Village Idiot

I had a Magic: The Gathering card called like that when I was a kid. Played it quite often since it was amazing, that's how I learnt that phrase. EDIT: http://a1.res.cloudinary.com/csicdn/image/upload/c_pad,h_300,w_300/v1/Images/Products/mtg%20art/Torment/full/Pay%20No%20Heed.jpg

Late night Spanish footie programs are full of shit. Pay no heed.

Breaking news: a couple of our radio stations are claiming that Atlético and Real Madrid have been hit with a 2 window transfer ban, for similar reasons to the one we got. EDIT: More of our media picking it up, although it's been amended as "UEFA is considering" the bans.

You'll swindle some points; not even Carver can possibly manage an 11 game losing streak. People like Dummet, Sissoko and Cisse coming back will also save him from his own stupidity, too (those lineups )

Well, aye. We even have an idiom for that in Spanish; "la fe del converso", the faith of the convert.

I wish I wasn't at work so I could have gone to the stadium tonight. This guy's life man. Sickening. That's why I need to balance my karma by following you.

I wish I wasn't at work so I could have gone to the stadium tonight.

He's in the squad of 20, 2 will be cut before tomorrow. Still chance he'll be one of the two as his inclusion in the squad seems more a PR move due to the bad press Real have been getting regarding his performances for Castilla. He's been terrible. He should ditch the primadonna act and train with Castilla so he gets to know his teammates. I watched a couple of Castilla games to check the hype and it's like he wasn't even there.

Yeah, the games are exclusively scheduled around maximizing TV audiences for every game - matchgoing fans are just props.

Several reasons: 1) Recession. Attendances have cratered these past years. We've had it bad down here (still do). 2) TVs shitting on fans from great height. The scheduling of games is absolutely bonkers. As an example, today we have two 22.00 kickoffs, on a weekday! People have to work tomorrow, those two games will have terrible attendances as a result. The reason is so tellies can show our game (20.00 kickoff) and then the other two, without Barça's game killing the audience of the others. 3) Unreasonably high ticket prices for casual fans. STs are priced allright, but people wanting to attend just a few games per season are put off by the prices. You can't attract new fans like that. Many clubs have answered falling match income by increasing ticket/ST prices in order to gouge their most loyal fans, which has created a vicious circle. 4) No tradition of away travel. Also, due to chance there's a few teams with large followings (Betis, Zaragoza, Sporting...) that aren't in La Liga nowadays.

Question 17

Messi has been our best non-defensive midfielder this season. Now that he has the likes of Neymar and Suárez as striker partners he's dropped back and gets involved in the buildup far more, partially making up for the decline of Xaviesta. Cronaldo could never do that.

Tbf they are a pretty small town and it's their first year ever in La Liga. There's work underway to expand it to 7000. Also, La Liga reports attendances as actual butts on seats, not tickets sold. Just to clarify.

Otamendi for Valencia has been the best CB in La Liga, imho. Amazing season.

Club shop address is the SD hq. All the money goes to SD. No advertising revenue despite the hundreds of SD adverts in the club etc. Similar with Rangers. Cheers, I wondered that too

To be frank, while the hyperbole is sometimes pretty minging, you don't want to lose control of a crowd of thousands in that way.

http://ep00.epimg.net/deportes/imagenes/2015/04/27/actualidad/1430159306_453186_1430160126_sumario_grande.jpg Actually these numbers are slightly improved as the nation is finally pulling out of recession, but they are still really worrying. TVs forcing schedules that completely shit on the fans don't help at all, also insane pricing schemes that punish casual fans (the ones you want to try to convert into regulars). Teams like Espanyol or Getafe were pulling 70% average 5-6 years ago, for example. Our average was in the mid 80s% under Guardiola but we're spoiled children.

There would be riots in Vallecas if they did. The owner of the bee logo company almost destroyed the club.

Think of when Ashley fucks off and you can finally tear those ads down. http://www.digdang.com/media/images/berlin_wall_being_torn_down_7487.jpg

two years ago we signed some frenchies in january, it was decided to turn the next home game into French day, every seat had a piece of paper on to hold up and create a huge picture ( aka Dortmund) on the back of every piece of paper was an advert for a sale at sports direct And every Europa League game we played, the electronic boards were advertising a sale in different places and languages, depending on who we were playing - sportsdirect.fr and so on. Aye http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/just_boy_uk/CBD0FCD9-8A53-4DAE-BCF1-8054C1C5E481.jpg And all the "international" sites just redirected to the English page. Cheap to the end.

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/153/7/f/wolf__s_evil_grin_gif_by_doublevtovka22-d52086s.gif Pfeh.

One of my favorite moments were the SportsDirect Greece ads when you played Atromitos at home. EDIT: What Wullie said.

Anybody seen this programme? What did they claim?

Bournemouth's recent history genuinely feels like one of my FM saves.