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- Chimp4
“...football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
- Ianbolton2
I'd like to see a more localised verison of football come to life where you get the feeling you're actually in Manchester watching Man United rather than sat in some bland, corporate stadium selling Carling. Promote local products, ales and get the feel of the game back on it's feet again.
Fair enough Manchester City have turned that whole area of Manchester around with youth development and now their Woman's team. It's a big business, but we should never lose sight of who our target audience is and what we're trying to achieve.
I live in Leeds and Marcelo Bielsa has brought the spirit of the game back to Elland Road, but there's so much more to do. Is it a reflection on current neoliberal culture and I still don't get why Boris isn't dribbling out of his cock at this Super league bullshit?
I know football isn't for everyone, but it has so much history and relavance on a human/competitive level that it's something we should try to hang on to.
- It’s strange when the owners, players and a big chunk of the fans have little or nothing to do with the historic team and location.Chimp
- I left top level football behind in 2005. I'm an ex-ManUnited supporter and am a first season founder member of FC United. Honestly, I get more out of going...Wolfboy
- ...to see them play than I did from paying through the nose to be a customer at Old Trafford. & the night Benfica brought a side to play, to open the stadium...Wolfboy
- ...we pulled together as members to build ourselves, is the best night I've had in football. Fuck the ESL, fuck Sky/BT/Amazon & fuck the 'big 6' anyway.Wolfboy
- HAMT1
Football is for the fans. Fast! lol
- NBQ001
Breaking: Boris Johnson met PL chief exec Richard Masters this morning. I understand the PM said that whilst he is a staunch free marketeer, the ESL is ‘anti-competitive’, adding ‘we should drop a legislative bomb to stop it - and we should do it now.’ PL meeting ongoing.
- lol fuck boris johnson
https://twitter.com/…Bluejam - come on be fair, as shankly once said: "some people believe football is a matter of life and death... i can assure you it is much much more important than that"hans_glib
- Lol.NBQ00
- Bread & Circuses for the masses. Just like in Ancient Rome.NBQ00
- lol fuck boris johnson
- renderedred0
Revealed: unpublished Super League document justifying breakaway
- NBQ001
Gary is back
- yes, both him and jamie were great last night!renderedred
- but klopp came down hard on gary in the post match interview.renderedred
- Gary's too late. Too much Gary now.Fax_Benson
- rzu-rzu-2
I have no idea what I'm talking about, so please let me share my opinion :)
I really like the idea of 60-mins matches, 2x30
If we'd deduct all the fake (or not) injury breaks, VAR checks, substitutions (5 for each team), ball out of play, then we'd get around 120 seconds of pure top-level football per game!
I don't know why they wouldn't go one step further and make games 30 minutes long in total. You could play a whole season within a month, that means new freshly designed jerseys for sale every month, more TV rights to sell = more $$$
Seriously though, If they split from UEFA, FIFA and all that boring amateur stuff, I would love to see matches even 180 minutes long when both teams are on all possible performance enhancing (or not) drugs... Maradona Cup, or something like that
- You’re probably the target group Perez was talking about. Sigh.NBQ00
- do you really think I was being serious? oh dear...rzu-rzu
- well the last part after "seriously though" was serious, interestingly enough :)rzu-rzu
- LOL you are on the money my friendrenderedred
- autoflavour0
- gah, not sure whats happening here. I copy the direct link to the article, test paste it, it works.. post it here, and then it doesnt work. Y U NO WORKautoflavour
- the bracket!renderedred
- autoflavour0
They tried a super league for Rugby in Australia..
it lasted a year
- NBQ000
WHAT A CUNT.
Florentino Perez: "We are thinking about making the football matches shorter. That was a point in our meeting room, 90 minutes might be too long for some football fans."
Florentino Perez: "If young people say football matches are too long, maybe it's because that match isn't too interesting or maybe we have to shorten the length of matches... We will see."
“There will be many European Super League games scheduled in the Middle East, Asia and North America to help generate more revenue for all the clubs involved in the competition. Dubai, New York and Shanghai are the current hotspots.”
- make the field smaller.
add weapons.
100 points per goal.sarahfailin - Boringest game on earth...thats why!utopian
- For Americans lolNBQ00
- great news! another thing I won't be watchingdorf
- More tits at half time and commercial brakesoey_oey
- silicion tits implants for all male players and wigs and goldchains on the pitch.neverscared
- Stop the flops.ShenanigansTV
- Remember when Americans couldn't watch hockey and they needed a blue orb to tell them where the puck was. yeah. cunts._niko
- make the field smaller.
- sarahfailin-2
What the fuck is with the front page?
SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS.
wrong forum?
- Ianbolton7
That Gary Neville rant reminds me of this:
- _niko3
these greedy fucks are the reason champions league is what it is today, I say kick them all out and return to the original format of 1 single champion from each domestic league competing tor the champions league.
Let's return to the days when Celtic, Nottingham Forest, Fyonoord, Steaua Bucureșt, Aston Villa and red Star Belgrade could actually win this fucking thing and not have the same 12 club play each other over and over again ad nauseam.
- Uooh there _niko, we don't want to go back to communism buddy hehe
Romanian football is not that great anymore, but appreciate the thoughtgrafician - yeah but it could be if they were guaranteed money from competing on an equal footing in the CL, and not give 25 spots to 5 leagues._niko
- +100 _niko, but it won't happenrzu-rzu
- Uooh there _niko, we don't want to go back to communism buddy hehe