*Official* English Football Season 2012-13

[sledger]

Nah, ****ing hate Wigan. ****ty little pretend football club with a Tory **** for a chairman. Man's such a **** he even wanted a minute's silence for that renowned friend of football Thatcher.

Sooner Whelan goes (more) senile, bankrupt or dies and nature take its course the better.

Martinez is a good man tho, but. Toffees could do worse.

Get out. Wigan are great, so much more fun than the majority of the teams down the bottom end of the table.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

More racist gestures there from from Terry - getting a boot in the ribs.

Lampard equals the Chelsea record.

Why are there ****ing league matches on Cup Final Day...........why is Cup Final Day in mid season?

 

[Pothas]

You forgot why the **** is kick off at 5.15?

 

[sledger]

Hate the late kick-off more than anything. Which I suppose is something to do with TV rights.

Seems to be totally random whether the final happens after or before the last game of the league season too, unless I have missed something.

 

[Pothas]

I despise Chelsea.

 

[sledger]

Urgh, grim.

 

[MW1304]

Yes Chelsea. Yes Lampard. The longer teams around us remain chaseable the better. Stay on 40 points you ****s.

 

[VCC44]

Hate the late kick-off more than anything. Which I suppose is something to do with TV rights.
Seems to be totally random whether the final happens after or before the last game of the league season too, unless I have missed something.

Apparently the move to a 5.15pm ko last year added around 1million to the tv audience.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Good result. Means only one place available for the posers from North London.

 

[grecian]

Good result. Means only one place available for the posers from North London.

Umm, but it means one place goes to the team of Ashley Cole and John Terry, along with the probably amoral and certainly capricious owner.

 

[sledger]

Apparently the move to a 5.15pm ko last year added around 1million to the tv audience.

Perhaps, it somehow ruins the atmosphere for me though. It means also that the earliest the game can possibly finish is not until 7pm, which is just weird.

 

[Nate]

Benteke/Villa lost that from nowhere. Dammit.

Well done to Fat Frank, you fat legend. Fat.

 

[Uppercut]

Hate the late kick-off more than anything. Which I suppose is something to do with TV rights.

Seems to be totally random whether the final happens after or before the last game of the league season too, unless I have missed something.

I don't see why anyone cares about either in the slightest. A lot of footy fans just seem to get off on moaning about change.

 

[Uppercut]

Also, Benteke is an absolute tool. Villa had that in the bag.

 

[sledger]

I don't see why anyone cares about either in the slightest. A lot of footy fans just seem to get off on moaning about change.

I'm not particularly bothered about either, to be honest. I'd probably be more up for watching the final before the end of the league season, but not really sure why.

Won't lose sleep over the game being on after 5 either, but for some reason it makes me more disinclined to watch it, somehow. Something to do with nostalgically remembering it being at 3pm, I suppose.

 

[GIMH]

I don't see why anyone cares about either in the slightest. A lot of footy fans just seem to get off on moaning about change.

Nah 5pm kick offs are a pain in general. Same with Prem and FL matches. Worse in this sort of case though as it limits the travel opportunities for fans, given both clubs are northern. Indicative of where the priority lies these days.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Lambert blaming the referee. He's learning fast.

 

[Uppercut]

Nah 5pm kick offs are a pain in general. Same with Prem and FL matches. Worse in this sort of case though as it limits the travel opportunities for fans, given both clubs are northern. Indicative of where the priority lies these days.

Yeah, rightly so though, why would you prioritise a handful of travelling fans over a million TV viewers? The 3pm kick-off never made much sense to me, clashes with huge swathes of amateur league games- especially odd since those clubs are handed out most of the tickets, so they're people the FA clearly give a **** about.

 

[wpdavid]

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Won't lose sleep over the game being on after 5 either, but for some reason it makes me more disinclined to watch it, somehow. Something to do with nostalgically remembering it being at 3pm, I suppose.

Likewise on all counts.

That being said, I can barely remember any individual finals since 1990, so it doesn't really matter that much to me either. Honourable exceptions being Owen's final (2001?) and the West Ham vs Liverpool encounter a few years later.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, rightly so though, why would you prioritise a handful of travelling fans over a million TV viewers? The 3pm kick-off never made much sense to me, clashes with huge swathes of amateur league games- especially odd since those clubs are handed out most of the tickets, so they're people the FA clearly give a **** about.

Because the Cup Final shouldn't, IMO, be about the money that the FA can make but the two clubs who have made the final. Prioritising TV viewers is exactly why groups like AMF are almost becoming mainstream.