UEFA cup hat trick on the cards

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:55 pm

all 3 premier league clubs in that comp going to get knocked out :laugh:

shame the 3 in the other cup are still in it, and a good chance the 4th will be. Hopefully they'll all get drawn together in the next round, so at least 2 of them get knocked out, and please may one of them be ManUshited

aido87 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:09 pm

i bet you wouldn't use that potty mouth in front of my avatar :evil:

he'd slap you sensible :shock:

COYB

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:11 pm

well i,am the same i,ve got to punching the air and saying get in you fooker when the foreign team score,i just want the premiershite team to get beat,it,s you lot it,s making cynical about the money grabbing basteds(i would have said barstewards but considering who started the thread i thought best not :laugh:

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MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:20 am

I wouldn't mind Bolton & Spurs doing ok like!!!! :uhoh:

aido87 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:26 pm

and the mighty blues are damned bounders because.....????

big dunc wants a word, by the way refred

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:34 pm

aido87 wrote:

and the mighty blues are damned bounders because.....????

big dunc wants a word, by the way refred

Because 'Big Dunc' played for them could be one reason

How an A1 carthorse/thug/carthorse made a career out of playing football is beyond me

aido87 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:40 pm

bitter small club mentality :laugh:

i'm with ronaldo on you fookers :roll:

COYB

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:43 pm

We'll never play in the UEFA Cup with our small time attitude.

Grimsby will next year though when they win the JPT.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:44 pm

aido87 wrote:

bitter small club mentality :laugh:

i'm with ronaldo on you fookers :roll:

COYB

Who the fuck likes Everton, apart from Everton fans, and even they probably don't like Everton

PS

Tim Cahill a bounder nobber bounder

aido87 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:51 pm

i refer the honorable gentleman to my previous answer :sweeeet:

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:15 pm

But that 3 million they let us other 72 clubs keep was very generous John.

Bastads ((c)adg)

parmopooly · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:20 pm

I've just finished a six hour stint behind the bar, I might start a shift on the other side rolf

aido87 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:05 pm

MadJohn wrote:

aido87 wrote:

bitter small club mentality :laugh:

i'm with ronaldo on you fookers :roll:

COYB

I assume you are taking the piss, but just in case you are not...

It's got jack shite to do with supporting a small club. I knew what level Pools were at when I chose to support them but that didn't stop me admiring the great sides like Forest in the late 70s, Liverpool in the 70s/80s, Everton (oh yes) in the mid-80s. I used to love watching MOTD and Sportsnight, or listening to the old European nights on the radio. They represented the pinnacle of what an English club could achieve, and all of this came from a rock-solid infrastructure built on fair competition and the reward of excellence. Every club could dream of working their way up and competing or even winning things. Wimbledon, Oxford, Swansea all gave glimpses of what was possible.

It was a fantastic league, the best sporting competition on the planet for me... but a small number of clubs then decided to destroy it for reasons of naked greed.

TV companies used to bid for the rights to show Football League games. That money was then evenly distributed throughout the League (Hartlepool got as much cash from the first MOTD deal as Liverpool). Then in the mid-80s, the godawful "big five" (Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Everton, Spurs) used the threat of a breakaway league to keep more of the cash from the ITV deal, with only a percentage being freely distributed as before. They also made moves to end the sharing of gate receipts, and a reduction (later abandonment) of the 4% gate levy that was distributed throughout the entire league.

But that was only the start. They wanted more, and they were determined to get it. The remaining 17 top-flight clubs were a little too strong in their own right to try to fight against, so the safest way was to get together with those 17 clubs to royally shaft every other club in the land. So 22 clubs resigned en masse from the FL to form the Premier League, and ended the concept of a competitive league forever. They agreed an annual three million pound "compensation" deal to split between the remaining 72 clubs, and immediately negotiated themselves a three HUNDRED million pound TV deal with Sky, which they kept for themselves.

aido if you can't see anything remotely wrong in any of that, then you follow a different sport to me.

i was taking the piss stpid

everton were my first club, as my dad, god rest him, was from southport. i didn't grow up in the town, and only started going to pools in about '94. a mate took me, as i had just split up from my missus, and he thought it would cheer me up stpid

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i make no apologies for following everton, they are in my blood, and i don't give a fook if they are a premiershit club. in their defence, they are not as objectionable as many clubs up there ; at least i can't be accused of glory hunting (until recently)

however, pools are my first club, i am a season ticket holder and go to every game that i possibly can away from home (esp with a young family at home).

Is that ok like ?

and i think i do follow the same sport as you.

Spender · **Posted:** Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:02 am

parmopooly wrote:

I've just finished a six hour stint behind the bar, I might start a shift on the other side rolf

What a cracking idea, I might slide down the Kangaroo Bar in the park for a few looseners..... :shock:

Pillager · **Posted:** Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:12 am

The money that has been pumped into the Premier League has helped take all the interest out of the European Competitions. Because the "English" clubs are so rich and so increasingly dominant there is now very little in the way of competitive fixtures in Europe. Because UEFA are greedy and have it all organised on a league basis, it means that the first time an English club will get a game where the result either matters or is in doubt is the Quarter or Semi-Finals of either cup. What is the point watching these games? I would like to see the ratings to see if anybody still cares about the "Champions" League. Do you care? I don't.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:38 pm

Well I'm gutted....well not gutted....but not over the moon like that they are out!!!! confised

I'll be over the moon when the 'Big 4' get knocked out of the European Super League though!!!! :sweeeet:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37184

For all the money that's been hosed at the premiership, would you rather watch a 70's Match of the Day or the present poncified offering?

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:57 pm

Nobodys Hero wrote:

Give me Match of the Day from the 70's anytime.

Tony Currie, Frank Worthington, Terry Mcdermott, Billy Bremner, Chip Fireball, Stan Bowles etc etc

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