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To be honest I don't like the Premier League and everything it stands for. I want us to do well... boy do I want us to do well, but top half of the Championship would do me just fine.
I don't either but it would be nice to sample once before i shuffle off. Won't be distraught if it doesn't happen but the whole point of football is to get as high as you can. I've seen us hold our own in the second tier and at one stage looked like we may go up to the top table, but it didn't happen, so i think that's realistically as good as will ever get for me.
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Don't Bournemouth have some Russian oligarch or other bankrolling them? Lots and lots of money into the club so, well as they've done, it hasn't exactly come out of nowhere.
They have, although, the players Howe's spent fortunes on have been mostly abysmal. They still have the same defence they had in League 1 and their top scorer is a Bosman from Blackburn who'd scored 3 goals in 2 seasons! Anyway, probably not, but who knows. And not wanting to reach the top division is easy to say from 3 leagues below it!
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A relatively northern bias to that table overall compared with todays make up which includes , Palace, Southampton, West Ham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Bournemouth, Watford.....an indication of the wider social landscape of where the money is nowadays.
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In Hull they can't even pronounce British names properly
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In Hull they can't even pronounce British names properly
They can't even pronounce numbers properly. Centre half is number farve and forward is number nern
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In Hull, a surfer is something you sit on.
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Best part of 700,000 people live in the Swansea Bay area (which admittedly extends to the end of Pembrokeshire!). The more immediate region is around 400k, I believe, so we can't get near to competing with their catchment and we'll never be able to attract the same sorts of crowds, especially as football is now becoming more popular there instead of the traditional rugby. Same goes for Hull. And Bournemouth, for that matter - Population of Bournemouth and its immediate neighbours combined is much higher than that of NE Lincs.
Is that relevant? We are not a village in the middle of nowhere are we? We could say that NE Lincs has a largish population all things considered and could sustain say 15,000 gates if we ever got to the top league. In any event it would need huge investment so I don't think the size of the town or gates would be that important given the money clubs get for being in the Premier league. Anyway, its just a bit of fun as I think I can safely say that particular scenario is unlikely.
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In Hull, a surfer is something you sit on.
Only if he's that way inclined.
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Anyone notice Man Utd are missing from the Division 1 table for 1934-35? #tinpot
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Only if he's that way inclined.
Hermersexual you mean ?
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