Today’s Footy (12/08)

[RVclaret]

Anyone just see Saka’s goal? Wow.

[Vegas Claret]

and Martinelli's skill for the first, pure class from the Gooners

[Culmclaret]

Looks like we could move off the bottom by 2.30!

[ksrclaret]

Watching Coventry vs Middlesbrough and Middlesbrough look a shadow of the team they were last season.

[RVclaret]

Watching Coventry vs Middlesbrough and Middlesbrough look a shadow of the team they were last season.

Thought the same when I had it on for 30 minutes.

4 best players from last season taken out and they’ve had a poor window.

[Pickles]

Tough game for Forest today and just as with us last night, you can't look too deeply into it because of the opposition. But I think they'll struggle this season.

[EarbyClaret]

What's happening with Akpom - assume he's going/gone

[Vegas Claret]

What's happening with Akpom - assume he's going/gone

he's been injured

[Vegas Claret]

although they just said now he is fit Boro have received bids for him, I think Sheff United want him

[Pickles]

I think Leeds have bid £8m for Akpom.

[Woonderbah]

Tella up against Barnes

[Penwortham_Claret]

I think we can add Forest to the teams we should finish above based on todays performance

[chekhov]

Where’s Tiger76??

[RVclaret]

Forest get one back, good counter that

[Vegas Claret]

I think we can add Forest to the teams we should finish above based on todays performance

they are no mugs at all, we have it all on to stay up

[Vegas Claret]

Forest get one back, good counter that

excellent

[FCBurnley]

Forest giving Arsenal a tough time. Wood on now

[FCBurnley]

No pre game knee at Rovers game !

[Pickles]

Wood on now

They haven't been that good

[AfloatinClaret]

I think we can add Forest to the teams we should finish above based on todays performance

They were already on my list.

[BurnleyFC]

Going to be honest and miserable here.

All over again I’m already starting to hate the coverage, hype, favouritism and faux excitement from pundits and commentators alike with regards to Premier League football.

[Spijed]

Need as many draws today in the Prem.

[Spijed]

Brighton 1-0 Luton

[Pickles]

Going to be honest and miserable here.

All over again I’m already starting to hate the coverage, hype, favouritism and faux excitement from pundits and commentators alike with regards to Premier League football.

Oh the worst part of being good in the Championship is it means you've got to watch the Premier League the next season.

Pundits saying "top top player", "top top manager", "top top stadium" on repeat... and all the weird little Arsenal fans from, I don't know, Shrewsbury for some reason, who can only speak about football if it includes FIFA card ratings.

And why is everything "iconic"?

[Vegas Claret]

Everton have a goal ruled out, farce of a decision

[ElectroClaret]

Rovers losing

[Spiral]

Watching footy scores come in on a Saturday with a dodgy stream of a game while out in your back garden when the stress of Burnley is out of the way for the weekend is just mint. I miss this as much as I do Burnley itself during the off season.

[BurnleyFC]

Oh the worst part of being good in the Championship is it means you've got to watch the Premier League the next season.

Pundits saying "top top player", "top top manager", "top top stadium" on repeat... and all the weird little Arsenal fans from, I don't know, Shrewsbury for some reason, who can only speak about football if it includes FIFA card ratings.

And why is everything "iconic"?

The oracle that is Clinton Morrison has just informed us that the Sheffield United/Crystal Palace game is “not lacking no quality”.

I think he means it’s ****, but can’t be 100% sure.

[Commy]

Rovers losing

After missing a pen

[ksrclaret]

Starting watching Soccer Saturday but it’s not good at all. Clinton Morrison is just utterly awful.

Switched to Radio 5 Live now. Much better stuff.

[RVclaret]

Starting watching Soccer Saturday but it’s not good at all. Clinton Morrison is just utterly awful.

Switched to Radio 5 Live now. Much better stuff.

Morrison is woeful isn’t he? Painful to listen to.

[Vegas Claret]

The oracle that is Clinton Morrison has just informed us that the Sheffield United/Crystal Palace game is “not lacking no quality”.

I think he means it’s ****, but can’t be 100% sure.

brilliant

[Pickles]

The oracle that is Clinton Morrison has just informed us that the Sheffield United/Crystal Palace game is “not lacking no quality”.

I think he means it’s ****, but can’t be 100% sure.

Yup, sounds fairly typical!

I dunno if I'm in the minority but usually I much prefer listening to journalists talk about the game than ex-pros and managers.

[IPAclaret]

Clinton Morrison does seem to lack the most basic skills required for a sports presenter ... that being the ability to form a coherent and insightful sentence on a regular basis. Bless him.

And that's before you throw the walking dictionary that is Paul Merson into the equation.

Just makes you wonder how they got through the interview process. The mind boggles.

[Spiral]

Maybe Sky just knows that a lot of their audience (me included) don't mind having the kind of people you would happily have a pint with in the pub (okay, maybe Merson is a bad example here, but then point stands) giving coverage rather than some stuck up bore writing for the Telegraph or the Guardian with his RP and zoom calling in front of his bookcase full of managerial autobiographies and nothing else. This is supposed to be fun, not dry-serious. People want to suck the life out of footy coverage - at least in a Soccer Saturday kind of programme - in demanding insight reign supreme over passion, however excited and inarticulate that passion may become in the heat of the moment. If you're bringing scores in on Soccer Saturday the point is to give a rough idea of what's going on, who's winning, how the teams are playing, and how the game feels. We don't need to know whether teams are defending corners zonal or man to man, the Mersons and the Morrisons are essentially your mate at the game texting you updates. I don't want Henry fking Winter texting me updates.

[ElectroClaret]

Rotherham 2 Rovers 0

Millers down to ten men unfortunately.

[FCBurnley]

Watching Saints v Norwich. 3-3. Tella just looks unhappy. No celebration when Adam’s Barnes just scored but disallowed for offside. Close call

[Shaun1983]

Rotherham 2 Rovers 0

Millers down to ten men unfortunately.

Two yellows, first for excessive celebration and second for asking for bar stewards player to be carded for bringing him down.
Szmodics already on a yellow kicked ball away but no second yellow card.

[Casper2]

Pen to Brighton

[Casper2]

Scores

[AGENT_CLARET]

Pen to Brighton

Never a pen, how do your legs go from under you when someone places their arm across your chest, it's a joke

[RVclaret]

Everton 1 down home to Fulham..

[ElectroClaret]

Bournemouth Everton Sheffield United and Luton all losing.

[taio]

The pen given against Dunk for handball is ridiculous

[AGENT_CLARET]

Luton given a penalty VAR is a joke

[RVclaret]

The pen given against Dunk for handball is ridiculous

It really is

[simonclaret]

Rotherham 2-2 Blackburn

[AGENT_CLARET]

Bournemouth Everton Sheffield United and Luton all losing.

Plus Forest losing earlier

[Casper2]

Never a pen, how do your legs go from under you when someone places their arm across your chest, it's a joke

Nothing changes

[ElectroClaret]

Rotherham 2-2 Blackburn

Thought that might happen when yer man got sent off.