I do not wish to sound too pedantic (....well I do really..:), but how can you call a competition a Champions League, when, for example, England has FOUR teams that are allowed to enter to enter this competition....hock:
Well, good for some:cry
till, a game is a game, and you take offside goals against you with equanimity - don't you? I just hope Mrs O doesn't meet up with too many Yorkists on her trip back to Ilkley. Amazing crowd for Luton, who sold over three times as many tickets for this match as the opposition. Reminiscent of the Trophy final in their relegation year (which one, I hear you ask), when they held the record for most tickets sold by any club for a Wembley match.
Which begs the question, where are they every other week? Not at Kenilworth Road, that's for sure.
My impression is that there is a large core of loyal local fans of whom a high percentage go to home games. But, surprisingly perhaps, there are also large numbers around the country, who go to the away games they can. I suspect there will be a huge sigh of relief around the Coloured Shape league that Luton have stayed down, because they usually mean a large gate. I guess this may be because anyone in their right mind wants to leave Luton so they spread round the country more than most. But when they get together at eg Barrow, the dominant accent is Luton!
Well, good for some:cry
Apparently not
There is always an element of this. But if you look at the gates at Luton matches around the league, you will see that they are usually the highest home gate of the season. Sure, there is a hard core of travelling fans, but there is always significant local interest as well. Mrs O cannot get to home games, or anything south of Mansfield, but will try to get to the more Northern games, and always finds herself surrounded by fans in a similar situation. Both children O, in different parts of the country, report the same. And this has held up through relegations and a long stay in the Conference.Strange but true.
Yes, but he's foreign and we all know it is only dirty cheating foreigners who do it, The British players are all perfectly clean.:roll:
I wasn't aware that Tom Daley was even at Chelsea.
To single out Didier Drogba for simulation offences really is tiresome. It's rife across the game from the local pub league to Premier League.
One of the worst examples I saw from last season was Leon Osman. Mis-kicking the ball, scuffing the ground and going down without any contact from the defender tracking him. Successfully cons the referee and wins a penalty. Blatant cheating of the worst order. And who did the pundits on MoTD blame? The referee. No opprobrium heaped on a fellow professional. Of course not, all footballers know it goes on and most are happy to try and get away with it.:roll:
The sooner retrospective video evidence of simulation is used in top flight games to punish the perpetrators the sooner it can be eradicated.
There are some good proponents of cheating out there, but of course they never play for the club an individual supports. Any advantage gained by a player from your club cheating is justified in the eyes of that club's fans.
