Stephenite
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If I was the Doncaster keeper I'd have put a hard tackle in, and booted the ball out the ground. A win's a win. B-)
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Winning the ashes and beating Arsenal away. It's been a good couple of days.
AndyRM
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A single round of fixtures and the media have lost the plot about the Premier League.
The same few teams routinely make up the top four and the usual suspects will be there or thereabouts.
The most exciting aspect is the relegation battle. Which teams still get millions for 'winning'.
The same few teams routinely make up the top four and the usual suspects will be there or thereabouts.
The most exciting aspect is the relegation battle. Which teams still get millions for 'winning'.
Andrew_P
In between here and there
I have to say I agree it is a load of bollocks, the only good thing about the Premier League is you get decent coverage of your team, within reason regardless of their position. The downside is the money making machine and the huge gaps between top - mid and bottom of the league. People start talking about how many millions more you will get by finishing 9th instead of 10th wtf what kind of aspiration is that for your average supporter.
AndyRM
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5 billion over 3 years.
5.
Billion.
It's just stupid money.
It's likely that Serie A will over-take the Premier League in UEFA co-efficients this year, so England will lose a Champion's League spot. That'll make peddling it as 'the best league in the world' a bit of a challenge.
swee'pea99
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I'm glad everyone's so happy about yesterday's Emirates adventure. Both my best mates are fanatic gooners, so there goes my beer-week.
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
5 billion over 3 years.
5.
Billion.
It's just stupid money.
It's likely that Serie A will over-take the Premier League in UEFA co-efficients this year, so England will lose a Champion's League spot. That'll make peddling it as 'the best league in the world' a bit of a challenge.
I try to keep my supporter-dom and the money issues separate. So I still find the game exciting.
The money is ludicrous though I do agree. Every time I go to a match i do think (usually during the warm up period for some reason) that all those young guys/kids out there are all millionaires - and it doesn't seem right.
Truth be told if someone got £200k pa for playing football I'd say they would be doing well.
But in a world where a total non-entity at 16 years of age 'with promise' is on £5k a week at the bigger clubs that annual figure would be seen as derisory.
It's the same in other sports F1/Golf/Tennis/Baseball etc - crazy money paid via the clever business model of hoovering up small amounts of money from millions of people and depositing it in the bank accounts of the few.
Same in music/film I read the other week that 'Harry Potter' is now worth around £100m and 'Hermione' is in for £60m! Bonkers, absolutely bonkers but not just confined to the PL or even sport in general.
AndyRM
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You do have the advantage of following a competitive team which must help. The best most supporters can hope for is a bit of a cup run before settling into mid-table obscurity.
Totally agree that the money issue isn't confined to the EPL, and I suppose it is an easy dig. I think my resentment stems from following a Scottish side which barely registers as a foot-note in the coverage - and Sky aren't the only culprits there, though they're probably the worst for it.
You'd barely have known our season had started unless you knew about it, as they were off admiring a sofa at Charlton.
Joey Shabadoo
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TRIBUTES are being paid to Scotland this morning after the entire country laughed itself to death at "The Rangers"
Most would have been dead within minutes
The alarm was first raised at around 10pm last night as thousands of phone calls and text messages went unanswered.
Small groups of volunteers from Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Carlisle ventured north just after midnight only to find houses full of dead people gathered around still blaring television sets.
By dawn, as RAF helicopters flew over deserted city streets, it was clear that the whole country had suffered a catastrophic abdominal rupture.
The only "people" to be found were orc-like creatures calling themselves "bears". Stupified by some cataclysmic event they could only repeatedly state "pyoor dead raging, so we urr."
Wayne Hayes, a special constable from Northumberland, said: "We went into one house in Dunbar and found three men sitting on the sofa with huge smiles on their faces, still holding cans of 70 shilling. They seemed to be at peace."
He added: "In a house near Edinburgh we found a Hibs fan face down on the living room floor with his trousers and pants round his knees.
"It seems he may have been showing his bare buttocks to the television when he keeled over."
Roy Hobbs, a civil engineer from Northampton, said: "I got a call from my friend Ian in Stirling at about 9.50pm.
"He was already laughing when I answered the phone, but after about 25 minutes of the most vigorous and uncontrollable hilarity, punctuated only by the cryptic message "Scott Allan going to Celtic" everything suddenly went very quiet."
Moving tributes are already being placed along the Scotland-England border with many mourners opting to leave a simple bag of chips or a deep fried bunch of flowers.
Most would have been dead within minutes
The alarm was first raised at around 10pm last night as thousands of phone calls and text messages went unanswered.
Small groups of volunteers from Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Carlisle ventured north just after midnight only to find houses full of dead people gathered around still blaring television sets.
By dawn, as RAF helicopters flew over deserted city streets, it was clear that the whole country had suffered a catastrophic abdominal rupture.
The only "people" to be found were orc-like creatures calling themselves "bears". Stupified by some cataclysmic event they could only repeatedly state "pyoor dead raging, so we urr."
Wayne Hayes, a special constable from Northumberland, said: "We went into one house in Dunbar and found three men sitting on the sofa with huge smiles on their faces, still holding cans of 70 shilling. They seemed to be at peace."
He added: "In a house near Edinburgh we found a Hibs fan face down on the living room floor with his trousers and pants round his knees.
"It seems he may have been showing his bare buttocks to the television when he keeled over."
Roy Hobbs, a civil engineer from Northampton, said: "I got a call from my friend Ian in Stirling at about 9.50pm.
"He was already laughing when I answered the phone, but after about 25 minutes of the most vigorous and uncontrollable hilarity, punctuated only by the cryptic message "Scott Allan going to Celtic" everything suddenly went very quiet."
Moving tributes are already being placed along the Scotland-England border with many mourners opting to leave a simple bag of chips or a deep fried bunch of flowers.
First trip in ages to Taylors Avenue (now known as the Belfast Loughshore Hotel Arena - believe me it's no arena) in Carrickfergus on Wednesday. We (Linfield FC) haven't played there in 20 years. Nothing like a wee balmy night watching some Irish League football. Final score Carrick 0 - 3 Linfield.
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I was at the game today and i have to say i was impressed with leicester especially the two goalscorers okazaki and mahrez.
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Normal service is resumed for the hammers after the after the beating of arsenal.
Roadhump
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted
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Think they might be a "surprise package" this season, perhaps doing what Southampton have done the last couple of seasons. If so, prepare to get plundered by Liverpool for your players at the end of the season.
Supersuperleeds
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Man City thumping Chelski
