Furball
Evil Scotsman
That's where Rangers will be in big trouble soon if they don't pull their finger out. The 'football' we get served up should be made illegal.
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*Official* English Football Season 2013-14
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grecian
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The funny thing is here I'm pretty much socialist to the very core. Yet in the end is anyone showing me figures about how the big success of the top clubs is hurting the lower leagues?
In fact the lower divisions crowds have hugely benefitted from the Prem becoming massive in my memory. The fact is people are getting blasé about football being hugely popular and forgetting before the Prem it was meh amongst most of the population. How many football league teams have gone bust in the last 20 years, compared to the 20 years before, and you irritatingly young people won't remember but in the 70s and 80s there was a story every week about clubs on the brink.
Pothas team is clearly doing well because all the Sky money pumped into it though, and so should be looked on with disdain.
In fact the lower divisions crowds have hugely benefitted from the Prem becoming massive in my memory. The fact is people are getting blasé about football being hugely popular and forgetting before the Prem it was meh amongst most of the population. How many football league teams have gone bust in the last 20 years, compared to the 20 years before, and you irritatingly young people won't remember but in the 70s and 80s there was a story every week about clubs on the brink.
Pothas team is clearly doing well because all the Sky money pumped into it though, and so should be looked on with disdain.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Yeah you're probably right Grecian (first time those words have been seen on CW) - I think in reality it's my own club rather than the football league I should have concerns about. But then you think about things like the EPPP and that has the potential to change things. We made millions through the 90s and 00s selling the likes of Ian Nolan, Ryan Taylor, Jason Koumas and it will become harder for that to happen.
That being said, as grim as things are for us, around the time I was born we were getting sub 2000 through the gates and we were in that ghastly division 4. Of course we may be there next season...
That being said, as grim as things are for us, around the time I was born we were getting sub 2000 through the gates and we were in that ghastly division 4. Of course we may be there next season...
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
America and Australia don't have promotion and that though do they? Could be wrong
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Swansea, Hull and Cardiff are Premiership teams that I still think of as sub-Championship. I think you sort of need either a lot of investment or to be exceptionally well-run. Luck helps a lot too, the Championship is that kind of league. Some really poor teams go up with an average striker hitting a good run of form just before the playoffs.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
All big cities though, always the potential for top tier football in those places. Hull was famously the biggest in Europe not to have had top division football until they actually got it.
You'll always have situations like Leeds, the Sheffield clubs and on the other side of the coin Wigan etc but the majority of the top tier will usually settle on clubs from the big cities. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, think half the prem teams at the min are from those, if not more.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Yeah that's why I specified countries that already have one because it definitely wouldn't be true otherwise. I can't remember exactly what the article that I read said, I'll try and find it.
superkingdave
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TNS > Cardiff
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
HOLY CRAP NEH NANDEN YOUR NAME.
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Not a football town tho, tbf.
Guess one could maybe make the same case for Cardiff and Swansea too.
Ha, quite. Merthyr Town reckon playing in the Southern League Div 1 (which is four promotions away from the league: Southern Div 1-Southern Prem-Conference South-Conference) a better bet than the Welsh Premier League, or whatever it's called.
flibbertyjibber
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Bring on Tranny.
superkingdave
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Good win for us today, but **** me did everyone else around the bottom have to win as well? Unbeaten in 5 including Leyton Orient away and Brentford and yet we aren't getting any further away from relegation, still only 4 points in it. Only 6 points between 12th and 21st
wpdavid
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In an ideal world, Stoke would be accompanying Fulham and Cardiff but that's not going to happen. WBA are cod ordinary, but they seem to be finding some sort of form. I suppose the big question is what Sunderland do with their games in hand.
You're right that Norwich look in trouble though. I'd like to see them stay up, admittedly not entirely for what they're doing on the pitch.