August Football Thread - finally we're back

That lad with the big hair is never getting a haircut.

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Absolutely crushing to go and check the fixtures and find out they’ve got a cruise to a 2-0 home win against Scott Brave Parker’s Burnley on the weekend. Awful

From xG bottom to zZ top

This is what we’ve been saying man. Comfortable three points vs Burnley, the bravest of brave 1-0s at the Emptihad, and everything’ll be sunshine and rainbows for the Noshman once more.

Happy to take it on the chin to keep him in the job a little while longer honestly.

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Definition of a ‘whoever wins, we lose’ fixture

What makes you think they’ll beat Burnley when they can’t beat Grimsby or Fulham?

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No more AI slop no matter how ‘ironic’ please.

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Really hope he has the full Thom Browne range on underneath just so the 4 stripes are on every item of clothing underneath the coat.

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https://x.com/leathergregory/status/1960791292335583671?t=DL-HizT-t4M2mYcwWblgKA&s=19

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He’ll still get service though

@Parsefone Bollocking accepted! It’s awful isn’t it?

Its proliferation means the death of beautiful, photoshop images like this, which imo are the lifeblood of British football.

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Today I learned Aaron Ramsey is taking an extended vacation in the Mexican league.

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Theres a reasonable argument to be made that he could see his half time talk hadn’t worked, and he took the time to sit down, think it through and make the changes that led to them equalising.

A lot of the reaction to how he’s done that is just basic tribalism, but also theres an undercurrent of anti-intellectual pointing and laughing at the egghead who loves his tactics board, and PFM, toxic masculinity, that would be licking his arse if he’d gotten the same result by standing on the touchline, shouting his way to an anuerysm, having headbutted one of the players he was subbing off.

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Yeah, perhaps

But there’s also just the pure aesthetic delight of a forlorn & rain-soaked boss of a billion pound team rearranging deckchairs on the titanic

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Yeah it’s all about the rain imo. Same as McLaren’s umbrella. Just a very, very funny and apt image

Also not sure he’d have got masses of credit for sticking slabhead up top and losing to Grimsby anyway, regardless of how he’d masterminded it

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The same as the wally with the brolly innit. Objectively nothing wrong with what either of them were doing in the moment, but it’s impossible not to wind up as a joke when you look like a drowned rat while you’re team is getting humiliated.

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Unbelievable

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nice profile pic / post interface

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