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    Quote Originally Posted by Macy
    At Everton? One of the top teams - not really a true bench mark on the whole league.
    at the time they were one of the best teams but also for the last 15 years when they were struggling with relegation battles they were still getting average crowds of 35 k .

    i also lived in norwich , not one of the big teams and they allways filled there ground every game .

    any way small teams allways have smaller crowds even today look at fulham
    you cant use the excuse everton were a huge club that is why they had big crowds

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    But 35k wouldn't have been capacity back in the late 80's, and would've been decent crowds. Now 35k isn't that great.

    Small teams have always had smaller crowds, true, but there has been a fall off in recent seasons and clubs in false positions will always do less well. By false positions, I mean positions and teams not justified by the money the club actually brings in, Fulham and Blackburn would be prime examples...
    If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schumi
    and you needed "a pair of overalls to protect your clothes"?
    The passage way from the main campus past the athletics track in Belfield can be a bit messy if it has been raining or at least it used to be.

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    Nothing to do with the presentation of the PL: the Irish papers have been full of the English leagues since as long as I remember and well before Sky took an interest. In a national school in Ireland in the 1960s we nearly all chose an English team to follow - there was always that interest no doubt influenced by the mass emigration from Ireland to England, where Irish people moved to the big cities in England and followed clubs there and also because it was bigger and better than our own game. I used to go to Rovers a lot then - big crowds at Milltown and Dalymount for Cup Finals but I still regarded the English league as the epitome of soccer. As it was - if you were a good Irish player you went to the English leagues to play and still do.

    I'm not even sure how my soccer in interest grew since my parents were from Roscommon and Waterford respectively and I played GAA and hurling at national school and rugby at secondary school but I always loved soccer. I think it was the international aspect of the game that appealed to me and the Irish playing in England and the Irish team representing me on the international stage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anto1208
    dumbest thing ive ever seen

    it absolutly nothing got to do with it , people like footy they like to watch footy from all around the globe not just england ,if your so worried get off this site for an english game and go to a gaa site or one about irish culture and you can talk about the culture of Kiddnapping , rape, torture , slavery ,incest ,peadophilia and desease that used to exsist in ireland .
    Jeez Louise.... have you got a large bunch of chips on your shoulder or what? Bogball is a crap game with 15 bouncers a team and a ball to confuse the issue. The GAA is an insular organisation which has done nothing to promote it's real asset of a game hurling. Who the f***k said Soccer was an English game... they only gave it rules. ..... satisfied?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
    Jeez Louise.... have you got a large bunch of chips on your shoulder or what? Bogball is a crap game with 15 bouncers a team and a ball to confuse the issue. The GAA is an insular organisation which has done nothing to promote it's real asset of a game hurling. Who the f***k said Soccer was an English game... they only gave it rules. ..... satisfied?
    How do you do it? Honestly, will you tell me how you manage to come up with this priceless stuff and make each post more idiotic and full of holes than the one before that? Now I know you're taking the mick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
    Who the f***k said Soccer was an English game... they only gave it rules. ..... satisfied?
    mmmmmmmmmm maybe the fact it was invented and first played in england makes it an english game , same way as when newyork play gaa they are playing an irish game not an american one

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    Quote Originally Posted by anto1208
    mmmmmmmmmm maybe the fact it was invented and first played in england makes it an english game , same way as when newyork play gaa they are playing an irish game not an american one
    A form of football was first played in CHINA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stojkovic
    A form of football was first played in CHINA.
    Still doesn't make them the inventors of the game that we know today does it? Baseball originally comes from the UK, but no one plays it anymore, except for girls.

    And it was the Scots who invented the passing game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Blue
    Still doesn't make them the inventors of the game that we know today does it? Baseball originally comes from the UK, but no one plays it anymore, except for girls.

    And it was the Scots who invented the passing game.
    Ok its a World Game.
    EVERYBODYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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    Quote Originally Posted by Donal81
    You've just compounded the ridiculousness of your last post. This is actually one of the worst attempts at anthropology I've ever seen in my life.

    We secretly want to be British, that's right, you've cracked it. You really should take your theories on the road, lofty ideas like that deserve recognition.
    We watch English TV , read English newspapers and support English football teams , we even speak English... What do you call that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by stojkovic
    A form of football was first played in CHINA.
    Well said !

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    Quote Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
    We watch English TV , read English newspapers and support English football teams , we even speak English... What do you call that?
    With statements like this I know exactly where you got your user name from, Do you fail your exams consistantly aswell as brutal posts ????

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colm55
    With statements like this I know exactly where you got your user name from, Do you fail your exams consistantly aswell as brutal posts ????
    Graduated with honours sarcastic dick ! By the way for all your sarcastic comments the lot of ye, I haven't seen even a scintilla of a rebuttal argument ....
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