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That's not something to lie down and accept though imo. A season ticket at £500 a year is still affordable to a great deal of 'working class' people. I'm hardly flash and going to an away game represents a small fortune to me tbh. Stoke away was £30 ticket (not that bad), £60 to get there from London, plus all the other cash you end up spending. I'm f***ed off about paying £50 for Chelsea but will pay it because I live in London. If I was back in Newcastle it would put me off. It's only an extra 10-15 quid above what you've came to expect, but it's creeping up all the time man. There's very little you can do to not "lie down and accept" it though. It's not as if you can protest being forced out of matches by not going to matches. It sucks that ticket prices are going up, but as long as the club is filling the stadium (or at least getting as many in as they can), it makes sense for them to have the tickets priced as highly as possible. If they don't, they're just letting the profit margin go to the touts instead. Economic realities exist and can't be ignored. There are certainly measures that can be taken to not alienate low-income fans, and I wish they'd try a bit harder in that respect, but the fundamental reality of rising ticket prices is just something we'll have to accept until an equilibrium point is reached. The only way to solve this problem would be to figure out a way to make rich people not like football. Unsure how that would be accomplished.

Obviously not up to the challenge of beating Leon Best in the scoring charts.

Well it's clearly no longer working class entertainment and hasn't been for a long, long time though.

I'd like to think that he's nailed on to succeed now that we've all written him off on here.

Am I worthy enough to hear the reason why you think that?

Would Messi still be significantly better than CRon in any other team but Barcelona?

Compare it to ticket prices for US sports or even West End musicals and it's really not that bad. Make the price artificially too low relative to the demand and really all you get is massive amount of scalping(touts). I think it feels more expensive for you guys because in England it's the expectation that a "good fan" should be able to attend every single home game. I'll continue to enjoy my 40-pound season tickets (and requisite shit football) here in South Korea by the way

Did somebody say Park?

Routledge just doesn't get along with Pardew or maybe "this group of lads" I think.

As I mentioned previously, Liverpool have no squad depth at all and that is going to come back to bite them in the ass if they're trying to sustain a title challenge over the course of an entire season. What is their plan B if Suarez gets injured? David N'Gog?

Uh oh...

Their press have been calling for him to be reinstated to the squad at every major tournament for the past decade

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_litmuuSd0J1qznuzoo1_500.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_Kazuyoshi Miura Kazuyoshi, Age 45, and still a full-time player in the Japanese 2nd division scores in a Japanese National Team v. J-League All-Stars charity match. Broke right through Japan's first-choice back four and delivered a ridiculously good finish. Do a search for "King Kazu" on the video site, it's the second one down. What a f***ing legend this guy is. Been playing professional football since the year I was born and still keeps himself in good enough shape to turn out at a respectable level. Absolutely loved by the Japanese and respected all over Asia, even in Korea. You can hear the commentators choking up when he does that crazy dance thing to celebrate his goal. A model professional of the absolute highest order.

its Shola form, that. But can Messi eat an apple while on a bike?

I can't speak for most of the players on that list either, but at this point he does look better than Zidane.

Korean media's in a collective orgasm over "Big Game Park" Well... It was a nice finish wasn't it?

Would give Ranger a nice kick up the ass to have another youth team striker play first team football ahead of him.

Good shout. Not convinced he'd do that though. Leave I mean. Would love to see him move somewhere else just for the heck of it. I mean, surely he has to get sick of destroying La Liga year after year after year at some point?

Aside from being two feet taller I can't imagine how he could possibly be any better

I tend to be completely blind to any football that happens outside of England and Korea, but man WTF, did Lionel Messi just score his 48th goal of the season?

i never questioned that you had the right, but nice straw man all the same. you moaning bugger I was straw manning as a figurative way of showing that you were straw manning me you needlessly confrontational bugger.

As long as they manage to luck out in the Champions League finals, it looks like Man United may be well on their way to a "treble by default"

Whatever, I'm clearly wasting my finger muscles on deaf ears.

As I say, nobody (that I'm aware of) is forcing you on here. Fucking hell man. Okay, you can leave this thread if you don't like me posting that much then.

This isn't discussion this is like a bunch of children screaming "I'M RIGHT" "NO I'M RIGHT!" at 1000 words per page. And if members of this forum have the right to talk about whatever they want to talk about I have the right to think that it's pointless, repetitive, and boring.