leffe186

There aren't many things that I really, really miss about the UK, but going to random lower league (sorry) games is high up the list.

Leicester will be really good again this season. Odds just got better...

You say it like it's a new thing .

Seriously considered it .

Did a head-to-head get set up?

I like how the crossed hammers look a little bit like

...and that was worse than any last year?

Nothing personal, Kanj, but I hate this attitude. It's why ESPN loves the Yankees and Red Sox, why we had a Big Four, why Barca and Real rake in spectacular TV deals etc etc. I'd much rather have the money spread out, and see each team shown an equal amount of times, even if it means having to endure Stoke v West Brom every once in a while. Sure, if they just featured Newcastle more, or had Man U on every week in the Premier League, then they'd get better ratings and more viewership. If you want that, then fine. Just don't complain when Man U then have an absolute shitpile of money, and spunk 100M a time on players. I hope that Sky have a similar deal to the old Premiership one, where every team gets shown a reasonable amount of times.

Champions League though. Can't see them maintaining the same challenge this year.

It will help Liverpool enormously too.

Well to be fair, that's already one more than you guys managed against Fulham.

Is the Beeb's summary page fucked for everyone else? Why can't they make it work consistently?

This, really. You're still going to p*ss this league, but I would be a teensy bit worried about Rafa's starting choices. The first thing that struck me about that team sheet was how lightweight and small the attack seemed to be. There may not have been many options, but a bit of size and strength up front will make a hell of a difference. It doesn't even need to be a great player - look at Fulham yesterday. I suspect that Mitrovic will take the absolute p*ss out of the Championship. Your resources dwarf those of the other teams in the league, and I include even makeweights like Colback among those resources. You're going to be so much stronger when the fixtures start to pile up, and although it will probably take a few weeks to gel, today shows that you won't need to be amazing to do some damage. You should have at least drawn and probably should have won, despite half the team playing poorly and the ref being a comedian. The only danger is if every team raises its game against you, the home crowd loses its patience and turns on the players, and you get a host of injuries. The gulf between Premier League and Championship really is huge.

Might have been a year ago. You want to go through all that again?

New season wanker

Cheers .

I've been elsewhere - what is the reason Sissoko's not playing?

Lest we forget, Levy's suggestion was to build a football stadium at the site, and upgrade Crystal Palace. I still think that seems like the best idea.

And? ...it still bugs me that West Ham were allowed to ignore FA rules: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leyton-orient/9956997/If-West-Ham-move-into-the-Olympic-Stadium-Leyton-Orient-will-surely-suffer-a-slow-and-painful-death.html

...and Leyton Orient is just off the top of that map.

Makes more sense for nobody to give even the faintest fuck tbh.

I'm obviously happy we're building.up from the bottom with cheaper, younger players for the most part - but there's a little bit of me that's just a teensy bit jealous about these ludicrous amounts of money being spunked about.

Possibly, but I thought the most delusional bit I took from that was the suggestion that you guys rate him at 35M .

I remember when that green Astro was gravel pitches #oldguy #Mick.