The Rolling Footbal Thread: Season 2026/27

[DuncinToffee]

New season, new thread

All things football ⚽

I assume that he left because he wanted more money and more responsibility so I don't think that he would have been happy remaining at Arsenal.

Made hard work of that win against Millwall tonight. They were very organised and we were very shite 😂

We were awful against Doncaster at first, 1-0 down and then all of a sudden, a youngster sub scores with his 1st or 2nd touch after coming on and we end up suddenly playing better and winning 3-1. Nice to keep our unbeaten run going.

I agree that’s why he left but now he has no job, I am sure he won’t be out of work for long though.

Any Gooners travel to italy for the match tonight?
When we saw the fixtures DH said he wouldn't touch this one with a barge pole.

The fan info sounds terrifying.
Don't wear shirts or colours in public.
Don't sing or chant.
Don't take ubers or taxis because some of them are in league with the Ultras.
Stick together.

How has it come to this??

@MrsMitford3 That's shocking and depressing. Napoli fans have always had an edge to them, but I had the impression that was more towards the fans of northern Italian teams (who have a history of discriminatory behaviour towards the south - lots of poverty chanting and the likes) than foreign teams. I hope there are no incidents against travelling Gooners.

urgh - not really liking football today. At all. Gladbach are woeful

We were awful for most of the match but go a decent result.

What exactly is the record for how far through a season you can get without scoring a goal?

Well that was a tough game, but we fought and managed to get the 3 points.

Raya is just unbelievable.

And Martinelli got a hat-trick...

Yes, I saw that, good luck to him.

I'm pleased that we conceded a penalty as we need to stop wrestling in the box, We stopped it for the first couple of games and have started it again (although Sunderland were doing it too).

Hopefully we and other teams will stop now that they seem to be imposing the rule, although I have a feeling that the will stop awarding penalties after punishing us.

This is the first comment on the HYS

Comment by John-not-in-hendon at 22:10 12 Sep
22:10 12 Sep
I still think Tottenham will score a goal this season.

I am just pleased there was no 'Everton that'

There was no wrestling in the box, Arteta was right, Konsa was literally judo tossed on top of Ballard, it shouldn't have been a penalty.

Pleased with the win though and Raya is astonishing.

DS said he'd rather Spurs had lost 2-1 just to be reassured they can actually score! He had a trip to London yesterday to watch the Leyton Orient Wycombe game as the U14's team he plays for were sent some complimentary tickets. They lost 3-2 to Wycombe but he did get to see an assist from Tottenham loanee Akhamrich.

I was at the Gills game, they won 2-0 against an unbeaten Tranmere and moved up to 11th which I'm happy with after a slow start to the season. 2 great goals today, including a first EFL one for Dobbs. The injuries just need to stop as that is a concern still.

Lots of goals in all the games for my teams this weekend. 6-0 win for West Ham, sadly a 4-0 loss for Arbroath thanks to Raith and then 3-0 win in the Old Firm league cup QF today.

Yes, I saw that on MOTD, but Konsa was holding him otherwise he wouldn't have been able to do the judo toss.

Yes, so happy that Raya saved the penalty, I don't think that he saves many.

What do you mean?

A team without a win or goal usually does well against Everton.

Good result for Brighton but I do fear for Coventry after watching that.
On a side note we are now the premier league top scorers I believe- and I was really worried about where the goals were coming from this season. 🤦‍♀️😂

I really thought that Coventry would be the better of the newly promoted teams, I'm stunned that it's Hull.

Huddersfield are the only unbeaten team in League 1! BUT we are suddenly drawing instead of winning, got a 0-0 at Mansfield yesterday. Have Bromley next, watch them be the ones to beat us. 😂

I am sure I read somewhere a few years ago of 12 games without scoring.

Google gave me this-

The longest run without scoring a Premier League goal was set by Crystal Palace in the 1994/95 season, when they failed to score in nine consecutive games between 19 November 1994 and 2 January 1995, eventually ending their drought against Leicester on 14 January.

Gladbach fired their trainer this morning, this afternoon (thanks Hamburg!) we are no longer bottom of the table. Results already!!