Football Talk

[Anonymous]

Thought I would start off a thread, bit of friendly banter not too heavy and an opportunity to express your ideas about your favourite team.

What are you hoping for in the January transfer market?

As a Liverpool fan I am hoping for cover for Mane and the front 3.

[Mi-Amigo]

DANKE JURGEN

LIVERPOOL FC MANAGER - last game yesterday 19 May 2024

Liverpool FC trophies won under Jurgen Klopp

01 Jun 2019    Champions League

14 Aug 2019   UEFA Super Cup

21 Dec 2019    Club World Cup

25 Jun 2020     Premier League

27 Feb 2022     Carabao Cup

14 May 2022    F A Cup

30 Jul 2022       Community Shield

25 Feb 2024      Carabao Cup

Auf Wiedersehen, Klopp

YOU`LL NEVER WALK ALONE

Jurgen Klopp one of the great football managers

[Cleoriff]

A great manager @Mi-Amigo 

[Oxonian]

A very sad story with some links to the Mental Health Awareness that has been mentioned on this forum recently :-  

The Middlesbrough footballer's widow trying to save future players - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-69037557

[Oxonian]

And more on that same topic :-

Dementia in football: Joe Kinnear daughter says players and families let down - BBC Sport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cleen00l09zo

[Oxonian]

Liverpool and Scotland great Hansen 'seriously ill' :-

Alan Hansen: Former Liverpool and Scotland defender 'seriously ill' - BBC Sport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn00k4gkpz3o

[Cleoriff]

The Euro's are underway.

If England don't start playing like the overpaid bunch they are, they'll soon be on the plane home!

First match won 1-0 v Serbia.

Second match 1-1 v Denmark. This was a terrible boring match with England letting themselves and their fans down.

They play Slovenia on Tuesday 25th June. Let's hope for a better showing!!

[Oxonian]

I really don't share everyone's negativity about England @Cleoriff. On too many occasions, they have gone out at the group stage, but in this tournament they will qualify for the knockout stages. The results are OK and that is the main thing. 👍 

[Cleoriff]

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@Oxonian wrote:

I really don't share everyone's negativity about England @Cleoriff. On too many occasions, they have gone out at the group stage, but in this tournament they will qualify for the knockout stages. The results are OK and that is the main thing. 👍 

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@Oxonian 

It would be a boring world if we all had the same opinion. 👍

[Oxonian]

I agree @Cleoriff. 

There is a lot a criticism of the manager about team selections and who he didn't include in the squad. We have to give Southgate a chance. What the pundits and armchair experts forget is how inept some of the players that were not selected actually are when they play for England.  

Personally, I would be quite happy if, in the knockout stages, England achieve a sequence of boring nil-nils and win a series of penalty shoot-outs to claim the cup. Let's face it, Italy have been doing that for years ! 👍

[Oxonian]

All going according to plan for England :-

- unbeaten. 🎉

- group winners. 🎉

- only one goal conceded in three games. 🎉

- in what is arguably the easier half of the draw in the knockout stages. 🎉

Could we reasonably have asked for more ? ⭐