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Only issue I have with our recent success is everyone assumes you've just jumped on a bandwagon, but I can take that, seeing as never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd ever win the first division. So this century I've managed to see my team win League Division One, Championship, Premier League, League Cup, FA Cup and Charity Shield, so have to say, I feel blessed by that, even though modern football is unrecognisable compared to when I first started watching. I remember our strike force in the early 80's of the experienced Steve Lynex alongside the young local lad Gary Lineker. Steve Lynex is now a plumber and I'm not sure what happened to the Lineker bloke.
Also I don't want to watch a relegaton battle next season! At least in the prem it was worth it to watch good opposition Teams but the quality of the championship is very very poor
I'm a keen follower of results and league tables rather than a watcher of actual games. On a personal level I've always been hopeless at sport and although I definitely have a brain I do not have a "football brain" - I can't watch a game and see what formation they're playing, or that they're leaving huge gaps in midfield or that they're exposed down the left flank....
I don't go to games but I listen to a lot of sports talk and commentaries on the radio.
I think I now have a good understanding of what manic depressives go through in life.
We're so inconsistent. Not as bad as some but not where I'd like us to be either.
(I hope) Times look like they are changing. We've started building a decent squad of youngsters. Hopefully we can keep the group together while making some shrewd additions.
I used to go a lot, but life took over and now I don't. Arsenal season tickets are like rocking horse shit and I couldn't justify the cost, even if I could get one.
I cancelled my membership after the Super League debacle.
Looking like the match against our neighbours on 12th May could decide 4th. I can’t believe we gave away the advantage we had over the last few matches, but beating Chelski out a smile on my face.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Non league football can be very entertaining, I’ve seen some Welsh Premier matches and I've been impressed with the level, seen some good matches...... the experience at the grounds is very real, you're right up close to the pitch, you can wander round the pitch, lean on the barrier, see and hear everything.
Wenger was in total charge. Seemingly endless stream of youngsters coming through, but never disturbing the identity of the core team. Impressive new stadium with massive capacity. (Proper) European football every year.
Then we got Poch in.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Thistle have had a distinctly meh season and appear to have fallen into the playoffs, mainly by virtue of being marginally less shite than Raith (and not torpedoing our own season by signing a rapist). Suspect we'll embarrass ourselves against Inverness and then need to look forward to next season. Hopefully we can also get rid of the viper in our boardroom too.
Like you I've basically given up on the premier league. It's the emperor's new clothes in football form.
Cheers.
Bundesliga - what a boring league. Bayern Munich just won for a 10th consecutive year. And I thought the Scottish league was dull!
Howe has done a great job with the resources at his disposal.
The £100m was spent on Trippier, Guimaraes, and Wood.
Trippier has been injured and has barely played. Guimaraes didn't start for over a month, and was getting five, six, seven mins as a sub. There were headlines in the press about his frustration at lack of game time. Wood is a signing that everyone mocked.
Howe has done an absolutely remarkable job no matter how you cut it. Newcastle didnt win in their first ten games, but since January they've outperformed everyone in the league except Liverpool. Suddenly that £100m (and its caveats as above) to do better than City, Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, etc. seems like a very small number indeed.
TBH all leagues are doing it. There's a small number of moneybags clubs hoovering up the trophies.
So while I do agree that at the moment it really is between Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea, I do think there's a lot of competition generally, and now Newcastle will be up there too.
There's obviously issues with the likes of Chelsea, City, Newcastle and how they get their money, but I do think there's a lot of competitiveness in the EPL and teams have periods of dominance and those teams change regularly.
Scottish football is really competitive outside the top two. But "hur hur, two horse race" is whats used to deride the Scottish game by people who seem to have failed to spot exactly the same thing happening in England. So England's closed shop at the top absolutely needs to be seen in the same light. The fact that finishing "top four" is a major goal for so many is a laughable indictment of how much English fans have drunk the Sky-supplied Kool Aid rather than a measure of an exciting setup. Remember when winning things was the aim?
The only real difference between Aberdeen fans and Spurs fans is that Aberdeen fans have no delusions about their chances. Oh, and they don't have to pay £1500 for a season ticket to see their team win nothing.
Borrowed from elsewhere:
In the 80s there were thirteen different clubs in England who won major trophies. This included Wimbledon, Luton, Oxford, Coventry, Norwich, Wolves, Forest. The 90s saw 12 different winners, including the likes of Villa, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Leicester. By the 2000s it's down to 9 winners, but you've still got Spurs, Portsmouth, Blackburn etc getting their hands on trophies.
In the last decade only four trophies in English football have been won by clubs outwith what we could call "England's Old Firm". Leicester have won two, Wigan, and Swansea.
That's four trophies out of the last thirty going to the same closed shop. They're fucked too. People laugh at Spurs, for example, for not winning anything. But they're up against a closed shop. Trophies now are basically only won by a tiny group of clubs and that's just the way it's going.
In Scotland 9 of the last 30 trophies have been won by clubs outwith Celtic and Rangers, so you could argue that in a way a Hearts, Aberdeen, St Mirren, or Ross County fan is better off than an Everton or Aston Villa fan. We're all in the same boat in that our teams won't win the league, but we've got a better chance of maybe winning a cup.
I reckon they'll try and sign Rice as a statement signing.