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Parkdrive Wrote:

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> On a more uplifting note Jimmy Greaves has reportedly left hospital.


He has entered a rehabilitation unit for the next few weeks. Still a long way to go but hearing he is improving daily for very good news indeed.

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I'm a BT Broadband/Sport customer but are you

> saying I'm gonna have to fork out another fiver to

> watch it?



Yes, I think so, for Europe.


Anyway...just to cheer you up Jah (and me). I make old Bagpuss right


http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/11/harry-redknapp-tottenham-major-disappointment

I thought Harry was doing a good job at Spurs and only got sacked due to him thinking he was going to be England manager. There was something seriously wrong at QPR I reckon and maybe he bailed out as he knew what was going to happen. The lifespan of a manager is very short in England for the most part. The sacked one's can't all be bad surely though I'm not sure what Newcastle think they've got. I was speaking with a geordie yesterday and he was not pleased.

Alan Medic Wrote:


I was speaking with a geordie yesterday and he was not pleased.


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That's part of the problem. They never are. They think they're a big club but they've won nothing since 1969 and before that you'd have to go back to the early 50s for a couple of FA Cup wins and that's about it.

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> They are a well supported club, bigger gates than

> most in the EPL. Doesn't that make them a big

> club? Aren't the fans entitled to expect better?



In the nadir of the mid-80s West Ham had bigger avergae gates than both 'giants' Chelsea and Newcastle. We've always had strong core support much more than those w*nkers at the Bridge but also the so called NE Giants (I'd add Sunderland into that too)

???? Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

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> -----

> > They are a well supported club, bigger gates

> than

> > most in the EPL. Doesn't that make them a big

> > club? Aren't the fans entitled to expect

> better?

>

>

> In the nadir of the mid-80s West Ham had bigger

> avergae gates than both 'giants' Chelsea and

> Newcastle. We've always had strong core support

> much more than those w*nkers at the Bridge but

> also the so called NE Giants (I'd add Sunderland

> into that too)


If I remember rightly those w*nkers from the bridge attracted less than 10k on average back then.

Thought I'd check that and quite an interesting surprise it was too. In the 80's, all 3 of those clubs had their highest average attendence in a season when they were in the 2nd division. WH 27 in 1981, Chelsea 23 in 1980 and Newcastle almost 30 in 1984.


It just goes to show that people will watch teams who are winning. How Newcastle got to where they are now attendence wise without any success, is marketing genius or stupidity.

I think Newcastle did pretty well under Keegan at a time when football was having its (still ongoing) renaissance - Asprilla /Shearer era . That reignited (the undoubted massive one city club ) the passion and also supporting Newcatsle became very much a parat of the ?Geordie? nation identity. So, some reignited potential and some success (although no trophy) at the right time.

I think I'm going to support Wales for the next few years, don't expect them to win anything, but should be a fun ride. Whereas England will be more of the same.


Oh and I had to laugh this morning hen a West Ham supporting mate of mine updated his facebook status to simply say "Frank Lampard OBEse". No idea if he came up with it, but it made me laugh.

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> So it begins, various reports that Liverpool

> reject opening gambit of between ?25 and ?30

> million bid from City. The silly season has truly

> begun.



Reading on BBC Gossip column that United are bidding for Kane. Can't see that happening.


Also reading that City are considering a bid of around ?40m for Sterling. If there is any truth in that I hope Liverpool bite their hand off.

What will stop me going to football.


Playing music when the team scores - Tom Hark etc. Fortunately that is for the Championship.


Changing kits unecessarily (obviously because they want you to buy the second and third kit, and need the TV coverage).


WTF were Scotland wearing against Ireland? Perhaps they had popped into a ski shop selling retro stuff from the 80s. Made even some of Chelskis and Everton's kits look nice, even worse than Coventry's Chocolate brown kit, but Newcastle could give them a run for their money.

It wouldn't stop me going to football, but I could really do without those 'friendship' scarves for PL games...just wrong.


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/31/article-2531574-1A54901D00000578-131_634x418.jpg



Oh, and those big flags too...stick 'em, sideways.


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/31/article-2531574-1BE6B354000005DC-671_634x408.jpg

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