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Fun fact:

Southampton, despite being at home tonight, are wearing the yellow shirts because it is 50 years this year since Southampton won the FA Cup for the only time in their history, and they were in yellow playing against Manchester United in the 1976 final.

Back then Southampton were a second division team, and Manchester United were in the top division.
 
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Spurlock said:
Fun fact:

Southampton, despite being at home tonight, are wearing the yellow shirts because it is 50 years this year since Southampton won the FA Cup for the only time in their history, and they were in yellow playing against Manchester United in the 1976 final.

Back then Southampton were a second division team, and Manchester United were in the top division.
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Bobby Stokes mate...

They wore the same strip when they beat us in the 4th round ....
 
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Next bet has come in.

£25 forecast. 9/2 winner. 5/1 second.

Should pay well
 
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brb said:
They need to the cost of that ground, well unless they just scrap the Spurs team and transform to NFL. I should say I did predict this would happen when they started building the place. :bandit:
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I said this a few years ago and although I was roundly mocked, tbh I don't think it is far fetched.

Football is a surprisingly unprofitable sport. It's fantastic for leveraging debt and securing credit against holdings and assets, but in terms of pure profit generation? Hardly any PL team generates much profit and iirc the only team to have posted consistently positive books in recent years is City and they could only do it by openly cheating.

Chelsea just announced pre tax losses of £260m for crying out loud and they're one of biggest teams in the world and inside the Deloitte top 10/15 wealthiest clubs in the world every year.

The NFL is miles more profitable and its teams worth much more than even the biggest PL clubs.

It doesn't beggar belief to see ENIC happily selling to an American consortium who want to turn us into Europe's first permanent NFL franchise and corner that market as it emerges. The potential numbers are astronomical.

As for football, who knows? Success in the PL and CL requires a gamble of hundreds of millions per year and there is zero guarantee it will ever pay off. Just not worth the risk imo and that's why the only two types we're seeing buying up PL teams these days are sports washers and groups looking to establish a whole chain of clubs across the world to diversify the risk and reduce costs (and make cheating easier).
 
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Citizen Kane. said:
I said this a few years ago and although I was roundly mocked, tbh I don't think it is far fetched.

Football is a surprisingly unprofitable sport. It's fantastic for leveraging debt and securing credit against holdings and assets, but in terms of pure profit generation? Hardly any PL team generates much profit and iirc the only team to have posted consistently positive books in recent years is City and they could only do it by openly cheating.

Chelsea just announced pre tax losses of £260m for crying out loud and they're one of biggest teams in the world and inside the Deloitte top 10/15 wealthiest clubs in the world every year.

The NFL is miles more profitable and its teams worth much more than even the biggest PL clubs.

It doesn't beggar belief to see ENIC happily selling to an American consortium who want to turn us into Europe's first permanent NFL franchise and corner that market as it emerges. The potential numbers are astronomical.

As for football, who knows? Success in the PL and CL requires a gamble of hundreds of millions per year and there is zero guarantee it will ever pay off. Just not worth the risk imo and that's why the only two types we're seeing buying up PL teams these days are sports washers and groups looking to establish a whole chain of clubs across the world to diversify the risk and reduce costs (and make cheating easier).
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The Thatcher dream to social cleanse the UK after the miner strikes.

Price their game and prematch habits to such an extreme it no longer exists.

Nice if you can afford it. Then people wonder why our grounds are so ****ing sterile.

Stolen our football, closed our pubs, with cigarettes so heavily taxed they can no longer afford them.

Who needs prohibition just tax them to **** or sell their game to the highest bidder in this case the NFL.

Loads of clubs soon to go under, and we'll all sit back and watch it happen, just like it did with Bury.

Thousands of people breaking the law every single week just so they can watch the game they love and not get ripped off.
 
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