Or do they look down on them?
Last night on Quest Caribou Cup highlights some unknown was talking to Colin Murray (can I just say Hanson was bang on about him, not surprised he was fired) who asked whether Liverpool had disrespected the cup. The answer was a resounding "yes" and that Klopp could have left three or four senior players behind.
Now aside from the fact that I have no idea who the seniors we could have left behind to play are, as we have loads of injuries and have played more football than anyone else, it got me thinking about global appeal.
Some people try to denigrate the Super Cup and CWC but I bet sponsors love it. The league cup didn't even have a sponsor a couple of years ago.
People also bang on about NET spend but really NET spend is bollox. You have income, you have expenditure, and this idea that there is some excel sheet marked 'transfers' is daft. Quite often sales will come from players the club doesn't want as well so I don't see how getting rid of players you don't want and buying ones you do is a bad thing. Clubs spend what they spend yet people use not spending or visa versa as some kind of moral high ground.
Anyway I like watching 90k turn up in Australia and all that and I think it's great foreign fans get the chance to see us, but many look down on them.
Are they not proper fans or even supporters if they're putting their money in?
Do people look down on them?
Is it so bad to be an armchair or wool if you simply just enjoy footy?
Does this dilute the passion in football?
Are you happy with they way the game is going, eg; dumping domestic competition for global marketing?
Do people appreciate global fanbases
posted on 20/12/19
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga Nikica come on pretty mama (U1308)
posted 11 hours, 30 minutes ago
Those armchair fans picking a popular club so they can talk about what ‘we’ won.
Follow your local team, even if they are a semi pro/lower level non PL team.
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This is a load of crap.
posted on 20/12/19
comment by Klopptimus Prime - Die Unerträglichen (U1282)
posted 13 hours, 10 minutes ago
What I find amusing is that some of the fans who look down on other fans they perceive to be lesser fans are the same people who identify as fans of a baseball team, or NFL or NBA or what have you, and have never even been to the USA or outside the home nation borders.
I think a super league is inevitable partly for this reason. And if climate change doesn't do us in then a world league will happen. Might take a looong time, but its gonna happen.
If you love Baseball as a sport, you will follow the MLB because that's the highest quality game available to you. It would be hard to watch some local amateurs when a MLB game is live. All the best players from everywhere else in the world are signed up by MLB teams so it's only natural. London will probably have an NFL team eventually. Its a new age.
A majority of sports are now followed electronically by fans. Boxing, Tennis, Athletics and track etc. Football and other traditional sports like Rugby are following suit. Technology has consequences, just like we can't escape VAR now that people know the tech is there.
To be honest, I think the traditional match going local fan is having a bit of a problem dealing with this transition. The clubs and the league have embraced it since 1992 and even the games themselves are scheduled to the chagrin of the local fan.
To me it looks like its only going one way, money always wins and the global fan bases are contributing a lot more of it to fund the wages and agents fees and sheet.
At the end of the day, this is not a discussion with a conclusion IMO. It is what it is. The local fans are the life blood of the club and the league is built on their back.
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I mean that’s an odd comment...
How can anyone love baseball as a sport, it’s fecking 5hit.
posted on 20/12/19
comment by Klopptimus Prime - Die Unerträglichen (U1282)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga Nikica come on pretty mama (U1308)
posted 11 hours, 30 minutes ago
Those armchair fans picking a popular club so they can talk about what ‘we’ won.
Follow your local team, even if they are a semi pro/lower level non PL team.
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This is a load of crap.
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So I know why you picked Liverpool then. You have no affiliation but like to talk about winning and use as some sad weapon against others and appear good.
Like the woman here in t he office who has a car called Shankly, a Liverpool badge on her drive and is from Sheffield. But develops a Scouse accent when talking about ‘liverpool’
posted on 20/12/19
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posted on 20/12/19
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga... (U1308)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by Klopptimus Prime - Die Unerträglichen (U1282)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga Nikica come on pretty mama (U1308)
posted 11 hours, 30 minutes ago
Those armchair fans picking a popular club so they can talk about what ‘we’ won.
Follow your local team, even if they are a semi pro/lower level non PL team.
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This is a load of crap.
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So I know why you picked Liverpool then. You have no affiliation but like to talk about winning and use as some sad weapon against others and appear good.
Like the woman here in t he office who has a car called Shankly, a Liverpool badge on her drive and is from Sheffield. But develops a Scouse accent when talking about ‘liverpool’
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Yes, weird the way Southerners sing YNWA in fake scouse accent.
So plastic. They will NEVER have that connection with their local team like local matchgoing fans do
posted on 20/12/19
comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga Nikica come on pretty mama (U1308)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Klopptimus Prime - Die Unerträglichen (U1282)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga Nikica come on pretty mama (U1308)
posted 11 hours, 30 minutes ago
Those armchair fans picking a popular club so they can talk about what ‘we’ won.
Follow your local team, even if they are a semi pro/lower level non PL team.
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This is a load of crap.
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So I know why you picked Liverpool then. You have no affiliation but like to talk about winning and use as some sad weapon against others and appear good.
Like the woman here in t he office who has a car called Shankly, a Liverpool badge on her drive and is from Sheffield. But develops a Scouse accent when talking about ‘liverpool’
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Eh! I'll have you out soft lad.
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Sorry, she has a cat called Shankly
posted on 20/12/19
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posted on 20/12/19
Still, her Scouse accent
Drive badge etc. It’s cringeworthy
posted on 20/12/19
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posted on 21/12/19
comment by 4Tsar (U22296)
posted 18 hours, 53 minutes ago
comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 5 hours, 39 minutes ago
comment by Klopptimus Prime - Die Unerträglichen (U1282)
posted 13 hours, 10 minutes ago
What I find amusing is that some of the fans who look down on other fans they perceive to be lesser fans are the same people who identify as fans of a baseball team, or NFL or NBA or what have you, and have never even been to the USA or outside the home nation borders.
I think a super league is inevitable partly for this reason. And if climate change doesn't do us in then a world league will happen. Might take a looong time, but its gonna happen.
If you love Baseball as a sport, you will follow the MLB because that's the highest quality game available to you. It would be hard to watch some local amateurs when a MLB game is live. All the best players from everywhere else in the world are signed up by MLB teams so it's only natural. London will probably have an NFL team eventually. Its a new age.
A majority of sports are now followed electronically by fans. Boxing, Tennis, Athletics and track etc. Football and other traditional sports like Rugby are following suit. Technology has consequences, just like we can't escape VAR now that people know the tech is there.
To be honest, I think the traditional match going local fan is having a bit of a problem dealing with this transition. The clubs and the league have embraced it since 1992 and even the games themselves are scheduled to the chagrin of the local fan.
To me it looks like its only going one way, money always wins and the global fan bases are contributing a lot more of it to fund the wages and agents fees and sheet.
At the end of the day, this is not a discussion with a conclusion IMO. It is what it is. The local fans are the life blood of the club and the league is built on their back.
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I mean that’s an odd comment...
How can anyone love baseball as a sport, it’s fecking 5hit.
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Baseball is grate, much better sport than soccer tbh.
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I’ve been to a baseball game and it was fecking waank.
You have a better time at the cricket.