Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

[Ron Burguvdy]

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[Sumatran_Tiger]

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You were an 8 year old girl in the 70s?

 

[Ron Burguvdy]

You wre an 8 year old girl in the 70s?

Someone needs to go back to school, don't 'wre'?

 

[BlackAndAmberGambler]

Just got back home from an Anfield Stadium Tour with Aklams coaches. Not my type of thing but I went with my 10 yr old granddaughter who is Liverpool ( and City) mad. Double decker bus from Beverley and surprisingly it only picked up a couple of dozen passengers en -route, mostly from East Hull and four in Goole, don't know what the trip cost because it was a present.
I've only ever been to Anfield before to see City play so the first time was the League Cup 2nd leg when Lee Bracey got sent off after five minutes, so 15/20 years ago? I didn't enjoy that night either and it was nothing to do with the result, which was to be expected. It was the reality that Hull City are a trillion miles away from the likes of Liverpool, we were that night and I felt the same way today.
We played them in the League Cup when Boothferry Park was at it's worse, half the ground closed off and the rest of it falling to bits, so to walk into Anfield that night was quite sobering, it was a totally different world and we were a trillion miles apart.
Today, I felt the same. Liverpool have extended the stadium and plenty of bricks have been laid since we last went there as equals in the Premier League. The ground and surroundings are quite magnificent, it also seems as though they have bought some land around the stadium and they are building a new club shop which is the size of Asda Kingswood. The actual stadium tour was top class and the many guides were all professional scousers and smart with it, the museum, unbelievable especially the silverware on show.
They were replacing the red plastic seats which had faded in the sun today, thousands of them, and it struck me that they will have spent more on replacement seats then we can spend on players. I bet they took more money today from visitors then we take on a matchday too. One steward told me its not uncommon for fans to spend £1k at a time in the club shop on a matchday. I had a look inside the temporary shop today and it made ours ( or the quality of the stock did) look like the back end of Walton Street car boot sale on a wet Wednesday in February in comparison.
So a sobering day, we cannot sign a player because we cannot be trusted by the FL to pay for them and Liverpool are getting bigger and bigger, and the gap wider and wider so not much has changed since that Tuesday night Second Leg League Cup tie when we went there 6-1 down and scrapping for our lives, penniless at the foot of the football league ladder, twenty odd years ago.

Don’t worry. There is help and counciling for this type of trauma. Keep strong

 

[Phinius T Bookbinder]

Just got back home from an Anfield Stadium Tour with Aklams coaches. Not my type of thing but I went with my 10 yr old granddaughter who is Liverpool ( and City) mad. Double decker bus from Beverley and surprisingly it only picked up a couple of dozen passengers en -route, mostly from East Hull and four in Goole, don't know what the trip cost because it was a present.
I've only ever been to Anfield before to see City play so the first time was the League Cup 2nd leg when Lee Bracey got sent off after five minutes, so 15/20 years ago? I didn't enjoy that night either and it was nothing to do with the result, which was to be expected. It was the reality that Hull City are a trillion miles away from the likes of Liverpool, we were that night and I felt the same way today.
We played them in the League Cup when Boothferry Park was at it's worse, half the ground closed off and the rest of it falling to bits, so to walk into Anfield that night was quite sobering, it was a totally different world and we were a trillion miles apart.
Today, I felt the same. Liverpool have extended the stadium and plenty of bricks have been laid since we last went there as equals in the Premier League. The ground and surroundings are quite magnificent, it also seems as though they have bought some land around the stadium and they are building a new club shop which is the size of Asda Kingswood. The actual stadium tour was top class and the many guides were all professional scousers and smart with it, the museum, unbelievable especially the silverware on show.
They were replacing the red plastic seats which had faded in the sun today, thousands of them, and it struck me that they will have spent more on replacement seats then we can spend on players. I bet they took more money today from visitors then we take on a matchday too. One steward told me its not uncommon for fans to spend £1k at a time in the club shop on a matchday. I had a look inside the temporary shop today and it made ours ( or the quality of the stock did) look like the back end of Walton Street car boot sale on a wet Wednesday in February in comparison.
So a sobering day, we cannot sign a player because we cannot be trusted by the FL to pay for them and Liverpool are getting bigger and bigger, and the gap wider and wider so not much has changed since that Tuesday night Second Leg League Cup tie when we went there 6-1 down and scrapping for our lives, penniless at the foot of the football league ladder, twenty odd years ago.

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.

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

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!

 

[Ron Burguvdy]

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[Plum]

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.

 

[TwoWrights]

We used to run the odd fleet of buses down from Glasgow(Kinning Park loyal,early 80's) if Rangers were playing away at some ****ty venue.

5 or 6 coaches(maybe 300 of us),park in the City Centre area,get tanked up and make our way up to Anfield split into small groups so as not to cause suspicion.Enter the Kop,meet up in the middle and start provoking the Scouse bastards with Rangers songs...we were immovable!!!

Good days had down there in the Legs Of Man pub

'Odd fleet of buses' indeed.


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

[Trumpton Tiger.]

Don’t worry. There is help and counciling for this type of trauma. Keep strong

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.

 

[Ric Glasgow]

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[balkan tiger]

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 ever 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.

 

[Ric Glasgow]

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...

 

[TwoWrights]

I don't think he's in any immediate danger of climbing a parapet on the number bridge ,I think it's an example of how Clubs can go in different directions,sometimes vast different directions...

Fourth Bridge?


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[balkan tiger]

Fourth Bridge?


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

Seven

 

[Trumpton Tiger.]

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.

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.

 

[balkan tiger]

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.

 

[Idi Amin]

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[Baldrick's Cunning Plan]

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.”

 

[Trumpton Tiger.]

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.

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.