Hi lads, Villa fan here.
My cousins are massive Leeds fans (born up North eh lad)
I just wondered, through what have have talked about leeds that what lowr league football is like. Is it great to visit different stadiums over the country. Is premier peague seriously priceless or is it not all it's cut out to be? I'm sure all of you want leeds back to the big time, your fans have (moajoirty of them) been there and stuck behind your club during the last 6/7 crazy years for you lot. I've been following you lot ever since because I've alawys had sympathy for the big clubs of England that have fallen to the might of £££££££ and what it brings in the modern game.
I want Leeds and Forest back to the top league, it's not been the same without these two clubs, maybe even southampton. It's a mighty shame that money has become the force in the game was once dominated by passion, belief and terraces. Even the lager at games is s5it3
Lower league football
posted on 15/10/11
Is this a 606 version of a drunken text message?
posted on 15/10/11
fortunately, funky monkey, you will be getting the chnace to savour life in the championship for yourself next season. Sorry we won't be there to welcome you.
posted on 15/10/11
I thought it would be a nightmare but it hasn't been too bad, even League 1.
We've been down long enough now, though and we're much bigger club than Forest, Southampton and, yes, Villa.
posted on 15/10/11
..we have served our punishment of 15 pts and done our time in the Mickey Mouse division...we are now firmly back on reack to our righful place amongst the soccer elite..LUFC is the biggest club outside the Premiership and we will be back!
posted on 15/10/11
Gibraltar White - think of it rather like this:
our time down below in the lower regions of the League has made us tougher and it will be all the sweeter when we get back to where we should be, it's coming good at last!
Come on the Leeds!
posted on 15/10/11
Playing the big boys is the aim of any team in any league!..
But coming downstairs for a bit has only proved the so called pub teams that the Prem clubs tag the lower leagues with is a load of bull, they are clubs with fans that have just as much and in some cases more passion then any up in the higher league!..
We'd love to be back up there, but I doubt most of ours will forget the passion and loyalty the lower leagues have for their smaller clubs!..
posted on 15/10/11
There's a lot of passion and banter between fans in League 1 and the championship that you simply won't get in the premier league where everything is ultra-commercialised and geared solely towards attracting and exploiting rich, foreign fans at the expense of a club's indentity and soul....
That is probably the only thing I would miss about playing in the "lower league" as you patronisingly put it.
posted on 15/10/11
Yes i was drunk
And I'm so sorry for trying to come on here and give decent perspective of things, even said I want you lot back in the top league but thanks for just throwing it back in my face Do you wish this on us Larry because we're in the premier league and your not? I say how it is, and yes you're a massive club, but to say more than us? What describes a big club?
I wasn't trying to be patronising.. It is lower league football what else would you call it? We might well relegated in the near future, we might not.
Again, sorry for trying to give a neutral perspective.
posted on 15/10/11
I wouldn't say we're a bigger club than Villa, about on par would be my estimate .. after all, you have won the European Cup, whereas we have merely reached the final and been robbed of it by biased refereeing
It's definitely more nail-biting in the "lower leagues", results can never be taken for granted, there's no semi-permanent "Big Four" or "Big Six" or whatever .. not surprising really, as finishing top or second means you're promoted!
It's pretty horrible when you're playing in a crumbling $hit'ole of a ground, on a quagmire pitch, with two thousand drunken, baying locals banging their hooves down on resonant wooden terracing and a referee who sees it as his duty to give no decisions whatsoever in favour of the "big-shot" visitors ..
.. but that was "league one" .. it's much better in "the Championship"