That’s why clubs like Liverpool wanted to be in the Super league. So they have the absolute best of everything and clubs like ours can fall by the wayside for all they care. Speak to some Liverpool fans and it’s almost like a religion where to speak against is almost blasphemous and get a hysterical response. And that’s just the ones not born in Liverpool . **** em.
I've been in New Zealand for 6 months now, and really enjoying it, by the way. There has been a lot of talk generally about possibly of going to a cashless society. I have never been in agreement with this for various reasons, and the reason to mention it is that since being in NZ, apart from being able to draw cash from an ATM, my debit and credit card has been unable to be used to pay for anything. I cannot use it in Supermarkets, Petrol stations or any shops, why I have no idea. I spoke with my bank, and told them my cards keep getting declined, they cannot find any reason why that should be. Just saying!
Very odd! I've got one of those Caxton cards which I know has worked in places my debit cards wouldn't.
Not trauma, just realisation. In the mid 50's Anfield was a small stadium made up mainly of wooden stands, they were in the second division. Hull City diced with the second division in the 50's yo-yoing up and down from the third division north. We had a much better, and bigger, newer stadium and bigger crowds, plus a local millionaire owner. Then Bill Shankly came along and they built a dynasty. We improved our stadium and managed to become an established second division club after 1966 for a dozen years, but never progressed. My point was since my first visit there when we were a 4th division club playing them in the second leg of the league cup during probably and then arguably the worst period of our history, or so we thought, I didn't think then that the gap could have got any wider. I saw yesterday it's now a chasm. What have we done since that my first visit compared to them? They have built and built and got stronger and bigger, we have sold our own stadium and are now in more debt then we have ever been in. We have also played in the same league as them, and beat them on the pitch, but off it ? We have gone in totally the opposite direction. That is the realism.
Cheer up, They started winning along with a couple of other teams in the 1970s. The same time as TV football was booming, they and one or two other teams gained loads of armchair and not local supporters. They have managed to build a successful brand, winning gets you more money which makes it easier to win more, then add in the Premier league money, on top of that came champions league money and now the governing body is going to give them more money and publicity via the world club championship. It's going to be nigh on impossible to break into the elite top clubs closed shop. The game is ****ed. Don't worry about it.
I don't think he's in any immediate danger of climbing a parapet on the humber bridge ,I think it's an example of how Clubs can go in different directions,sometimes vast different directions...
We were on a sounder footing then them before they had any real success on the field. Football wasn't booming for us in the 70's, our crowds dropped alarmingly. The game might well 'be ****ed' But we ****ed our chance up ourselves.
They have only ever done 11 seasons in the second division, the last time they were promoted was in 1962. Football didn't boom for us in the 70s because we weren't in the first division and consequently weren't on the telly. It was the era when supporting your local club was going out of fashion an plastics were on the rise, largely because of the television.
A farmer comes home to find his sheepdog waiting for him. The sheepdog says: “I herded the sheep into the barn, just like you asked!” “You sure you got them all?” The farmer replies. “Yep! All 40 of them!” Says the sheepdog. “40? But I only have 37 sheep.” Replies the farmer. The sheepdog answers: “I know. I rounded them up for you.”
Football did not boom in the 70's. It was the height of football hooliganism for a start. Also how did it boom when supporting your local club was going out of fashion, according to you? It was certainly true at City though, we lost three quarters of our home support in one season. There no was no live football on the telly in the 70's either, the only live game was the FA Cup Final. The national team was at an all time low too. The only boom was at the clubs who spent wisely and won every week of which we did neither.
