Anyone watching the Live Football on TV ?

After what seems like an age English football is back Live on TV, just thought I would start a thread to discuss the games if anyone is interested.

I haven't got SKY so just started listening to Villa v Sheff Utd on 5 Live Sport.

Arsenal could do Liverpool a favour later with a win at Man City.

League Two play-offs tomorrow night.

Not a bad match
Like the dubbed sound effects
Dean Henderson made two solid saves in first 20 minutes.

Sheffield U just pressing from a corner

Sounds like Villa should have been awarded a penalty.

Stuck a bet on Arsenal to beat City later. 15-2 odds seemed very generous given the potential for unpredictability after the season pause and Bundesliga matches suggesting being at home isn't the advantage it once was.

Expect a City 4-0 win now.

Has goal line technology been furloughed or does the ball have to go two metres over the line due to social distancing?!

Quoted from LH

Has goal line technology been furloughed or does the ball have to go two metres over the line due to social distancing?!

Aye, definitely over the line was that.

Saying stuff like the goal line tech is working for the second half doesn’t do much to persuade me that Michael Oliver didn’t have his watch turned on. Being the difference between clubs qualifying for Europe or not was the very reason the technology has been brought in and it could have backfired spectacularly for Sheff Utd.

Am I the only who just couldn't give a toss about the Premiership?

Football without fans there is totally meaningless.

The annoying thing is that after the game nobody in authority will say what exactly went wrong with the technology.

Can someone please explain the social distancing rules to the Sheff Utd manager, Wilder, at the end there he is shaking hands with all the officials.

Quoted from jock dock tower

Am I the only who just couldn't give a toss about the Premiership?

Football without fans there is totally meaningless.

No Jock you are not the only one. It is a massive waste of time. I would not give the droppings from my nose end or any other end to watch it.

Quoted from Manchester Mariner

Stuck a bet on Arsenal to beat City later. 15-2 odds seemed very generous given the potential for unpredictability after the season pause and Bundesliga matches suggesting being at home isn't the advantage it once was.

Expect a City 4-0 win now.

Ooh, good call, just lumped 20 at 8-1 with Ladbrokes but as you say City 4-0, probably by half time.
Wirth a punt though.

Arsenal have a better chance, David Luis isn’t playing!

The title of the thread shows this thread will be about the football that restarts today - may be best not to click on it if all you’re going to do is whinge about it. For example: I don’t click anything about Auchie bloody Talbot.

Told you, Luis comes on, makes a mistake, goal to the mancs

I’m watching channel 5

Watching the copa italia final on bt sport 2.Nice to see football again on tv but a bit odd seeing no fans there.

Completely meaningless unless your a chief exec of a prem club and don’t want to pay sky £millions back in compensation

I've been watching the Polish premier league on Freesports in the nether regions of the telly channels over the last few weeks but glad the premier league is back. Silly amounts of money aside with the PL I just like watching football.

Quoted from Gaffer58

Told you, Luis comes on, makes a mistake, goal to the mancs

What a clown  

Quoted from Gaffer58

Told you, Luis comes on, makes a mistake, goal to the mancs

He's not playing anymore now.  

That's a good night's work. On as a substitute, give away a goal, give away a penalty and get sent off with over half an hour still to play. But still, he's won countless trophies, league titles in numerous countries,champions league, Europa league etc.

Mad.

Listening to the last few minutes on 5live. Proper weird.

Quoted from jock dock tower

Am I the only who just couldn't give a toss about the Premiership?

Football without fans there is totally meaningless.

I am with you Jock, gave up watching the Premiership years ago, especially Match of the day. I find the summming up very boring, I prefer Jimmy Hill to these clowns.

I was quite excited at first - normally I dont watch Prem League apart from the occasional MOTD...... so I shelled out £30 for the NOW TV monthly pass.

I last 30 mins of the Villa/Sheff game and then had about 15 mins of the Man City game on...... and then it was back to "ah yeah, I'd rather spend time with my kids having a BBQ"

I didn’t hate watching it because I have a hatred for the premier league...if people dislike it that much they should’ve realised it wouldn’t have been any different.

I think it was just proof that teams and players aren’t arsed about finishing the season.

Their so called glorious technology failed miserably costing a team a valuable goal, the quality was somewhat lacking and the lack of a crowd just made it odd.

Both games had a pre season feel about them, couple that with arsenal convoluted travel plans and those horrific ‘Sky VIP’ screens behind the goal and it was just a cringey experience. I’ve not doubt the quality is likely to improve but it just seemed to lack any kind of excitement.

If anyone wants to hear a fan point of view in Italy I’d suggest checking out the statement by SPALs ultras about the whole thing. It’s the most eloquent statement released by a fan group ever...

Here’s the translation....

Football is not a theatrical representation. The shirts we support are the colors of a city, they are the symbols of a deep bond of belonging between the territory and its people, and not simply costumes to be worn by the actors of a company. The stadiums are monuments steeped in history and not cardboard scenographies to be moved according to a script already written. Finally the public, who does not assist in football but participates. It does not follow a story but is part of it, and even has the ambition to determine it.

With this in mind, the only one that belongs to us, we can only follow up on the first release of the Curva Ovest of April 2, 2020 regarding the suspension of the championship. The current context empties football of any content as far as we are concerned. We are less interested in the game, ranking and category than before, if the direction in which the recovery is moving is that of an aseptic show, for the benefit of empty or partially empty stands. We have heard gruesome hypotheses about the possible reopening in the last few days. Well, we make it clear right away that the quota and the distancing of the public go against all the principles of aggregation that we have always supported. We will not use any voucher, no credit formula, no title.

If we can't hug each other after a victory or wave our flags in the face of a defeat - and do it all together as it always has been - we prefer not to be there at all. Our material (banners, scarves, banners) will not color the curve to make television footage more palatable, because it would lose its meaning. The ultras and the fans in general are not an ornamental element of live football, they are a pillar.

Of course we cannot impose our line of thought on anyone, but the battle we have been waging for years against this form of theatricalization of football has reached a decisive turning point. We will never be accomplices of a pilot project of social distancing, aimed not too veiled at the standardization of the customer-football and which goes to the detriment of that folklore and that story that instead cheering represents. On this stance we expect the solidarity of those close to us and the respect of all the others, and we will not accept that the steps of the West (at least those) suffer the humiliation of a contingent population, made up of spectators seated and distant, at regardless of our absence.

We would like to continue our aggregation work outside the stadium, to create unity in the spalling cheer, to bring people closer to the world of the curve. We would like to have you all in place and show how accessory the game is compared to the values ​​we support, and not vice versa. But currently the safety conditions do not allow it and you can continue to attend it in compliance with the rules but without the possibility of organizing collective gatherings, therefore you just have to distance yourself from the established media circus and invite you to do the same. Boycotting televisions, ignoring an indistinguishable championship from a video game, and despising prepackaged behavioral and consumerist models both within and outside the home. If this emergency becomes an excuse to transform Mazza and the other stadiums into many outdoor theaters, at least we will not have contributed to the process. We know that for many, such a choice represents a painful renunciation, but we are convinced that today's sacrifice will be important in tomorrow's football.

If and when the conditions for assisting are once again the same as before, then we will resume our place.

But until that day we pull the curtain.

Curva Ovest Ferrara #NOF

Quoted from Yossarian

I last 30 mins of the Villa/Sheff game and then had about 15 mins of the Man City game on...... and then it was back to "ah yeah, I'd rather spend time with my kids having a BBQ"

The Fury/Joshua proposed 2 fights next year should be more fun  

I like watching the premiership. I like football , those of you who don’t like watching it don’t like football you just like GTFC I guess and nothing else .

I watched the highlights as I don't have Sky, but BT Sport.  However as some have already mentioned it definitely had a pre-season feel to it, its just soulless without the fans.

I saw the news yesterday and it mentioned that the PL are trying to get the fans back in the stadium, and it comes across as stuff all the rest we look after ourselves.  The PL in my eyes act as if they are the FA.  I much as I like football I just don't like the way the PL go about things is all too selfish for me.

I guess it's necessary for football in general to get back up and running if only for the prospect of TV contracts being fulfilled and the potential for money to filter down to our level. Villa v The Pigs was dull, City v Arsenal less so if only for the 25 minute cameo of David Luiz.

Quoted from supertown

I like watching the premiership. I like football , those of you who don’t like watching it don’t like football you just like GTFC I guess and nothing else .

Not so Super. I love football but loath the Prem because it is not our national game anymore. It is the Sky game and they might as well just sell it in box sets.

Just a question about the Sheffield Utd goal/non goal, if the VAR wasn't working but the ref or lino saw it was over the line, why could it not be given?

Quoted from supertown

I like watching the premiership. I like football , those of you who don’t like watching it don’t like football you just like GTFC I guess and nothing else .

I like watching football at all levels, all the Premiership cares about is the Premiership, not FOOTBALL, which it has clearly been shown during this pandemic.
If you was to offer me a VIP box at Old Trafford, Anfield etc or a ticket for the Poonton stand at Blundell Park, guess what its Grimsby Town everytime for me.
Why because since that first game I attended at Blundell Park, I was hooked, the passion, atmosphere, friendships made, the travelling, the ups, the downs, the memories, I don't get that watching the Premiership.

The thing that the Premiership might get out of the playing in empty stadiums, is yes financially they are ok, but without the FANS, football is nothing like, it is will FANS, because it us the FANS that make football, the sport it is.

Its like the Indian Premier League being played in empty stadiums, its nothing without the fans, its the fans that makes the IPL.

Quoted from Perkins

Just a question about the Sheffield Utd goal/non goal, if the VAR wasn't working but the ref or lino saw it was over the line, why could it not be given?

It gives the officials an easy option but they are wrong and incompetent for not daring to question the tech.
It is very strange and worrying how far just trusting the technology has permeated our lives, in the last week we were waiting for a delivery and the same driver took it to the same wrong address (less than 100m away) 3 times before it eventually arrived, his excuse was that was were his sat nav sent him.  Also on a much more serious note is the large number of sub post office owners jailed, fined or dismissed because courts refused to believe it could be the computer that could be wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-51817918

Quoted from codcheeky

It gives the officials an easy option but they are wrong and incompetent for not daring to question the tech.
It is very strange and worrying how far just trusting the technology has permeated our lives, in the last week we were waiting for a delivery and the same driver took it to the same wrong address (less than 100m away) 3 times before it eventually arrived, his excuse was that was were his sat nav sent him.  Also on a much more serious note is the large number of sub post office owners jailed, fined or dismissed because courts refused to believe it could be the computer that could be wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-51817918

Or it was in a packed penalty area and it went over the line in a position that even the cameras couldn’t see and neither did the officials so they couldn’t award the goal.

A bit harsh to call them incompetent.

Quoted from Posh Harry

Or it was in a packed penalty area and it went over the line in a position that even the cameras couldn’t see and neither did the officials so they couldn’t award the goal.

A bit harsh to call them incompetent.

That used to be the linesman’s main job, to get to premier league standard you would expect he would be at the top of his trade, getting one of the few decisions he is there for so badly wrong negates the reason for having them at all, maybe we should just rely on cameras and technology

Quoted from codcheeky

That used to be the linesman’s main job, to get to premier league standard you would expect he would be at the top of his trade, getting one of the few decisions he is there for so badly wrong negates the reason for having them at all, maybe we should just rely on cameras and technology

I have just looked at it again as I had assumed that the linesman must of been on the other side of the pitch, but he wasn’t, he was staring straight at it, so please accept my apologies as calling the linesman incompetent is correct, but not the referee.

Saying that, it could be that the officials now do not have the authority to over rule the technology, I don’t know. It could be that he saw it was over but was not allowed to say so and would have been demoted if he had done. That would seem crazy, but in the over officious society we live in, it would not surprise me.

I don’t think the ref can be accused of being incompetent though, there is no way he could have definitely seen it was over the line.

They’re saying all the cameras were blocked but they showed a hawkeye angle almost immediately after the incident on the live broadcast. There’s more to this than technology failure I think - more likely operator error - and they’re covering it up. If the linesman can’t see that that’s in he needs to go for a drive to Barnard Castle.

watching Col V exeter its rubbish

Wish I had BT Sport so I could watch my German team, Bielefeld,  get promoted to the Bundesliga tonight!

Quoted from PrestwichMariner

Wish I had BT Sport so I could watch my German team, Bielefeld,  get promoted to the Bundesliga tonight!

Bielefeld brings back memories - that was our local team at RAF Gutersloh.

Enjoying getting 4 hours of League Two footy through Now TV. Just wish it was Town.

Quoted from Boris Johnson

watching Col V exeter its rubbish

FT....Colchester 1-0 Exeter

Exeter won't be too downbeat as they've got home advantage in the second-leg.....oh hang on  

Quoted from LH

They’re saying all the cameras were blocked but they showed a hawkeye angle almost immediately after the incident on the live broadcast. There’s more to this than technology failure I think - more likely operator error - and they’re covering it up. If the linesman can’t see that that’s in he needs to go for a drive to Barnard Castle.

Did they ? I didn’t see it at all

TalkSPORT make me laugh today . Every show debating VAR , Hawkeye , prem fans coming up with way to even it up by awarding points here there and everywhere. They’re all a fooking joke !!

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

TalkSPORT make me laugh today . Every show debating VAR , Hawkeye , prem fans coming up with way to even it up by awarding points here there and everywhere. They’re all a fooking joke !!

VAR has ruined the game full stop.

It was obvious that the minute you took away the element of human error from the officials and replaced it with computer generated decisions, which in turn are subject to human error, the game as a spectacle would suffer.

They should have gone the other way and insisted the referees decisions were respected by players and managers,and reinforced the obvious point that refereeing errors had no more bearing on the out come of matches than a wayward back pass or a penalty miss or whatever.

When every player never makes a mistake, when a manager never makes a tactical gaffe would be the time to try to make the referees perfect.

They now have goal line technology and an army of studio referees with ultra HD graphics and they still can't get it right and all the fun has been sucked out of Premier league games.

This week has shown football without fans is soulless. Football without the referee being in sole charge has changed the game too much and taken the spontaneity and excitement out of it.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

TalkSPORT make me laugh today . Every show debating VAR , Hawkeye , prem fans coming up with way to even it up by awarding points here there and everywhere. They’re all a fooking joke !!

The biggest clown on Talkport is Jim White.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

VAR has ruined the game full stop.

It was obvious that the minute you took away the element of human error from the officials and replaced it with computer generated decisions, which in turn are subject to human error, the game as a spectacle would suffer.

They should have gone the other way and insisted the referees decisions were respected by players and managers,and reinforced the obvious point that refereeing errors had no more bearing on the out come of matches than a wayward back pass or a penalty miss or whatever.

When every player never makes a mistake, when a manager never makes a tactical gaffe would be the time to try to make the referees perfect.

They now have goal line technology and an army of studio referees with ultra HD graphics and they still can't get it right and all the fun has been sucked out of Premier league games.

This week has shown football without fans is soulless. Football without the referee being in sole charge has changed the game too much and taken the spontaneity and excitement out of it.

The officials might just as well not be on the field at all. It could all be done from a pitch side box of monitors, beamed directly by Sky. They could stay off the pitch until an infringement and then dash on and chuck  a flag down like American Football. In fact they need not be referees with any qualification at all.

Unlike many of my sarcastic posts I am not being fanciful here. The pace of change led by the whims of broadcasters who are in thrall to technological gimmicks means this is far from fantasy. In a few years the game as we know it could have morphed into something quite unrecognisable to a fan from 1992 where the video becomes the reality. I really would not bet against artificial crowd noise either.

Quoted from moss_side_mariner

I’m watching channel 5

I assume you mean "The Railway 24/7" the episode where a load of Town fans get back on the train to Grimsby after we beat Scunny 2-0.

At least shut the door before you have a pee  

Quoted from promotion plaice

After what seems like an age English football is back Live on TV, just thought I would start a thread to discuss the games if anyone is interested.

I haven't got SKY so just started listening to Villa v Sheff Utd on 5 Live Sport.

Arsenal could do Liverpool a favour later with a win at Man City.

League Two play-offs tomorrow night.

To be honest, for a PL match , it was pretty dire, but I suppose they're not completely match fit, whatever about the skill level!

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

The officials might just as well not be on the field at all. It could all be done from a pitch side box of monitors, beamed directly by Sky. They could stay off the pitch until an infringement and then dash on and chuck  a flag down like American Football. In fact they need not be referees with any qualification at all.

Unlike many of my sarcastic posts I am not being fanciful here. The pace of change led by the whims of broadcasters who are in thrall to technological gimmicks means this is far from fantasy. In a few years the game as we know it could have morphed into something quite unrecognisable to a fan from 1992 where the video becomes the reality. I really would not bet against artificial crowd noise either.

American "football" is appallingly boring and devoid of any skill. Five referees utterly unnecessary, tiny bits of actual play and just throwing the ball at each other in a bastardised version of catch, while trying to kill each other. ugh!

Quoted from Chazzer

American "football" is appallingly boring and devoid of any skill. Five referees utterly unnecessary, tiny bits of actual play and just throwing the ball at each other in a bastardised version of catch, while trying to kill each other. ugh!

As someone who plays and coaches in the national and university league, I challenge you to go to Lincoln or Scunthorpe to actually give the game ago there is a massive amount and variety skills involved in multiple position. 5 Refs are completely necessary for covering the number of different points of action as fairly as possible and as for the brief moments of action thank god those 30 seconds between plays are much needed when you've got a 18+ stone guy trying to run through you (after all its described as being in a car crash every thirty seconds) as I often do and whats more great then playing a sport where you're trying to kill each other.

Quoted from Chazzer

American "football" is appallingly boring and devoid of any skill. Five referees utterly unnecessary, tiny bits of actual play and just throwing the ball at each other in a bastardised version of catch, while trying to kill each other. ugh!

Quite agree, it is a different animal altogether to our game. I suspect Sky and the PL would rather like the same sort of hamburger razzmatazz at the games though and some blokes in striped shirts running on to stop play on the say-so of a video ref.

Norwich v Southampton on now live on Pick if anyone wants to be bored senseless.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Norwich v Southampton on now live on Pick if anyone wants to be bored senseless.

Unbelievably ridiculous. Some “atmospheric” crowd noise going on all the time and the seats covered up like a poor David Copperfield magic trick. What are they playing at?

Quoted from Chazzer

American "football" is appallingly boring and devoid of any skill. Five referees utterly unnecessary, tiny bits of actual play and just throwing the ball at each other in a bastardised version of catch, while trying to kill each other. ugh!

I think if you take the time to understand them most sports, the ones with large crowds anyway, are worth watching. They appear boring and dull at first but as you get into them you begin to appreciate them more. It takes time and effort though. I haven't watched US Football for years, but I did once regularly watch it. Same with baseball. I have been dismissive of lots of sports over the years at one time or another, but I don't think there was a single one which was more down to me not understanding what it was all about once I started to get into it.

The bottom line is thousands of people are not going to turn up and watch something which is "appallingly boring and devoid of any skill" in your words.

Don’t like it without crowds. The FA cup final at Wembley will look more like Morecambe v Forest Green in a play off final

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

As someone who plays and coaches in the national and university league, I challenge you to go to Lincoln or Scunthorpe to actually give the game ago there is a massive amount and variety skills involved in multiple position. 5 Refs are completely necessary for covering the number of different points of action as fairly as possible and as for the brief moments of action thank god those 30 seconds between plays are much needed when you've got a 18+ stone guy trying to run through you (after all its described as being in a car crash every thirty seconds) as I often do and whats more great then playing a sport where you're trying to kill each other.

American football 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

VAR has ruined the game full stop.

It was obvious that the minute you took away the element of human error from the officials and replaced it with computer generated decisions, which in turn are subject to human error, the game as a spectacle would suffer.

They should have gone the other way and insisted the referees decisions were respected by players and managers,and reinforced the obvious point that refereeing errors had no more bearing on the out come of matches than a wayward back pass or a penalty miss or whatever.

When every player never makes a mistake, when a manager never makes a tactical gaffe would be the time to try to make the referees perfect.

They now have goal line technology and an army of studio referees with ultra HD graphics and they still can't get it right and all the fun has been sucked out of Premier league games.

This week has shown football without fans is soulless. Football without the referee being in sole charge has changed the game too much and taken the spontaneity and excitement out of it.

Depends on your viewpoint, if you are an armchair supporter paying your ridiculous monthly fee to the main sponsors then VAR can be a spectacle......however if you are a fan who attends the games and has no idea what is being debated/reviewed and why then it totally ruins the spectacle.......unfortunately as it is TV that rules the roost in that league then its the armchair supporter who gets preferential treatment and those in attendance get shafted.

Quoted from GrimRob

I think if you take the time to understand them most sports, the ones with large crowds anyway, are worth watching. They appear boring and dull at first but as you get into them you begin to appreciate them more. It takes time and effort though. I haven't watched US Football for years, but I did once regularly watch it. Same with baseball. I have been dismissive of lots of sports over the years at one time or another, but I don't think there was a single one which was more down to me not understanding what it was all about once I started to get into it.

The bottom line is thousands of people are not going to turn up and watch something which is "appallingly boring and devoid of any skill" in your words.

I always thought Basketball was the worst of the US sports. Growth hormone pumped lanky Football rejects endlessly back and forthing like a Newton’s Cradle of repetitive ejaculation.

Then I was in Texas last year and found some cheap NBA ‘nosebleed’ tickets for the Pistons at the Spurs and gave it a whirl. I didn’t want to watch it sober and found a craft brewery who provided a complimentary supporters bus to the game.

I don’t remember much about the journey to the match but the benefit of being leathered was avoiding the $12 warm, frothy Buds in plastic beakers.

I was sceptical but I really enjoyed it. It was a bit cheesy with the pre and mid-match entertainment and definitely family orientated. The local Texans would have got a shock if you took them to a Town away match (I’m looking at you, Bradford away, with the firecrackers and air of menace).

Watching it live you could see the talent and skill of the players. I don’t regard myself as a basketball fan but I certainly gained an appreciation for it.

We got lost leaving the stadium and trying to find the bus back but the driver waited for us for about 30 mins. We were welcomed back on the bus like heroes. I felt like one of those tourists at Stamford Bridge or the Emirates who you always catch brushing their teeth in the crowd at PL matches.

I’d definitely watch some of the other US sports live, given a chance, although you can’t beat Macclesfield vs Grimsby in the rain for a bit of gritty realism.

Thought Norwich were doomed before tonight(not rocker science), but good grief after that performance, I would fear for there championship survival..even Dull would of give them a game.

HT....Spurs 1-0 Man U

Haven't seen it but Radio 5 Live saying mistake by David de Gea for the Spurs goal and Dean Henderson should be given a chance next season.

VAR rightly rules out a second penalty for Man Utd for all those VAR haters  

not a bad game that in the end.

Kane looks finished though

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

I always thought Basketball was the worst of the US sports. Growth hormone pumped lanky Football rejects endlessly back and forthing like a Newton’s Cradle of repetitive ejaculation.

Beautiful.

Post Covid I’m passing that off as my own at dinner parties and other social gatherings.

Just announced on EFL on Quest that Ian Holloway is the pundit on next week's show.

Now got Sky Sports.

I'm watching the Cardiff v Leeds game, big game for both clubs.

Looking forward to the Merseyside derby tonight.

Cardiff score, good finish but poor defending by Leeds.

The closest to a decent game Ive seen since the start up was City-Arsenal and that only because of the mass failure by Sideshow Bob, The games have all looked like pre season friendlies, Hardly any goalmouth action.  
PS. have not seen all the games

Quoted from promotion plaice

Now got Sky Sports.

I'm watching the Cardiff v Leeds game, big game for both clubs.

Looking forward to the Merseyside derby tonight.

Enjoy the Merseyside borefest?

Are people reallt paying hard earned cash to watch a practice match with white noise and big coloured  blankets? Sky &BT must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Enjoy the Merseyside borefest?

Are people reallt paying hard earned cash to watch a practice match with white noise and big coloured  blankets? Sky &BT must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Well you must be!

Quoted from supertown

Well you must be!

Definitely not!
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Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Enjoy the Merseyside borefest?

Are people reallt paying hard earned cash to watch a practice match with white noise and big coloured  blankets? Sky &BT must be laughing all the way to the bank.

No, because it was on freeview!

League Two - Play Offs

Exeter score an early goal against Colchester to make it 1-1 on aggregate.....game on.

Now 2-2 on aggregate.

Now 2-2 on aggregate.

Now gone into extra-time

3-2 to Exeter in 111th min.

Cheltenham getting battered 3-0 at home by Northampton with 10 minutes to go (3-2 on agg)

The Cobblers are 3-2 up on aggregate late in the game  after losing
the first leg 0-2 at home!

Who'd have thought it, after losing 2-0 at home to Cheltenham in the first leg Northampton are now 3 nil up at Cheltenham in the second leg and heading for Wembley.
Cheltenham are the biggest cheats I've seen at BP in recent seasons (time wasting and feigning injury) so happy days.

Northampton it is!

The winner was hilarious  

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Northampton it is!

You have to feel for the players in a way; to walk out at Wembley, the pinnacle of your career, only to look towards the end where thousands of your fans should be to find nothing but empty seats. Welcome to the life of a Forest Green footballer...

Norwich really need a win to stand any chance of staying in the Prem.

Latest....  Norwich 0-0 Everton

BBC 2 then second-half BBC 1.


Man Utd beating Sheff Utd 2-0, not a great return back to football for Henderson and Co.

All those artificial spectators cheering- what a load of bolllox. I have sent 5000 photos of myself to B.P. in case they are needed for our 1st home game

On this showing I reckon we could give Norwich a game and when I say we I mean an all-star "Fishy" select eleven    

Quoted from promotion plaice

Norwich really need a win to stand any chance of staying in the Prem.

Latest....  Norwich 0-0 Everton

BBC 2 then second-half BBC 1.


Man Utd beating Sheff Utd 2-0, not a great return back to football for Henderson and Co.

Surely Henderson wouldn't have been allowed to play against his parent club.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Surely Henderson wouldn't have been allowed to play against his parent club.

Yeah Les, never thought of that     

Liverpool 3 up against Palace so as it stands if Man City lose at Chelsea tomorrow night Liverpool will finally officially win the Premier League for the first time.

Amazing that it's taken them nearly 30 years to do it after the way they dominated English football in the seventies and eighties.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Yeah Les, never thought of that     

Liverpool 3 up against Palace so as it stands if Man City lose at Chelsea tomorrow night Liverpool will finally officially win the Premier League for the first time.

Amazing that it's taken them nearly 30 years to do it after the way they dominated English football in the seventies and eighties.

Or draw

Quoted from Les Brechin

Surely Henderson wouldn't have been allowed to play against his parent club.

You're right, he wasn't allowed to play.

Quoted from promotion plaice

On this showing I reckon we could give Norwich a game and when I say we I mean an all-star "Fishy" select eleven    

Sorry P.P. you haven't made the starting 11 - fancy warming the bench

Quoted from golfer

Sorry P.P. you haven't made the starting 11 - fancy warming the bench

Taking charge of the bucket of water and the sponge is about my limit these days.

Must say it didn't do much for my broken leg at Bradley in the Sunday League though