Weekend Football

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Re: Weekend Football

by Sutekh » 15 Feb 2026 16:36

The current bottom 6 of the Championship:

19 Blackburn Rovers 32 9 8 15 30 41 -11 35
20 West Bromwich Albion 32 9 7 16 32 47 -15 34
21 Portsmouth 30 8 9 13 27 39 -12 33
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22 Leicester City 32 10 8 14 44 51 -7 32
23 Oxford United 32 6 10 16 28 44 -16 28
24 Sheffield Wednesday 32 1 8 23 19 64 -45 -7

Next Sunday will see Brammall Lane host the steel city derby. A home win will mathematically relegate Sheffield Wednesday into League One for next season.

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Re: Weekend Football

by Sanguine » 16 Feb 2026 08:10

Ian Wright, like Eze, was 27 when he joined Arsenal from Palace, fwiw.
As Sutekh said, the chance to join a club like that doesn't come along often.

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Re: Weekend Football

by Sanguine » 16 Feb 2026 12:14

Stat-watch. Middlesbrough now top of the Championship table. Manchester United, way back in 1905/06, are the only second tier club ever to have amassed Coventry's 43 points after 18 games and not be promoted. Just 16 points from their subsequent 13 matches.

Also, Celtic's late winner blows the SPL race wide open. I really want Hearts to do it. But there's an inevitability about the Old Firm.

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Re: Weekend Football

by Royal Rother » 18 Feb 2026 22:15

And again, Arsenal got exactly what they deserved.

The whole mindset as set by Arteta is just not good enough. Why take a short corner in added time rather than playing one of their killer balls into the 6 yard area….? Because it will use up a few more seconds against the team with 9 points. That’s just crap and weak.

They are screwing themselves over week after week and it ain’t going to stop. Man City are used to this situation and will be loving the challenge. Looks to me like Arsenal are hating it.

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Re: Weekend Football

by Winston Biscuit » 18 Feb 2026 22:42

If Arsenal and Man City get through their next Champions League games then they meet in the QF, and they would have these 4 out of 5 consecutive fixtures against each other:

22/3 - Arsenal Vs Man City (EFL cup final)
7/4 - Man City Vs Arsenal (CL)
11/4 - Chelsea Vs Man City / Arsenal Vs Bournemouth
15/4 - Arsenal Vs Man City (CL)
18/4 - Man City Vs Arsenal (PL)

Its like a slightly more rubbish version of when Real Madrid played Barcelona 4 times in 18 days!


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Re: Weekend Football

by BRO_BOT » 18 Feb 2026 22:44

ArsenaLOL





(tbf I'm deluded enough to think we have a chance at the title :lol: )

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Re: Weekend Football

by genome » 18 Feb 2026 22:52

Spursy

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Re: Weekend Football

by windermereROYAL » 19 Feb 2026 06:18

That Wolves equaliser was eerily similar to the one Arsenal shipped against Sunderland, Gabriel and Raya getting in a tangle.
They deserve all the predictable bottling jibes they will be getting, that 2nd half just wasn`t good enough, they strolled the 1st half and thought the job was done.
Just deja vu, season after season, Arteta`s position will surely need to be reviewed if they end the season empty handed again given the position they`re in.

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Re: Weekend Football

by Sutekh » 22 Feb 2026 16:00

VAR trying their best to screw Liverpool over again. No way should Macca’s ricochet have been disallowed. PGMOL can breathe a relief they managed get another.


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Re: Weekend Football

by AthleticoSpizz » 22 Feb 2026 16:11

Scrap it, we’ve survived a dozen or so decades without it, and if it’s ‘so necessary nowadays’ then why is it only a part of the ‘elite’ league game?

Better trained and monitored officials please, not the slow-motion goal-no goal celebrations that are now such a turn-off :arrow:

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Re: Weekend Football

by Sutekh » 22 Feb 2026 17:03

Even Arsenal can’t screw up a game v Spurs.

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Re: Weekend Football

by Sutekh » 22 Feb 2026 17:05

Sutekh Even Arsenal can’t screw up a game v Spurs.


Job done 8)

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Re: Weekend Football

by leon » 22 Feb 2026 17:58

Battle of the Entitled.


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Re: Weekend Football

by URZZZZ » 23 Feb 2026 00:18

I know Spurs are limited for options with all their injuries but five holding midfielders in Palhinha, Gray, Gallagher, Bissouma and Sarr….what’s the point? Ok, some played in other positions but surely at this stage, it’s worth trying something else than Archie Gray at RWB for example?

The biggest irony perhaps is that even with their midfielders galore, they still managed to concede via a gaping hole between defence and midfield

Dreadful side from top to bottom who deserve everything they get

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