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18 hours ago, triggs said:

52k is a lot for the second team in a city of 500k people

 

Yeah but Liverpool's support is swelled a lot by non locals so the 'pool' of supporters is larger than that really. When I was there (99-05) I came across a lot more Scousers who were Everton fans than Liverpool fans, but you do obviously get group bias where a friend of a friend of a friend is likely to have similar interests

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7 minutes ago, Colos Short and Curlies said:

 

Yeah but Liverpool's support is swelled a lot by non locals so the 'pool' of supporters is larger than that really. When I was there (99-05) I came across a lot more Scousers who were Everton fans than Liverpool fans, but you do obviously get group bias where a friend of a friend of a friend is likely to have similar interests

Depends where you draw the boundaries of likely catchment areas@triggs. The metropolitan areas list or ‘conurbations’ is probably the most accurate for possible ‘local support’.
It has Liverpool-Birkenhead with a 2.4million population; this includes Merseyside proper and adjoining bits of West Lancs, The Wirral and Cheshire. For comparison, Newcastle-Sunderland is at 1.6m (and has adjoining bits of Northumberland and Durham as well as Tyne & Wear proper). 
 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPON_metropolitan_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom

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2 hours ago, joeyt said:

 

 

 


That Gerrard tackle on Herrera was fucking hilarious at the time.  He’d only just came on off the bench.

 

Commentators were incredulous that the referee could do such a thing to “Stevie Gee”.

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46 minutes ago, OCK said:

 

This is like watching those clips of the 70s and 80s with Souness assaulting people and thinking "how the hell was football like that"... [emoji38] Sometimes you forgot how much the game has changed, even within your own life time. 

Try the Leeds Liverpool 1974 Charity Shield!

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1 minute ago, Astroblack said:

Ben Thatcher on Pedro Mendes is the absolute worst thing I’ve seen in football. Absolute thug. Should not be glorified. 

 

 

 


Did he not do similar to a Sunderland player when at Wimbledon too?

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Here’s a shorter one which gives a sense of Revie’s Leeds (including ‘robust’ Geordie centre back pairing of Hunter and Charlton)  including a famous brawl vs Derby. The teams had ‘history’  during Clough’s earlier reign as Derby manager. 
 

 

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The following book is apparently going to get released in English sometime over the next few months:

 

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The title is "Let the Right Ones in" and chronicles how Bodø/Glimt went from being bailed out by the city government to avoid insolvency and ceasing to exist - to completely re-structuring how to run the club, implement a club-specific footballing philosophy and to only hire staff that would continually develop and follow the new ethos of the club. Today, Bodø/Glimt is in a league of it's own in the Norwegian league, never plays dull football and has done so well in European competetions that Norway for the first time since the 00/01 season has two CL spots (for 25/56), which means that Norway is guaranteed a team in the CL starting that season. That team will be Bodø/Glimt, as it should be, given how they currently have a 10 point lead at the top of the table with nine games to go.

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