The Rolling Football Thread: season 2024/25 - part 2

[DuncinToffee]

The season continues ⚽

Good win for Brighton away at Southampton. You might think that would be an obvious win but this season we have been doing well against the top teams and really struggling at the bottom ones so I thought this had another draw written all over it.

DH is very happy about Hibs beating Celtic today. He was cursing when it went 2-2 but very glad when Celtic's second was ruled out.

Arghh. Wednesday lost 4-0 yesterday. Today Gladbach - playing our 2nd Goalie as No 1 is injured and out for the season. Stupid, unnecessary backpass after 30 minutes ended up at the feet of an augsburg player, goalie tackles really badly outside the box and gets sent off.

So not only did we lose 3-0, and the full stadium was half-empty at 70 minutes but we now have to play the next few matches with a 3rd goalie. No Idea who we can use as sub-goalie.

(Election tomorrow. Expect to lose that too and end up with a right wing govt)

No problem @Hellohah glad your day wasn't a complete washout

This draw felt like a defeat. Only a few weeks ago I would have taken it.

It is nice to feel passion again

Fuck's sake with the Arbroath result tonight. We do have games in hand though but yeah after the Calcutta Cup that was extra annoying. 🙈

Oh well as expected..shame it ruined the no home team winning patten!

Nice win for Spurs once they settled into the game. Scary watching the opening minutes though.

Yet another bore draw for Gillingham away to bottom of the league Carlisle. Think we are averaging one goal every 7 games, the nickname Nillingham is very apt 😂

Bit of a boring rest of season in a way. Bottom 3 prob staying the same unless one of them can pull themselves out. League title is pretty much done unless suddenly Liverpool forget how to play..

So just top 4 bouncing and changing around. Even if we miss out which deserve to given our form I hope Nott Forest can stay there.

Wild game at St James’ today. We were as shambolic in the second half as we were great in the first. Thankfully we did enough in the first to get the win. Top 5 still on. Just the small matter of Liverpool on Wednesday. Am sure that’ll be no bother 🤣

Tbh, there’s a bit of me that thinks there’s no way we’re going to win two consecutive games against Liverpool having not beaten them in eleventy hundred years so if we can only win one then I’d choose the cup final every time 😂

Race for Europe is looking exciting

@JasonTindallsTan I don't think anything can be taken for granted this season by any team - there have been so many twists and turns and unexpected results already. Who knows what else is in store, be it league or cup matches! (And Newcastle are a tough proposition in both.)

For now, I'm enjoying the season, very much enjoying the league table, but also very conscious that there is still a fair way to go. I think most Liverpool fans feel the same way. Hopefully we will have something to really celebrate - but we certainly aren't doing it yet!

Omg Everton's new stadium looks absolutely amazing!

I finally made it to Gayfield! But I'm losing my voice and I don't think it's from shouting. If this is another bug that's 4 in just over a month. 😭😭😭

And we are winning 1-0 but I missed it as DH thought we would make it after another drink in the pub. 😭

We won! And I have no voice left now.

Aberdeen bloody woeful against Celtic as usual.

Up the Red Lichties!

I looked that one up a while back and remembered it as it sounds Dutch 😅

Haha thank you. Funny fact about our nickname. I was on The Chase many years ago now, even before I met DH, and I wasn't as into footy back then and I swear all my questions were footy or cricket (which I despise).

But anyway during filming I had a football question and Bradley Walsh asked me if Arbroath had a nickname so I told him Red Lichties but you know how us Scots pronounce ch? I ended up trying to teach Brad how to pronounce Lichties and it was hilarious. My chaser was The Beast and eventually Brad asked what Red Lichties even means (for those who don't know, in the simplest way it's to do with us being a fisher town and there were red lights at the harbour to guide them in). I did actually know enough at the time to explain that to Bradley and he was actually taking it in but I looked up at one point and saw Mark Labbett also listening intently to me. So yeah I maybe taught a Chaser something. :)

Oh wow Tarkan that sounds like great fun. Did you beat the chaser?

I know how to pronounce the Scottish ch, same in Dutch.

So the suggestion the town is called 'Arbroathnil' is wrong then!!! Glad to read you had a good evening, and in a league that is actually competitive.

Great win for Brighton last night and a club record 4 wins in a row!

I did! All four of my team made it through and we had a total of £42,000 so we won £10,500. We were one of those teams where we had a total in the low 20s for the Chaser to beat and he totally fell apart. We had something like 7 pushbacks and got all but one of them I think. I'm very proud of the fact that with one of them, I was the only person who knew the answer too.

And as for the bug I said I thought I was coming down with? Guess what hit me with full force today. Just hope I'm ok for the next match on Saturday.

We have The Chase royalty amongst us

Uggghhh no Isak. As if tonight’s job wasn’t difficult enough.

Oh, is he expecting a move to Anfield in the summer then?

A draw for us, still unbeaten

Time for a breather and hopefully soe players back from injuries