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http://citythatbreeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/yankeefan.jpg No chance this guy is literate.

Paella juices.

Well that should've been your first hint, Mike doesn't know how to read. I'm sorry man.

You'll do anything to get yourself outta the doghouse after the playoffs thread.

Yeah he's one of us, unfortunately. He was that friend in our group who we all secretly hated, but is now in law school and banging some hot chick. Super nice guy, lifelong friend, hate him so much.

It's really grating. I've never wanted to punch him in the face more than at this moment.

Good buddy of mine, known each other since childhood, complete wankstain, posted this on FB:

Shut up seemed harsh

Get outta here Pip. You're in the doghouse right now.

FYP.

What's the point though? He'd be shoe-horned in as another DM.

I'm not so sure. I think any manager worth his stones could look at the squad we have and foam at the mouth. Plus an ownership that has shown its willingness to spend in transfer market.

A 2-team league. The Germans yearn for that kind of parity.

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,93957.0.html

Disgusting money. Ligue 1 is set to become even more of a one-team league than the Bundesliga.

He's retiring. To manage Newcastle iirc.

You were pillaged ruthlessly for a harmless, off-hand comment about fridges, I thought for sure a thread about corrupting the purity of their game would've gotten you sent to the dungeons.

True story. So much it isn't even funny. So I'll laugh anyway Saw thread title, saw it was Mike who started; already started laughing before opening. A lot more tame than I anticipated. Thought the banhammer was going to fall swiftly.

True story.

I mean, I think the NFL is the best league from top to bottom in the world. Quality of play, entertainment value, etc. A tad expensive, but there are only 16 regular season games a year. It's a real testament that a league and sport that virtually no one cares about outside the U.S. has become the most lucrative sporting venture in the world. Even the Bills are one of the most valuable sports organizations worldwide. But I like the exclusivity of American-style sports. Which is why I think MLS needs to be more like the NFL/MLB/NHL than the PL. And I honestly wouldn't like to see the PL become more Americanized, even though I think there's a lot the league can learn from the American model. European football has its quirks and I love the game because of them.

Could you ever get fair value for a guy with that rule in place? I mean how would that work? Chelsea spent 50 on Torres, so that means they have to move 40m of player just to get there? Or would transfer values plummet, and players wouldn't move as much? You'd see a lot of guys Shola a team, right? Trades? To be fair to these guys, we are trying to Americanize a very English game. Playoffs and a salary cap are all well and good, but I don't think you or I would know how to implement them without changing loads of other stuff too, producing an end product PL that looks and operates just like the NFL.

But the PL isn't the old First Division anymore. Like it or not, the PL has more in common with the NFL than it does the Championship, in terms of them being businesses first. It was re-branded in 92 but it still dates back to the late 1800s. It's part of the oldest football league system in the world as far as I know. Yeah I understand that, my point is that the league fundamentally changed when it became the Premier League. The entire business structure was altered.

I think that's everyone's goal. But a dynasty in the NFL is so much more rewarding than one in the PL, simply because it's that much more difficult to sustain greatness in the NFL. What the Patriots were able to accomplish under Brady and Belichick, as much as I hate them, is far more impressive than Chelsea or City buying their way to greatness and having no real impediments along the way.

But the PL isn't the old First Division anymore. Like it or not, the PL has more in common with the NFL than it does the Championship, in terms of them being businesses first.