Kaizero

My only issue tonight is the fact we persevere with Joselu over Mitro, don’t think it’d have changed the scoreline drastically but it’s the only thing that really makes me angry.

Is Joselu even playing?

My hometown team(s) are in the 4th tier in Norway. Never bother going to watch their games when I'm back home. However I do know I would bother if they were in the 1st tier, and if they ever faced Rosenborg in said 1st tier I'd probably be sat in the home section rather than the away section. I'm part of the problem Since being founded in 1904, Mo IL has never been in the top tier though, so not a conundrum I'd have to face anytime soon, at least. Not been in the 2nd tier in my lifetime either, I think. Last match I attended was when the club almost got promoted to the 2nd tier but was denied by an equalizing goal in the 94th minute that should have been disallowed for offside. The ref got jumped after the game. Not a good time.

They sacked him over 10 years ago mind. I'm starting to wonder if I've been in some kind of come since around 2005 tbh Wait, 2005 is not three years ago?

Burnley averaged 13k before promotion, 19k after promotion, 15k after relegation and 20k after promotion again, for instance. Feel like this is backing my argument, as when the teams are in the "big league" more people will be like "guess I gotta support them as well now" and then fuck that shit off when they go back down the leagues.

Successful clubs will always have a higher catchment rate in their local areas. Fairly self explanatory how the younger people gravitate towards to the clubs they hear about, talk about at school and see play on TV all the time. Think it's fairly common to follow your most local lower-league side at the same time as supporting a team in the top division. Successful clubs will always have a higher catchment rate in their local areas. Fairly self explanatory how the younger people gravitate towards to the clubs they hear about, talk about at school and see play on TV all the time. Then how do any of the London clubs function? The London clubs outside of Arsenal, Chelsea and more recently Spurs seem to do okay supporter wise with a much more conjested area, more questionnable history and 3 similarly successful clubs. Just quickly went over average attendances, seems like the % of empty seats seem quite similar between North West teams and London teams - with massive fluctuations between PL seasons and CH seasons. Crystal Palace for instance pulled 10k more on average in their first season back in the PL. Blackburn and Bolton dropped a similar amount first season after relegation.

Successful clubs will always have a higher catchment rate in their local areas. Fairly self explanatory how the younger people gravitate towards to the clubs they hear about, talk about at school and see play on TV all the time. Think it's fairly common to follow your most local lower-league side at the same time as supporting a team in the top division.

He's not a very good manager. I'm not sure what level he's on however, so he might get them to safety - but won't have them challenge at the top anytime soon. Just happy they have a shit person as their manager. Never was comfortable disliking the Mick.

What did I just watch

If we got invited to stink out the place I would approve of this tournament.

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Wolf >>>> Wilf

I don't mind the idea, but it would basically be the Europa League version of the World Cup. Can't see how motivated the participating teams would be, which would be a downer.

Arsenal 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur Bournemouth 2-0 Huddersfield Town Burnley 1-0 Swansea City Crystal Palace 0-0 Everton Leicester City 1-4 Manchester City Liverpool 3-0 Southampton West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Chelsea Manchester Utd 1-1 Newcastle United Watford 3-0 West Ham United Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 Stoke City

Yes and no. Morocco and Tunisia both have more appereances at the WC than Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, so by that logic their non-appereance would be more wild.

I love Bendtner

What a Lew-Who, Za-Her. I applaud that reference.

In terms of a spectacle it's dog s*** outside of Man City and Spurs at the moment. Liverpool and Arsenal are ok to watch but their style is hyped up. After that there's there's nothing, and far too many managers are getting credit for being organised and defensive and nothing more, it's the easiest way to play. Name a better league in terms of entertainment? There’s only one decent game in the Spanish league and that’s El Classico. Series A is shit, the Dutch league is shit, the French league is shit, there’s only one game worth watching in the German league. For pure entertainment and unpredictability the PL is the best in the world, hence why it’s watched all over the world. Has more to do with availability and hype. Once the Bundesliga became readily available over here, the interest in it has skyrocketed. The top English league has been on over here since the 60s or something, it's not because it's the most entertaining league. It's because it's always been available, and that's why most Norwegians follow English teams. It's what we've all grown up being familiar with, and up until recent years we had more English games on TV every weekend than we had Norwegian games.

Weird comment to make anyway since the stadiums took less people.

The current England is shit regardless (compared to the other "big" nations) for now. Think in four years time when the young players have some more experience you'll possibly be in a position to challenge for a WC, but it all depends on how well those talents are nurtured. That said, going by past examples, they don't get nurtured well. Think a major issue is that none of your players go play outside of England and would rather pick up their massive paychecks laying for Man City reserves than aspiring to win trophies with clubs that might not pay as much. Development just halts for these players, and the cycle begins anew with young hungry players coming up, doing well, getting bought by big PL clubs giving them fat paychecks to play for their reserves removing all ambition and hunger in the process.

Tunisia and Morocco made it

Ødegaard starting to look like he might just live up to the hype.

Who the the white dude playing?

England and Germany B teams were playing, plus sometimes the ‘Beckhams, Maldinis, Zidanes, Ronaldinhos and Figos’ aren’t really lauded until towards the end or even after their career. If the current crop of English players, I wonder how Kane, Dele Alli, Dier will be remembered? There are surely a number of big name French, Italian, Brazilian, and (one) Portuguese players who stand out of the current crop. I'm not really talking about players being gifted and lauded for their ability, more their actual fame levels outside of the average football watcher. I fail to think of many outside of Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo that peple not that interested in football would see today and still be all "Oh yeah, that guy, I know who that is", where just a few years ago the footballing world were littered with profiles that (personal experience) people who hate football knew begrudgingly who was.

Think he is ace myself!