[Albion] L'Equipe: are Brighton the unluckiest team in Europe?

[Gwylan]

We're finding fame outside England now. I never thought I'd see an article in L'Equipe about us

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Art...-equipe-la-plus-malchanceuse-d-europe/1237672

I won't print it out as I don't want the wrath of Bozza on my head but, to summarise, it makes much of our xG versus the reality. Nothing radical but it's amazing to see us mentioned

 

[Pevenseagull]

Zut alors

 

[Goldstone1976]

“Les Seagulls”

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Or are we the worst finishers in Europe?

 

[Stat Brother]

“Les Seagulls”

I went to school with him.

 

[Brok]

I went to school with him.

I went to school with his French cousin, Les Mouette.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Les Miserables is in fact the term used by the French for NSC after one of our ‘frustrating’ home games,

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I wish I could read it......

 

[lawros left foot]

Mangetout, mangetout.

 

[Gwylan]

There's nothing much that an Albion fan wouldn't know. What it is do is look at other leagues across Europe and finds that we're the team with the biggest gap between xG and actual goals on the entire continent.
Oh, and there's a cliched reference to Harry Potter and his magic wand too.

 

[portlock seagull]

Time for one of the great jokes of all time.

What do you call a Frenchman wearing sandals?

Phillipe Flop!

 

[vagabond]

Nothing new, no. We’ve all had our fill of xG discussions for a while now.

But it is good to see our club name and brand being discussed in a premium platform like L’Eqipe. A sign of how far we’ve come.

 

[Russconha]

I blame 5G

 

[Bakero]

I blame 5G

Our run of bad luck did seem to start the moment they installed those 5G towers in the Northstand concourse.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Looks like the French like NSC style comments as well. Plus ça change

davidsvenson2
le 02 avril 2021 à 12h48
If you play the game, rather than unlucky one could say clumsy or ineffective maybe?

jikoer3g
le 02 avril 2021 à 14h31
It produces play but it takes a little stability. But Potter too often changes players from one game to another.

2pacdu938
le 02 avril 2021 à 12h34
I know some pseudo football connoisseurs who prefer that their team play well but that it goes down ... Let the coach die with his ideas...

 

[Russconha]

Its also a concern that when Pizzagate was going on we had a shortage of pies. Makes you wonder what's actually going on

 

[junior]

Mangetout, mangetout.

Man get out.

 

[rogersix]

Man get out.

no, it's french for podded peas

 

[Taybha]

Next time we miss a sitter I expect a huge


Oooooooooo La La

 

[marlowe]

Looks like the French like NSC style comments as well. Plus ça change

davidsvenson2
le 02 avril 2021 à 12h48
If you play the game, rather than unlucky one could say clumsy or ineffective maybe?

jikoer3g
le 02 avril 2021 à 14h31
It produces play but it takes a little stability. But Potter too often changes players from one game to another.

2pacdu938
le 02 avril 2021 à 12h34
I know some pseudo football connoisseurs who prefer that their team play well but that it goes down ... Let the coach die with his ideas...

I quite like the aphoristic quality of hoodoo35's comment below. It could have easily been made by the French absurdist philosopher Albert Camus, himself once an aspiring goalkeeper, and who famously said, 'Everything I know most surely about morality and duty, I owe to football'.

hoodoo35
April 02, 2021 at 1:20 p.m.
No. Whoever has played football knows very well that the one who touches the post is unlucky, not clumsy