Yes, enjoy, a trip to Wembley/London is always a good crack, our most recent visit was for last years Challenge Cup final, despite the result a great time was had by all.
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Yes, enjoy, a trip to Wembley/London is always a good crack, our most recent visit was for last years Challenge Cup final, despite the result a great time was had by all.
Best atmosphere at a match I was at was Wolves v Liverpool, last match of the season 1976. Wolves had to win to stop up and Liverpool had to win or draw to win the title. Wolves were one up till Liverpool got three in the last fifteen minutes, Keegan, Toshack and Ray Kennedy, what a nightQuote:
Originally Posted by Travs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G1-7GzqHjsE
And here it is
Well they probably don't remember when Wolves provided 4 players for the England team including,of course, 105-caps Billy Wright.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Hey, it's not rock 'n' roll but I like itQuote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R9B26fXTj4c
Here's the St Etienne match I was on about yesterday
St Etienne fans are fantastic. Would love to go to a home game. Met up with their main group of 'ultras' after a game in Caen and spent the night drinking along the harbour with them, fantastic group...
Caen is a great trip for football fans who want to sample a foreign match. Night ferry from Portsmouth, match the following afternoon, cheap hotel that night and back on the ferry the next day... Not the biggest name in football but we all know it's about more than just the football... Lovely city, and close to a lot of war sites, such as Pegasus Bridge...
One nil :(
Only French ground I've been to is Auxerre many years ago when we were driving back from St Tropez. I've only been to Coventry once Travs and that would be before your time about 1972 or 3, all I remember is a 2-0 win for Liverpool and being stood in the pissing rain for 2 hours in the open away end, that was one of the downsides of the good old days of the 1970's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Coventry is not the same any more. For me the club died once we left Highfield Road. A tight atmospheric ground in the city centre, surrounded by fantastic pubs.
Now we are in a soulless bowl that we half fill if lucky. Same story for many teams I guess.
I do feel sorry for the young fans now, thinking it's a great atmosphere cos we have 50 teenagers and a drum, they will never see a big game at Highfield Road, running up the road from the Binley Oak or Brewer & Baker pub at 2-59pm, greeting by 4000 baying away fans a matter of yards from you.
The away games still occasionally bring the old atmosphere back we take good numbers of fans, probably close to premier league levels. I remember Leyton Orient a couple of years ago was a good one.
Unfortunately if we do make the playoff final this season, I will be in Jura so will be missing out, although no doubt thousands will come out of the woodwork for that day.... Yes I'm a bitter football fan...!
Think yourself lucky mate, at Morecambe the drum has been banned for midweek matches after a complaint from a local resident so what little atmosphere there was has now gone. When Morecambe won the Conference play offs at Wembley they took 12,000, now they struggle to attract 1,000 home fans to a league game, not helped by moving to a new stadium which seems to have been aimed at hospitality leaving the ordinary fan with worse facilities than Chritstie ParkQuote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Same in RL, traditional old style grounds like HKR, Cas , Headingley all good atmospheres, the new stadiums are crap, pretty sure most St Helens fans would swap the better bogs at Langtree Park for Knowsley Rd, not ventured to Salfords new ground yet but looks pretty bland . Appreciate there are financial restrictions on most clubs, rugby and football when building new grounds, but surely it must be feasible to design something better than all these identikit bowls
Portsmouth v Bristol Rovers today, attendance 17,800 including 2,800 from Bristol. Not bad for a League 2 match
Just heard that on Final Score...class for that league, Pompey fans are top notchQuote:
Originally Posted by Richard Head
How is it arsenal appear to have move home draws than any other team?
Are city finished for this season till the new bloke arrives?
Surely it will be Hull at home in the next round. Or will there be no Yorkshire teams left in the cup?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Thinking about it, Hull will probably be concentrating on the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swoop
They won't want yet another season with no Yorkshire clubs in the Premier League.
Ha ha ha Swoop, Hull is in Humberside.
There is only 1 club in Yorkshire, the sleeping Giants.
And city have yet to reach their dizzy heights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C.
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There is only 1 club in Yorkshire, the sleeping Giants.
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I think he means Sheffield Wednesday?
History is a nice thing. And "big" Yorkshire clubs from the past like Huddersfield and Leeds shouldn't forget their glory days. If we're talking about current success we should measure it on something important like number of cup final appearances in the last 5 years. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
3 points away now for Leicester. Incredible
The truth is now official regarding Hillsborough, Duckenfield must bear this shame for the rest of his life.
He's not alone. Line them all up behind himQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Bettison
Ingham
Popper
Middup
McKenzie
And many more
It's a festering national disgrace and shows what can be achieved when an orchestrated campaign is waged to dehumanise people
Congratulations to Leicester City. The sheer unlikeliness makes for a compelling story.
A great result for Leicester and football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussockface
Extraordinary and inspirational championship for Leicester City. ALL clubs and fans CAN now dream again! :)
If they're bought by a Thai businessman.Quote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/27387616
Otherwise, not so much of the dreaming....
My post last night on FB..Quote:
Originally Posted by William Clough
Seen some great sport over the last two days...
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Punching, stamping, gouging, kicking, hair pulling, elbowing, pushing, diving....
Ultimate fight club? WWF? No the old guard of the premiership..they should be ashamed...
Thankfully we have new champions..
Well done Leicester...
Enjoying the sun and the warmer weather here in the North West. I believe the weather is not as good in the Midlands but the Leicester City fans are more than pleased with their cloudier rain area!
Championship stuff Colin
Does anyone else feel sorry for Van Gaal?
I know he has a big pay off, but I think there are comparisons between the Manchester Clubs this year, the main difference being that one announced in advance that they were changing managers and the other let it leak out but never made it official.
I think his biggest error was not sorting out the centre of defence. He lost Vidic and Ferdinand and sold Evans and yet in his two years he didn't sign a specialist central defender.
I know the defensive record looks OK this year and people point to lack off goals, but I think that is largely down to having the best keeper around, and also having to play too many holding midfielders, which helped them in the possession and defensive stats, but cost them in the offensive stats.
Personally I don't really know what United fans expect. They have just won their first trophy since Ferguson.
They are up against Manchester City who have far more spending power, and Spurs & Arsenal & Leicester are quite frankly better sides than them at the moment, so what do they expect. 5th, possibly 4th, is their level at the moment.
They seem to be becoming 'just another big club' who chop and change managers every couple of years. Hopefully Mourinho makes a right hash of it and they slide even further.
Even though I'm a Liverpool fan, I'll certainly miss LVG's press conference's, haha...Apparently he was told they weren't playing the right style/attract enough football! What happened to a results based game eh?
The irony in any appointments process is that the applicants, by definition, cannot know what the job really entails (because they have not done it) but the appointing panel should be absolutely clear of the requirements so they can make the right choice.
So the failures of Moyes and VG - if failures they were - is a failure of judgment by the Board of Man U, and notably Mr walks-on-water Ferguson: and it follows that mass Man U Board resignations will follow shortly.
Resignations to be followed by under-performing players suggesting the have their salaries docked too?
Also as a Liverpool fan, I'll miss LVG in the same way that I wish Moyes was still there - playing their limited unambitous football and spraying money on mediocre players. Not sure what to expect from Mourinho there (obviously apart from the guaranteed tiresome preening narcissism) - hoping he's damaged goods and will fail, but could go either way.Quote:
Originally Posted by CalFerguson
Why is it that football fans always seem to wish misfortune on other clubs ? Is it fear or jealousy, I dont know. As a rugby league fan I enjoy good rugby by any team without needing to slag off rival clubs, players or fans.
Pots and Kettles :DQuote:
Originally Posted by RichardB
I care a lot less than I used to, but certain teams still rile me (United, Liverpool, Leeds, Sunderland, wolves, villa, Sheffield Utd to name just a handful that immediately come to mind.
I think for the 'hardcore' football fan it just seeps in through the years. For me it's the years spent growing up watching football at Highfield Road in the 90's when there was still often trouble at football, most of my dislike is aimed at the fans rather than the actual teams.when you support someone like Coventry there's more to it than just the football or we'd all just support then'big4' wouldn't we.
Personally I can barely bring myself to go to our sterile, retail park, modern stadium, even though it's only a mile and a half away. But the thought of going to a historical ground on an away trip still keeps me interested.
But I cannot understand your casual glory hunting fan who lives round here, supports United, and claims to hate Liverpool and Man City, just because they think they should.
I think that in Rugby (and I may be wrong) it seems that everyone is behind the national side first and foremost, and their clubs are secondary.
To be quite honest, when it comes to football, I would of course like to see England do well, but they don't represent football for me and I couldn't really care when they inevitably bow out of their next tournament in yet another anti-climax.