Oh no wait Konchesky was gone in the summer. Still though. Ridiculous.
That poor kid could’ve had a lifelong reminder of the time his team got tonked 5-0 at home.
De Gea is good too. Plus Mata seems well nice.
Bit confused by this piece… are they talking about themselves, or the chelsea board? Can’t remember the last time a prem team chairman, owner or board put a statement out in public saying that they’re over the moon with the job their coach is doing? Chelsea already put a statement out backing Conte last week?
tbf he has come back from the dead before and Brazil’s well into that story so…
yeah pretty much all German clubs have this, for instance die Ostkurve at Hertha (who are a bit shite in my opinion but still)
The problem at hertha is they rarely fill the stadium cause it’s so massive. Also running tracks completely ruin football grounds atmosphere
Arsenal are going to lose tonight.
mmm dunno, it’s not as big as Dortmund or Munich and only a bit bigger than Schalke, Hamburg or Stuttgart, none of whom have any problem filling their stadiums, Hertha’s just got a bit of a nothing-y fanbase, partly to do with history, partly money. I don’t think the atmosphere is that bad, for instance it was pretty rocking at the Dortmund and Liverpool games but a lot of that was to do with having plenty of away support all over the stadium to actually fill it up.
The Ostkurve are alright they just don’t really compare to most other teams’s support in my experience
or rather, the atmosphere can be good depending on the game, don’t think the running tracks are that much of an issue because it’s such an impressive building.
I was trying to figure this out earlier… Östersund have had a great run and on home ‘soil’ could prove to be a tricky tie for Arsenal. Then again I could see Arsenal totally wiping the floor with them…
…I guess it just depends on which Arsenal turn up. Will it be the one that puts 5 past Everton & 4 past Palace or the one that loses away to Bournemouth & Swansea
who knows?
Oh aye, meant size in comparison to the size of fan base. Can’t think of another perennially midtable team in Europe with a capacity anywhere near 75000 (emirates is about 60 heyoooo)
Yeah - they could turn up and storm it, but I think the conditions might well get to them. Also presumably the Jamkraft has a plastic pitch? Never seems to go well!
Aye, right. Its fucking stupid though, Hertha should by all rights be like PSG
Yeah it’s konstgräs
it’s a hard one to call, but like you say I can’t imagine the Arsenal are going to enjoy playing in -3°C/´-4°C though
The Östersunds story’s absolutely lovely, but the ‘Why isn’t Potter getting interviewed for Premier League jobs?’ stuff is absolutely ridiculous. He’s in charge of the fifth best side in Europe’s 22nd strongest top flight league (in reality lots of the second leagues from mainland Europe will be ahead of that as well).
The question should be what can lower Football League and non-league clubs here learn from the model. Parachuting him into a West Brom or Stoke would be a disaster, and being brutally honest, completely undeserved (though no less so than a roundabout of old pals rotating those jobs).
Not sure if you’ve ever been to football games but it’s pretty obvious fans should never be allowed to congregate, ever.
Very much enjoying the Pogba/Mou stuff. Wonder how ugly it will get
Totally agree. It says a lot about English football that the reaction is ‘poach him and take him as ours’ rather than ‘learn from it’.
I think a lot of Allsvenskan football is about League 1 level, from what I’ve seen (the top, say, 4 clubs are better obviously)