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August 2026 Football Thread.
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"There ain’t no party like a Chief Scout party! Welcome back mate to the best football thread on these forums. Missed you x Currently in Berlin and about to have breakfast, before heading off to Magdeburg to watch WHU. Cannot wait - proper Eastern European powerhouse from my youth, with allegedly every East German hooligan heading our way. Glad I’m too old to register on their radar (hopefully 🤞). Already treated Pie to a day out at the seaside for a 1-1 draw at Southend, then left her at home for the 5-0 win at Stevenage. Already bought tickets for Burnley, Watford and Bolton away. So looking forward to the Championship. Will see my local team play at their 10th diffferent home ground tomorrow n the next couple of weeks, and trips to AFC Fylde and Hornchurch planned with The Monkey Hangers later in the season. It’s back, Baby!!" I can’t wait for the season to start | |||
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"3 season tickets that mental mate " A benefit of living on the outskirts of London and having plenty of choice ! | |||
"Have a great season everyone 👍🏾😁 Welcome back Chief Scout 👋🏾" Ta muchly ! | |||
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"Who do we all support? Man city and Altrincham here " None as such piss poor game with to many fanny's diving to cheat free kicks or penalties, VAR should be used to sin bin the actors for 10 minutes everytime they're caught | |||
"Who do we all support? Man city and Altrincham here " Sunderland season ticket holder and Arsenal is my second team | |||
"I'm in awe, OP! Though not sure I'd ever fancy a season ticket at The Den 😯 Arsenal are playing Girona today in pre-season - I may watch (they're doing an online pass of £10 for 5 pre-srason games which seems like good value). Does feel like we need a slightly longer break after the World Cup - some players have barely had an off season!" Millwall still attract a bad press from their reputation of the 1970's/80's. Atmosphere is still a little boisterous, but there's never any signs of trouble (though West Ham on Sept 19th might be fruity). I started going occasionally with a friend (now sadly passed away) who was registered disabled and had a "carer's ticket" going spare. He sat near the dugouts, and it's fair to say a few foreign managers had some English lessons (not from my mate I should add), learning a few choice words they hadn't heard before ! Passionate people in (let's be honest) not the most affluent area of town who care deeply about their club. It's quite a staggered start to the season with the League Cup 1st Round next weekend. I can just about remember in the late 70's when it used to be on the same day as the Charity Shield. Football League starts on the weekend of 15th/16th. Watford host Southampton on the Sunday. That should be fun, Saints fans are going to need to be pretty thick skinned this season, they are going to get dogs abuse everywhere for the shambles that were the play-offs. Then of course the PL starts on weekend of 22nd/23rd (Fulham host Chelsea on the Monday evening, which conveniently means Millwall v. Norwich on the Saturday) which is the latest start I can remember for some time. Love watching a mix of the divisions. While you get the world stars in the Premier League, there's too much tippy-tappy chessboard football at times, and I have to say I prefer the Championship, it's unpredictable, played at pace, a brutal Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday slog of a division, and generally speaking you get to see more British players. I actually saw 55 games in it last season, obviously all of Watford's home games plus half a dozen or so aways, a dozen games at Millwall, seven or eight at QPR, and even a couple out at Oxford United. Having said all that about it's unpredictability though, West Ham look to have got things right during the summer, they've kept the manager, key players seem prepared to knuckle down and put last season right, and 50,000 season ticket holders is unreal. If they start well, they'll piss it. | |||
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"Brilliant to see them back after 25 years. Hope you'll chip in to the threads over the season " Sure will | |||
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"Jesus.....wish we could block a thread......fucking hate football "Why comment then? Looking to get to the Lille game at the HDS on the 15th. I can't wait for the season to start proper. | |||
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"Toon accept £75m from Arsenal for Bruno. He's off for a medical." Bargain | |||
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"Newcastle have appointed Matthias Jaissle as their new head coach" Who? | |||
"Toon accept £75m from Arsenal for Bruno. He's off for a medical. Bargain" They are all leaving | |||
"Mo Salah is joining Trabzonspor "Has to be for money | |||
"Newcastle have appointed Matthias Jaissle as their new head coach Who? " Former manager of Al-Ahli from the Saudi league | |||
"Mo Salah is joining Trabzonspor
Has to be for money "He could have got more from Saudi. It's because he still wants to believe he can perform in Europe but wasn't willing to lower his salary for a better club to take him on | |||
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"Mo Salah is joining Trabzonspor
Has to be for money
He could have got more from Saudi. It's because he still wants to believe he can perform in Europe but wasn't willing to lower his salary for a better club to take him on"Ah ok thanks I really couldn’t understand it | |||
"Worthing to get promoted into football league from National!" Worthing v WHU u21s in the National League Cup. Will probably come down again, as enjoyed it there pre-season last year. | |||
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"Is anyone doing a thread where we talk about our team and how we are feeling about the new season? " Go for it Ronin It'll be good to see everyone's views | |||
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"West Ham for me, pleased with Veltman signing news today but gutted as that means no Disasi. Should be strong enough for a quick rebound to the PL as lots seemingly staying, plus Nuno but we'll see. Looking forward to the Millwall games & especially nor var, I really hate that shit.⚒️⚒️" Definitely not looking forward to the Millwall games. Last one I remember was a cup game. On my way home from school, roads blocked, police everywhere, looked like they were preparing for a riot. | |||
"Fulham season ticket holder, 5 midweek games scheduled before end of season and that's before TV companies get involved " As Coventry fans the rearranging of games for tv and VAR are what we are not looking forward to  | |||
"West Ham for me, pleased with Veltman signing news today but gutted as that means no Disasi. Should be strong enough for a quick rebound to the PL as lots seemingly staying, plus Nuno but we'll see. Looking forward to the Millwall games & especially nor var, I really hate that shit.⚒️⚒️ Definitely not looking forward to the Millwall games. Last one I remember was a cup game. On my way home from school, roads blocked, police everywhere, looked like they were preparing for a riot." They were, that Millwall lot are horrible fuckers, God help the Stratford shopping centre. They'll rearrange the seating in the stadium too. | |||
"West Ham for me, pleased with Veltman signing news today but gutted as that means no Disasi. Should be strong enough for a quick rebound to the PL as lots seemingly staying, plus Nuno but we'll see. Looking forward to the Millwall games & especially nor var, I really hate that shit.⚒️⚒️ Definitely not looking forward to the Millwall games. Last one I remember was a cup game. On my way home from school, roads blocked, police everywhere, looked like they were preparing for a riot. They were, that Millwall lot are horrible fuckers, God help the Stratford shopping centre. They'll rearrange the seating in the stadium too." I think the increased space in the stadium and surrounding area will be beneficial for the police to control the movement of any bad actors. The shopping centre has enough wannabe gangsters, wannabe influencers and shoplifters. Who knows, it might unite them. Temporary truce 😂 | |||
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"Is anyone doing a thread where we talk about our team and how we are feeling about the new season? " This one will do. Always open a new one at the start of each month to keep things fresh & tidy. The midweek action - North Greenford 3 Harefield 2 in the Combined Counties League on Tuesday. Not as close as it looks, a stoppage time goal gave Harefield a bit of respectability, they were second best throughout. Weds, a comfortable 5-1 for Hanwell Town over Brentford U19 - it was 3-0 inside eight minutes !!! Attention now turns to the League Cup 1st Round over the weekend. Apparently the majority of clubs themselves requested the rescheduling, rather than have a League game to open and a Cup tie midweek and then another League game, their preferred option was to bring the opening Cup tie forward. So it's Wycombe v. Stevenage on Fri evening, and Watford v. Crawley on Saturday. | |||
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"Can't believe the f.a cup qualifying round started last night.i will be watching Blackpool at Grimsby and my honest opinion we will lose 2.0.we very rarely get past the first round of this cup." It's a "whole season" competition. According to Wiki, 743 clubs have been accepted into the competition this season. Extra preliminary round this weekend, preliminary round in a fortnight, then the four qualifying rounds fortnightly through September & October. | |||
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"August ??? How the bloody hell did that happen ? On the plus side, normal service is resumed ! The Chief Scout is back in business. I can't make any comment on the World Cup, for the simple reason I didn't watch ANY of it. Without word of a lie, not a single kick. And if proof were needed how bent and corrupt FIFA (which stands for Fixed It For Argentina - didn't quite go to plan, did it ?) are, the bell-end Infantino has excelled himself over the last few days. What a c**t. Anyway, I already have five pre-season games under my belt (I am NOT specifically aiming to match last season's 202 games, but never say never) but thought I'd not bother with a July thread, give everyone a chance for a breather. So far it's been Hayes 3 Watford B 1, Maidenhead 0 Wolves 1 (that was Wolves 1st XI, and they took over 1000 fans), Watford 3 Hansa Rostock 0 (bonkers away fans !), Slough 2 Oxford City 1 (the geographics of the National League meant it was Nat South v. Nat North), and on Wednesday Watford 0 Fiorentina 1. It's off to The Den this afternoon for Millwall v. Royal Antwerp. I'm actually juggling THREE Season Tickets this year. In addition to renewing at Watford & Fulham, I also plumped for one at Millwall - last season I ended up seeing half their home league games, and HAD they gone up the fixture list would have been all over the place. As it currently stands, there are five clashes between Watford and Fulham home games. It was the same at the start of last season but ended up being three after games got moved. And after pencilling Watford/Fulham homes into my schedule, I can (currently) get to thirteen out of twenty three at Millwall. And a bonus is Millwall host Watford on my birthday, so perhaps I'll treat myself to a hospitality package. I do prefer to stay in and around London for games, so there'll be a few trips to QPR, Orient, and heading out the other way Wycombe too (home to Stevenage in the League Cup next Friday for instance !). No doubt there'll be plenty of Academy matches to add in, but fixture lists aren't to hand yet, plus a few non league games as well. So footballing lads & lasses, I look forward to hearing of your adventures between now and the end of May. Best wishes for an enjoyable season !" Be happy to but tou sound like a bit of a geek 🤣 and think youd bore me with your stats and sorry but your a football fan and never watched the world cup ?? Regardless of your thought on fifa you chose to not watch the best players the world has ro offer ? Point made you follow football but cant take you seriously sorry | |||
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"Newcastle 2.0 beat Valencia 2-1 last night. Should have been more, goal disallowed that was onside and a clear penalty not given. Valencia had a man sent off for the worst challenge I have ever seen in a friendly. The new players all looked really really good as did last years, shame about some of the ones that have been around a while. " *was meant to say last year's signings, except for Woltemade. | |||
"Everton still in Germany...Stuttgart later today." Crap weren't we!?! I'm dreading this coming season if truth be told. I'm finally getting up to the HDS next week for the Lille friendly. | |||
"Newcastle 2.0 beat Valencia 2-1 last night. Should have been more, goal disallowed that was onside and a clear penalty not given. Valencia had a man sent off for the worst challenge I have ever seen in a friendly. The new players all looked really really good as did last years, shame about some of the ones that have been around a while. *was meant to say last year's signings, except for Woltemade. " Just watched the highlights Absolutely horrendous tackle  | |||
"Everton still in Germany...Stuttgart later today. Crap weren't we!?! I'm dreading this coming season if truth be told. I'm finally getting up to the HDS next week for the Lille friendly. " Not good at all! Hopefully we can sign a few players before the season starts. Have a great time in Liverpool. | |||
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"Everton sign Brennan Johnson from Crystal Palace. Interesting one." We definitely got the better deal there, although I did like McNeil when he joined us in 2022. It is particular as to why no money was involved... but hey ho. Just need a right back and a decent striker now. Seen we've been linked with Munoz today, and I like the look of Troy Parrott for £17m. | |||
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"New rules for Championship It's top 2 promoted with 3rd ,4th ,5th 6th ,7th and 8th (6 places in Play offs )" The new format will start with two eliminator ties: fifth vs eighth and sixth vs seventh. These eliminators are one-legged games that will take place at the home of the side who finished higher. The winners of the eliminator ties progress to the semi-finals, to face third and fourth in two-legged ties with the second leg at the home of the side that finishes higher up the league. Crucially, the third-placed team will face the lowest-ranked remaining team in the semi-finals. So if eighth beats fifth, and sixth beats seventh in the eliminators, third will face eighth and fourth will face sixth. There is no pre-set path for the semi-finals before the eliminators. As usual, the winners of the two semi-finals will meet at Wembley for a place in the Premier League. - Sky Sports | |||
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"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊" The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games " Come on Leeds stuff them | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games Come on Leeds stuff them " Equaliser let's fukn gooooo | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games Come on Leeds stuff them Equaliser let's fukn gooooo" I’m a Man City fan | |||
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"Everton 3 Newcastle 1. A superb performance by The Toffees, a well deserved victory. Buzzing for the match on Saturday now. " Newcastle are not great right now clearly | |||
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"Liverpool fan. Try to get three games a year but harder and harder to get tickets " It can be I’m lucky I have a season ticket and get to all home games | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games Come on Leeds stuff them Equaliser let's fukn gooooo" How was that not a booking on Calvert-Lewin, he was going through on goal | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games Come on Leeds stuff them Equaliser let's fukn gooooo How was that not a booking on Calvert-Lewin, he was going through on goal " You watching? | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games Come on Leeds stuff them Equaliser let's fukn gooooo How was that not a booking on Calvert-Lewin, he was going through on goal You watching? " Yes, ITV | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games Come on Leeds stuff them Equaliser let's fukn gooooo How was that not a booking on Calvert-Lewin, he was going through on goal You watching? Yes, ITV" Ok cool I’m watching athletics | |||
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"Liverpool fan. Try to get three games a year but harder and harder to get tickets " It'd help if you're Norwegian 💙 | |||
"Bollox to the eclipse The mighty Leeds have just kicked off against Man Utd (boo hiss!) on ITV 👊 The first club football game between 2 English teams played at the hallowed home of Gaelic Games Come on Leeds stuff them Equaliser let's fukn gooooo How was that not a booking on Calvert-Lewin, he was going through on goal You watching? Yes, ITV" Ughh penalties | |||
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"Hahahaha Fernandes "That'll teach me to mock someone 🤣 But we've beat Liverpool 4-2, 2-0 against Leipzig and 1-1 v Man Utd (losing on pens) I'll take that as a pre season warm up 👍 | |||
"Hahahaha Fernandes
That'll teach me to mock someone 🤣
But we've beat Liverpool 4-2, 2-0 against Leipzig and 1-1 v Man Utd (losing on pens)
I'll take that as a pre season warm up 👍"Enjoy watching james Trafford he’s a top keeper. Looked good when he played for us last season | |||
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"Everton 3 Newcastle 1. A superb performance by The Toffees, a well deserved victory. Buzzing for the match on Saturday now. "  3rd goal was a cracker! | |||
