Football – 2023/24 Season

I can only remember cyclist and cancer survivor Geoff Thomas elicited similar chuckles from the opposition when he came on. Seem to recall him hitting the corner flag with a shot just outside the box.

Oh dear maguire.   While it’s not right when a crowd’s banter turns to abuse… its never going to end well when you get your mum to defend you!

‘ now now! You’re all very naughty! Stop calling my Harry nasty names,  he doesn’t like it!’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-66805951

She’s not planning on going on hunger strike in the local church, is she?

To be fair to Maguire, much as I deride him for being completely crap, I have a certain amount of sympathy

When I heard the rumours we were signing him I thought… yeah 15-20 million or so as a stop gap to shore up the defence until we can get a proper world class central defender like Varane or Martinez in

But when they said they’d paid 80 million … seriously WTF?!!! Are they insane?!! YOU JUST BROKE THE TRANSFER RECORD FOR ****ING SLABHEAD?!!!

Then they made him club captain, cue double WTF?!!! I’m sure that went down like a bucket of cold sick in the dressing room

And since then the script has pretty much written itself

The worst signing ever made in football history and will stand as a testimony to the utter clowns in charge of transfers at Man Yoo

He’s a laughing stock and so are United for creating the ridiculous situation in the first place

The worst signing ever made in football history and will stand as a testimony to the utter clowns in charge of transfers at Man Yoo

Tbf there’s stiff competition.

It’s a hotly contested mantle indeed, in which United have been at the top of the chart. Him and Pogba have to be the head and shoulders above the rest though?

In transfer fees and wages, Pogba cost us 350 million quid, so I reckon he might edge it over Maguire

Can you think of any worse?

Him and Pogba have to be the head and shoulders above the rest though?

Oh sure, but give it time and Sancho will be joining them.

Fair point. Then there’s Van de Beek. United seem to excel at wrecking promising careers by signing players without the remotest idea what to do with them

Sancho training with the kids as he’s refused to apologise. Antony’s future uncertain given serious allegations l. Maguire persona non grata. United spent £250m plus on those three!

It’s like they pick names out of a hat

The Sancho one is weird, he was a model player in Germany, but since going to ManU, he struggled as did all at ManU, and since Ten Hag has arrived, Sancho just hasn’t been one of the managers picks. He definitely needs out of there, not sure i’m a fan of how Ten Hag operates either.

Harry is probably thinking about his retrial in Greece…

Nah, still think Tomas Brolin was the worst signing ever. He arrived ready to represent Leeds in sumo.

Harry is probably thinking about his retrial in Greece…

Probably one of the few places he would get a trial at the moment.

Looks like trouble is brewing with Utd’s new keeper too…

They really are the gift that keeps giving.

@binners – Veron was awful for your lot and he cost a lot of money

Mind you Shevchenko at Chelsea was crap too

And Torres at Chelsea, best bit of business from Liverpool that!

Have you forgotten about Coutinho

Ha, true!!

And Torres at Chelsea, best bit of business from Liverpool that!

Well it would have been if they hadn’t immediately blown most of the transfer fee on Andy Carrol

Best sale ever – they bought Allison and Van Dijk off the back of it.

We’ve got Brighton at home on Saturday the 16th, 3 o clock kick off. A game we’ll likely lose (Mitoma and Co must be itching to get stuck into a central defensive pairing of Harry Maguire and Johnny Evans). I can imagine things will get a bit lively. Not that the Glazers dare come anywhere near Old Trafford, obviously

You got it half right, they loved getting stuck into Lindelof and Martinez 😂

Some late surprises, Spurs looked doomed then get a win, Villa as well, there’s about 8 teams fighting for the top 4 this season early on, yeah the usual ones will drop off, but they’re all taking points off each other now!

Incredible!  I was at NWHL today and wow! I reckon motd tonight is Worth a watch. That was exciting! I’ve never heard such a loud noise as when we scored the winner! Crowd went insane and staid that way for 10 minutes after full time! Ended with Robbie and Angels.   Something different and exciting is happening at spurs this season, we still have lots of faults but they are different. They had real desire! The effort just to beat Sheffield United and the joy! Was a full 11 man plus subs hug at the corner flag for the winner.  Maddison, sarr and bissouma look a great middle and when richarlison came on it felt like a team they had real fight.  I was also very very excited by brennan Johnson,  he will score a lot of goals.   Now let’s see if we can upset the Woolwich!

@argee – the only positives I can take, yet again,  are Mrs Binners winnings

“we’re going to get battered by Brighton today. I can see it coming”

”yeah, course you are, but the odds are still 3/1 so obviously I’ve stuck a good few quid on it”

Marital bliss, eh? I just wish she didn’t laugh so hard when Brighton got their third. Mind you… if she didn’t, then that could be deemed as sympathy, or pity, and that’s even worse

Good win for Reading which goes a small way towards revenge for THAT 1995 playoff.

we’re going to need a lot more for revenge for that.

the only positives I can take, yet again, are Mrs Binners winnings

You need to get her doing the lottery!

What, or where is NWHL please neilnevill?

Bloody acronyms will be the death of me!

<p style=”text-align: right;”>New White Hart Lane – Spurs new ground.</p>

Ah! Many thanks Philby.

Spurs are doing well, hated seeing Ange leave us, but looks like he’s doing similar there that he did up in Scotland, today’s game reminded me of a couple of the things that made him special for us, teams don’t stop fighting until the whistle, and it’s all about the team, not individuals. Long way to go, but it’ll be interesting to see how they do this season, other top teams seem a bit disjointed, Newcastle tonight were lucky, they’ve not done that well this year, Villa seem a bit hit and miss as well, ManU and Chelsea are all over the place, with Man City looking like winners already, as you just know Liverpool and Arsenal will go through bad spells.

Absolutely argee! I have never seen a spurs team fight like that. There’s something very different,  emotional and gritty.   I mean Poch got them to play to the end,  I’ll never forget the cl semi 2nd leg at ajax, but it felt at times like a few players were true controlled aggression….****s who’d willingly **** someone proper,  (Romero and Sarr) and they had the whole team as a unit ready to tie to toe with Sheffield.  Richy is always full of heart so the last few minutes with him on… it felt like he’d score or get sent off.  Very intense, we could all sense it and the outpouring from crowd and players when the winner went in was incredible!  I know we are still full of faults,  still barely even wip, but it feels special at spurs now.

Pleeeeease let’s take that to Woolwich!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/sep/16/chelsea-roman-abramovich-football-transfers

And yeah sorry.  Levy still awaits a£1Bn naming rights deal so we aren’t yet the Nike stadium and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium might be the official name for now,  but to us is still the lane, the new WHL.

Levy still awaits a£1Bn naming rights deal

To be fair he also awaits putting something in the trophy cabinet too.

Yeah but he only really cares about one of those

Great performance against Man U today. First 15 minutes we had to weather a bit of a storm but after Welbeck’s goal there was only one team in it IMO. All that with 6 changes from the side that beat the Geordies.
Then Thursday night we’re at home in our very first European game against AEK Athens. I can’t **** wait. Still pinching myself a bit.

Played us off the park, to be fair. Could easily have been 5-1.

We’re absolutely ****ing awful, but surely Brighton are looking to be challenging for what is now top 5 for the Champions League? On the strength of that you’ll easily finish above us. I can see us being good for about 10th if we’re lucky. One thing United continue to deliver is when you think it can’t get any worse, it can

We’ve got Bayern next week. I bet they can’t bloody wait!

Beauty of the Premier League, giant clubs aren’t always the form teams. Unlike every other major league.

Makes a mockery of the whole European Superleague, doesn’t it? That’s what makes it so good