adrian lord

****ing Sky taters are so pro Leeds

It's not Leed's day is it?

Excellent stuff, far fewer cliches and sounds like we have a super squad spirit.

Brilliant.

So true

that is a 2 year old article referring to even older stats. This below is more upto date, authoritative, and shows the Prem decline before slight rise last year. Also comments on 3.5% decline in rest of the English leagues: http://johndix.co.uk/app/download/4893325002/Is+the+Premier+League+Recession+Proof.pdf and as someone said above, this season Prem attendances have been awful outside of Manchester and Arse. Acres of empty seats.

Prem showed some resilience last year after 3 years of decline, but the other leagues are down 3.5% I also think the figures are massaged upwards by clubs by including all seasons regardless of the actual figure in the ground etc...

Football attendances are suffering across the board, partly due to the £ crisis but also the game here is in a popularity recession. It has been very fashionable for 20 years, driven by the whole Prem-Sky thing, after it had reached a nadir of attendance figures and fashionability in the late 1980s. Now it is on the downturn of the cycle again, I can't see boom times for a decade or more. People are fed up with overpaid but poor quality players and so-so teams and faceless, soulless, corporate clubs, screwing them for every penny. The Prem has collapsed in quality this last 2 years and is failing in Europe, while the national team - England - is an utter joke. A few more Rangers disasters are long overdue....

were they docked points the last time? They had better get a swingeing points deduction this time around.

Expensive but, sadly, not turned out to be world class.

yes i can see this happening

He is not good enough for our 1st team, to be honest.

the cast of Holby City

Yea and it is a fair trek to Elland Rd from the station, and barren with no pubs.

"Brit" has never been used a term of abuse, "Paki" is. "Brit" has positive connotations. "Paki" is exclusively negative and used in a derogatory manner. We have the Brit awards. Can you imagine the "Paki Awards" for Asian music? No, didn't think so. Interestingly, some younger Asians now use "Paki" in the same way blacks have reclaimed the term ****** (nigga). So maybe the "Paki Awards" are not so far away...

Saints fans dishing out racist abuse would be simply moronic and utterly absurd, given the great service black players have given the club over the decades and still do. I have never heard any racism at St Mary's and can't remember any incidents at the Dell either for that matter. We have always been a bit more intelligent and amusing than that.

Back on track.

was Sharp injured, tired, unfit, surplus to tactical requirements, or turned crap?

Fowler's voice/accent is unlistenable.

Is that a confession to being "a negative poster"? :-)

I did predict it, and said we'd go up as champs. May need to revise that downwards.

The worst ever was the Northam singing "Chelsea Chelsea" at the Man U fans in the Cup a few years back when Mourhino was winning everything. I nearly died of embarrassment.

Adkins has done well in his first year, but now faces a real challenge to show us the depth of his skills as a manager. I worry about the distinctly vapid, tedious managmentspeak he trots out week after week in public. Does he do the same with the players prematch, half-time and post match? Not exactly inspirational or Churchillian after the 58th time of listening...and perhaps is indicative of a wider lack of imagination and ideas. I hope I am wrong.

Where did I say it has improved?

The whole England thing in that era was a corrupt nepotistic jobs for the boys club. If you weren't part of the in crowd clique forget it. Now,, international football is dying the world over, a succession of dreadful world cups and Euro tournaments, combined with the glamour teams like Brazil etc losing their mojo. Its all about Champions Legue and Barca etc now....