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remembercolinlee said:
You can add Southampton Leicester, Palace, Leeds, Sheffield United, Bradford, Forest, QPR, Blackburn, Swindon, Orient Oldham Luton, Sunderland, Ipswich, Bolton Wimbledon, Reading, Stoke, Birmingham, Hull and Stoke to your list.

31 clubs out of 92 league clubs who have experienced serious financial problems.
All but Bury, Southend, Orient and Luton have played in the Premier league.
So that's 28 ex or current premier league clubs have experienced deep financial difficulties.
Only 4 clubs have properly recovered (Leicester, Southampton, Palace and Sheffield United) and Leeds are on the verge of joining them.
That makes 24 ex premier league teams that are now or were a mess.
Then there is Torquay, Notts County, Barnett, Stockport and Hartlepool in the National league.

There is also a list of clubs like Villa who have a cloud over them.

I remember us nearly folding in 1991 and would not wish that on others tbh...not even the gooners!
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We had been financially on our knees a for a decade prior to the bale out and Milan Mandric coming in ... still remember the lukewarm, if not downright negative, reaction amongst fans when Mandaric announced he was selling out to some Thai businessmen that nobody had heard of ... <laugh>
 
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gooner4ever said:
the photos age you then :)

as you weren’t alive to see Spurs last win the league, what made you become a Spurs fan.

is it family or are you from NL.

i am a Gooner as my family on my dads side are from NL, and they were either Arsenal or Spurs.
My dad was a Spurs fan, and me and him used to banter all the time about me being a Gooner as he took me to WHL as a baby and declared it as the “Mecca of Football” - he must have told me that story as least a thousand times, and would always end it with - so why do you support Arsenal :)
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I was born in the East End, but my family moved to N17 when I was two years old, and we lived there until I was thirteen.

I went to Risley Avenue School and then to Tottenham Comprehensive (which used to be the Grammar School, and which was closed about twenty years ago).

We lived about a mile from the ground.
 
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Hoddle is a god said:
I was born in the East End, but my family moved to N17 when I was two years old, and we lived there until I was thirteen.

I went to Risley Avenue School and then to Tottenham Comprehensive (which used to be the Grammar School, and which was closed about twenty years ago).

We lived about a mile from the ground.
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so family history then, cool.

my dad used to talk about the “Spurs way” and I would reply what’s that, not winning ! He would then clip me round the head lol
 
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Hoddle is a god said:
<laugh>

I like your dad.
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tbf he would have found most of your stuff funny - he lived a wind up.
his favourite used to be deliberately calling girls by the wrong name when they phoned the house asking for me, oh hi is that Debbie oh it’s Sally, oh sorry about that, I will see if he is in, then would shout up the stairs “there’s a bird on the phone and it’s not Debbie”.
The grief it caused me - normal outcome was being chucked !
 
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Birmingham retiring Jude Bellingham’s shirt following his move to Dortmund.

He’s played just 44 games for them...

Edit: Just seen posted elsewhere, still mental though.
 
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brb said:
So £24M has vanished from Bristol Rovers debt, while they've had no football for the last quarter, and the new season will more than likely start without match day revenue. Then we wonder why football is a mess.

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Isn't that a good thing?
 
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