Children of teh Atom

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: is supporting a big club skanky??

ike, the players all get paid more in a week than it costs to buy a house in the city they play in

newcastle are a classic example, think of our best players, beardley, gascgoigne, shearer, waddle etc we produced all the best players for that generation, and not one of them came to our rescue when we were shit, they only turned up when sir john was raking it in

same goes for any club, its nowt to do with local pride, barcelona and celtic make loads of money from being the local club, but all their bst players come from abroad, that money goes to rupert murdoch and sports companies, not back into the community

is supporting a big club any better then buying a maccy ds?

Isambard

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:35 am Post subject:

yeah, i don't mind that in principle, but i do think that supporting a premier league club is the same as supporting burger king or summat

Isambard · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah but its a bit beany-face-cob innit to slag people off cos they go to McDonalds or shop at Primark? I suppose if you grew up supporting a big name team from being a nipper then it is OK. But just to start to support a big name team is a bit tossy.

Ralph Macchio · trainee ninja Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 252

Who chooses which team they follow? Cobs probably. Your team is chosen for you/foisted upon you by the age of ten.

Ralph Macchio · trainee ninja Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 252

Going mad about a team is okay when you're up to about 18, but after that you should be spending your money on drink, clothes, then mortgage,kids etc.

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject:

Ralph Macchio · trainee ninja Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 252

But you're not actually 'supporting' them unless you go week in week out. Supporters pay to watch their teams, followers just, er, 'follow' them!

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

true, but in the case of newcastle, i think this season has been the first time in about 18 years where the season tickets aren't being renewed (you used to have to go on a waiting list for 3 years) and althogh we've had a couple of bad seasons, the real problem is that none of our 'star players' have any affiliation to the club. when people know that their money is just paying for michael owen to live in a mansion in chester they get apathetic

Ralph Macchio · trainee ninja Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 252

When I was a regular at OT, ages ago - late 80s - Newcastle's average gate was about 12,000. They're the biggest bunch of fairweather fans this side of Chelsea.

Ninjadmin · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject:

yeah i do remember them days, we were fucking shite tho

that's the same as any club tho, bottom of old division 2 that's what the attendances are like, theres only about 3 clubs who ever manage to fill their stadium week in week out

what i was saying is that the big clubs are so big now you aren't supporting em anyway. it didn't matter that newcastle or leeds fans still fill the stadium up every week, it's the fact they didn't get into the champ which fucked em

and the kids i taught in korea were all man utd or arsenal fans, none of them supported Ulsan or whatever

districtline · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject:

bloody kids

it's the same in every country, kids support the major teams. only us cool folks support the cool clubs

J · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

yeah wll i only support bampton primary school yr 6 team, league 2 is for fascist macca d eating, bp oil swilling, daily mail readin pigs

Ralph Macchio · trainee ninja Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 252