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Posted
3 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

Just out of interest what's the upper limit on a big "x" tag?  In my lifetime we've had a big 3,4,5 and now 6. 

20.

Posted
3 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

Just out of interest what's the upper limit on a big "x" tag?  In my lifetime we've had a big 3,4,5 and now 6. 

 

Less than 20 ...

Posted
59 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

20.

59 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

Less than 20 ...

Thanks but I guess it's technically 17 before you're back to it being a balanced league system.

Posted
2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I have no idea why I ever open the comments section under any BBC sport article. 

 

**** me the mouth breathers. 

The first comment I read in the PREMIER LEAGUE WINTER BREAK SET FOR FEBRUARY article was someone complaining that we'd have no football over Christmas.

Posted
3 hours ago, lancyclaret said:

Harry Kane? £280k a week. Bobby Smith was just as good in Spurs' double side of 1961....I think he earned a basic £20 a week.

 

Judge for yourselves: Smith (for Spurs) 271 games, 176 goals; (for England) 15 games, 13 goals.

                                    Kane (for Spurs) 150 games, 108 goals; (for England) 24 games, 13 goals.

Smith was a league & FA Cup double winner (1961), FA Cup winner (1962), European Cup Winners champions (1963). Kane honours - zilch.

 

The maximum wage of £20 a week was abolished in 1961. Johnny Haynes of Fulham became the first £100 a week player in 1961 and George Best the first £1,000 a week player in 1971.

 

Out of interest do you see a loaf of bread for 30p and bemoan the pound notes needed now, not like the old days where you could get a car for 2 shillings and thrupence?

Posted

Contracts don't mean anything - if anything this will just triple Kane's value - but part of me think's he's just gonna stay at Spurs all his career.

Posted
4 hours ago, lancyclaret said:

 Johnny Haynes of Fulham became the first £100 a week player in 1961 

Are all your players on over £100 per week yet?

 

If so has Dyche been told yet?

Posted
4 hours ago, lancyclaret said:

Harry Kane? £280k a week. Bobby Smith was just as good in Spurs' double side of 1961....I think he earned a basic £20 a week.

 

Judge for yourselves: Smith (for Spurs) 271 games, 176 goals; (for England) 15 games, 13 goals.

                                    Kane (for Spurs) 150 games, 108 goals; (for England) 24 games, 13 goals.

Smith was a league & FA Cup double winner (1961), FA Cup winner (1962), European Cup Winners champions (1963). Kane honours - zilch.

 

The maximum wage of £20 a week was abolished in 1961. Johnny Haynes of Fulham became the first £100 a week player in 1961 and George Best the first £1,000 a week player in 1971.

 

Yes but in those days you could buy a house for that and still have change for a world cruise.

Posted
6 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Yes but in those days you could buy a house for that and still have change for a world cruise.

Only if you were going one way to Australia!

Posted
11 hours ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Yes but in those days you could buy a house for that and still have change for a world cruise.

Actually, £20 a week was only about the national average wage in 1961 so many top -flight footballers had to take on a second job to supplement their income.

 

Jimmy Robson, scorer of Burnley's goal in the 1962 FA Cup final, often did a stint  as a coal miner before some Burnley night matches and a few of the first team worked for local butcher Bob Lord, who was Burnley's dictator-type chairman at the time.

 

 

Posted
18 minutes ago, lancyclaret said:

Actually, £20 a week was only about the national average wage in 1961 so many top -flight footballers had to take on a second job to supplement their income.

 

Jimmy Robson, scorer of Burnley's goal in the 1962 FA Cup final, often did a stint  as a coal miner before some Burnley night matches and a few of the first team worked for local butcher Bob Lord, who was Burnley's dictator-type chairman at the time.

 

 

 

 

The Burnley Butcher.

 

A strong personality.

 

"Special" sausages, I reckon.

Posted
2 hours ago, lancyclaret said:

Actually, £20 a week was only about the national average wage in 1961 so many top -flight footballers had to take on a second job to supplement their income.

 

Jimmy Robson, scorer of Burnley's goal in the 1962 FA Cup final, often did a stint  as a coal miner before some Burnley night matches and a few of the first team worked for local butcher Bob Lord, who was Burnley's dictator-type chairman at the time.

 

 

 

Very true. Also doesn’t Dyche sometimes work the door of the Burnley Wetherspoons?

Posted
11 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Very true. Also doesn’t Dyche sometimes work the door of the Burnley Wetherspoons?

Nah, they're too expensive. He works the door at a Yates.

Posted
14 hours ago, The Doctor said:

Out of interest do you see a loaf of bread for 30p and bemoan the pound notes needed now, not like the old days where you could get a car for 2 shillings and thrupence?

in 1908 the Model T cost $850, in 1961 I think something like a hillman cost about £850. average wage in UK was about £1000 in 1961.

 

14 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Contracts don't mean anything - if anything this will just triple Kane's value - but part of me think's he's just gonna stay at Spurs all his career.

Contracts mean nothing to footballers, they do to clubs. If Kane was for sale at the moment I guess he'd get about $130m or at least 2 Mahrez's. I think he'll stay at Spurs for 2 or 3 years but when they continue to fail to win anything he'll be off. 

Posted

I used to quite like your posting @lancyclaret but christ, every post is filled with jealousy or insecurity about money.

 

You're in Europe! You should be buzzing for the season ahead, not worrying about other teams spending money or planning to spend money.

Posted

Liverpool not getting Fekir any more lol 

 

Apparently they tried to lower the price during the medical as something was wrong and now the whole deal is off.

Posted
8 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Liverpool not getting Fekir any more lol 

 

Apparently they tried to lower the price during the medical as something was wrong and now the whole deal is off.

These things have a habit of sorting themselves out - might take until the jan window by prior agreement 

Posted
3 hours ago, StanSP said:

Liverpool not getting Fekir any more lol 

 

Apparently they tried to lower the price during the medical as something was wrong and now the whole deal is off.

 

He basically has zero knees. They shouldn't be going near him anyway, especially playing at Klopp pace. He'd probably survive a few seasons in a Mourinho team playing walking football but nowt else. 

 

The wonder is how they didn't pick it up scouting though given I could ****ing tell them that just from watching the European football show on bt. 

Posted

I just love the fact they had the cheek to go back to Lyon, allegedly, and ask to buy him for cheaper cos he's crocked. Why would Lyon even entertain that lol 

Posted
3 hours ago, StanSP said:

Liverpool not getting Fekir any more lol 

 

Apparently they tried to lower the price during the medical as something was wrong and now the whole deal is off.

Had already done the official photoshoot and the introductory interview for LFCTV too lol

 

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