Rangers 2 - 0 Hearts

Bollocks.

I hope Paul Hartley gets fit soon. We need him badly.

Nico Adie wrote:Rangers 2 - 0 Hearts

Bollocks.

I hope Paul Hartley gets fit soon. We need him badly.

If I tried to explain how much I hate Rangers, it would probably crash the EA server.

Better luck next time.

Hope your management situation is more stable this year. Was very dissapointed to see Burley go. Your mini-Abramovich has brought some much needed money to the club, but he's a bit of a maniac as well isn't he?

West Ham

We did well today. It will all change after Christmas.

Defeat for Leeds today. Sounded undeserved on the radio.

Tommy, I'd like to see Blackwell with a 'proper' team. Some blowhard on a Leeds forum has been talking about getting Ranieri in and giving him cash to spend - wha? We got money? I think Blackwell deserves a reward for getting us through this patch, and that reward should be to still be manager when we've actually got a proper organisation in place.

There is a massive advert for skips on the side of the East Stand at the moment. I work for the planning department and we reckon it needs planning permission, but noone's saying owt because we're Leeds fans... and it's better than the Lurpak Stand of a couple of years ago. The South stand is closed because it's full of asbestos. Great.

As for racism... well I was young but Leeds was something of a focal point in the eighties. Not the only ones, but Leeds had to deal with it more than most. I've not been as lucky as you; I stood behind a cockney Leeds fan when we played Partizan Belgrade who spent the whole game yelling 'Bomb the foreign cunts!'. He reckoned he was ex-services, therefore he was allowed to shout these things. Hearteningly, he was shouted down by the people around him. But one of the reasons I don't go anymore, apart from cost, was being sat in the midst of people who would mutter 'useless black bastard' under their breath.

Oh, and the awful people who used to tap their watch and stare at me if I missed the kickoff. They bought their programme in the club shop and kept it in a carrier bag. I stood next to them for a year. They moaned constantly, and I hated them.

The Championship has rekindled my interest, too. The Reid season nearly ended football for me. Leeds are going to be crap for years, and I'm sort of comfortable with that. In for the long haul, and so on... took eight years to get back last time!

And, I really like this thread. It's nice to be able to talk football with intelligent folks. I'd like to see this thread go through the season - it's good to see updates on folks' teams and chat about what's going down. Oh, and go search on YouTube for Johan Cruyff. Football as art.

242sumner wrote:Belive It or not, I support Bordeaux.
I like so much the wines poduced in this area, that I`ve decided I`d sopport Its soccer team too.

Did the fact that they are managed by Ricardo help you to pick them?

Preston North End

Founding member of the football league.

First team to do the league and cup double. Because of that, if we so choose we never have to wear an away kit. We can demand to wear our home kit no matter where we are playing.

David Beckham played for us.



We sell all our good players.

We drew 1-1 today against QPR and we were shit!

daniel robert chapman wrote:Tommy, I'd like to see Blackwell with a 'proper' team. Some blowhard on a Leeds forum has been talking about getting Ranieri in and giving him cash to spend - wha? We got money? I think Blackwell deserves a reward for getting us through this patch, and that reward should be to still be manager when we've actually got a proper organisation in place.

actually i agree. now i think about it half our squad is injured and cardiff are our bogey team. we've never beaten them since being relegated.
derry, butler and stone were all playing with injuries and sullivan, nicholls, and cresswell are all still out. plus horsfield being banned and healy being knackered from international duty. blaming blackwell for that seems pretty silly i guess. i wish we'd kept hulse and livermore though.

is the forum waccoe? i can't post on there. half of the users want blackwell out and half don't consider those that want blackwell out to be real fans. they basically just snipe at each other all day. i don't have the patience anymore. i get angry about it for a couple of hours but i forget about it the next day y'know?

today i joined a fantasy premiership league after being coerced and decide on this team -

it's entirely ex-leeds players who still play in the premiership.
not that i'm bitter but we'll see how they do. i should really have had fowler and pennant but i over-looked them. still, milner, bowyer and hulse did the business today.

Sly Bug wrote:

242sumner wrote:Belive It or not, I support Bordeaux.
I like so much the wines poduced in this area, that I`ve decided I`d sopport Its soccer team too.

Did the fact that they are managed by Ricardo help you to pick them?

Ricardo Teixeira? No,It didn`t.Not at all! I don`t even like him.
There are so many things about France and the french culture that I love.Some of my favorite places,favorite writers(Michel Onfray,Michel Houellebecq,Andre comte-Sponville),not to mention the movie makers, the painters and,of course the gastronomie and the wines.
I also read the books of Peter Mayle about France(A year in Provence,tojour Provence,Encore Provence,French lessons,etc.)
How could I not support a french team too?

tommydski wrote:today i joined a fantasy premiership league after being coerced and decide on this team

Feel free to have that team join the league I posted the details for earlier on this thread. Just me and a couple of friends from around the globe.

Weighing in on the whole Blackwell debate. I think it's ridiculous that some Leeds fans are already chanting for him to be out. He took you to the playoffs last season which is pretty much all anyone could have asked of him given the financial situation at Elland Road.

It took Warnock, what? 3 tries to get Sheffield into the Premiership, but he finally did it, and I imagine that Blackwell can eventually do the same if Leeds can get it's house in order.

Not everyone can be the reincarnation of Don Revie, but an unlucky start to the season is no reason to wield the axe.

rashiedgarrison wrote:West Ham

We did well today. It will all change after Christmas.

Just saw the replay of the West Ham - Charlton game. Surprised you didn't win by more.

Really enjoyed West Ham's football last season, and I think I said earlier that Pardew is quality.

Also, won't you be getting Ashton back sometime around Christmas? That can only be a boost for you.