The Football News Thread 2025/26

[BillyDee]

He's given Billy's England debut a going over too

Wright..?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968978272730976458

I guess there is a possibility he's conflating the game against Czechoslovakia rather than the Scotland game where Gascoigne did get 2 assists for Bull.

But yes, Bully definitely "miss remembers" a lot of things.

 

[AndyWolves]

He still chinned lineker though

 

[YoungWolf]

Big fan of this. Calling out the some of the absolute shite players/ex-players come out with that just isn't true.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968268407423521248

I once saw one with Lee Sharpe where he reckoned Bryan Robson said "this is going to be good" as Fergie entered the dressing room following Cantona's kung-fu kick. Robbo must have been talking fucking loudly being as he was managing Middlesbrough then.

Also Jay Bothroyd has recently been on with his crap about his time at Wolves that doesn't match up to any timelines at all.

It’s good but boy is he going to have a lot of material. It’s what all the after dinner circuit live on

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It’s good but boy is he going to have a lot of material. It’s what all the after dinner circuit live on

Could do an hour long video on Saunders

 

[Keef]

Don’t wish that Dan, just because you know you’d sit down and watch it, and back down into horrible depths you’d go, we don’t want you down in horrible depths, we want you bobbing around on the surface chucking out obscure 90s band references

 

[Lupo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1970235257505907094

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It's unlikely, but imagine if Wolves and Villa went down, and Albion and Blues came up.

 

[Lupo]

Roberto Olabe replaces Monchi

Club Statement

Changes to Aston Villa Sporting Organisational structure

www.avfc.co.uk

 

[Dinowolf]

Potter sacked by West Ham

 

[Dinowolf]

To be replaced by Nuno?

 

[Jack Regan]

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Interesting move for him considering his opinions on "Arabs".

 

[Lupo]

Can tell by his face how overjoyed he is

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1974243089511317675

 

[Jack Regan]

Ha ha ha ha! Three more years of being absolutely shit and never changing the formation or style of play, whilst spending fuck tonnes of money in the process.

Ruben Amorim: Manchester United boss needs three years to prove himself a 'great' coach, says co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says manager Ruben Amorim needs three years to prove he is a "great" coach.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[SSB]

"If you're continually told you're not very good, whether that be by people in the media, by pundits, or even ex-officials, then people's mental health could potentially suffer"

Anthony Taylor: My family don't come to matches because of abuse

In an interview with the BBC, referee Anthony Taylor criticises the "expectation of perfection" culture officials are subject to.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[basher]

I don't expect them to be perfect...I do expect consistency.

Plus even with all the new tools to help and assist they still get things wrong, no excuse for that. That basically boils down to a mindset and no amount of aids, reviews, technology, etc is going to help with that.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Automated offside has worked well.

Totally killed that controversy off.

 

[Tredman]

Controversy perhaps, it's still a bag of wank when you have paid a fortune to watch the game in person and people at home are prioritised in knowing what the hell is happening.

 

[basher]

Automated offside... the giveaway there is the "automated" bit... removing the human element.

When they have to make a decision, with everything at their disposal to aid in that, they still get it wrong... it's a mindset, you can't cure that. Look at Simon Hooper when Onana took out Kalajdzic..."That's a coming together, we don't give penalties for those". How you going to remedy that!!