#EFL Championship

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Jobe Bellingham - Leeds United v. Sunderland AFC - EFL Championship

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jobe bellingham, the man you are 😮‍💨

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precious babyboy🫶🏻

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Last kick of the game!

[fitfootballers]

Harry Winks 🔥

[ferraripoolfc]

WHAT A HAPPY DAY FOR US LIVERPOOL FANS!!!

Liverpool beat Chelsea 0-1 with an amazing goal by Liverpool captain Virgil Van Dijk at the 118th minute!! An amazing bounce back from the Dutch man himself with his first goal being ruled offside but later coming back with the winner!! Van Dijk was also chosen for MOTM for his phenomenal performance! Even with Ryan Grevnberch being subbed off due to injury all players still gave it their all! A big congratulations to all youngers who debuted and youngers who played their first final today leaving with their first professional trophy/medal!

Youngers!

-Bobby Clark

- Conor Bradley

-James McConnell

-Jayden Danns

- Jarell Quansah

Congratulations Reds this is the first trophy of the season and a good “Thank You” to Jurgen Klopp with this being his last season as the Liverpool Gaffer.

Virgil with the same energy in 2024 & 2022

[britishsportinglegends]

Martin Keown.

[iidakosuke]

Heart of Leeds リーズの心臓

[brklynlewis]

so stuart attwell supports luton, but has somehow been allowed to be the referee in at least 5 matches watford played? very sus when it's luton's main rival..

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Sheffield Wednesday, Gone by Friday?

Thai businessman and owner of EFL Championship club Sheffield Wednesday, Dejphon Chansiri, is causing quite a stir within the team and community. He has appealed to supporters to donate £2 million in order to prevent financial fines and a transfer restriction on the team. 

To quote, “If 20,000 people gave £100, then it's £2 million, and it’s clear.”

Following this, in an interview with the Sheffield Star, Chansiri stated that staff and players might not receive payment as well due to the current hardship or “cash-flow issues”.

However, the Sheffield Wednesday owner has made fast enemies with the community, in an attempt to convince fans to donate, he declared “If you don’t want to save your club, then don’t call yourselves the owners and me the custodian”

Following an incident in the previous month, Chansiri took aim at Wednesday supporters, stating he was halting funding the team because of the unjust treatment he had gotten from the supporters, “I am not willing to inject more money while I am being treated unfairly by those fans.”

He defended himself saying the following, "You do not understand how important this club is to me and my family. I have been here nine years and it is a part of my life." This whole situation has caused severe unrest at the club.

As of now, the future of Sheffield Wednesday is up in the air. Debts are to be paid ideally by November 10th.

Do you think a resolution can be found in time?

[therealefl]

Hull City Boss Left With Big Decision To Make Ahead Of Leeds United Clash

Hull City head coach Liam Rosenior is mulling over whether or not Turkey international Ozan Tufan can feature for the Tigers ahead of tomorrow’s clash with Leeds United. Tufan has been ruled out action at the MKM Stadium since before the international break with a thigh problem but returned to training last week with an eye on getting back out on the pitch as soon as possible. The Turkish…

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FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 12/0425 .What HAPPENED?

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Of course they did 🤣 Now keep an eye on our hero here in the center

Our man is holding onto this pastry for dear life and is not missing a bite even in a potential crush situation on the right hand side

[postapocalypticromance]

There's an interesting concept that's talked about at relative length in the context of football prior to the 1974 World Cup, and it's that the fundamental stage of development that football occupied from the first convening of the FA to 1974 was that of innocence or childhood.

If you're to prescribe periods names, everything from the 1863 meeting of Charterhouse alumni through to 1974 is the pre-modern period, 1974 through to 1992 is modern football, and 1992 to the present day is post-modern football.

The tactics evolution has reached what would probably be best described as majority inertia. The vast amount of tactical trends and ideas reached full maturity, and it's unlikely, if not impossible, for there to be any major new innovations. Even someone like Pep Guardiola wasn't presenting anything seriously radical in the grand scheme of things. His ideas were just one variation among many based on Rinus Michels' Total Football.

I say all this to present a bit of a hypothesis: England and England managers didn't present the same evolution that European and South American managers did throughout the '90s and 2000s, thus meaning that we existed in a nebulous zone where we didn't regress, but the majority of the tactical landscape here was stagnant or regressing, with true modern tacticians being few and far between in the managers who were managing pretty much from the '80s onwards.

The most frank thing that I can say is that, along with some very incorrect statistical analysis based FA policy, the fact that the Premier League rolled into non-English countries to draw the managers on the cutting edge of tactics or backroom developments, or just some of the best in the business, all at the expense of the nurturing of English managers, has had long-term repercussions that we're still recovering from.

A couple of years ago, Gareth Southgate lamented the possibility of there not being enough English players coming through academies, B, and second teams, and I think that's unlikely given any context, the grassroots level means that there will always be a steady supply of junior players.

What I think is more of a problem is the fact that there's no serious push to bring English managers through at the top level. There's a few simple reasons for that, first is the 14'000 pound cost for taking the UEFA pro license course in England. Second is where are English managers getting jobs? For the most part, the Championship or lower. With the lack of serious paths to be taken at the Premier League level, we'd have to drop down a level in the pyramid.

With the FA eschewing Lee Carsley’s signature for the England job, there isn't even a guaranteed path that an English manager can take within our governing body.

On a much deeper level, the biggest issue England face as a footballing country is the fact that English managers aren't given good opportunities to become established names. There are only 2 English managers in the major mainland European leagues. The Premier League hardly ever looks to the English contingent for a manager, there are currently 2 English managers at Premier League teams, and 2 who've been sacked, and I don't think we'll ever reach the stage where we have the strength on a managerial level unless some serious cultural and administrative changes are made.

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David James.