Bob Farley Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/9359949.stm "The chance to be part of making soccer popular in America, alongside people like David Beckham and Thierry Henry, is obviously very tempting. Haha, he wants to retire somewhere nicer than Derby.
StanSP Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 He's got family in Vancouver too. And he seems tempted given what he's said on Twitter. He sounds like he's in a dilemma.
purpleronnie Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 Be a great move Vancouver are the new MLS team and I'm sure they'll get good crowds and the match against Toronto will be special, I can see more and more players wanting to move over there.
DJ Barry Hammond Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 If it means he's not on 606 then this can only be a good thing!
Guest BlueBrett Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 I always thought he'd be after a regular job on motd
Wymsey Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 I imagine him doing well over there considering the MLS involves scrappy games and end to end stuff. Btw Bob F, who's said Derby's not nice? I'm at University there and love the place (well the nightlife and the Westfield centre anyway )
Craig Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 I imagine him doing well over there considering the MLS involves scrappy games and end to end stuff. Btw Bob F, who's said Derby's not nice? I'm at University there and love the place (well the nightlife and the Westfield centre anyway ) You're at Uni!? Fook me, thank god I got it over with early.
Wymsey Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 You're at Uni!? Fook me, thank god I got it over with early. People say its the best time of your life........... i get you now. Cheers. I like being admired on here
Craig Posted 12 January 2011 Posted 12 January 2011 People say its the best time of your life........... i get you now. Cheers. I like being admired on here No problem
wurmer Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 I always thought he'd be after a regular job on motd He's too much of a gobby shite for that gig. Be glad to get him off 606 and ESPN tbh.
Stevosevic Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 Nice move for him, not sure what the locals and the 'new' soccer fans will make of him.
purpleronnie Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 Nice move for him, not sure what the locals and the 'new' soccer fans will make of him. I reckon they'll love him, unlike here they like opinionated people.
Finnegan Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 Clever move. He'll leave his rep behind, make a name for himself and then have the chance to be a 'big name' pundit over there instead of a muppet here.
Houdini Logic Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 Any real football fan would get bored over there.
Houdini Logic Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 Why's that? Because there isn't the culture or presence that we have over here. Very similar to American Football fans in England - I'm sure they love it just as much but it's just not as available.
MC Prussian Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 Because there isn't the culture or presence that we have over here. Very similar to American Football fans in England - I'm sure they love it just as much but it's just not as available. I've been to Whitecaps games before and the attendances, albeit not being very high, always create a buzz. There's definitely potential there. You ask Seattle Sounders fans or Portland Timbers fans and you'd be surprised. Their fanbase is actually quite impressive (just look at the turnout in Seattle for MLS games) and the Portland area has a rather rich football history (ask Bridge, for instance). Same goes for Vancouver, whose 86ers were once a well-known footballing force. Good times ahead for VanCity - but please, without Robbie Savage.
purpleronnie Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 I reckon I saw about the same amount of football in states as I do here. I can't see the comparison to American football fans in england, I don't see many english American football teams attracting 35,000 a week like seattle do or seeing american football stadiums being built? People really do have a misconception about Americans and 'soccer', its very popular, infact its one (and in some age groups) the highest participation sport in the US. It certainly doesn't get the media coverage that football gets in England, but believe me you wouldn't be a bored football fan over here, especially if you went to games, cheap tickets, no OTT stewards, beer in the stands, tifo, supporter groups, it was a lot of fun. Infact I have read many blogs of american fans being underwhelmed by the atmosphere's in England and were quite shocked to see how bad its become, and I can only see the gap widening, the US clubs see noisy fans as an essential part of the club and really help them out rather than over here where clubs seem to want quiet stadiums for some reason.
Houdini Logic Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 Regarding the above 2 posts - I'm not exclusively talking about match attendences and the atmosphere - I'm talking about the culture. Football is everything over here, it's all over the papers, it's what we're brought up to play in school, 80% of guys I know play once a week, our parks are full every night and weekend with people kicking about, it's what everyone talks about and it really is a way of life over here. I may be wrong, and I am very naive on this, but I just can't see it being the same in America. Even when I wanted to watch something decent on tele the other night, there was some crap match on BBC. And MOTD on a Saturday night seems to be the highlight of the week for most guys. As I say I have little experience of America so I don't know, but with so many more popular sports in America (American Football?, Baseball?, Basketball?) I just don't see how the football lifestyle can compare to how it does here
purpleronnie Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 But that doesn't mean you would be bored as a footy fan in the USA, as I said there's plenty of games on and I always used to see people playing football and my company had a 'soccer' team, there are loads of local leagues on the weekend.
Jon the Hat Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 I love Vancouver, great city. The Whitecaps have a great history and seem on the verge of a new era, so cracking time to join.
I am Rod Hull Posted 13 January 2011 Posted 13 January 2011 I think the best thing about English football is the amount of support away teams get, but i can see that being a problem in the Continent that the U.S.A is.
Stevosevic Posted 15 January 2011 Posted 15 January 2011 Savage told to leave by a fan on the radio... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d8068
purpleronnie Posted 15 January 2011 Posted 15 January 2011 I think the best thing about English football is the amount of support away teams get, but i can see that being a problem in the Continent that the U.S.A is. Its a strange one but practically every game has an away section now, pretty impressive that, I remember Toronto taking 2000 to Columbus, and with more and more teams coming into the mls the distances are shortening. Plus US fans don seem to think travelling 100's of miles a long way, the country is so vast that people are just used to it and just view it differently than we do in the uk. Its another thing that impressed me about the atmosphere at MLS games, consider what the atmosphere would be like in england with very few away fans? How often in the UK is the atmosphere generated by away fans without whom it would be completely dead, the opposite is true in the MLS, so adding these more local games is only going to improve the atmosphere even more, can't wait for Seattle v Portland!!!!
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