Been done to death, but it will never make any sense to me. Their loss though. They'll never experience what we did at Wembley or Arsenal or Yeovil, or the Great Escape season.
True. I moved from Hull when my kids were 3 years old and 18 months old. Never tried to push them into supporting Cit but took them to City games from a young age. They had 2 of the only 3 City shirts at their primary school. All they saw was dross. What changed it for eldest was Newcastle in League Cup. Eldest wasn’t old enough to drink but could get away with it. Our minibus and we were the first City fans in the Strawberry which slowly filled up with City fans until police stopped anyone else coming in. Had a load to drink and fun stuck next to Newcastle fans. A copper asked my son to keep his dad under control. When we got back on the bus he looked at me and said “ I get it now”. He had heard Trumpton Tiger and some of the other oldies discussing what good times we used to have but had only seen home games with deserted stadiums. He then got a Tiger tattoo, which he shouldn’t have been able to, which my wife blamed me for though I tried to talk him out of it. Went to the play off in 2008 with youngest lad, eldest couldn’t get he was out of work. But eldest was there when we played Cardiff and went up. Had a good night in Avenues before getting a train back. Went in pub and the usual lot were there going on about Man Utd and Liverpool. He informed them they could support their adopted clubs for as long as they lived but they would never have the feeling he had seeing his home town club get promoted. Loved it!
Sadly that is likely. First got interested in football in 1957 after watching the Man Utd v Villa Final. In the next 15 seasons there were 10 different League Champions. 3 of them, Ipswich, Leeds and Derby for the first time. Ipswich won it in their first season in the top flight, the only other club to do it in their first season in the top flight (other than Preston who did it when the won the first season of the Football League). Only Forest have won it the season after promotion since. How much better and more interesting than the virtually closed shop these days.
It is, and speaks to the difference between the premier league and the other big leagues. The strength in depth on show, this season in particular, is incredible....teams like forest, Bournemouth and villa...possibly even Brighton all in with a shot, once you're established in the prem if you're smart with your signings you have a chance of competing now, such is the strength of investment and the TV revenue, citeh falling off a cliff is a great thing for the league....Liverpool lining up to lose a couple at least of van dijk Salah and taa too....could be an interesting next few seasons esp if pep goes too.....just need a couple of promoted teams, not ****ing you Leeds, to stay up and be competitive to improve it.
Trouble is Leeds have owners with money to spend. Hopefully PSR will hold them back. Farke hasn’t done bad for some German with no experience of English football and whose only experience was managing a club at the 3 rd and 4 th level of German football and a couple of seasons managing Borussia Dortmund’s second team since Norwich were daft enough to appoint him.
a test if anyone of you fancy it: get a piece of paper and list the 24 teams that have been english league champions. if anyone wants to post their 24 on here i can tell you how many you got.
Aren’t being clever but I could. No doubt some will claim they can but will google it. Always like asking people in the pub when they can’t go off and google to name the 14 clubs who have averaged 40,000 for a season. (We are the only club whose highest average wasn’t set in the top flight, our being set in Div 3 North.)
Here's one for you, which Championship club had their lowest ever attendance, for a competitive match (3,498) back in December 2021? The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Current Championship club? I'm going to go for one of the "big" clubs in league 1 at the time, playing in that football league trophy. Derby, Sunderland or Wednesday
Nope, but apparently they'd turn up at their stadium in their thousands just to see the tea lady warming the pot. Clue, they're a big favourite of an antipodean clockmaker from beautiful downtown Traralgon. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
i've occasionally passed time at places by listing all the english or scottish league teams. trouble is that nowadays i haven't kept up with all the swaps from division 4 to the gola league, or whatever new names they've acquired. the easy way for the english league was to travel on mental maps looking for overlooked teams, but i could never do that for scotland, especially when ferranti thistle got nomadic. plus scotland is now also doing regular swaps at its nether regions, giving rise to teams such as bonnyrig rose, etc.
Not sure that's what happened. We spent a ton that summer. You sure you're not thinking of the summer under phelan?
Maybe I'm mixing 2 seasons into 1. The year after the FAC Final was the year we should have consolidated for me
Agree, think that season was a bit of injuries and a bit of bad luck all rolled into one unfortunately. Jelavic from memory missed chunks of the season, and Hernandez after looking bright early struggled to go on with it. Think if we'd hung in Europa until the Group stage it ironically would have helped as we had a huge squad and a lot ended up not playing much.
Right there and then, the Allams were a 100 million in the hole. Papa had declared the bank of Allam shut. Where was the money going to come from? And repayments guaranteed against what? Yes, the following season, down we went. And received more money for that relegation than the previous seaons champions. And silly money became the norm, both in transfer fees and wages. The last time someone was left to run amok, like a kiddie in a sweet shop with the cheque book, did not turn out too well. Adam Pearson, brought back in to sort out the mess, gave his somewhat acerbic assessment of the previous regime - "Administration was not an option. There was nothing to administer" Cheque book out? Yea, go for it. If you don't mind ground sharing with Hall Road Rangers.
