Guff football is pish

[ragnarok]

Manchester City's 'ascension' to become the top club in England was the final nail in the coffin for me. Absolutely zero interest in English football since then aside from the Leicester title winning season.

[The_Moog]

Manchester City's 'ascension' to become the top club in England was the final nail in the coffin for me. Absolutely zero interest in English football since then aside from the Leicester title winning season.

I ken far yer coming from min (Abramovich buying the league with the 3rd / 4 th biggest team in London was just as bad).

But:

Listening to a couple of phone ins last night and there were proper old school Man City fans (aye, guys who've followed them for years - down in Divison 3 etc) calling in still just amazed and awestruck at what's happened to their team.

Genuine appreciation of how lucky they are and what it means to them as fans of a team who they've followed loyally with little or no success for years.

I myself dinna grudge folk like that - who've had to put up with all sorts of shyte for years from the Salford glory hunting crew & others - a minute of it to be honest.

The tourists & EPL fan boys can f'uck right off though....

[Pacman1903]

I stopped watching when the tag line of "greatest league in the world" was banded about first. Thats when it all started making me want to puke. The hype escalated, teams became play things for rich people and it spiraled out of control and the soul quickly dissapeared

[dons8321]

I stopped watching when the tag line of "greatest league in the world" was banded about first. Thats when it all started making me want to puke. The hype escalated, teams became play things for rich people and it spiraled out of control and the soul quickly dissapeared

They've been banging on about "The Greatest League in the World (tm)" since at least the 60s.

[Pacman1903]

They've been banging on about "The Greatest League in the World (tm)" since at least the 60s.

But it went nuclear in the last 10ish years.they thought money makes the best. C@nts

[EintrachtFrankfurt]

Its hideous plastic shyte for glory hunters and tourists.

[Pacman1903]

Its hideous plastic shyte for glory hunters and tourists.

Like button opportunity

[Donanddusted]

Bolton Wanderers set up emergency food bank to help staff after wages go unpaid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48268140

Leagues awash with money spunk it all on mercenary players and then can't even pay their own staff.
Here's hoping there's a domino effect down there.

[deaconred]

Went to Fulham Newcastle match on Sunday. Cost a fortune for a half decent seat near dugouts. Some good ideas at the ground - priority queues for disabled fans, decent beer, loads of food. Served food all game (I know - encourages fannies to keep going out) but it did mean that you could have a pie and a pint at the end of the game. Might be an idea to allow for gradual dispersement at when we move to the Gobi.

Seat was dirty enough for me to get a wet tissue to try and clean some of it off. (yes - ponce). Terrace was very shallow - obviously an ex-standing area which hadn't been properly converted to seating. Apparently, they are pulling down this stand in the summer and building a new one. The chairman/owner seems quite popular with the fans I spoke with.

The Archibald Leitch stand is quite wonderful from the street side but wouldn't fancy watching the game from it.

They also have a "neutral" area - which was full of Geordies.

Lad sitting next to me (Newcastle shirt) and girlfriend (Fulham top - she was nice). Newcastle scored the first goal and the camera phone was going so mental that he didn't realise they had scored a second. She did. What should have happened after our eyes met and she realised I thought her boyfriend was a prat and I realised that she agreed with me, didn't. Her loss.

Overall - quite enjoyable. Pac would have given it a 5/10. I hope. Having seen every Dons match this season, the football was much better than yer average SPFL match. Fulham were - bizarrely - the better team box to box but where it mattered they were third.

Lot of good, honest fans there but still a few tourists - plastic bags full of souvenirs. Boy and girl left early (I'd moved by then to save her from temptation). But there's a difference between "tourist" and "football fans". Pac and I are very different but neither of us are "tourists" - we are both football fans.

[Pacman1903]

Went to Fulham Newcastle match on Sunday. Cost a fortune for a half decent seat near dugouts. Some good ideas at the ground - priority queues for disabled fans, decent beer, loads of food. Served food all game (I know - encourages fannies to keep going out) but it did mean that you could have a pie and a pint at the end of the game. Might be an idea to allow for gradual dispersement at when we move to the Gobi.

Seat was dirty enough for me to get a wet tissue to try and clean some of it off. (yes - ponce). Terrace was very shallow - obviously an ex-standing area which hadn't been properly converted to seating. Apparently, they are pulling down this stand in the summer and building a new one. The chairman/owner seems quite popular with the fans I spoke with.

The Archibald Leitch stand is quite wonderful from the street side but wouldn't fancy watching the game from it.

They also have a "neutral" area - which was full of Geordies.

Lad sitting next to me (Newcastle shirt) and girlfriend (Fulham top - she was nice). Newcastle scored the first goal and the camera phone was going so mental that he didn't realise they had scored a second. She did. What should have happened after our eyes met and she realised I thought her boyfriend was a prat and I realised that she agreed with me, didn't. Her loss.

Overall - quite enjoyable. Pac would have given it a 5/10. I hope. Having seen every Dons match this season, the football was much better than yer average SPFL match. Fulham were - bizarrely - the better team box to box but where it mattered they were third.

Lot of good, honest fans there but still a few tourists - plastic bags full of souvenirs. Boy and girl left early (I'd moved by then to save her from temptation). But there's a difference between "tourist" and "football fans". Pac and I are very different but neither of us are "tourists" - we are both football fans.

I went to Fulham many moons ago v Wolves. Good day out. Plenty of quirks there. Its also without sounding cliched a "family club". You see heaps of Grandad, Dad and son walking through the big park (Bishops Park i think) from the Putney Bridge tube station.

Best ground i have been to in guffball. Been to 9 or 10

I also saw the greatest performance ive seen in the flesh there.he was absolutley immense. Danny Murphy f@cking ran the show.

Also saw Bobby Zamora break his leg

I was in the neutral stand behind the goal

More than a 5