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In Two Minds About the English Premiership

Started by The Gaffer · 10 months ago

It’s been a few weeks now since I’ve returned from my trip to England to watch four Premiership matches and one Champions League match in the space of eight days. During that time, I’ve had a chance to reflect on what I saw. I was originally planning on writing ... Continue reading »

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  • Anonymous

    2 years ago

    interesting...good job
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  • Anonymous

    2 years ago

    Wow. Great one, Gaffer.
    i haven't been to a soccer game outside of the us in about 10 years, but I have seen plenty of mlb, nhl, nba games here. and the most disturbing thing for me is the lack of true fans-the audience that comes to pro sports in america is more like a theatre audience than a sporting event audience. they come, eat brugers, chat, do everything, BUT watch and care deeply about the game and their team.

    and, on some level, the commercialization of football/soccer is taking the game in that direction, too. but, again, the passion of football/soccer is still alive and i pray to god i never go to a big football/soccer game and i feel like i am in a theatre. i hope that never happens.

    i rarely watch argentinian football on fsc, but the sight of estudiantes fans at the end of their game v. boca last week-crying, biting their finger-nails- was priceless-this is why football is the greatest game in the world. every now and then, i still watch on youtube the moments after the liverpool-chelsea game from the champions league from 2 years ago. words can't describe the feeling, even if one isn't a liverpool fan.

    anyways.

    On a different note: the "special one" should be fined for his arrogant and baseless claim that AJ dove on sunday. the more i watch the replay, the more i am convinced that boulharouz blatantly pushed AJ and this was a 100% penalty call. clear-cut penalty!!!

    Anyways.
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  • Anonymous

    2 years ago

    Yawn. The constant stuff on here about the EPL not being as good anymore is tired. stop watching if it upsets you so.
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  • nhfox

    2 years ago

    Interesting read, Gaffer. Last month I went to matches at Spurs and Villa and my observations were pretty much the same as yours. At Spurs, the atmosphere seemed incredibly sterile, but the stadium was packed. There was more vibe at Villa, but still was on the calm side. You could tell that the Premiership matches had a lot of neutral supporters curious to watch a Premiership match (like me), so that probably had something to do with it.


    On the flip side, I went to 2 Championship derbies: Ipswich Town-Norwich City and Derby County-Leicester City and both matches were incredible. Both matches had a very heavy police presence at the train station and at the ground -- while walking to the Derby match, I didn't feel like I was in any danger of being attacked, but I still felt compelled to cover up my Leicester shirt until I got to the away end. The Ipswich match was probably the most heated sporting event I had ever been to -- incredible stuff.
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  • Anonymous

    2 years ago

    Couldn't have put it better myself!
    Now you know why I don't bother going to the match on my frequent visits back to Blighty.



    TT
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  • Anonymous

    2 years ago

    maybe you should've gone to a celtic or liverpool game.














































    you'd never walk alone there!





    sorry i had to.
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