The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey
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« Reply #5250 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 16:34:01 » |
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But it’s not about being competitive - it’s about making money. I’d imagine at least 4 of the English clubs are going to make a complete arse of themselves year after year.
Franchise football has arrived!
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« Reply #5251 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 16:36:04 » |
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Cor, UEFA are going nuclear. Ceferin's quotes are great fun, he's giving everyone involved a proper shoeing and suggesting that three CL semi-finalists might get kicked out.
Football administration is going to be more entertaining than football for the next month or so. Sky should bid for press conference exclusive rights.
Oh, and the government has announced an enquiry into the possibility of locking the barn door as the horse disappears into the distance.
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donkey
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He headed a football.
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« Reply #5252 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 16:41:45 » |
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Cor, UEFA are going nuclear. Ceferin's quotes are great fun, he's giving everyone involved a proper shoeing and suggesting that three CL semi-finalists might get kicked out.
I wish this would happen, but there's zero chance, sadly.
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donkey tells the truth
I headed the ball. eeeeeeeeeeeeeee-aaaaaaaawwwwwww
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BambooToTheFuture
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I'll Tell Ya Now - McGurk Is The New Graham
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« Reply #5253 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 16:51:32 » |
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Asking Tottenham to join this Super League is akin to asking Bananaman to become an Avenger
That's fucking brilliant 'When Eric Dier eats a banana...'
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'I'm gonna tell you the secret. There's a threat, you end it and you don't feel ashamed about enjoying it. You smell the gunpowder and you see the blood, you know what that means? It means you're alive. You've won. You take the heads so that you don't ever forget.'
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RobertT
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« Reply #5254 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 17:50:21 » |
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You have to hope the various authorities actually have a back bone, I doubt it though. They need to pull the drawbridge up behind these clubs before they have left - we will offer you nothing, not a jot to stop this from happening. Go if you want, but we won't be giving you anything to not go.
The worst outcome here is that the leagues offer them incentives to stop the idea, which will only further break what is already a pretty broken sport for most at the fan level (not the paying consumer level - TV fans).
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« Reply #5255 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 18:02:34 » |
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You have to hope the various authorities actually have a back bone, I doubt it though. They need to pull the drawbridge up behind these clubs before they have left - we will offer you nothing, not a jot to stop this from happening. Go if you want, but we won't be giving you anything to not go.
The worst outcome here is that the leagues offer them incentives to stop the idea, which will only further break what is already a pretty broken sport for most at the fan level (not the paying consumer level - TV fans).
Tell them to fuck off. If it doesn't happen now then it will eventually. Make them pariahs. They can only play each other. No friendlies. Nothing. Which franchise will pop up to swell the numbers, a Berlin team? In fact, just kick them out now. Leicester league champions. Call off the caribau cup on Sunday. Give Leicester the FA cup, they do the double. Fuck them.
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BambooToTheFuture
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« Reply #5256 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 18:13:22 » |
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I wonder what *dons Richie Wellens voice* Pep Guwardeeyoewlohh thinks about it all?! Still amazes me how RW couldn't say his name right. Where the fuck did he get that "W" from?
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'I'm gonna tell you the secret. There's a threat, you end it and you don't feel ashamed about enjoying it. You smell the gunpowder and you see the blood, you know what that means? It means you're alive. You've won. You take the heads so that you don't ever forget.'
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Matchworn Shirts
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« Reply #5257 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 19:16:00 » |
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Football already had been ruined years ago - by Sky and other TV money
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I come from a land down-under
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pauld
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« Reply #5258 on: Monday, April 19, 2021, 20:52:20 » |
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Football already had been ruined years ago - by Sky and other TV money
Minded to agree. In a lot of ways this is just the logical conclusion of the Premier League and Champions' League. Which makes the Premier League and UEFA's bleatings about "integrity", "individual greed" and "good of the game" almost as nauseating as the Super League itself
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« Reply #5259 on: Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:47:44 » |
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flammableBen
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« Reply #5260 on: Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:50:32 » |
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If 60% of 16 to 24 year olds are interested in football then it's got audiences figures that almost anything would dream of.
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flammableBen
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« Reply #5261 on: Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:50:59 » |
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that would be an insanely large number
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4D
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« Reply #5262 on: Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:52:47 » |
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I bet tht number would rise if they could watch it on their phones, whilst wearing headphones
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flammableBen
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« Reply #5263 on: Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:53:47 » |
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There is a bigger problem: How many of those '60% of 19-24 year olds' know the difference between the regulatory duties of the FA and League? PaulD only has so much time on his hands.
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4D
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« Reply #5264 on: Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:55:07 » |
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I don't think he does
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