Things I didn't know much about until the start of our Premier League adventure...

1, What Wembley looked like from the inside!
2, That there is only one man in the world who can treat knees (Dr. Richard Steadman)
3, That there really is a bias towards the big 4 by referees
4, Some days the ref doesn't want traditional top flight clubs embarrassed.
5, The Emirates is a really nice ground, shame its full of egotistical gits.
6, Goodison Park may be a traditional ground but its rubbish and cramped.
7, I found out a meniscus tear, torn cartilage, ligament damage can all happen to 1 player in 18 months.
8, That despite winning £90m over 2 seasons in prize money we managed to spend 40% more than that without actually paying for anyone outright!
9, Sky Sports get a hard-on for transfer deadline day!

 

10, We have a competition to see how many players we can get here on one last pay day.

 

11, How a chairman of a newly promoted club expects to challenge for europe after a good start to a season

 

12, if your a top team you can get a free kick for simply just falling over miles away from any opposing player

 

13, How top managers can get away with saying pretty much anything about a matchday referee

 

14. What a stupid idea of emigrating on July 3rd 2008, after watching City for god knows how many years

 

15. Edit to 8, That despite winning £90m over 2 seasons in prize money we managed to spend 40% more than that without actually paying for anyone outright! - and without investing a penny in the infrastructure of the club to benefit the future

16. That a Chairman and Manager can manage to undo their incredible achievements in such spectacular fashion in such a short space of time. Heroes to zeroes. (good to get that in before Sat'day)

17. That we could have been so hoodwinked by yet another crooked snake oil salesman Chairman after all we've endured in the past

18. The incredible national and global media coverage that the PL gets compared to the other divisions. Nobody really much cares about anything outside the PL, other than fans of the clubs themselves.

 

Totally agree with that. TV coverage of the League is total bollocks. It's about time there was a pay-per-view streaming option. I'd sign up. All we get is a token 2 minutes on the Football League Show - TV's most appalling set.

 

19. How when you get relegated 50% of fans turn into a set of bitter bastards and insist they prefer the Championship.

 

20. That it was possible to orgasm merely at the sight of your football team beating a top 4 Premier League club on their own turf.

 

21. that manucho is better than james beattie

 

Well that's bollocks, they start throwing fine's around if anyone dares suggest the ref got anything wrong...

 

Ok i'll rephrase it to how Alex ferguson can get away with saying pretty much anything about a matchday referee. But I haven't heard of a big manager getting a fine for a while tbh

 

23. Our keeper was apparently called Barry Myhill in Australia.

 

Some of us have always hated the Premiership & preferred the Championship, don't get me wrong I was glad to get there to get the monkey off our backs, but stopped going when we were promoted as I hated sitting among "City fans" who could name every player in the opposition team but didn't know the name of half of our players

 

that kind of thing happens in the lower divisions too. look at the fairplay tables and the teams at the top get less cards and the teams at the bottom get more. its partly because teams at the bottom spend more time defending where its easier to pick up cards but also referees weather subconciuosly or not give more to the higher team. i have seen it happen for us and against us. whether the top 4 bias you mention is any more than that i realy cuoldnt say.

 

once in premier league could`nt get away tickets

 

Horse placenta fluid is conisderd a good healer by many top players...

 

And if you didnt have a season ticket you had to enjoy the North Stand for home games.