MaltRam

Teamwork ....Brian went to their house and sat there with Sir Peter untill they signed on the dotted line ?

My head says the England game is bigger...World cup quarters, global stage, finest players in the world on show in a brand new, state of the art arena...but in the end my heart picks Derby County Football Club winning an instantly forgettable away win in the freezing cold in front of 5000 shivering League 1 fans. 1-0, ricochet off someones face from 2 yards in a 90th minute ruck.
Mbappe? My arse.
 

Are you mad ,,, derby every time ,,,,,
easy to say as a Scot? If derby played Scotland I’m in the derby end 

I've already read terms such as "Everybody" and "The whole country" etc...
That for me is the crunch. 
Why should folk be allowed to just stroll in once every 4 years, and take part in the positivity?  Many of whom won't know the offside rule, or what year England won the WC, or what 2 teams played in "The white horse final"!.  They won't know who Geoff Hurst effectively replaced in '66.  
They won't realise that the vast majority of the cast of "Escape to Victory" were yer actual, real life footballers... icons in some cases... legends to many!
They won't know that Bury were winning cup finals by 6 goals decades, and decades, and decades before Man bloody city were doing it!  
They won't know who held the FA Cup for the most consecutive years (Trick question... but a good 'un!)
They won't have a clue who Mr S Bloomer was (More than just a Rams legend!), or that a keeper once played on in a cup final with a broken neck!
What does "First division champions actually mean?"  They'll cry.
"Charlton reached the '46 cup final despite losing to Fulham in a 3rd round tie?  Don't be so ridiculous!", they'll screech!
 
These are football facts... for football fans!
Pwoper Football fans take the flak.  They suffer immensely... and fully deserve to party on, when their team hit the highs.  These are the folk I wanna be partying with!

I don't want to be partying with hangers on!  I don't even want to be talking football with folk that have never been to a professional game in their lives.  "Ooh... how nervy were those penalties eh?  What about that Henry Kane, eh?  Ha, ha, did you see Emma Bappy's face!"  Feckorf!
Duck 'em!  Duck 'em all!
 
 
Oh... did I not say?  Derby for me!   ?

100% Derby.
If there was a clash, I'd record the England game and try to avoid seeing the result. 

I had a nice group of 8 family and friends lined up for lunch then football. 4 of them can't do Sunday lunchtime, so we're knackered.
What a load of old s**** moving this. Magic of the FA Cup? My arse.

King Colin doing King Colin things 

I had a nice group of 8 family and friends lined up for lunch then football. 4 of them can't do Sunday lunchtime, so we're knackered.
What a load of old s**** moving this. Magic of the FA Cup? My arse.

Well, I made it! Thought it was an ok game with odd bits of decent football. As has been said many times the officials were dire. I usually give them a bit of slack as I used to watch my dad reffing local games but this lot were beyond the pale. I thought we just shaded it but we don’t seem to get out of the habit of taking one touch or one pass too many.
I did look for @Anag Ram on the station platform but there were rather a lot of men in Derby scarves and I really didn’t fancy getting a reputation for accosting ‘strange’ men! I thought I’d recognise his nanny but I didn’t see her either!
I’m so pleased to know I can manage a whole day including travel on my own. A bit tiring though as I slept nearly 12 hours last night! But well worth it to know I can do it.

A shout out for Wildsmith, I didn't know who he was when he came here, Never heard of him, Thought he may be our number 2 at the very best, He's now kept 11 clean sheets(no washing puns)that's a good testament for our defence of which Wildsmith is part of, One save in the 2nd half when it looked easier to score spoke volumes of his ability.
This lad would fetch a few million now in the transfer market...not that we'll be selling him?

Got mine. Early adopter.

Happy with Barnsley. Decent gate, prospects of a decent game and a decent chance of going through. What's not to like?

Happy with Barnsley. Decent gate, prospects of a decent game and a decent chance of going through. What's not to like?

Agreed.
 
 
 
... Oh sorry!  ?

They've been the better side and deserve to win. Think Wales might be better without Bale.

C'mon you Rans

I noticed that the knockout Papa Johns games are being played this week, I think that this would have been a game too far for our tired, injury hit squad. I think that the 9 day break hasn't come a moment too soon.

Enjoyed it. We were the more likely team but a draw was fair enough.
We're so close to being a top side...just a thin squad.

Enjoyed it. We were the more likely team but a draw was fair enough.
We're so close to being a top side...just a thin squad.

Warne just needs to brisket more, chuck it down the flank 
Right now it’s medium - too rarely well done 

Enjoyed it. We were the more likely team but a draw was fair enough.
We're so close to being a top side...just a thin squad.

You did better than me angie I never be able to spell it.

Big, strong, quick, thumping shot. Proper asset, if raw and limited in some regards. Love him, tbf.

“Everyone”, “all over the media” and “pro-commentators” strikes me as a tad hyperbolic. The same media and pro-commentators who did a half time feature on how well he was playing and commented during the match about the threat he offers? 
His own manager is quoted after the game saying “Dobbin’s work rate alone gets him in the team”.
A more balanced view would be “SOME fans are frustrated by his missed opportunities, SOME fans can see what he offers to the team and hope he’ll do well, SOME fans have a weird need to attack him as a 19 year old still learning the game, and his manager rates him and is playing him in a Derby side that is going well at the minute and can do better still”.
 

Rest of the season? More like the rest of his career. Such a shame as he looked so good in that first loan.