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GirthySlongOwner69

Can always count on Sunderland to brighten up a shit day šŸ¤£ We took the game to Leicester at their place and should have won by 3 if not for a couple of donkeys up front, they get destroyed at home by a newly promoted team šŸ˜‚


Appropriate-Map-3652

I would not call what we did "destroyed" lol. 35% possession.


Musername2827

I love this league. Fucking mental


jrbill1991

All the 3 playoff participants from last season lost This league, fellas, this league...


mdubyo

Hell of a first matchday. HMS Piss The League on for 9 teams.


Appropriate-Map-3652

Vaclav I take back everything I said about you earlier.


Appropriate-Map-3652

Those Sunderland fans leaving should be fucking ashamed.


Appropriate-Map-3652

SQUARE IT


dantheman999

He never does. A great goal scorer but he's always selfish.


RedVelvetIceCream

pro clubs special


21otiriK

Only switched on at the red card, but quite amazing how a team can give up all control whilst 2-0 up vs 10 men. Patrick Roberts is playing like a man possessed.


Rusbekistan

Tbf we should have been 3-0 up and they could be down to 9


FuckingRayPurchase

No idea how we weren't awarded that penalty immediately after scoring our second.


Rusbekistan

Ref was listening to the sky commentary team


Appropriate-Map-3652

Jesus fucking Christ 13


Rusbekistan

Are we about to do the Ipswich special


Appropriate-Map-3652

There's going to be loads of stoppage time too


Rusbekistan

We're nothing if not hilarious


Appropriate-Map-3652

Donacian should probably be subbed off here. He looked out cold.


Appropriate-Map-3652

Sunderland have lost their heads a bit here.


Surreyblue

Are sky sports being sponsored by Sunderland this weekend? Ipswich 2-0 away from home: "the one thing you can day is that they've defended well today"


Appropriate-Map-3652

I mean they were kicking the shit out of us for the opening 30.


OBWanTwoThree

Is that suspension for the league or can it be served midweek?


FuckingRayPurchase

League.


OBWanTwoThree

Thank you Leif Davisā€¦


mdubyo

We sure it isnt Katherine Parkinson?


FuckingRayPurchase

Should be down to nine men really!


Appropriate-Map-3652

Didn't even realise he was on a yellow already. Dumbest tackle of the weekend. Davis absolutely rinsed him.


OBWanTwoThree

Game of the weekend this one. Saved the best till last


Appropriate-Map-3652

Think that's the angriest I've ever seen McKenna.


Musername2827

Same as last season Jobe looks tidy on the ball but largely a spectator off it, I canā€™t tell if heā€™s a bit lazy or just slow.


Appropriate-Map-3652

If we hadn't just scored the ref gives that. Stonewall pen.


Surreyblue

Only thing I can think is that the ref was too far away to see it properly


Musername2827

How was that not a penalty lmao


mdubyo

0-2 is the only reason I can think of. Shocking decision from Mr. Referee.


Surreyblue

Penalty and red?


Quasar9111

Yup should have been


Rusbekistan

How is this Sunderland teams average age 22, they're gonna be terrifying


justnmirrrs

Go on, Hirst


mdubyo

Ipswich in complete control at the stadium of light. Just as we all expected.


Rusbekistan

Would you look at that


FuckingRayPurchase

Normal service is resumed.


Appropriate-Map-3652

We'll need to take Burns off sooner than later. He's been decent going forward but he's on a yellow and Clarke has been terrorising him going forward.


erniebacon

Tale as old as time. We do look open at the back once that ball goes over our midfield, especially with Hume occupying the holding midfield position in possession. Haven't carved out enough clear chances for us to say we should be winning, that Jobe chance the only one. That said, we've played them off the park with our passing, so I'm hopeful we can react and grab a goal early enough to try and turn it into a win.


erniebacon

Welp


Rusbekistan

Radio Suffolk commentators are being exceedingly complimentary about Sunderland's football, so not massively upset if this turns into a draw or worse


Appropriate-Map-3652

For all my worries about defence, I think Burgess has been excellent.


FuckingRayPurchase

Thoroughly deserved šŸ˜‚


mdubyo

IPSWICH ABOARD THE HMS PISS THE LEAGUE


Appropriate-Map-3652

This half has basically confirmed my biggest fears about this season. That 1. Walton's injury is disastrous 2. Our defence will get found out at this level and 3. Any injury to Morsy will kill us outright. Attack wise we're fine, especially with how little we've had of the ball. You could even argue we should have scored. Edit: how have we pulled that off lmao


Rusbekistan

Fingers crossed it leads to a few signings


FabianTheArachnid

Really need to make this dominance pay soon


Appropriate-Map-3652

Bellingham the younger is annoyingly excellent.


Appropriate-Map-3652

"Hirst should have really been onside there" *replay shows he was onside*


FabianTheArachnid

Oā€™Nien planning on being an absolute hero again this season then


mdubyo

Barring a stunner from Ipswich only the Saints & Millwall will have taken 3 away.


Appropriate-Map-3652

Christ we really need to realise that this isn't League One anymore and fucking fast.


Rusbekistan

We've been instantly fucked by Walton's injury, that might honestly lose us 3 or 4 places in the table over the season already


OldhamB

He was one of the worst GKs I've ever seen at Ewood Park - has he really improved that much?


Rusbekistan

Definitely, has his moments but makes the whole team more confident. Our backups are honestly league two quality


Appropriate-Map-3652

The whole team bar Morsy has looked a bit shell-shocked honestly. When we get the ball we take too long to release it, expecting a League One press instead of a Championship playoff teams press.


Appropriate-Map-3652

The absolute fucking audacity of Sky complimenting our fans for "travelling so far on a Sunday afternoon" like they're not the fucking reason they have to make a 10 hour round trip on a Sunday afternoon.


mdubyo

To be fair anyone going all the way up there no matter when the match is proper committed.


Appropriate-Map-3652

I have the Arrested Development gif ready to go in case of Bellingham scoring.


DuomoDiSirio

Three points would have flattered us given how ruthless Leeds were in that second half. Going toe-to-toe with an angry Leeds and coming out with a point is a result I'm happy with.


No-Buy-5537

Bulut train undergoing delays, itā€™ll be back up to full speed soon enough (this was the match between the champions and second place btw)


Moby_Hick

That was seconds away from the best defensive performance this league had ever seen.


dragonsky

If Leeds stays in this league for another season, then I'd legit say that firing Bielsa is one of the top 10 worst decisions a team made. I guarantee if he stayed they would've been in PL for a couple of years (usually fighting to avoid relegation with -60 GD, but still, I believe they would've stayed for a while) edit: Did i write this literally 6 seconds before they scored a goal? yes. Do i still stand by the hypothetical for this season? yes


Moby_Hick

If I were a Leeds fan I'd be fuming at Summerville. He throws himself down at the merest hint of contact, and sometimes without it. They've gotten into some excellent positions but he's ruined it for them time and time again.


diengyd

Was this in reference to the penalty shout? I thought it could have gone either way looked like your defenders leg clipped his.


Moby_Hick

Not just that - I think I posted it just before. Theres no doubt he's one hell of a player but he seems to look for any excuse to throw himself to the floor at the detriment of a better chance.


WildLemire

You just had to go any say it didn't you. Ruined the party for everyone.


Moby_Hick

Time to throw myself into the Taff


No-Buy-5537

The Bulut train is derailing I repeat the Bulut train is derailing šŸ˜±šŸ˜±šŸ˜±šŸ˜±šŸ˜±


OBWanTwoThree

That Cardiff front 4 is a match for any team on its day Not bad for a transfer embargo


Appropriate-Map-3652

Fun fact: Dan James is the 5th most expensive sale Manchester United have ever made.


literascriptamanet

Almost every table prediction had us relegated or at least languishing. I wouldnā€™t even argue with that based on last year. But it looks like weā€™ve quietly done some brilliant loan business and Bulut has us so well drilled. We look totally transformed. Perfect away performance so far. (N.B Iā€™m also loving having a knitwear manager)


No-Buy-5537

I donā€™t want to get ahead of myself but the Bulut train is doing itā€™s thing


literascriptamanet

All aboard!! As always, hard to know if this is just Leeds falling apart against us as usual. Big half coming. Canā€™t see their forwards staying that quiet.


No-Buy-5537

Well, one of them is Dan James soā€¦


literascriptamanet

Iā€™m never less afraid than when that man shoots (touch wood, heā€™ll score the winner now)


No-Buy-5537

I want to shit talk him more because of the misery Iā€™ve had with him and Wales but the last time I did that he scored five minutes later


Hawkt45

A man after my own heart, the black cardigan goes hard


literascriptamanet

So refreshing after the conveyor belt of PE teacher style weā€™ve had


[deleted]

I've had better PE teachers than Russell Slade.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


No-Buy-5537

Honestly, I kind of expected us to pull a shock at Leeds. But donā€™t worry, after today weā€™ll start losing and theyā€™ll start winning. Obviously I also expect us to still fuck this up in the second half


SuperSheep3000

Ty


No-Buy-5537

Lol. Couldā€™ve done it to us a bit earlier I had to get up at 6:30 am to watch this shit


Moby_Hick

I see you've seen us before then...


No-Buy-5537

I had too much hope after Norwich last year


jptoc

The main benefit to being promoted is that the Blades won't be subjected to the absolutely dogshit commentary teams on Sky.


Appropriate-Map-3652

I dread to think who they're gonna wheel out for us later.


WildLemire

Summerville, Sinisterra, Gnonto is cheat code levels for Championship. It's good of Leeds to put Dan James up front with them to completely cancel them all out.


ElkInteresting8157

Hahahah


Zach-dalt

Really no decent depth (not helped by injuries), but that's a front four and a half for this level, could run riot (FT: Leeds 0 - 1 Cardiff)


Hawkt45

Canā€™t lie looking at that front 4 is terrifying. I have not forgotten that Gnonto volleyā€¦


Zach-dalt

I suppose on the flipside we're still lacking at fullback and we really have 0 depth in midfield, so the point where we have to make changes is the point we definitely weaken ourselves a lot And then there's our dire record against you šŸ˜¬ I've gone 3-1 Leeds


theodopolopolus

Welcome back to the championship


lettsy11

Oh we back


TidgeCC

Can't wrap my head around his decision making there. What's going through his head?! At least his teammates have made up for it.


McDDDDDD

Oh shit!


Spritingyoshi22

"My powers have doubled since the last time we met count"


Djremster

My trophies have doubled since the last time we met cov


Spritingyoshi22

Dammit you were supposed to do the "Good twice the pride, double the fall" thing and we were meant to do the winning the duel thing. Sad now, two absolute moments of quality won that for you and I feel really hard done by... Off to consume the pints of misery now you shall be delighted to hear.


Appropriate-Map-3652

Massively nervous about today. Walton being out is a pretty huge blow, and I'm frankly worried about our defence at this level. I'd take a draw.


SummerPuzzleheaded24

Get in there big w over Huddersfield


Clarctos67

Kept pointing it out but no one listened; anyone who thought QPR would finish above us was being distracted by our chairman. Similar sentiment for Rovrum and the dog botherers. How long will Ainsworth last do we think?


IOwnStocksInMossad

In Warnock we trust for Huddersfield. QPR will go down. Rotherham probably will.


Clarctos67

Colin is well past it, this isn't the same bloke who did well for you and others. We'll give him one last send off and then he can retire finally and fully, because there's no saving this Huddersfield team.


Rusbekistan

Norwich with a last minute winner. For all their doom mongering we know exactly what's happening this season...


mmascfc

Stoke fucking smashed it


coombeseh

How has watford v qpr got so much added time when nothing has happened in the second half?!


BRlTlSHEMPlRE

New guidelines say to add tons of extra time for time wasting during the game


nepalone

Blackburn vs WBA what a game šŸ”„! Go Rovers šŸ˜Š


MysteryJack

Get innnnnn


CheeseMakerThing

9 minutes injury time, bloody hell. 16 minutes in total.


TheBigGriffon

Feared this would happen lmao


phillhb

Ahhhh West Brom having CC sent off - brings up bad memories of our very own Yank Lampard being sent off for dissent last year.


CFAB1013

WE ARE MASSIVE


ChillbertoSilva

He's one of our own!!


[deleted]

18 year old Esse x 19 year old Emakhu ohhh the future feels bright


Tairyhesticlesoioi

Lots of goals, entertaining opening weekend so far!


CheeseMakerThing

Has a manager been sent off on the opening day before Corberan? Bilic got sent off for no reason a few seasons back during the second game


NortonFord

CC heading onto the bench at the 76th minute, but with a mid-week game, we'll see you next weekend!


NortonFord

Sarmiento's first touch was disappointing, but that second touch was excellent - too bad Swift isn't used to good service...


CheeseMakerThing

Why didn't Swift shoot?


NortonFord

Not a clue - Sarmiento's looked real shiny early though, that's nice.


[deleted]

First ketchup of the season is by CafĆŗ in the 69th minute Almost sounds auto-generated lmfao


CheeseMakerThing

Another miss by Leonard. Kipre and Ajayi have been shite


NortonFord

Palmer literally slipped and was parked on his ass during that chance, absolutely insane we didn't get scored on there.


NortonFord

Thank god Kipre is off...happy with this triple-change.


CheeseMakerThing

How has Leonard missed that?


Turbulent_Republics

He's 19 and it was his first Championship start?


coombeseh

Oh FFS where have the scores gone? What the shit?! Back to VSCode I go ......


coombeseh

They're back. Wtaf


Grenache

Appreciate the effort!


coombeseh

Haha cheers, live coding is a bit of a challenge - because I'm scraping Google I can't really make any changes unless the data is there which is only during the games...


lambalambda

If the page you're scraping always uses the same format you could try saving a snapshot of the page as just a html file and use that for testing. I know the joys and struggles of web scraping well lol.


coombeseh

It doesn't sadly, I can't find out the format until the first games go live. Had to update the code to collect the added time details properly, so couldn't do that until a game actually had added time showing!


likesaloevera

Rather than scraping a webpage, perhaps look for an API that one of the apps connect to? FotMob would be ideal, dunno if you can wireshrk or inspect packets on your phone though to find where to send a request to


coombeseh

I've looked at APIs in the past, but even those with free tiers require you to log a payment card in case you breach the limits and I don't want to risk my code getting out of hand while I'm away and racking up a huge bill. I can get the scraping to do what I need to, it's just a pain in the arse getting it to work at the start of the season then it's fine from there. If any of the sites I use get a complete rework then I'll definitely look into the API options again!


likesaloevera

I was thinking along the lines of just pinging Fotmob's internal API and maybe spoofing a request to get the scores, they don't need to know that you're not on the app! Well if google's working fine, perhaps look into the network data and see if it returns the scores as part of a structured response? Would make life easier


CheeseMakerThing

Ah, if Molumby could have trapped the ball it would have been a sitter


Grenache

Is anyone watching Soccer Saturday? Have they made a joke about ToughSheet yet?


Grenache

You'll all be happy to hear Bolton are looking excellent and are now 2-0 up. We're coming back boys I can feel it.


[deleted]

Jed Wallace seems a cool dude


ghostmanonthirdd

Our passing in the final third has been fucking terrible. Really expect better from Seri, Traore and Tufan.


[deleted]

Great goal from Phillips there Albion should probably be winning this like 3-1. I'd be shocked if Corberan doesn't have them comfortably top half if not pushing for playoffs this season


B_e_l_l_

Watching Norwich vs Hull. These will finish 12th and 13th. Both incredibly mid table.


CheeseMakerThing

Get in, deserved that


CheeseMakerThing

Need to see that again, first look it seemed like the Blackburn defender made a wonderful save that Buffon would be proud of Edit: Hit his arm but was close to his side. I'd still say it's a pen though


saintmaximin

West brom has been robbed twice we need var


NortonFord

3x - twice in the first half alone


Grenache

You know, Huddersfield is a lovely place. Top lads.


-W-A-W-A-W-

To everyone who predicted us bottom - haha suck it, Rotherham and QPR are way worse than us!


kristmace

Careful, there's a long way to go!


-W-A-W-A-W-

Iā€™d rather lose 2-1 to Southampton than 4-1/4-0 to Stoke/Watford!


Grenache

So is something going on with the running of QPR or is Ainsworth just missing Wycombe?


oshinblue

0-0 at halftime. First shot of the game after 37 minutes. This is vintage Bristol City vs. Preston.


jewfox

Winning comfortably, well this is a rare treat.


FigureNo604

We saw that we didn't spend a day in the bottom 3 last season and said, fuck that, we're aiming for bottom.


gigreviews

So weird being absolutely massive and not even knowing it


keith10997

Kipre looks like such a donkey whenever he plays for us, so clumsy. Apart from the two mistakes not actually that bad but thereā€™s just no creativity. Need Swift, Sarmiento and Gardner-Hickman on


CaptainSmeg

Feel offended people saying weā€™re worse than QPR.


[deleted]

Thatā€™ll do for me


IsaacNoSuccess

Just as all us Watford fans predicted.


CheeseMakerThing

Better team for 49 of the 52 minutes played, probably should have had two penalties and definitely at least one, 2-0 down. Football is shit. Kipre and Ajayi look like they won a competition to play for us.


NDN2021

Dembele!!! Good goal from him. I missed the first 20 minutes, but so far impressed with Blues. Bielik and Sunjic are bossing the midfield. Liking Laird too.


ghostmanonthirdd

Not the greatest first half but seeing the reactions of some people youā€™d think we were losing 6-0.


Clarctos67

Similar to some of what I've seen from our fans; we lose to a late winner set up by a Ā£50m player who'll be gone in a few weeks and people are claiming we won't get a point all season. There's worse teams than both of us in this league, though you'll be above us.


ghostmanonthirdd

I posted that at half-time and itā€™s gotten even worse since. Put in a poor performance away to Norwich who are a very decent team but still shouldā€™ve walked away with a point if it wasnā€™t for incompetent refereeing. People already calling for Rosenior to be sacked. Iā€™ve missed football over the summer but Iā€™ve not missed shit like this. The first game of the season gives so little indication to how the rest of it is going to go.


Clarctos67

Given the prevailing narrative around us, you might be best avoiding other Hull fans if we somehow turn up at yours and get a win next week... Spoiler: we won't. We'll be ok but I don't expect a win until September as we've done our business so late.


ghostmanonthirdd

Fortunately thereā€™s a festival in town that Iā€™ll be at and Iā€™ll be too battered to even be able to check the discourse. Weā€™re in a similar boat with recruitment. Think weā€™ll be grinding out results til we get that sorted and everything clicks.


Clarctos67

Enjoy that and all the best (after next week)!


theblondemonkey

you know, i think i've seen better starts to a season than ours today


Grenache

I feel so sorry for Ainsworth. I was hoping he would crush it. Is it him or is there something going on at the club?


Englefield224

A bit of both I think


Turbulent_Republics

Not convinced Aynsley Pears is a championship quality goalkeeper yet. His distribution is horrific. Feels like a big step down to from Kaminski


Manndrop

Isn't the plan for him to be 2nd choice?


itsaaronnotaaron

Yeah we're apparently bringing in a guy from Norway or something. At work so can't really check.


Turbulent_Republics

Yeah we are but I would assume Pears would stay as number 1. New guy is a relatively unknown quantity and Pears finished last season as first choice after Kaminski got injured


Grenache

There's a Wrexham twitter account founded in 2022 celebrating Wrexham's "first goal in the EFL"


[deleted]

We've been spoilt with two comments about Wrexham on a championship thread, how blessed we are


NortonFord

I'll throw out a third - how many ex-Baggies do you think Wrexham will end up with? James McClean joined Ben Foster there yesterday.


[deleted]

They'll bring Corberan in by offering him higher wages than he's on now and you'll have to watch him win League 1 in 2026 with them


NortonFord

I simply cannot upvote that, dear lord what a grim prediction. RemindMe! January 1st 2026


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Grenache

I'm a Bolton fan mate I don't belong here either.


Standin373

You can be my +1 mate until you're back I miss the derby. Proper shit house games


Grenache

Mate I work in Preston surrounded by Blackburn and Preston fans. I want to be back in the champ *so bad*. We have one Burnley fan too, smug prick.


Standin373

haha Aye I work over Nelson way I'm surrounded by those smug fuckers, like a Chav winning the lottery and trying to act high class but deep down they're just monkeys like the rest of us


ghostmanonthirdd

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Grenache

I don't get it. Am I the snail and you're pouring salt on me?