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I don't recall many English clubs queueing up to sign some unknown bloke called Wanchope. He turned out all right.

I don't recall many English clubs queueing up to sign some unknown bloke called Wanchope. He turned out all right.

I don't recall many English clubs queueing up to sign some unknown bloke called Wanchope. He turned out all right.

It worked out ok for Leicester.

But then again of course, even if we've spent just £4.50 and a bobble hat on incoming players, we'll still have lazy journalists discussing 'Big Spending Derby' and fans of certain other blinkered teams who will be convinced of the absolute truth that we've "thrown money at it", "Spending tax payers money after getting off so lightly with a bit of a points deduction" and other miscellaneous garbage.

Must have been the fags that stunted his growth.

Must have been the fags that stunted his growth.

Must have been the fags that stunted his growth.

And a points deduction.

In other news, I see that the might of Surrey were dismissed for 213, with 8 of the batsmen contributing a grand total of 16.

Buckie Thistle (away) 940 mile round trip. You could take it in on a cycling holiday.

if he's related to Gladstone Small that would be two players in our squad with no neck

1. Kick-offs - why was that changed?
2. Offside rule - can anyone explain that nowadays?
3. Drop-balls - what happened??
4. Goal- kicks …wtf?!
5. 4th official - what do they do?
6. VAR - farce. 
 
Football - created by the poor; stolen by the rich. 
 
 

The old promotion was good enough for 100 years, the play offs are an interference to a fair promotion purely for extending the interest of more clubs for a longer period of time and to feed the media frenzy.
We have 46 games to decide who should go up, it's totally illogical for a team who have out performed another team by many points over those 46 games, to be robbed of a deserved reward by one moment of bad luck, bad play or bad refereeing.
Just because we know the rules at the start of the season, it doesn't mean that those rules are just and fair.

Buckie Thistle (away) 940 mile round trip. You could take it in on a cycling holiday.

Absolutely this.

Hope you do it, lmo whoever finishes 3rd should go up. Im not a fan of platoffs.

Well, there's a club in the 'Combined Counties League Division One' (Step 6) called London Colney, with an average home attendance of 20. Ripe for investment I'd say.
Same league, Amersham town, runaway winners with 111 points from 42 matches only averaged 67.

Don’t be doing that. It has been a tough year for me. 
Football is merely a hobby. 22 grown men kicking a bag of wind about. Sometimes that gets put into perspective. 

I called in at a Tesco Express on the way to their ground a few years ago to get a couple of beers. There was someone at the self checkout with the biggest pile of shopping and his card wouldn’t work. Somehow he thought they should let him take his shopping home and he’d come back and settle up later. When they wouldn’t let him do it he proper kicked off at the store assistants. The security had to remove him. I just thought lovely place around here.

The best player they had was on loan, anyone remotely reasonable will leave for the delights of Millwall and they'll be left with 40 yr old Juke as they can't get anyone to play in a stadium that looks like it's been savaged by the Luftwaffe and left unrepaired for 80 years, in front of 12,000 candidates for the missing link.
Lovely.

Every time there are proposal to limit spending, redistribute wealth, introduce external governance etc, the PL and FA publicity machines go into overdrive. 
Message is this is the best league in the world and we spend so much to keep it that way so hands off!
Is it the best any more?
Our so called best teams are failing in the European competitions to the extent that Germany now has the extra spot in the Champions League. Financial management of teams ranges from incompetent to rule bending that borders on illegal.
VAR whilst of good intent is a time wasting joke the way we use it.
The football is full of diving, fake injuries and boring tactics. Our teams are stuffed full of foreign players of dubious quality and starving home grown players the opportunity to develop and enhance the national teams.
I'm also convinced that skill levels are poorer than they have been for years. Misplaced passes, bad headers, ridiculous shots way off target.

I've not been more delighted since I finally went for a s*** after a week of constipation.  My delight is beyond comprehension.  Hopefully the owners realise they've been left in a mess spending millions on a club with no redeeming features and pull the plug. They can rot in their asbestos filled sewer in League 1 forever with any luck.  w******.

Well done Bolton… now get it done in the second leg!

Fair play. I doubt anyone else has a lump of tarmac in their trophy cabinet to represent their greatest achievement.