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If they're trying to replicate the NFL finances before messing further with the sport I wonder if the greedy arseholes factor in that America is 40odd times bigger than England with 6x the population and there's multiple stoppages during the game. Adjusted for population size the Premier League's TV deal is nearly double the NFLs and the elite clubs revenue is apparently on par with.

Ground level stuff, but its where they got the idea for Monday Night Football from, even ripped off Channel 4's helmets colliding graphic with the two badges colliding instead. It died a death as it was always going to but they even foisted cheerleaders onto TV games (the sky strikers).

Tomasson misses again.

Cant see that being cardigan and creosote Captain Ashwood Southgate's cup of tea.

Isn't ffp only going to harm ticket prices with clubs having to eek everything out of that stream now with fmv and the like. Maybe I'm just looking for a stick to beat it with.

There is. There's a picture of his mother who he's the spitting double of. Couldnt get into it after seeing that. Find careers like that far more interesting to read about. Gary Nelsons books are by far the best football books I've read but similar level players Redfearn and Phil Stants books are not well reviewed.

Think they did that to Gullit, Vialli's first game was near enough the final that year. Bit shan as it was against 2nd tier Boro and whoever was in charge was likely going to comfortably win

Sung that on my first visit there. As a bairn. Did feel a bit 'should I be singing this?' at the time. That was bang in the thick of the era of all that though. Different times. As pointed out above, even the most recent game there was.

Just thinking out loud, which is what these moans are, I often wonder if since the sanitisation of football began that fans have become more hostile towards there own team instead of the opposition. There was always moaners but it's massively increased now relative to what there is to moan about, across football. It's definitely part of some fans makeup though, like there has to be a target of the boo boys in every team. Same people would moan about how boring it is dominating every game and routinely winning like City. There's a reason why classic games and seasons are classic, there's always going to be setbacks in them and there's always going to be defeats. Itd be shit without them and football isn't for people if they can't take that. A lot of misery awaits. Look at how many setbacks there were in Keegan and Sir Bobby's good seasons and that's realistically as good as it's going to get.

It's hardly up there with smog monsters is it. And I don't even mind Boro anymore. (Guessing Boro is our equivalent of Wolves to brummie)

New York and Boston sounds cooler than New Jersey and Foxborough like it did in 94 apparently. Nobody gives a shit where the games are now. Can see why they did it then, when wc's had a local flavour

Its getting to where you have to say its their rightful place. In living memory at least. In the PL era they've finished 3rd of the 3 more than twice the amount Boro have. 21 - 10 and since the 60s 30 - 17 (7 for us). The head to head in that time is 31 - 12 to Boro, and one of the mackems wins was an aggregate loss. All they've got over Boro in that last half century is attendances. *just using up stats/notes unearthed the other day there.

Never seen the footage and don't know the player in question to know if being called 'fat' was warranted. Its harder to imagine a fat, under-18 player at a professional club than them being scummy though. Its reminded me of that Matthew Symonds (was it?) the Palace fan that got into the fight with Cantona saying in investigation that he shouted "go on Cantona, get off, have an early barth". *Not that there's anything wrong with giving Cantona abuse. Indulged in that myself and it was fully justified.

Yep. Just thought in the immortal words of Queen "thank god Its Christmas" that afternoon

That's how it'll be seen in time. Its fogotten about that games that are retrospectively considered whackey anecdotes, even the ones that didn't work out, were as frustrating and much worse performances with much worse players than today. Leicester 5-4 and 4-3, Arsenal 4-4, QPR 5-5, Tranmere 6-6. With a club that's going in the right direction in a league campaign that's got little to play for it should be more apparent sooner.

Depressing if anyone booed Burn. People just don't know how to go on. Play bad, don't win, former player coming back aren't automatic boo situations. Those sorts of people deserve defeats and always takes the edge off a setback for me. Good to know they were themselves jeered by good support. I remember that happening once with Gary Speed, the bloke next to me had been very critical of him but turned and rounded on the booers. Folk like that that are infinitely more embarrassing to me than results.

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Never ceases to amaze me how many people despite watching thousands of football matches think its automatic that the higher placed team beats the lower placed team despite the thousands of times that doesn't happen including when were the lower place team...like a few days ago.

Cold hard truth is its two points massively dropped but really the league season's been over for a while if you're not clamouring for Conference League football and as such you may as well try and enjoy the sport element of it as there's no bigger picture.

Leicester 1990 feel. Just hope it ends up like the first 5-4 and not the second, but feels like the roller-coaster of the home one

Kin hell man, club out! again I see

In a sense. But largely due to regularly winning their own uncompetitive leagues thus competing in Europe every year. Their normal gates were around 15,000 however.

The new recruits to the proposed league are barely better than the league they're already in. Certainly not sufficiently better to justify ripping up the fabric. Playing would be also rans like Anderlecht, PSV and Brugge is not better than them playing Bilbao, Espanyol and Valencia.

Good for them. But what a farce this is. Dual ownership of a player like they had in Italy could be an avenue going forward to get around some of this.