act smiley Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 Mind you, I could see an FC Cardiff City going well in the Welsh Premier League and there'd be little to no commercialism going on. I'd actually envy them in a way in spite of the shocking football; the cheap tickets, being treated like an adult at matches, 3pm kick-offs guaranteed and all that. It'd be like another FC United. I think the Welsh leagues kick off at 2 or 2:30 don't they? And there's a live TV deal with S4C which has one game a fortnight or so. Nitpicking aside there's also history of teams like TNS, who've sold out their names for a lot less.
Finnegan Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 I'd rather support Leicester City in the Conference than Leicester Red Dragons in the Premiership. So it's still Nige in the dugout, it's still Knocky and Wes on the pitch, it's still Birch rambling rubbish at half time, still Lineker and Claridge plastered all over the walls, still Martin's league cups in the trophy cabinet, still Rowley and Chandler in the record books? Still the same old boys turning out for every game in the stands, still the same local patch of LE2 we've been on forever, still the same City and people, still Banks, Shilton, Revie and McLintock in the Hall of Fame, still Foxes Talk full of stupid rumours, still the Mockery handing out awful player ratings and ex-City players shouting down argumentative, negative muppets on the moan in? Still every bit the club you've always followed but you'd throw it all away because they changed the colour of the shirt, which we've done before? Or changed the name of the team, which we've done before? Would you ****. And if you did you'd be a tragic little arm-chair activist that started protesting much, much too late. Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person on here you'll find embracing wanton consumerism and capitalism-gone-mad. But we've been being flushed by our sport for decades, now, and we've all sat passively around and taken it up the wrong'un. Hell, you start comparing the state of our game to the state of the German leagues on this forum and half the board starts rolling it's ****ing eyes! I find it genuinely embarrassing that people put so much passion and energy in to getting upset over the colour of the bloody strip of some other club' team yet they're paying excessively for tickets, refreshments, merchandising and Lord knows what else at the hands of our own. We've footballers on disgusting wages, even in the Football League, we've got Sky moving our games at will - potentially plundering the value of a season ticket for many supporters, replica shirts fast approaching fifty odd quid, the club flogging scarves off the back of a chant, people being ejected for standing or not having certificates for tiny flags. We've no atmosphere left in our stadia because an entire generation has been either priced out or put off by the insipid, plastic nature of the modern game. And we've just accepted it all with no protest, shrugged our shoulders and taken out our debit cards, because we want to watch football - regardless of the corporate distractions. Then all of a sudden, wait, you want to change the hue of our shirts!? That's just too far mate! ****, really? Some people need a massive change of perspective and to stop buying in to petty distractions. I've said it before on this forum and I'll say it again - regardless of whether I'm the only one who agrees - if all you've got to identify with your football club is a colour then you're in serious trouble. A football club, or, scratch that, ANY club is it's membership, it's people, those who belong to it. Us. Our community. Leicester City (or Leicester Foxes, Dragons, Fosse, Blues, Thais) for me is going in to work on a Monday and discussing in disbelief that worldy that Knocky just buried or the one Chris Wood just blazed over the bar. It's going away to Chelsea and singing about hats, balling our eyes out in Cardiff because some tit of a fatman has chipped a vital penalty right at the keeper. Going nuts with my family in the pub I'm too young to be in because a scruffy man's just shinned an effort in in extra time or re-watching the highlights of Walshy's last minute header against Arsenal once a week for six years. And I can do all of that if we play in ****ing rainbow stripes, I don't care. 'Cos really it's just the sport that matters, it's the people that matter and no multi-billionaire with a few loopy ideas on milking us for cash is going to ruin it for me.
Ozwin Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 Would you be saying all that if it was Baaarnsleh or Ipswich or something though?
Finnegan Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 Would you be saying all that if it was Baaarnsleh or Ipswich or something though? Yes. Next question.
Fox92 Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 Football's done. Agreed. Don't like Cardiff, but this seems ridiculous if an owner (any) can do this.
Finnegan Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 Stop being so ****ing melodramatic. Football's done? Really?
21st Century Fox Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 Has anyone watched the Vincent Tan interview on the BBC website? He genuinely seems to have little to no interest in football and makes sort of veiled 'threats' about pulling out and selling up if the fans are 'rude' to him. Seems genuinely scary from a football point of view.
ealingfox Posted 1 March 2013 Author Posted 1 March 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21631486 Chairman resigned today. Anyone know what that's about?
SystonFox Posted 1 March 2013 Posted 1 March 2013 Cardiff can do one to the prem if they want. Bunch of soulless happy clapping red kit wearing nancy boys
ruisliptiger Posted 3 March 2013 Posted 3 March 2013 Probably a disagreement with the owner over what colour bottles to buy for the run in. Sorry that should be color shouldn't it.
Finnegan Posted 3 March 2013 Posted 3 March 2013 Probably a disagreement with the owner over what colour bottles to buy for the run in. Sorry that should be color shouldn't it. They have a seven point gap over third with a game in hand.... Meanwhile you're prime pickings for most the chasing pack. I'd probably save being smug for the final day if I were you, you're well due a blip in form.
Raj Posted 3 March 2013 Posted 3 March 2013 Bet most of the fans couldnt give a fcuk now they are top of league and destined for Prem...Lets us not get complacent...Fiar enough the owners seem to be doing well for City but like Abramovich has proved at Scumski footy clubs are just a play thing for the rich...they do what they want,when they want...We could be playing in pink at the tigers ground under the name of fosse tigers in the next 10 years,as long as the owners are making ££££
ruisliptiger Posted 3 March 2013 Posted 3 March 2013 They have a seven point gap over third with a game in hand.... Meanwhile you're prime pickings for most the chasing pack. I'd probably save being smug for the final day if I were you, you're well due a blip in form. When have I ever talked up our chances of finishing in the top two on this forum? Never as far as I can remember. I am fully aware of how open the race still is. However it is my duty as a supporter of underdogs everywhere, to point out how often the favourites have bottled it in the past. Bottled. It.
Finnegan Posted 3 March 2013 Posted 3 March 2013 When have I ever talked up our chances of finishing in the top two on this forum? Never as far as I can remember. I am fully aware of how open the race still is. However it is my duty as a supporter of underdogs everywhere, to point out how often the favourites have bottled it in the past. Bottled. It. With a different manager and, largely, a different crop of players. You might as well suggest that Arsenal are boring 1 - 0 merchants with an ever reliable defence. And underdogs? Dull ceased being underdogs when they got bankrolled from obscurity.
ruisliptiger Posted 3 March 2013 Posted 3 March 2013 With a different manager and, largely, a different crop of players. You might as well suggest that Arsenal are boring 1 - 0 merchants with an ever reliable defence. And underdogs? Dull ceased being underdogs when they got bankrolled from obscurity. What is your obsession with bringing Dull into it? Dull are irrelevant to the point I was originally making. I called Cardiff Bottle merchant's, which in recent history is fact. When I mentioned underdog I never referred to a specific team. The fact that Cardiff have a seven point gap over third with a game in hand suggest that the other 23 teams in the division are underdogs. Ask the bookies. I'm sure they'd back me up. Facts.
MC Prussian Posted 11 May 2014 Posted 11 May 2014 Vincent Tan considers a move back to blue shirts for Cardiff City - but only if the club is promoted back to the Premier League: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27358728 Only took him one relegation to come to his senses.
Finnaldo Posted 11 May 2014 Posted 11 May 2014 Vincent Tan considers a move back to blue shirts for Cardiff City - but only if the club is promoted back to the Premier League: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27358728 Only took him one relegation to come to his senses. Still won't do it till they get promoted again. Looks like Cardiff are in red for the long haul then. Or at least until Tan gets bored next year when they're relegated to League 1, and leaves them with about £70 million in debt.
Guest MattP Posted 12 May 2014 Posted 12 May 2014 Why not just do it now? Clearly just trying to appease fans he knows will be walking away now it's Brentford and Charlton at home rather than Man City and Liverpool. Even the Welsh won't be stupid enough to fall for this.
Babylon Posted 12 May 2014 Posted 12 May 2014 Are their fans going to fall for that...."I'll change it back if promoted". Sod off will you, ya little freak.
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