# English Football, End of Season 2007-2008 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 3, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909 "2008-05-03T17:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/21 "2008-05-05T14:09:08Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] football! šŸ˜ƒ ) Sadly, the one currently in the drop zone is Leicester, the English club I adopted to root for from the days that their keeper was Americaā€™s finest. Hope the fans there appreciate the visits next year from Walsall and Leyton Orient. šŸ˜› [/QUOTE] Not forgetting the sleeping giants of Rochdale are you? ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/22 "2008-05-05T14:18:37Z")
Typical bloody Villa. A win against Wigan and we are in pole for a UEFA spot, so we bloody lose. To Wigan. Pie eating, whippet racing bastards that they are. At least the scum might go down. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/23 "2008-05-05T14:23:06Z")
Iā€™m sensing a certain hostility here ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/24 "2008-05-05T14:38:21Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Well, for me the most interesting result this season is the fact that Leeds have obviously managed to reach the limit of their ineptitude and mismanagement results, and may manage to crawl back into the Championship flight. By contrast, did you notice the trio of formerly decent clubs scrambling to avoid taking that last relegation spot from the Championship to the third division? (yeah, yeah, I know, itā€™s called League One, but itā€™s still third division football! [/QUOTE] Season after next it is being renamed the Interplanetary Super-League Premier Division Gamma Iā€™m told. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/25 "2008-05-05T14:47:40Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Iā€™m sensing a certain hostility here [/QUOTE] What gave you that idea? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/26 "2008-05-05T15:40:15Z")
Ok, someone please explain ā€œFrank the Thaiā€ to me. Whence Frank? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/27 "2008-05-05T15:49:58Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Ok, someone please explain ā€œFrank the Thaiā€ to me. Whence Frank? [/QUOTE] Shinawatraā€¦Sinatraā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/28 "2008-05-05T16:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Shinawatraā€¦Sinatraā€¦ [/QUOTE] Ah, okay, those vaguely rhyme. I guess they could both have the nickname ā€œChairman of the Boardā€ as well. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/29 "2008-05-05T16:10:21Z")
[QUOTE=villa] What gave you that idea? [/QUOTE] Oh I dunno, just a certain tingling of my spider senses šŸ˜› Incidentally you forgot ā€œferret herding pervertsā€ in your eloquent description of Wiganites ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/30 "2008-05-05T16:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Oh I dunno, just a certain tingling of my spider senses šŸ˜› Incidentally you forgot ā€œferret herding pervertsā€ in your eloquent description of Wiganites [/QUOTE] Which part of ā€œferret herding pervertsā€ do you consider an insult? :dubious: šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/31 "2008-05-05T16:22:52Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Which part of ā€œferret herding pervertsā€ do you consider an insult? :dubious: Well not many people know this but Wiganites herd the ferrets into underground chambers and practice unspeakable sexual acts on their innocent charges. Bastards ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/32 "2008-05-05T16:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Well not many people know this but Wiganites herd the ferrets into underground chambers and practice unspeakable sexual acts on their innocent charges. Bastards [/QUOTE] The ferrets practice unspeakable sexual acts on their innocent charges? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/33 "2008-05-05T16:44:37Z")
Please re-read my post. Honestly, these Brummighamites ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/34 "2008-05-05T16:54:37Z")
I canā€™t read what you write. It sounds like someone sat in the Rovers Return telling everyone how grim life is. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/35 "2008-05-05T18:47:31Z")
Fuck the lot of you. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/36 "2008-05-05T19:39:33Z")
I should say, at this juncture, I really have nothing against Wigan. Just that we should have stuffed them. And if they had a shred of decency they would have played their blind, under-12 team to let Villa win, and prevent Everton stinking up Europe next year. Then again, even if they had, Villa would still have conspired to lose. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/37 "2008-05-05T21:30:50Z")
I support Swansea City and itā€™s been one of our best seasons for over 20 years. In spite of Ken Bates and his propensity for taking legal actions about all and sundry we were finally presented with the League 1 trophy on Saturday. Having now read through the result of the hearing Iā€™m surprised that it wasnā€™t published at least a couple of weeks ago. I still donā€™t know the reason for that but it deprived us of having the presentation on our last home game when we had an almost full stadium,to having it at Brighton, where the maximum amount of our fans that could be accommodated was 900 or so. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/38 "2008-05-06T06:18:41Z")
[QUOTE=Capt. Ridleyā€™s Shooting Party] Fuck the lot of you. [/QUOTE] There, there my son, just a bit of banter, innit? Anyways you can go a long way to redeeming yourself if you beat manure in the last match. Iā€™m banking on you my friend ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/39 "2008-05-06T09:28:35Z")
I think the chances of us beating United are about one in 15813467135781547014578016780154713, seeing as the Premiership seems to be riding on the game. Bolton vs. Chelsea thoughā€”Bolton went through a period where they couldnā€™t lose to Chelsea even when they tried! ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909/40 "2008-05-06T09:46:26Z")
[QUOTE=Capt. Ridleyā€™s Shooting Party] I think the chances of us beating United are about one in 15813467135781547014578016780154713, seeing as the Premiership seems to be riding on the game. Bolton vs. Chelsea thoughā€”Bolton went through a period where they couldnā€™t lose to Chelsea even when they tried! [/QUOTE] Ah sweet sweet virtual safety. For Bolton to go down now the following needs to happen Chelsea 6 - 0 Bolton Derby 0 - 5 Reading & Portsmouth to lose to Fulham at Fratton Park. Its unlikely, but has just enough plausability to be slightly worrying Chelski are certainly capable of stuffing Bolton at the Bridge Who would bet against Derby losing heavily? Portsmouth have nothing to play for in th eleague and are looking forward to a cup final. The scene is set for a very dramatic finish! Personally I hope us and Fulham stay up. From the positions we were in a few weeks ago, for both Bolton and Fulham to survive will be pretty damn amazing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-football-end-of-season-2007-2008/447909.md?page=3)