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Sallar55

Veteran
Up in Northern Spain, watching in hotel bar. The locals are happy with the way the game is going.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
Bournemouth prmoted.

I thought certain criteria had to be met, such as ground capacity, in the Premier League? Their current capacity is 11.329 which if I'm right is the same as the last time they were in the Premier league. Clubs in lower divisions who win promotion, but don't have grounds 'good enough' for the higher division aren't allowed to join that higher league/division if I remember rightly.🤔
 
I thought certain criteria had to be met, such as ground capacity, in the Premier League? Their current capacity is 11.329 which if I'm right is the same as the last time they were in the Premier league. Clubs in lower divisions who win promotion, but don't have grounds 'good enough' for the higher division aren't allowed to join that higher league/division if I remember rightly.🤔

Strictly speaking, they've only won the right to apply, and the Prem needs to accept them, but they will. The top 6 need other teams to make the numbers up. I'm not a fan of the prem to say the least.
 

PaulB

Legendary Member
Location
Colne
So last night Liverpool joined an English elite of one in earning the right to complete a whole European/domestic football season! The only team to have ever done that before was....Liverpool in 2001 when they won the League Cup, UEFA Cup and FA Cup as well as - obviously - all their league matches. I know Celtic did it in 1967 but Liverpool are the only English team to have ever done it and certainly the only one to have done it twice. Which is nice.

And what a performance that second half was! It was on a par with the 0-3 down against Barcelona and trouncing them - Messi and all - 4-0 at Anfield.

I've never taken any of the illegal drugs but it's difficult to imagine any of those giving the high that top-level football like this provides.
 

Sallar55

Veteran
Shankly said something about football. But that was when it was lifeline to escape the drudgery of a life down the pits or heavy industry.
 

PaulSB

Squire
Shankly said something about football. But that was when it was lifeline to escape the drudgery of a life down the pits or heavy industry.

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."
 

AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields
There's a Liverpool obsessed fan on the Killie forum I frequent. The combination of abysmal patter from both him and our correspondents on here makes me hope they win absolutely f*ck all this season.

Which I feel a bit mean about, because it's awesome when your team wins a trophy and completes all it's available fixtures. Killie completed all theirs, won the league with a game to spare, with a mid-season managerial change and everything.

I'm still mystified as to why anyone would give a f*ck about such a statistic.
 

PaulB

Legendary Member
Location
Colne
Pity, that, as there's no other conceivable excuse for your output.



This is a football forum and last night we ALL saw one of the finest ever football performances to get Liverpool to the final of the European Cup but the company's accountant is telling us we can't do this?
 
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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
CL final....getting a ticket.
I am now very much an armchair supporter (last game I attended was maybe 4 years ago) and I fully agree with regular attendees getting priority.
I was reading that a) arranged travel tickets would cost up to £700 and b) to have ANY chance of a match ticket you would had to have put your name in a ballot, which has now closed.
Which, if I have this right, means you would have to buy travel tickets without knowing if you will have any chance of a match ticket.
 
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