I know what you mean but you still don't alienate your core support... They're the ones still there when **** goes wrong.
Does anyone know when the next TV games are announced? Want to go to Bournemouth away but currently it's on same day as a stag do but expecting it will be moved for TV... Friday night please
There is no sign that clubs are unable to compete with the big clubs, at least no more so than usual. Unless you want to go back 40 odd years when the standard of football was ****.
Yeah I reckon a Super League will happen eventually, a closed league with no promotion or relegation but all the biggest teams in Europe in it. All the best players and money will go there and the rest will be left in their respective domestic leagues. It would massively drop the wages of the "average" players who are left behind as there would be no huge TV deal for the domestic leagues as very few people who live in China/India give a toss about a West Brom or Saints, so would only be on national television. That is the only time the TV deal will burst, clubs like Saints will be ****ed in the short term if a super league happened as they would have a bunch of players on PL wages but without PL money. I think it will happen at some point, reality is "core support" isn't that important anymore financially, and by getting into the super league clubs secure themselves as one of the big boys forever.
A lot of small clubs will go to the wall if a Superleague happens....some may feel not enough money goes down the leagues, but what does will be sorely missed. Supporters of the big teams will rarely see their team away....it will be a one off treat saved for by most fans. I suppose the next layer of clubs (below the Superleague) would benefit as they would mop up some of the fans....however, they would have lost a lot of TV money. It could be viewed as inevitable reflecting an uninvolved society. Ordering on line will be the death of the High Street, watching on the small screen will be the death of cinema and the theatre, supporting a distant club will reduce live attendance at away games. Like most things though, the dust settles and we all move on.
That would surprise me. He's a bit like Eddie Howe. Likes doing what he's doing at the place he's doing it.
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...fidentiality-agreement-ahead-of-potential-bid Amanda Staveley signs confidentiality agreement prior to a possible bid for Newcastle United.
There will be no Christmas Eve PL fixtures. In fact, we're in action at Wembley against Spurs first on Boxing Day at 12.30pm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41677955 Nice point at the end noting that prior to 1957, there was a full programme of fixtures over the Xmas period including Xmas Day.
Bournemouth gone to early kick off Sunday. How hungover will I be after a stag do... Early ko on boxing day is tough too. Might mean it's easier to get tickets for some though.
I wonder if Newcastle could become the new Man City? A big club, that have been in the doldrums far too long. An amazing fan base, especially away from home, that live and die for the Magpies.
The Daily Telegraph reporting that Leicester City are going to speak to Claude Puel about the vacant manager’s position.
