The Football.....

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Andy

Just joined your league

"Egg and Cresswell"

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Is there a Fantasy Championship?

I bet Newcastle fans are hoping there is cos their Championship reality ain't looking too good

 

[AndyRM]

I bet Newcastle fans are hoping there is cos their Championship reality ain't looking too good

They were totally gash last night, as were Fulham to be fair. Both looked way off the pace and like they'd never met their teammates.

Anyway, baws tae the sassenachs.

Killie get going this afternoon. We're already out of two cups so we can focus on our league campaign.

In Jigsaw we trust...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Without being derogatory to Leicester City I do remember reading on The Foxes fan boards how they were 'doing it' without being part of the big money machine of PL footy - which I thought was daft anyway.

Well, here we see that they are also truly part of the big bucks bonanza that is a facet of the sickly world of football finance:

http://www.101greatgoals.com/news/l...-almost-2m-19-bmw-cars-gifts-players-picture/

No disrespect to LC fans, the same goes on elsewhere, but I find this wealth flaunting obscene.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Remind me, your team is which?

My team are as bad (they all are up to a point) which is why I wrote 'same goes on elsewhere' - in truth I am getting more and more hacked off with these extreme displays of wealth.

All the absurd £10k earrings, gold plated headphones, massive houses and car upon car upon car in the garage is diminishing my enjoyment of the game.

Doesn't help that we are in the off season - at least when that starts I can focus on the footy which will hopefully be better than last season's abomination for us.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Enjoy what goes on on the pitch as much as you can. Ignore the off pitch bollocks as much as you can.

Football now has two aspects. The game itself is one, but the other - which is beginning to overtake it - is the soap opera which runs parallel to the matches. Who earns how much, which mansion they live in, which model they are dating, what club they might got to next (So much for the badge kissing) and what one manager said about another get's as much if not more press coverage than the football. It's beginning to pi$$ me off too and I find I have less interest in the sport than I used to.

I know it has become something of a cliche, but the average fan has nothing in common with the players any more. When I was at school West Ham's Alan Sealy used to take us for football coaching and another, John Cushly was a part time teacher there. Now they seem to exist on another planet.

 

[simon.r]

As a lifetime LCFC fan I'm struggling. The days of turning up on Saturday at 2.45pm (2.30pm if it was a big game) and paying on the gate are long gone. And I'm talking about football in the top 2 tiers.

I don't want to commit to a season ticket or buy a membership for the half a dozen games a year I go to see, so it's a case of relying on friends who are season ticket holders to get me tickets, if they can. I particularly enjoy going to away games, but without a season ticket it's nigh on impossible to buy tickets for these.

I will always support LCFC, but will seriously consider switching my few live games a year to Notts or Mansfield, where I imagine ticket availability isn't an issue.

 

[Dayvo]

I will always support LCFC, but will seriously consider switching my few live games a year to Notts or Mansfield, where I imagine ticket availability isn't an issue.

Nor, I'd have thought, is a decent game of football.

 

[Dayvo]

Harsh.

Mansfield Town's first choice 'keeper is Scottish. I rest my case.

 

[simon.r]

Harsh.

But probably true But if I want to go out on a Saturday afternoon* for a few beers and a laugh, maybe the quality of football isn't the primary concern.

*From memory LCFC had none of their last 5 or 6 games last season on a Saturday afternoon

 

[AndyRM]

What are youse moaning about? You're watching and supporting teams in the best league in the world!

 

[martint235]

Feck the lot of you, we're beating Barcelona 3-0 at Wembley!!!! YNWA

 

[MarkF]

0-0 v Vale but at least we look like Bradford City again with this seasons kit. A very good crowd for Division 3 of 18500 and none of your PL plastic banner "legend" bollox, all home made by our yoof!


https://vid.me/ra1x

 

[MarkF]

Feck the lot of you, we're beating Barcelona 3-0 at Wembley!!!! YNWA

It's a friendly!!!

 

[ianrauk]

It's a friendly!!!

Liverspuds fans have to hang on to anything they can get these days.