[Football] The Championship 2023/24

[London Irish]

Play-offs certainly making the strong case for VAR. An MK Dons player who later scored committed an obvious red card offence (was after the match given a 3 game ban) but not picked up by ref. It didn’t matter as it wasn’t a close game but tonight’s game is

 

[London Irish]

Justice done

 

[Is it PotG?]

Should be a cracker next Sunday

 

[LamieRobertson]

Stains denied a nailed on spot-kick, VAR would have given that

Refs made up for by giving one that I don’t think was….cracking watch without VAR

 

[WhingForPresident]

No chance that was a pen, but justice served I guess.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Bloody hell, Leeds or Stains. That's the definition of a punch in the face or a knee in the balls type choice

 

[Eeyore]

Leeds v Southampton. HUMDINGER. I'll order in the pizza now.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Stains ran them ragged recently, hope they repeat that

 

[London Irish]

Refs made up for by giving one that I don’t think was….cracking watch without VAR

W Brom had plenty of chances to equalise after the ref screw up

 

[Farehamseagull]

Leeds, Leeds, Leeds!

Come on the Champions, Champions of Europe!

 

[Bodian]

Play-offs certainly making the strong case for VAR. An MK Dons player who later scored committed an obvious red card offence (was after the match given a 3 game ban) but not picked up by ref. It didn’t matter as it wasn’t a close game but tonight’s game is

Gross was elbowed in the face a while back. VAR didn't intervene. Guy went on to score the winner against us.

Not really a strong case for VAR.

 

[Simster]

Obviously I want the Stains to win.

Apart from anything else, it'd properly piss off Pompey, who'd still be the South Coast's crappiest club.

 

[ROSM]

Obviously I want the Stains to win.

Apart from anything else, it'd properly piss off Pompey, who'd still be the South Coast's crappiest club.

I share that feeling. I keep reminding my kids that up to second half of 70s, Portsmouth were our real rivals

 

[Eeyore]

I share that feeling. I keep reminding my kids that up to second half of 70s, Portsmouth were our real rivals

Which is kind of odd because they had only been in our league on three occasions post war up till then and considered Southampton to be their rivals.

I think our rivals are the teams that we are most engaged with in direct competition each season. Anything else is just artificial creation really. It is an odd human habit to need to hate/be hated to feel some form of validation.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I share that feeling. I keep reminding my kids that up to second half of 70s, Portsmouth were our real rivals

Haha, no they weren't. For a rivalry to exist, there has to be that feeling both sides of the divide. We've only played them 44 times in our history and until 1976 we'd only played them 19 times. I wonder how many Portsmouth fans would name Brighton as their rival?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Obviously I want the Stains to win.

Apart from anything else, it'd properly piss off Pompey, who'd still be the South Coast's crappiest club.

100% Saints, the whole point of Pompey's pathetic existence is playing South Coast Football Club again, would be hilario if they go up, plus at the expense of Leeds, what's not to like?

Which reminds me, why were SFC called 'South Coast Football Club' for a period in the newsprint league tables? Something to do with The Sun?

 

[ROSM]

100% Saints, the whole point of Pompey's pathetic existence is playing South Coast Football Club again, would be hilario if they go up, plus at the expense of Leeds, what's not to like?

Which reminds me, why were SFC called 'South Coast Football Club' for a period in the newsprint league tables? Something to do with The Sun?

A previous Southampton chairman (think it may have been the ever tolerant Rupert Lowe) tried to charge the press for covering their games such as photographs etc. They refused and some then refused to name Southampton in the match reports and didn't use any photos

Edited to add I just checked and lowe left in 2006 so it wasn't him

 

[A1X]

The fact that it’s Southampton is neither here nor there. The important thing is that the promoted team is “Not Leeds”. With the possible exception of Palace, I’d back literally anyone over them.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

A previous Southampton chairman (think it may have been the ever tolerant Rupert Lowe) tried to charge the press for covering their games such as photographs etc. They refused and some then refused to name Southampton in the match reports and didn't use any photos

Edited to add I just checked and lowe left in 2006 so it wasn't him

It was Nicola Cortese.

Getting the Southampton photographic ban in perspective

The row between newspapers and Southampton football club over its ban on press pohotographers shows no sign of abating

www.theguardian.com

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Haha, no they weren't. For a rivalry to exist, there has to be that feeling both sides of the divide. We've only played them 44 times in our history and until 1976 we'd only played them 19 times. I wonder how many Portsmouth fans would name Brighton as their rival?

They wouldn’t, but I can remember my Dad saying the same thing, and him having been to football since the 40s.