leffe186

What are you blibbering on about? We gave up a couple of typical goals then we’ve absolutely pissed it, just they’ve defended and kept goal brilliantly. I don’t really care what happens tonight all that much, but you’re talking nonsense.

Don’t be silly. We just haven’t scored. I’ve seen several worse performances from us alone.

One for the football pet hates though - timekeeping in extra time. Burnley wasted at least 2 minutes of it just standing around - Trafford took over a minute to take a free kick at one point. Then the ref added on 30 extra seconds.

Championship relegation is turning into an almighty scrap.

Oof. I dunno mate, they’re a really good side but those figures you quote suggest to me they actually do have a huge relative advantage at home compared to other teams. Which, y’know, seems not to need a discussion to death. They’ve won 8 away European matches from 20/21 according to those figures. The teams they beat were Valur, Celtic, Bohemians 1905, Pyunik, Besitkas, RFS, Jagiellonia Bialystok and Braga, Couple of good teams, three teams I have never heard of. In that span at home they’ve scored 5 goals three times, 6 goals twice (including against Roma) and 8 goals once. The three knockout rounds they just played involved beating Twente 5-2, Olympiakos 3-0 and Lazio 2-0 at home, while losing every one of the away legs. They’re really good and brilliantly run and managed, but home matches on Astro in the Arctic Circle are clearly a massive help.

Coventry.

Tokyo I think.

Came in here for this. Where is that fucking asteroid? I’m done.

Btw, don’t know if anyone saw the Ramsdale handball against us but I’d love to know the reason why he didn’t get a yellow card. Just mystifying.

There is an East Ham and a West Ham in East London. Upton Park is actually a station between them on the Underground, but the new ground we all kindly donated to them is in Stratford, closer to West Ham (and Leyton, annoyingly). If we were going to Upton Park we’d often go to East Ham station and walk,

Old Firm yes, and obviously there’s a lot more going on there. Tyne-Wear no I don't think I ever went to it, You can suspect all you want. Spurs-Chelsea, Spurs-West Ham, Chelsea-Arsenal, Chelsea-West Ham. Have been at massive punch-ups for all of them off the pitch. Everyone hates us, for starters, the most coins I ever took home from a match was at Selhurst Park. It’s less violent now because of the changes in the game and the crowd, and the changes in parity. Fulham will always be mundane, and Brentford haven’t been at this level long enough for anything really rough to develop, but the hatred is real between the top London clubs. You have to remember that while there are areas of London that have always favoured certain clubs, we all grew up intertwined. You know what they say about familiarity. I don’t know how many Mackem fans you went to school with, but I remember at infant schools us walking round the playground in Arsenal and Spurs gangs.

With the utmost respect, having been to a ton of them over 45 years, you’re very wrong

It’s one of the joys of being a Premier League team in London - they’re all fucking derbies. Pain in the arse tbh.

They’re closer than Ibrox and Celtic Park.

For Brentford v Chelsea?