A drugs

www.theguardian.com

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Robert Biggs, 30, £55k pa STH (former) jailed for 24 weeks:

Man, 30, pleads guilty to assault after headbutting Sheffield striker

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Biggs, 30, of Derbyshire, entered his guilty plea at Nottingham Magistrate's Court this morning after being held in custody overnight.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Very close to the maximum custodial sentence that the Magistrates Court can hand down without referring it to the Crown Court for sentencing.

 

[Tony Towner]

Just a typical day in Ilkeston

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Hell of a town.

 

[Sniffer]

Went to a non league game in Ilkeston and was glad to get out in one piece. They'd won 6-1 too so there was no need for the animosity.

I'm sure somebody told me that there is a quirk that the town is in Derbyshire but the majority are Forest fans.

 

[Stan Hullis]

Similar to Long Eaton as well

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Odd little cluster of towns in that area.

Heanor, Ilkeston, Eastwood, Giltbrook and Kimberley. Former two in Derbyshire, latter three in Notts but other than the latter two there probably isn't a great deal in the distance to either Derby or Nottingham.

 

[Tony Towner]

It's 9 miles from Derby and 8 from Nottingham. It feels fairly split across the 2

 

[Kenny]

Now, as a member of the keepers union I know we are generally thought to have a screw loose...but fook off would I go in goal for this

https://twitter.com/x/status/1527317295261155328

Imagine a one on one!!

 

[Donegal Wolf]

Now, as a member of the keepers union I know we are generally thought to have a screw loose...but fook off would I go in goal for this

https://twitter.com/x/status/1527317295261155328

Imagine a one on one!!

Or referee for that matter, one wrong decision and you could have a close up view of a tyre

 

[Kenny]

I wonder if they handicap the bikes so when you get on them you have bikes that vary in speed like an Adama with no brakes or a Roger Johnson running backwards v Man City. Even one that has a burst of speed to get the perfect late run into the box, the Dave Edwards

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

A Kevin McDonald where you think "ah, he's only in second gear. Oh wait, that's actually as fast as it goes"

 

[sycophantia]

Motoball been around for years, they used to do a 'spot the ball' competition (remember them from the Sunday papers?) in the Motorcycle News.

 

[Kenny]

Burnley and Leeds both starting the process of complaining about Everton and their FFP breaches to the PL.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Good. Claiming £200m for Covid was a fucking joke.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The PL will put their fingers in their ears I suspect. Getting the courts involved will get very messy.

 

[Tony Towner]

I'd be interested to see how they put £170m down to Covid. I assume like us there is a 1 year accountancy lag on TV money, but nevertheless