The Football.....

[Accy cyclist]

My team won last night at home to Oxford,after 5 defeats on the trot.

I don't look at the Premiership table that much,but i see Southampton are still up there and now in 3rd position. Will Ronald Koeman be voted manager of the season? It's looking that way!

 

[Roadhump]

My team won last night at home to Oxford,after 5 defeats on the trot.

I don't look at the Premiership table that much,but i see Southampton are still up there and now in 3rd position. Will Ronald Koeman be voted manager of the season? It's looking that way!

And then be poached by a bugger club

 

[swee'pea99]

And then be poached by a bugger club

Arsenal?

 

[Roadhump]

What's all this oil club stuff? We've spent a net £25m less than you this season.

(Apologies for deliberately ignoring previous 4 seasons net transfer spending.)

Not to mention the wage bill

Good luck Wednesday night.

We are going to Goodison Park next season - this and Southampton are the only grounds of the current teams in the PL we have never been to. Hope it's a damn site more friendly than Anfield! Only places we have ever had more abuse was at Leeds and Millwall.

Thanks we'll need it!!

I hope you are well received at Goodison, all clubs have their fair share of dickheads who seem more keen on provoking the away fans than watching the game, there is a small section in the Park End at Everton where I have seen that, but generally I don't think Everton is a bad place to come (but I would say that wouldn't I). I am quite surprised at what you say about Anfield, although due to their incredible sense of entitlement, they do seem to have a hang up about any team who is currently more successful than them and after Stevie's slip that cost them the league they last season they seem to have a particular thing about Chelsea at the moment, so maybe you got more stick than someone like Burnley or Villa would.

 

[MarkF]

In a way it's a shame, the game is far better than it ever has been in my 50+ years following it but the ordinary fan is becoming a bit of an irrelevance in the grand scheme of things.

Plenty of excitement outside the PL, Valley Parade is rocking at the mo', I am not sure why as we are 8th in Division 3. The ground sold out super quick for Sunday's game v Sunderland, hardly a visiting team to get excited about.

Maybe the PL will be able to get the "real" stars now? Neymar, Messi, Ronaldo, Bale.......

 

[Roadhump]

Arsenal?

Good shout, has Wenger said he will retire soon.

Wouldn't mind Koeman at Everton, but agree he is more likely to end up at somewhere like Arsenal. I am far from convinced about Roberto "Phenomenal" Martinez. After last season, followed by the pillaging of Southampton's personnel in the Summer, most people would have expected Everton to be up where Southampton are and them to be down where we are, but he has made far more rapid progress than expected.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Maybe the PL will be able to get the "real" stars now? Neymar, Messi, Ronaldo, Bale.......

That's the problem. The top two or three clubs will get the real stars, ever widening the gap to the rest. Things have started to even out this year (To an extent), but we don't want a permanent closed shop top four.

 

[Roadhump]

Mind bogging if you think of it in UK terms, but I suppose with the money pouring in for televised football from the far east and elsewhere it's easily affordable to the broadcasters.

In a way it's a shame, the game is far better than it ever has been in my 50+ years following it but the ordinary fan is becoming a bit of an irrelevance in the grand scheme of things.

When you see things like this, it reminds you the ordinary fan is considered with utter contempt and someone to be exploited and squeezed until the last drop of juice is wrung out

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...news/man-united-season-ticket-holders-8536506

 

[Smokin Joe]

When you see things like this, it reminds you the ordinary fan is considered with utter contempt and someone to be exploited and squeezed until the last drop of juice is wrung out

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...news/man-united-season-ticket-holders-8536506

Those rich London stockbrokers can afford it though.

Alan Sugar repeated his old comment this morning that any increase in revenue will be pi$$ed up against the wall in wages and agents fees.

 

[MarkF]

That's the problem. The top two or three clubs will get the real stars, ever widening the gap to the rest. Things have started to even out this year (To an extent), but we don't want a permanent closed shop top four.

It's more even in Spain this year than the PL and the discrepancy between the haves and have nots is even wider in La Liga. Nothing is going to change in the PL,at the end of the final match Soton won't be top 4, it's not competitive and that is why I only watch the "big games" same as with the CL, I don't watch it until the KO stages. Wouldn't watch West Han v Sunderland if it was taking place in my back garden.

 

[ianrauk]

We are going to Goodison Park next season - this and Southampton are the only grounds of the current teams in the PL we have never been to. Hope it's a damn site more friendly than Anfield! Only places we have ever had more abuse was at Leeds and Millwall.

In the PL, Anfield is second only to White Hart Lane when it comes to unfriendly.

 

[Roadhump]

Those rich London stockbrokers can afford it though.

Alan Sugar repeated his old comment this morning that any increase in revenue will be pi$$ed up against the wall in wages and agents fees.

Much truth in that, but local manc ManUre fans would say the reason they can't get to see their team play in the flesh is the ticket price inflation, which is very much fuelled by those rich London stockbrokers. The same happens at Liverpool, which is why when the game gets a bit dull there you can always enjoy passing the time playing "Spot the scouser on the Kop"

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Those rich London stockbrokers can afford it though.

Alan Sugar repeated his old comment this morning that any increase in revenue will be pi$$ed up against the wall in wages and agents fees.

He is 100% right too - never have so many fat snouts been in a trough at once as in the PL (and other major leagues).

I love the game and always will but it is populated by some of the greediest *astards on the planet.

As soon as more money goes in the agents, players and managers eyes will light up and off we go again with enormous increased wage demands.

Sickening really.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

[QUOTE="Roadhump, post: 3528922, member: 29124"]I am quite surprised at what you say about Anfield, although due to their incredible sense of entitlement, they do seem to have a hang up about any team who is currently more successful than them and after Stevie's slip that cost them the league they last season they seem to have a particular thing about Chelsea at the moment, so maybe you got more stick than someone like Burnley or Villa would.[/QUOTE]

Been there 4 times over the years and it has always felt hostile - even with the police doing the usual cordoning off and nose to tail coach parking acting as a screen we have received masses of foul abuse. Last time some LFC fans were throwing plastic bottles over the police cordon. They were empty but it wasn't pleasant.

Lovely Wife has decided that we are not going there again.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

In the PL, Anfield is second only to White Hart Lane when it comes to unfriendly.

You may do the same and visit the other fans forums and whilst I have not experienced any hassle at White Hart Lane (although we haven't been there for some time) there are two forums that are utterly vile and that's Fighting Cock & Red and White Kop.

Some knowledgable people on them both but sadly diluted by foul mouthed morons who genuinely seem to have hatred in their DNA.

RedCafe has it's moments but is generally ok. Blue Moon is pretty sensible as is Gooners World.

CFC Chat linked off the back of the CFC site can be dire to be fair - I tend to stick to The Shed End which seems to mostly behave itself.

But Spuds & Scousers are bitter and twisted on their forums for some reason.