purpleronnie

And they won.

Yeah no-one is surprised, we've all said it will happen, it's the way football is going, actually the way sport in general is going. The money is in American and Saudi, so more and more high profile games will be played there. Plus those countries also want to push for their own agenda's which at least as far as the US is more involvement in how football is run, which competitions are held where and which teams can compete. I said the stepping stone would be the the expanded world club championships, and it seems i was correct, the US has been the driving force with the added benefit of US teams being involved which is what they ultimately want. The next generation will grow up with this being the norm and their local team playing regularly in other countries.

Wonder what they thought about people losing their minds over here because a few everton and liverpool players got their handbags out.

It's quite odd the diffference in the interpretation of what 'support' means. What I've noticed outside of england is when fans talk about 'support' it's about atmosphere and the levels of noise, in england it's often about numbers of fans who went. Even when it comes to away fans you'll see a picture of a packed away end and most of the comments will talk about numbers, rarely the noise those fans made. To me 200 noisey fans is support, 2000 fans sitting in silence is not.

All true, but that's what english football culture is now. Save your money and either go to games north of the border, or europe, it's so much more fun. Of course it won't be 'your club' you're watching, so the connection won't be there.

Not sure any manager can suddenly make this team full of goals.

well last time 2005-2014 we still averaged around 23,000 including falling to the third tier, pretty good crowds IMO. I very much doubt we'd go lower than that. But I wouldnt care as long as tickets were reasonably priced, the glory hunters fecked off, and there was a return to a half decent atmosphere, and fans felt connected to the club.

Not sure what we can do, there's no goals in this squad.

Maybe if we draw 0-0 in every game we can still stay up.

Loving the bbc sport picture of fans at the game...main page....bless. BBC Sport - Scores, Fixtures, News - Live Sport

It's exactly the type of person the club want as chairman of the supporters club.

Yep, Only in England though.

At least we won't have a selby v higgins final.

Its amazing we have as many fans as we do when they're treated like this, just wouldn't be accepted anyone else in the world, stadiums would be empty.

He clearly does and has most of his life.

or 22 man handbags.

Surely you can see the difference in the pressures of playing and pundtry.

Just checked it was @19...close enough lol.

I got 20 on the exchange

Had a free bet on Plymouth at 20/1....plymouth/queens park double would've been 545/1.

Liverpool and Rangers both being knocked out on the same day...someone pinch me. Happy days.

I assume kids who grew up with it?, its all my nephew watches, thankfully when I'm there he wants to play football with me instead of watching it, i cant hack a minute of watching those videos.

I'm so glad I don't care that much.