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Luton were still rattling around in the Conference the last time we were promoted to the Premier League. 6-8000 fans Luton. 5 years floundering in a league genuinely difficult to get out of - Playing Hayes & Yeading (Who've just been relegated to level 8) - Surely there was no coming back from that? For a club of that size? From such footballing graveyards? There wasn't, was there?
Or Coventry. Starting seasons in Administration. Battling for survival in League 2. Playing in Northampton in front of 2000 fans. Dead & buried. Until they weren't - and now they batter big teams in FA Cup Semi-Finals to the point the authorities had to step in to save poor old Man Utd from a humiliation.
Several clubs needed relegation before they got anywhere close to the Prem again - Wolves, Leicester, Leeds, Forest, Sheff U, Southampton, Norwich....All have been in League 1 since the last time we were. All enjoyed better stints at the top level than us, as well (Apart maybe from Norwich). Ipswich, Sunderland, Coventry the current Championship Clubs carrying that forward momentum. Pompey & Derby next year. In a league where increasingly Parachute payments & FFP are deciding the final league table, I just don't think sitting in the same division treading water, forever being regarded by every pro footballer in the country as an "also ran" is a great vision for the future.
The high availability of Venezia kits implies they're more of a fashion brand than a football club. The club was acquired out of bankruptcy by some US attorney types in 2015, and then came the aggressive brand marketing. Fair play they've been back to Serie A since, but it's not exactly organic
Guessing this'll be unpopular....but I prefer the lower tier full of away fans, along with the upper. Makes it even better when we win. This thing of trying to curtail away fans on the off chance it influences results against you.....Even clubs who move them into a Corner or along the side because "ooooh we cant have them creating an atmosphere behind the goal".......Pathetic.
If we're playing Preston or Stoke, and we've got the demand to open the Lower up to QPR fans.....Fine.....But I doubt that will be the case come August. If we've got a London derby, Leeds, Sheff Wed etc....Much prefer a packed house with 3 sides Home 1 Away.
How about "Top Ten" by Gregory Issacs? Probably a bit more applicable to the average QPR season....Three Little Birds is overdone (Ajax, Liverpool, Others) and has become a bit cringe IMO.
Yep. I don't like the current thing of releasing 2-3 whole new kits every year. I'm not a big fan of the football regulator idea, in fact, I think it's going to be a disaster, but one rule I would love to impose on clubs is that home kits should stay for a minimum 3 seasons and further kit launches (away/third/anniversary/special/cup final/whatever) limited to 1 per season. Kits are throwaway tat these days. They've lost meaning. Partly because they are increasingly only worn a handful of times by players who only play a handful of games before shuffling off to the dustbin. Also too much influence from fashion industry cnts and not enough fan votes as evidenced by recent Arsenal and Man U kits. The high price of football kits generally doesn't concern me, but the high quantity & availability does.
Not long before the clubs will be incentivizing people to cycle to games in order to "minimize our carbon footprint" (If that's not already a thing) - while simultaneously importing shipping containers full of some machine-manufactured, diaspora-themed, 4th choice away pre-warm-up shirts that nobody ever asked for.
I think that Cov decision on Sunday was my final straw. Will be going to a lot more cricket from now on. Ruined our favourite thing in the world. Cnts.
Do non-league teams speak about the EFL like this? Probably not right now, but with the new TV deal coming, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody wants to be in the EFL in a couple of years either. Very sad what they've done to our sport.
VAR, FFP, this obsession with making the sport as attractive as possible to everybody except the "legacy" fan. Very difficult to support any of it these days.
I like the loft for extended half-time recreational purposes. The amount of goals I've only witnessed on the TV at the back of the loft is really quite disturbing (Altho perhaps not as disturbing as if I had seen them from my seat and without a drink)
The only stand I've never sat in for a game is the School End. Early years I was upper loft, then moved to R when I was about 9 or 10 (During 2003 promotion season), then Q at about 15, and H by the time I was 18/19. Moved away and came back a few times since and mostly still in H when I have the bandwidth to go. My order of preference is 1) Loft 2) Ellerslie 3) SAR - Probably reverse that for games I really want to watch and analyse closely, which is almost none nowadays.
Worst place I've sat more recently is probably A/B Block, dunno why people would turn up week in week out to sit there. Away fans giving it large, a bunch of complimentary ticket footballer hangers-on mixed in with you, Sombrero man (who I'm cool with but still) attracting endless abuse from away fans and just generally being a distraction, some bods who it seems are only allowed to attend 1 game every 3 years trying to earn themselves a new club ban - The view, atmosphere, the general vibe is pretty weird over there IMO.
Sure I'm not the only one "weirdly" interested in "the trans issue" (Also commonly referred to as "parents" interested in "safeguarding children") breathing a sigh of relief that FINALLY something is being done about this utter absurdity.
Wonder if Newcastle will now quietly unban this woman?
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