Don't do it kiddies, it will only get the thread closed...Anybody who follows football will understand the current confusion and ill-feeling from both sides about the Harry Redknapp affair.
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Don't do it kiddies, it will only get the thread closed...Anybody who follows football will understand the current confusion and ill-feeling from both sides about the Harry Redknapp affair.
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Alan Shearer's only 35!
What?
I could have sworn he was older than that.
still, been around a LONG time for a soccer(hahaha!) player even if he is younger than I thought.
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out o curiosity when is football season, my wife and i are planning vacations for the next few years, and england is on the list, and that is something i want to see, a real football match, that and cricket.
we are planning a 3 week trip and want to spend a week in england, 1 week in scotland, and a week in ireland... 3 or 4 years of, but still wanna get my ducks in a row.
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Bolton, Newcastle, pah. I'm a Gillingham fan. Gentlemen, feel my pain.
We beat Wigan in the Division one play off final to go up the the championship you know...our fates have rather diverged since then. Where oh where is our multimillionaire sugar daddy?
Anyway CR, a perspective from the "route one" side of football. First, this business of choosing a football team to support is a bit suspect. My Granddad was a Gills fan. My mum is a Gills fan. I am a Gills fan. I am drinking tea from a GFC mug as I type. My son will be a Gills fan, and we don't even live in Gillingham any more. And I don't even really like football (not the way the Gills play it that's for sure). But if you come from a town with a club its an important part of the town's identity.
The only exception to the rule that your football club chooses you is that I think it is acceptable, if you support a lower league club, also to have a premiership side that you are interested in, otherwise its a bit difficult to join in a lot of premiership conversations. Mine used to be Southampton....(call me Jonah)
Also in any Euro match its acceptable to support the English side, though I can respect anyone whom refuses to extend that to Man U. And its a moot point if Chelsea actually is an English side...
Football WAS a male working class game, all the dockyard workers used to pile into the Gills game en masse on a saturday, it was their one leisure activity of the week. Nowadays although there is still a very strong working class following its more mixed, and a damn sight more expensive. Also in the odl days you had to go to a match, or there was match of the day (highlights) on the telly. Nowadays I reckon a lot of fans never go to a match at all, because so many matches are on telly (and tickets are so expensive). That means as well as the match day experience you've got the sitting in the pub watching sky TV experience.
Ironically although football is now really pricey clubs outside the Premiership are still strapped for cash, and below the championship are more or less all bust.
Oh, and CR, see what you can dig up on the saga of Wimbledon (aka "MK Dons"), that should be an interesting case study for you...
Edit
Everything except two weeks in July it sometimes feels.out o curiosity when is football season
League matches are (roughly) middle of August to end of April. If you want to see cricket as well as football that would mean you need to come in April or end of august/early September.
Last edited by English assassin; 12-06-2005 at 11:07.
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jayrock, I would second the recomendation of August. Its our best month for weather, football season starts and cricket season is at its climax.
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May is also a good time as the matches may have that something extra to it. Either relegation, the tittle or chasing for champions league spots. The weathers not bad either mate
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