Football....What team do you support ??
Posted by: mista h on 23 January 2012
Would love to hear from as many people as pos on this one,including supporters of Non League sides. Lets have any interesting stories from over the years,the ups and downs,the good bad and the ugly.
I will start the ball rolling and get ready for any abuse that may come my way !!!!
I watched my 1st game at Fulham back in 1954 when the old man took me. He is 86 now but still has his season ticket,and we have both clocked up the Air Miles watching the girls play in europe and little old Fulham getting to the Europa league final in Hamburg.
Something that i still remember from the 70s is a guy that always stood in front of us at home games,smoked Senior Service plain. Always arrived smoking and smoked non stop for 2hrs,never used a lighter,he would just light one cigarette off the other....Yuk
Favorite away grounds.....Spurs and Chelsea,and best of all Villa Park.
Least favorite away grounds.....Newcastle and Old Trafford.
Only problem in our household is my son in law,also a season ticket holder......but at the mob down the road CHELSEA.
Posted on: 03 May 2012 by Mike Hughes
You rarely get what you deserve in football. Fantastic game of (truly) two halves. Matched Luon for 20 minutes and then got caught twice on the break and looked in danger of collapse. Needed two obvious changes but didn't make them. Second half the same team showed what if could do. Might be 0-2 but it's a fine balance. Do they attack us or park the bus? Of we get the first goal the Racecourse will be rocking. If we don't the. It's still been one the top four seasons we've had in my lifetime.
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by mista h
Son in law came round last nite. he has booked for the champions league final £499 + cost of match ticket for a DAY TRIP. i would want 2 weeks on the Costas for that money.
Thomas Cook Sport = Total rip off
Mista H
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by BigH47
Air tickets went up from £79 E/W to £200 after the match, as my sister found out. She had got a "deal" for £1500 for 2.
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by KI
Posted on: 04 May 2012 by mista h
Further to my post earlier today i have just done a Google search Re Costa del sol holidays.
I can book 14 nites at a 4star hotel with half board for £480.
i think they should change their name from Thomas Cooks to Thomas Crooks
Mista h
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by JamieWednesday
Never across the line, Carroll was a handful though, we just seemed destined to let them back in it
Well done boys
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by Quad 33
Watch out boys we are coming to get you. Sheffield Wednesday promoted today 38,000+ crowd. Prem league here we come!!! Up the Owls.
Posted on: 05 May 2012 by BigH47
Crawley Town up to League 1.
Posted on: 06 May 2012 by Gale 401
Originally Posted by BigH47:
Crawley Town up to League 1.
It was looking a bit rocky a few weeks back but they came through.
Well done Crawley.
Stu.
Posted on: 07 May 2012 by Mike Hughes
Here we go then. 0-2 down. 90 minutes, at least, to play in front of a capacity crowd. Can we prevent Luon making it back into the football league?
Posted on: 07 May 2012 by sheffieldgraham
Originally Posted by Quad 33:
Watch out boys we are coming to get you. Sheffield Wednesday promoted today 38,000+ crowd. Prem league here we come!!! Up the Owls.
Some time ago my son ( Wednesday supporter) made a provisional hotel booking for the play offs.
Last Thursday his friend ( a Blades supporter) asked him if he still had the reservation.
Made me LOL.
He also told me that Owls /Wycombe tickets had been put on e-bay for £1000. Silly buggers quoted the seating numbers. Wednesday F.C. pulled the tickets.
Posted on: 07 May 2012 by Mike Hughes
For reasons that I probably don't need to detail I cannot stand Crawley. A fine example of a club gaining success whilst spending beyond their means. Very glad for them that the Evans era is over. At least the cheating can stop now. Kind of says it all that the players threw a party once he'd gone. I do feel sorry for the fans. When it comes crashing down, and it always does, it's the fans who will suffer for being a vanity project.
Sheffield Wednesday are an interesting one. Glad to see them have a good season but do much has been wrong there for so long board wise and financially that they're also a long way off sustainability. Danny is always capable of building a decent team but always struggles to take it to the next level.
No-one else here talks Wrexham. After what just happened, nor am I
Posted on: 07 May 2012 by BigH47
Beyond our means? How come we made a profit for the last 2 years?
Posted on: 07 May 2012 by Mike Hughes
Ignorance is bliss BigH.
Take a look at Crawleys accounts. The salaries paid are in excess of the revenue received from attendances. How is that sustaibable. The profit derives from sponsorship from some mysterious foreign investors and I think you'll find they haven't "invested" at all. Much like has been revealed recently at Fleetwood it's more likely they have "loaned" the club money; will charge it interest and eventually call in their loan. The scenario is illegal from next year but right now it's a ticking time bomb for you.
For Crawley, read Rushden and Diamonds, Fleetwood etc. You can and have bought success but you will pay the probe and kind the above, and I include Chester and Wrexhan, Darlo and Ketterjng in this, you win't see it coming but in the end you'll realise it was so obvious you'll be embarrassed you missed it.
As Fleetwood have just discovered all is not rosy and just as they've load three stokers in around two days do you lost Tubbs and DVD other guy as soon as there was any hung they could do it in the league.
Also has to be said that the fact Crawley employed Evans speaks volumes as to the morals of the regime!
Good luck. Keep a copy of this post and come back to it sometime in the next five years. It will seem horribly prescient.
Posted on: 07 May 2012 by Mike Hughes
Should be clear with my last post that no malice intended to Crawley Town fans as it's ultimately they who will suffer when their club goes to the wall.
Posted on: 07 May 2012 by Mike Hughes
Oh and apologies for the spelling. Early morning; tiredness; an iPhone and generally poorly eyes are sometimes not the best mix.
Posted on: 08 May 2012 by mista h
Had a very bad day yesterday,first the son in law comes round in his Chelsea top to show me his pics from Barcelona with me having to grit my teeth.
But far worse.....I have been retired almost 5 years now but one of my old suppliers has been superbly kind. Every year when FFC play at Villa he sends me 2 tickets for his box+food+car park permit. Got an e mail from him to say that because Villa have been playing crap he is giving up his firms box and getting a box at Leicester to watch Rugby !!!
Mista H
Posted on: 16 May 2012 by JamieWednesday
Oh my God. They killed Kenny!
Posted on: 17 May 2012 by fatcat
Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:
Oh my God. They killed Kenny!
Outrageous. He was doing a great job.
Posted on: 18 May 2012 by mista h
On instructions from the other half i have yet again had to be Mista nice guy and phone the son in law and wish him well on his trip to Munich tomorrow.
I know who i will be rooting for tomorrow night and it wont be the mob in Blue.
Mista H
Posted on: 18 May 2012 by JamieWednesday
Posted on: 18 May 2012 by Steve C
Originally Posted by fatcat:
Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:
Oh my God. They killed Kenny!
Outrageous. He was doing a great job.
No he wasn't 8th in league not good enough.
Been a LFC supporter since 1976.
Big fan of Kenny when he was a player but to many bad losses this season
Oh and just for the record Munich
Posted on: 18 May 2012 by fatcat
Originally Posted by Steve C:
Originally Posted by fatcat:
Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:
Oh my God. They killed Kenny!
Outrageous. He was doing a great job.
No he wasn't 8th in league not good enough.
Been a LFC supporter since 1976.
As an Everton supporter I think he did a fantastic job, although not quite as good as Graeme Sourness. However, very pleased to hear AVB is in the running.
But, I do agree with you concerning Bayern Munich
Posted on: 18 May 2012 by Steve C
Originally Posted by fatcat:
Originally Posted by Steve C:
Originally Posted by fatcat:
Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:
Oh my God. They killed Kenny!
Outrageous. He was doing a great job.
No he wasn't 8th in league not good enough.
Been a LFC supporter since 1976.
As an Everton supporter I think he did a fantastic job, although not quite as good as Graeme Sourness. However, very pleased to hear AVB is in the running.
But, I do agree with you concerning Bayern Munich
It was finishing below Everton that got him the sack
Posted on: 19 May 2012 by Lontano
