The Football Thread

[Kurt Cocaine]

Whey-hey.... Dundalk are roaring around Europe again. They beat Riga on penalties after a 0-0 aggregate score. Delighted for them.

[Paul keohane]

Qarabag of Azerbaijan up next for Dundalk,theyll be up against it there.

[StoutAndAle]

Just renewing the Fantasy Premier League for all those interested. It ran very close last year with first, second and third changing nearly weekly.

The code to join is 46w2mc - https://fantasy.premierleague.com/

[Pedrito]

Newcastle a disaster. How can you go from Rafa to Bruce? And it looked like Rafa really might have done something there with some backing. The fans need to stop turning up.

[StoutAndAle]

My brother-in-law is a Geordie - born and bred. Dyed in the wool, black and white. He's had a season ticket for nearly 40 years, since he was 3 when his grandad took him to his first match. When they were over at Christmas he told me in no uncertain terms that Ashley et al. have ruined the club. Himself and a lot of his friends (also season ticket holders) now go to see and vocally support Spennymoor Town instead because "it's just football".

[Kurt Cocaine]

H'on Ireland....

[Blizzard Beast]

Anyone go or watch Keane Neville on off the ball?
Love him or loath him Keano is an interesting character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_yckmKqazE

[Emphyrio]

Watched a good chunk of it. He's a prick but he's entertaining. I admire that he really digs in principle-wise but he's very hypocritical. He lambasted Arter and Waters for the same thing that that McCarthy pulled him on before Saipan. His bluster blinds him so much that he can't see his double standards. But, much like Eamonn Dunphy it's very entertaining waffle.

[Pedrito]

Thought it was great. How refreshing to have someone truly speak their mind in this day and age of absolute arseholery

[Pedrito]

As expected Ireland under Mick doing nothing different to Ireland under Martin. The likes of Dunphy can harp on all he wants, but unless you have really top quality players like we had in the past you'll always be struggling. Hard to watch.

[Paul keohane]

I think your being a bit harsh,theyve definitely resembled a football team this campaign so far.The swiss are in the top 10 in world rankings,we were never going to dominate them.I was expecting zero points from our  games against them,i thought we played well against Georgia in Dublin and put in a credible away performance in Denmark.

No doubt we're lacking a bit of quality,but people have short memories if they think this campaign has been shite.

The problem under Trap and O Neill is that we looked scared shitless playing teams of similar standard or lower,we were always going to struggle against top sides.

[Pedrito]

Richard Keogh and the Derby boys some craic..like something out of the Hangover.

[Blizzard Beast]

I wonder how long Ole has left in charge of Utd,we could be in the zone after liverpool 
Think its finally liverpools year for the title.

[StoutAndAle]

And the award for most batshit decision of the season 19/20 goes to Spurs for firing Mauricio Pochettino...

...no... wait. They've upped their game.

Wait in the name of fuck is the thinking there? Fair enough, it's a poor start to the season but Mourinho is not the answer here. Pochettino did wonders with relatively little.

Daniel Levy famous for not spending money vs. Jose Mourinho infamous for overpaying for players and then falling out with them.

If nothing else, this is a blaze in a fireworks factory waiting to happen.

[Thorn]

Reckon Solskjaer has got to be looking over his shoulder now til Poch gets hitched somewhere