The Round Ball Game

[EdgeleyRob]

Forum football news.

Tuesday.

FA Cup 3rd round.

Birmingham City 3 Bristol Rovers 0. Concentrate on the league.
Sheffield Wednesday 4 Macclesfield Town 1. Rochdale away in round 4.

League.

Hednesford 3 Stockport County 1. Recent good run ends.

Today.

Sunderland 2 Southampton 2.Saints dominated the first half and should have been out of sight,let a 2-0 lead slip,9th.
Crystal Palace 1 Stoke City 0. Super win,Pulis got one over on his old club,out of the bottom 3.
West Ham United 1 Newcastle United 3.Great away win,remain 8th.
Aberdeen 0 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1.Good win v the 2nd placed side,up to 4th.
Hibernian 2 St Mirren 3.Managed to hang on after being 3-0 up at the break,8th.
Partick Thistle 1 Kilmarnock 1.Conceded last gasp goal,drop to 11th.
Derby County 1 Brighton 0. Slipped out of the play off places.
Leeds United 0 Leicester City 1.Remain top,clear by 5 points.
Burnley 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1.Useful point,19th.
Preston North End 1 Coventry City 1.Last minute equaliser,11th.
Fleetwood Town 2 Hartlepool United 0.Player sent off in the 2nd minute!!,16th.
Scunthorpe United 0 Wimbledon 0.A good point v the topof the league side,up to 14th.
York City 0 Bristol Rovers 0. Forum derby,York mid table,Rovers just outside the relegation zone.
Hereford United 4 Southport 1.Super win,16th.
Whitehawk 0 Chelmsford 4.Terrific away day,back on track,mid table.

Crawley Town v Wolves,Luton Town v Wrexham,Biggleswade Town v Truro City and Guisley v Stockport County,all postponed.

Chelsea v manyoo is tomorrow

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Allez Les Bleus!

[EdgeleyRob]

Allez Les Bleus!

Tell yer what,I'd luv it,luv it!!

[antongould]

Cheers as always ER what's life like in NonLeagueLand?

[teamsaint]

Thanks for the excellent roundup ER, great stuff.

Not too pleased to see Sunderland pulling two back, but actually really pleased to see Adam Johnson playing well.
He's a really entertaining footballer, who has much potential still to fulfill.

Good game at the riverside, with surely a unique moment when Saints had two players stretchered off at the same time. Holding onto a point was a reasonable achievement from there.

[johncorrigan]

Hibernian 2 St Mirren 3.Managed to hang on after being 3-0 up at the break,8th.

Brazil in the first half, Bhutan in the second Rob!...finger nails down to quick by end. Thanks for the excellent round up as aye!

[EdgeleyRob]

Cheers as always ER what's life like in NonLeagueLand?

Depressing.

[johncorrigan]

Depressing.

It's not that much better in LeagueLand, Rob!

I usually keep Guardian's Barney Ronay for a Sunday - it seems to cheer the post-Saturday doldrums. This week he's talking about Wenger continuing attempt 'to paint the world a shade of attacking midfielder' this time by trying to sign the presently injured Shalke attacking midfielder, Julian Draxler.
Here's a couple of his out takes:
'Not that this is the big thing about Draxler to Arsenal. The real point is that he isn't a striker. Such has been the chorus of complaint, the barking sense of absolute conviction that Wenger must, must buy a striker that, as the transfer window flutters by, one thing above all seems patently clear. He isn't going to buy a striker. It is best just to get used to this fact, to acknowledge that this is a man who would rather die on his feet in the throes of a soft-shoed sideways dink, than live on his knees if that means being obliged to perform a series of hopeful diving headers.'

'There is a sustained plan here, the entirely logical behaviour of a man for whom there is only one answer to every question – when he has a burst pipe Wenger doesn't call a plumber: he calls an attacking midfielder'

and finally:

[johncorrigan]

Depressing.

It's not that much better in LeagueLand, Rob!

I usually keep Guardian's Barney Ronay for a Sunday - it seems to cheer the post-Saturday doldrums. This week he's talking about Wenger's continuing attempt 'to paint the world a shade of attacking midfielder' , this time by trying to sign the presently injured Shalke attacking midfielder, Julian Draxler.
Here's a couple of his out takes:
'Not that this is the big thing about Draxler to Arsenal. The real point is that he isn't a striker. Such has been the chorus of complaint, the barking sense of absolute conviction that Wenger must, must buy a striker that, as the transfer window flutters by, one thing above all seems patently clear. He isn't going to buy a striker. It is best just to get used to this fact, to acknowledge that this is a man who would rather die on his feet in the throes of a soft-shoed sideways dink, than live on his knees if that means being obliged to perform a series of hopeful diving headers.'

'There is a sustained plan here, the entirely logical behaviour of a man for whom there is only one answer to every question – when he has a burst pipe Wenger doesn't call a plumber: he calls an attacking midfielder'

'As for Lukas Podolski, I have a theory there is some terrible misunderstanding here, that he hasn't actually mustered up the courage to "come out" as a striker at Arsenal, that he turned up at training and just joined in with what everyone else was doing, like arriving in the office canteen on your first day at work and on a whim pretending to have a broad Mexican accent, and somehow finding yourself still doing it three years later.'

...and finally:
'Draxler or no Draxler, there is a self-propelling majesty to Wenger's refusal to bend. He might have given in, rushed out in his overcoat and come back looking flushed 20 minutes later with a parcel containing Demba Ba, Loïc Rémy and a small angry dog.
'

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jan/17/arsene-wenger-julian-draxler-arsenal

[EdgeleyRob]

It's not that much better in LeagueLand, Rob!

I usually keep Guardian's Barney Ronay for a Sunday - it seems to cheer the post-Saturday doldrums. This week he's talking about Wenger's continuing attempt 'to paint the world a shade of attacking midfielder' , this time by trying to sign the presently injured Shalke attacking midfielder, Julian Draxler.
Here's a couple of his out takes:
'Not that this is the big thing about Draxler to Arsenal. The real point is that he isn't a striker. Such has been the chorus of complaint, the barking sense of absolute conviction that Wenger must, must buy a striker that, as the transfer window flutters by, one thing above all seems patently clear. He isn't going to buy a striker. It is best just to get used to this fact, to acknowledge that this is a man who would rather die on his feet in the throes of a soft-shoed sideways dink, than live on his knees if that means being obliged to perform a series of hopeful diving headers.'

'There is a sustained plan here, the entirely logical behaviour of a man for whom there is only one answer to every question – when he has a burst pipe Wenger doesn't call a plumber: he calls an attacking midfielder'

'As for Lukas Podolski, I have a theory there is some terrible misunderstanding here, that he hasn't actually mustered up the courage to "come out" as a striker at Arsenal, that he turned up at training and just joined in with what everyone else was doing, like arriving in the office canteen on your first day at work and on a whim pretending to have a broad Mexican accent, and somehow finding yourself still doing it three years later.'

...and finally:
'Draxler or no Draxler, there is a self-propelling majesty to Wenger's refusal to bend. He might have given in, rushed out in his overcoat and come back looking flushed 20 minutes later with a parcel containing Demba Ba, Loïc Rémy and a small angry dog.
'
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...raxler-arsenal

Excellent.

Ooops almost forgot

Chelsea 3 manyoo 1. Three horse race ?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yipee ahem

[EdgeleyRob]

Extraordinary game on TV tonight,manyoo v Sunderland.
Anyone watching ?

[teamsaint]

Extraordinary game on TV tonight,manyoo v Sunderland.
Anyone watching ?

yup, brilliant stuff...

amazing. The beautiful game never ceases to amaze.
Sunderland deserved that on tonights effort.

awful penalty taking !!

[EdgeleyRob]

yup, brilliant stuff...

amazing. The beautiful game never ceases to amaze.
Sunderland deserved that on tonights effort.

awful penalty taking !!

Yep,what a strange shoot out.
Well chuffed for Sunderland.
Same again in the final please !

[Alison]

Poor old Moyesy. Looks ill.

Well done Sunderland.