| Pep on the EFL Cup 23:30 - Sep 24 with 8695 views | stainrods_elbow |
“The next round, I announce you, I play the second team,” said Guardiola. “We are not going to waste energy, for sure.”
What an utter c*nt!
Does the EFL really have such contempt for their own competition that they're happy to allow this public cynicism to be amplified without censure?
Let's hope the PL find that horrible pseudo-club guilty of all 115+ charges and dump them out of professional competition pdq!
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| Pep on the EFL Cup on 21:07 - Sep 25 with 1818 views | stainrods_elbow |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 17:30 - Sep 25 by Third_Division_South |
There’s a simple answer to Peps problem, if you don’t like it then don’t enter the f@cking competition and leave to those who want to take part. |
Sphericals! If you are a professional football club competing in this country, you are professionally required to participate in all PL-/FA-/EFL-adminstered competitions fielding, when last I heard, your strongest team. The trouble is the authorities no longer have any authority/credibility in ensuring this is the case, having pissed on their own bonfires over any number of years.
If Citeh and the rest (the culpability is of course endemic and percolates down the football pyramid - Klopp, for one, was almost as bad) want to spit on the EFL Cup from their obscene height, fine, in my view, they should be massively fined, removed from other competitions too, or both. | |
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| Pep on the EFL Cup on 08:17 - Sep 26 with 1622 views | gazza1 |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 18:46 - Sep 25 by Northernr |
If that was given against us you'd be furious and you'd be right. |
Perhaps Norf, but I can be biased on occasions  but always fair .
Thing is, I could not see the bloke who scored go 'mental' nor any other Watford players doing something similar. Not sure we would react in the same way if we thought that we had scored against Man City. |  | | |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 08:23 - Sep 26 with 1620 views | connell10 |
Why do people have call him Pep ?Like he is their best friend....bloody annoying ...ill only call him by his second name ...Mr Gladioli.....   |  |
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| Pep on the EFL Cup on 10:57 - Sep 26 with 1500 views | daveB |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 15:16 - Sep 25 by Wegerles_Stairs |
The fact that competitions are now manipulated to reduce the jeopardy of one of the big clubs actually being eliminated is probably the reason I most hate modern football. This is despite them having more money, players and resources than ever before - and their advantage over the rest being greater than at any point in history. God forbid they have to play each other in the third round of the league cup though. W*nkers. |
It was funny though that one of the easy draws they got was West Ham which pissed big club West Ham off
DO agree it was nonsense though |  | | |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 11:28 - Sep 26 with 1453 views | Padulas_Shampoo |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 19:25 - Sep 25 by lassel |
Maybe I’m missing something but one is shoulder to shoulder and one is shoulder to back? |
Not sure if this is serious?
Is there really anyone out there that can see a significant difference between those two goals? It's literally a contact sport. They're both square when they come together, in both goals the scorers were stronger. Anyone that has ever had even a passing interest in the game of football could see that they're both legitimate goals and I cannot believe anyone would ever doubt that fact. |  | | |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 11:44 - Sep 26 with 1420 views | daveB |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 21:07 - Sep 25 by stainrods_elbow |
Sphericals! If you are a professional football club competing in this country, you are professionally required to participate in all PL-/FA-/EFL-adminstered competitions fielding, when last I heard, your strongest team. The trouble is the authorities no longer have any authority/credibility in ensuring this is the case, having pissed on their own bonfires over any number of years.
If Citeh and the rest (the culpability is of course endemic and percolates down the football pyramid - Klopp, for one, was almost as bad) want to spit on the EFL Cup from their obscene height, fine, in my view, they should be massively fined, removed from other competitions too, or both. |
The irony with Pep is that he is one of the few top managers who did take that cup seriously, Mourinhio was another, i thinK City won it about 4 times under him
It's going over old ground but the reason the cups are dying is more to do with smaller clubs not bothering with them than the top ones and we're one of the worst for it | | | |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 11:51 - Sep 26 with 1394 views | ted_hendrix |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 08:23 - Sep 26 by connell10 |
Why do people have call him Pep ?Like he is their best friend....bloody annoying ...ill only call him by his second name ...Mr Gladioli..... |
Guardiola.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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| Pep on the EFL Cup on 11:55 - Sep 26 with 1372 views | daveB |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 08:23 - Sep 26 by connell10 |
Why do people have call him Pep ?Like he is their best friend....bloody annoying ...ill only call him by his second name ...Mr Gladioli..... |
A combination of an inability to spell (thats why I do it) and Twitter giving you limited characters to use so people say Pep, TAA for Alexander-Arnold etc and it's become a habit | | | |
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| Pep on the EFL Cup on 13:20 - Sep 26 with 1227 views | Juzzie |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 11:55 - Sep 26 by daveB |
A combination of an inability to spell (thats why I do it) and Twitter giving you limited characters to use so people say Pep, TAA for Alexander-Arnold etc and it's become a habit |
Started off when text messages were originally limited to, I think, 256 characters per text and text-speak was born. Problem with it is that people were unable to separate it and continued to type like that when it's no longer necessary. |  | | |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 13:37 - Sep 26 with 1188 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 13:20 - Sep 26 by Juzzie |
Started off when text messages were originally limited to, I think, 256 characters per text and text-speak was born. Problem with it is that people were unable to separate it and continued to type like that when it's no longer necessary. |
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| Pep on the EFL Cup on 19:21 - Sep 26 with 1060 views | Paddyhoops |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 11:44 - Sep 26 by daveB |
The irony with Pep is that he is one of the few top managers who did take that cup seriously, Mourinhio was another, i thinK City won it about 4 times under him
It's going over old ground but the reason the cups are dying is more to do with smaller clubs not bothering with them than the top ones and we're one of the worst for it |
That’s a very good point but the reason Pep wins so many trophies is that any time a player in any position is rested or injured. He is replaced by a someone as good if not better.
The quality of the team never suffers.
I get that leauge clubs play weakened teams but it’s a trophy they are never going to win so the attitude is it’s early season and there is everything to play for promotion and play off wise.
I think there are three leauge teams left in the competition. That says it all .
Call it the Premier leauge cup from the Quarter final onwards as that’s basically what it is. | | | |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 18:36 - Sep 27 with 915 views | stainrods_elbow |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 19:21 - Sep 26 by Paddyhoops |
That’s a very good point but the reason Pep wins so many trophies is that any time a player in any position is rested or injured. He is replaced by a someone as good if not better.
The quality of the team never suffers.
I get that leauge clubs play weakened teams but it’s a trophy they are never going to win so the attitude is it’s early season and there is everything to play for promotion and play off wise.
I think there are three leauge teams left in the competition. That says it all .
Call it the Premier leauge cup from the Quarter final onwards as that’s basically what it is. |
Actually a number of EFL clubs have made it through to the QFs in recent years, but obviously you're singing from a defeatist script.
https://www.efl.com/news/2023/october/28/the-last-efl-teams-to-reach-the-carabao | |
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| Pep on the EFL Cup on 16:22 - Sep 28 with 704 views | The_Beast1976 |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 14:25 - Sep 25 by Northernr |
The people running our sport atm are in full on rack and stack mode. More tournaments with more teams and more games. It means more tickets, more sponsorship and more TV deals from more markets. So we blow the World Cup up to 48 teams, spread it across 12 groups, have it in three countries at once. We have a club world cup, for which they're yet to sell a TV package BTW, stick 32 teams in that. Expanded Champions league. Expanded Euros. Expanded summer tours. More, more, more, more.
Problem is, it's a physical sport. The more you make them play it, the more tired they get, the worse the product. The more you expand the tournaments, the more teams you have in there who probably shouldn't be there, the worse the product. The more groups and stages you introduce, the less the jeopardy, the worse the product.
They're killing it the goose that laid their golden egg. And they don't care, because they're getting rich.
One of the things I admire about the NFL, one of the most commercially successful and lucrative sports comp in the world if not the most, is they've resisted the temptation to expand the season, the number of games etc. It keeps the product exciting (although, as with rugby, the bed wetting over head injuries is turning it into an over refereed technical mess) and keeps the public wanting more.
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They've already done this with cricket. It's an absolute joke. I love cricket, but other than England Test Matches I don't watch it anymore. Just thousands of meaningless matches for tv and advertising £.
A very sorry state of affairs all round. | | | |
| Pep on the EFL Cup on 21:31 - Sep 29 with 542 views | Watford_Ranger |
I can’t be bothered to look back any further but there’s been at least one lower league team in the last eight going back at least as far as 2013/14. Effectively bringing in seeding for the megaclubs obvious hinders the possibility of that continuing. Stoke at Southampton is probably the best shot but then I watched Stoke recently and probably not. | | | |
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