If I was a neutral I should applaud 👏
As we support the same team you know I will 👏
But as Admin has you as one of his top five posters of all time says it all bro.
The world needs more odd wellies 🤩🫶👊
Postecoglou had a good rant the other day bemoaning the deterioration of tradition in the home of football and asking why fans tolerate all of the unnecessary messing around with the rules. Powers that be are constantly trying to fix things that aren’t wrong in the first place.
The game is gone at the top level. At the start of the second half thousands are still in the concourses and by the end of the match half of the crowd have gone home. They aren’t that fussed about the outcome. The big clubs reduce numbers of season tickets to sell seats to tourists who will spend a few hundred in the club shop. You see them grinning with their phones out in the front rows with their bobble hats still with the label on. Proper fans can’t get in - they don’t mean enough to these owners.
If you are fans like us you are trapped - we have no choice but to follow our team and if we got ourselves a fat Greek gangster no doubt we would buckle up for the ride and enjoy it. But it all feels a bit fake really. Money always ruled but drowning the game in it has all but destroyed it. The fans are gentrified and TV pundit berks decide how rules will be changed in an endless search for perfection when we should be revelling in its glorious imperfections. But what can we do? Those temps are perdu forever.
They aren’t that fussed about the outcome. The big clubs reduce numbers of season tickets to sell seats to tourists who will spend a few hundred in the club shop. You see them grinning with their phones out in the front rows with their bobble hats still with the label on. Proper fans can’t get in - they don’t mean enough to these owners.
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Hence why Chemical Jim didn't hesitate putting up the price for a parent + child up from a minimum of £65 to £132 in one fell swoop at OT. The tourists will lap-up those tickets faster than you can say Brexit.
Never a truer word but the genie is out of the bottle and it will never go back. Just sort of glad that I can look back and say 'I was there' and enjoy the memories.
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 3 hours, 1 minute ago
Postecoglou had a good rant the other day bemoaning the deterioration of tradition in the home of football and asking why fans tolerate all of the unnecessary messing around with the rules. Powers that be are constantly trying to fix things that aren’t wrong in the first place.
The game is gone at the top level. At the start of the second half thousands are still in the concourses and by the end of the match half of the crowd have gone home. They aren’t that fussed about the outcome. The big clubs reduce numbers of season tickets to sell seats to tourists who will spend a few hundred in the club shop. You see them grinning with their phones out in the front rows with their bobble hats still with the label on. Proper fans can’t get in - they don’t mean enough to these owners.
If you are fans like us you are trapped - we have no choice but to follow our team and if we got ourselves a fat Greek gangster no doubt we would buckle up for the ride and enjoy it. But it all feels a bit fake really. Money always ruled but drowning the game in it has all but destroyed it. The fans are gentrified and TV pundit berks decide how rules will be changed in an endless search for perfection when we should be revelling in its glorious imperfections. But what can we do? Those temps are perdu forever.
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Totally agree, though I would have gone for Alan ‘Gladys’ Hinton up front looking pretty.
As someone above said, I’m glad I remember when football was a ‘proper’ game, having to stop the game to paint the penalty spot on that pudding of a pitch, at the Baseball ground in a 4-0 win v Man City, can you seriously see that bunch of City starts treading on that pitch, it was more a ploughed field week in week out, but no one overly complained they just got on with it.
Football will never go back to its ‘grass roots’, it’s a game for the super rich, both players and owners, there is no will to return to the traditional game.
I used to think FIFA under Blatter couldn’t get anymore corrupt, can’t believe how wrong I was.
Thank god for the memories.
I'd still like to see some kind of rebellion though a few managers that don't just park the bus as their only form of protest, but a team that tries to work on a few innovations and managers with post match takedowns of the powers that be.
Maybe sacrifice risk averse survival football for some of that break your heart, nothing to lose, fluck em up get into them, magic.
Hope springs eternal. Let's be avin you.
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posted on 9/1/25
If I was a neutral I should applaud 👏
As we support the same team you know I will 👏
But as Admin has you as one of his top five posters of all time says it all bro.
The world needs more odd wellies 🤩🫶👊
posted on 9/1/25
Special, that is, youth
posted on 10/1/25
Postecoglou had a good rant the other day bemoaning the deterioration of tradition in the home of football and asking why fans tolerate all of the unnecessary messing around with the rules. Powers that be are constantly trying to fix things that aren’t wrong in the first place.
The game is gone at the top level. At the start of the second half thousands are still in the concourses and by the end of the match half of the crowd have gone home. They aren’t that fussed about the outcome. The big clubs reduce numbers of season tickets to sell seats to tourists who will spend a few hundred in the club shop. You see them grinning with their phones out in the front rows with their bobble hats still with the label on. Proper fans can’t get in - they don’t mean enough to these owners.
If you are fans like us you are trapped - we have no choice but to follow our team and if we got ourselves a fat Greek gangster no doubt we would buckle up for the ride and enjoy it. But it all feels a bit fake really. Money always ruled but drowning the game in it has all but destroyed it. The fans are gentrified and TV pundit berks decide how rules will be changed in an endless search for perfection when we should be revelling in its glorious imperfections. But what can we do? Those temps are perdu forever.
posted on 10/1/25
They aren’t that fussed about the outcome. The big clubs reduce numbers of season tickets to sell seats to tourists who will spend a few hundred in the club shop. You see them grinning with their phones out in the front rows with their bobble hats still with the label on. Proper fans can’t get in - they don’t mean enough to these owners.
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Hence why Chemical Jim didn't hesitate putting up the price for a parent + child up from a minimum of £65 to £132 in one fell swoop at OT. The tourists will lap-up those tickets faster than you can say Brexit.
posted on 10/1/25
Never a truer word but the genie is out of the bottle and it will never go back. Just sort of glad that I can look back and say 'I was there' and enjoy the memories.
posted on 10/1/25
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 3 hours, 1 minute ago
Postecoglou had a good rant the other day bemoaning the deterioration of tradition in the home of football and asking why fans tolerate all of the unnecessary messing around with the rules. Powers that be are constantly trying to fix things that aren’t wrong in the first place.
The game is gone at the top level. At the start of the second half thousands are still in the concourses and by the end of the match half of the crowd have gone home. They aren’t that fussed about the outcome. The big clubs reduce numbers of season tickets to sell seats to tourists who will spend a few hundred in the club shop. You see them grinning with their phones out in the front rows with their bobble hats still with the label on. Proper fans can’t get in - they don’t mean enough to these owners.
If you are fans like us you are trapped - we have no choice but to follow our team and if we got ourselves a fat Greek gangster no doubt we would buckle up for the ride and enjoy it. But it all feels a bit fake really. Money always ruled but drowning the game in it has all but destroyed it. The fans are gentrified and TV pundit berks decide how rules will be changed in an endless search for perfection when we should be revelling in its glorious imperfections. But what can we do? Those temps are perdu forever.
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This
posted on 10/1/25
Totally agree, though I would have gone for Alan ‘Gladys’ Hinton up front looking pretty.
As someone above said, I’m glad I remember when football was a ‘proper’ game, having to stop the game to paint the penalty spot on that pudding of a pitch, at the Baseball ground in a 4-0 win v Man City, can you seriously see that bunch of City starts treading on that pitch, it was more a ploughed field week in week out, but no one overly complained they just got on with it.
Football will never go back to its ‘grass roots’, it’s a game for the super rich, both players and owners, there is no will to return to the traditional game.
I used to think FIFA under Blatter couldn’t get anymore corrupt, can’t believe how wrong I was.
Thank god for the memories.
posted on 10/1/25
I'd still like to see some kind of rebellion though a few managers that don't just park the bus as their only form of protest, but a team that tries to work on a few innovations and managers with post match takedowns of the powers that be.
Maybe sacrifice risk averse survival football for some of that break your heart, nothing to lose, fluck em up get into them, magic.
Hope springs eternal. Let's be avin you.
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