The Rolling Football Thread: Season 2025/26 - thread 2

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@Brefugee I am now much more invested in this because of you-apparently they have ripped up alll f the seats that spell his name!!!

https://x.com/The_Forty_Four/status/1981753041989910761

Only Arbroath could have a 3-1 win over the unbeaten top of the league team one week then the next week lose 1-0 to the bottom of the league team who hadn’t had a win at all yet. 🤦🏻‍♀️

The spl was mad today Dundee were 3rd for a wee while now back to 10th.
Hoping Aberdeen can beat Hibs tomorrow but not holding my breath on that one.

Everton that

Great result for Sunderland!

Yes, my Son IL supports Sunderland and my grandson supports Chelsea so mixed feelings in that household.

DH is a Hibee so he’d be quite happy with a win tomorrow. I don’t believe Falkirk are sitting fourth but they’ve obviously been taking advantage of how crap some of the other teams have been playing recently.

Owl supporters were back, highest crowd number this season but they got beaten by the Oxford U's

Good result for you @TigerDroveAgain

yes, i was looking at pictures of the crowd, that's good to see.

i don't expect Wednesday to win, and i do expect relegation so in that respect i'm not bothered by the actual football, i am just happy that in some respects we have our club back.

Gladbach went down to 10 within 20 minutes, but managed to hold off for just over an hour before going 3 down. Missed a penalty too. (but kept Kane under control, so that was good). We're definitely getting relegated this season too.

Nice for us to get the last minute winner for a change.

Willing Brighton to get something out the Man U game. Just for fun 🤣

Unfortunately not a good game for us

Ooh! Come on Brentford!

PGMOL helping Liverpool again...

Yep, where did those extra extra minutes suppose to come from?

https://x.com/HLTCO/status/1982156776137957471

oh that was brilliant, wasn't it? apparently the concessions in the stadium ran out of beer (disclaimer: they only sell shit beer, no bitter, so i wouldn't have been upset by that)

One thing we had in the stadium at Gladbach today that i have only ever seen on TV was the miked up ref explaining the VAR decisions. I like that a lot.

From the fact it takes Brentford half an hour to take a throw in! 🤣

@TheNewGaard PGMOL helping Liverpool? I guess you didn't see the VAR penalty call that won Brentford the match then?

Well they had enough time to equalise with 13 minutes, alas....

Did the Brentford players who took a long time to take the throw ins get yellow cards like we (Arsenal) have done a few times?

No, but they had a corner awarded for taking too long on a goal kick.

Have we really gotten to the point of looking at all PGMOL decisions!

No, just the weird or dodgy ones...

Article here about the cancelled Spanish game in Miami which came to the same conclusions that we did:

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/41b7db1666c0f3f1

That Man City kit is ugly

thanks, that's an interesting article - and a credit to the football business brains here who said the same thing. I'm not familiar with the Spanish ownership model so will be looking that up.

I do wonder why the other teams in the league don't make more fuss about the distribution of the TV money though.

ETA: am hyperventilating though. Wednesday have changed the logo back to the really cool 70s owl. And 200k was spent in the shop since the announcement of administration. I may zip over when i'm home and buy something in solidarity.