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Indeed. But such a narrow comparison is, well, just narrow! Compare the price of going to the footie in 1976 against the price of a 1 hour phone call to Australia then and now and the phone call has become very much more affordable! But what has really changed.... well, the call to Aus has become much cheaper!

Deppo, sweetheart, go read the post.

Go back and read the whole post...

Interesting! The probability (football ability aside) is 1 in 24! (where ! is the symbol for 'factorial'). The actual probability is therefore 1 in 6.204484017332394e+23. To put that in perspective, the generally accepted estimate for number of grains of sand in the world is 7.5e+17 (75 with 17 zeros). So, while it is possible to have all teams finish alphabetically, it is soooooooo outside the realms of mathematical possibility as to be impossible. So given that little maths tutorial it will now probably happen next season!

On the more general point of expense, if you accept that the average 'low' wage is about £200 per week after tax then paying £12 per week (game every other week) is really only about 5% of the weekly wage. The train from Brighton to Southampton costs only £9.95 on a Saturday. If the footie is your main 'entertainment' for the week then is it really too much to commit 5%? Many more people spend more than £12 in the pub over the week etc. Granted, if you are just started out in work then you won't be on £200 per week but these figures are generally correct. What makes the day more expensive are all the add-ons such as programme, food, beer etc. None of which is a prerequisite to watching the actual game. What has certainly made the 'luxury' of going to football seem so much more expensive in recent years is that everything else has gone through the roof. Especially if you have a family to support. With wages stagnant then I totally accept the premise that football now seems more expensive but I would wager that the actual ticket price is still in line with what it was 30 years ago, with respect to the take home wage.

I still do. I was p!ssed off my face in the early hours of Saturday and decided to go to the Carlisle game last season. Jumped out of bed, grabbed my Red Stripe shirt and a clean pair of Y-fronts and got myself down to Brighton station for the 04:05 train to London. Return ticket to Carlisle cost me £195. Hotel cost £80. I could only afford it because I had grafted non stop the previous 14 days. But spontaneity is still alive in my heart.

I wonder if the players compare the size of their peckers during bath time? Or maybe they pull it between their legs and try and look like a girlie does! And which butt-hole put the fecking soap dispenser so high up the wall? You've just played 90 minutes and want a relaxing bath but have to get out the tub to get the soap...duhh

LOL!! Glaswegian (probably) on benefits and never having left Glasgow, waving an Irish Tricolor at Hampden Park after a South Korean scores a goal. LOL! What a ***t.

**** me. you couldn't make it up. You'd have thought if a ficking zoo had lost a tiger they would have told the friggin fuzz. So given that no one reported a missing tiger from one of the hundreds of local tiger zoos, chances are that it weren't a faking tiger given that tigers are, you know, not fecking native to Britain. facking t0ss pots fuzz wasting all that cash. d!ck heads.

funnily enough I'm watching Rick Stein cooking pig chops as we speak... look lovely.

I just hope my cute 'ickle sea lion doesn't get introduced to one of these...

agreed.

ahhh! How cute is this little sea lion pub!

what channel r they on?

it was when Wee Mc Strachan was there wasn't it?

Girls shouldn't even be at football, let alone wear colours.

...shockingly sh!te. Watching the Scottish cup final... yawn... oh! Own goal! Damn, and it is the Irish Plastics in the lead. Just to make this thread vaguely Saints-esque, can anyone remember what year it was that we played the Irish Plastics in a pre-season at SMS?

For me, it has to be this young dandy! Faking gorgeous...

Is that her?

I prefer Fosters to Carling. Carling just tastes 'sticky' like one is drinking sunflower oil.

I know, I know. I'm more of a real ale fan too. Give me a nice selection of bottled ales any day of the week and twice on Sundays. But they cost about half as much again then fizzy beer.

I used to drink Carlsberg by the gallon. If I remember correctly, until about 2004 it used to be about 3.4% abv. Then it went up to 3.7%. It used to be a fantastic session lager. Could drink it all day - and often did. However, after some really, really bad pints inside SMS I have been fervently anti-Carlsberg since about 2007 and wouldn't touch the stuff with a barge pole. But yesterday I was in Sainsburys and a tad short of cash and they had a deal on: 8 pint tins of Carlsberg for £8. Bargain I thought, that will do nicely while I watch the Bournemouth game. And actually, it was nice. Can't believe what I've been missing. Nicer taste than Fosters/Carling and slightly less alcohol witch is good during the week. The problem is, I can't think of one pub which sells the stuff now. It is all Fosters/Carling at 4%. Even Stella is trying to rebrand as a 4% lager. Anyhoo, just thought I'd mention it. Carlsberg ain't always as bad as the crap they serve us at football.

and I bet she is a right old munter as well. While she is frapping off under the desk, it wouldn't be so bad if her colleagues could get some excitement out of watching a babe grind her wet vag into orgasm. More than likely she is a lard bucket with a saggy horse's vag which stinks worse than a fratton sewer.

faking sh!t video. get back to yer studies