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Discussion in 'Swansea City' started by kiwiqpr, Jul 8, 2011.

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  1. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    all you swansea supporters seem a bit over sensitive
     
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    Jager Well-Known Member

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    What all of us ? You are treated the same as any wum, with sarcasm and derision , if you can't handle don't post it! You got the same kind of reception from Cardiff fans with a thread like this, I mean what has it got to do with them ?
     
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    Jager Well-Known Member

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    This is the premier league under Wikipedia
    It is clear that it contains England and Wales and that is all
    Lets end all this crap now because it becomes boring
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    ditto and good to see some sensible qpr fans still exist
     
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    Andrewqpr, well posted and thank you. Perhaps we can now draw a line under this issue.
     
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    Well said Andrew, are the Goons going or not? Is it a case of should I go or should I stay.
     
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  8. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    wikipedia is always right..silly me
     
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    Jager Well-Known Member

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    No it's not always right, but this site is in regards to the Barclays Premier League, now show me where it refers to English on there

    http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home
     
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    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    type epl into wikipedia and it says
    "premier league ofton refered to as the english premier league"
    its on wikipedia so it must be true
     
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    There's only one type of wum worse than an idiotic one, and that's a stubborn idiotic one.
     
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    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    only a little bit stubborn...how is ibiza..ahh the memories...is baileys bar still there
     
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    Jager Well-Known Member

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    Wiki is full of the personal opinions of people, so not really something to be taken as gospel, as you have indicated above.
     
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    I think it will be tough season , and that we may eventually lose out to either Manu or Chelsea !! :)
     
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    So using your crap logic, if we started calling it the Welsh Premier League enough, it would not be a falsehood to quote that on wiki....doesn't make it right though. **** it, lets start doing it!
     
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    I'm inclined to to think that the Barclays Premier League is an English League and part of the English Pyramid System. This has some Welsh clubs, with Swansea having been there from almost the beginning. But apart from the few Welsh clubs in the system there is no way for other Welsh teams to enter the system via promotion.

    If a team from Poland joined the German League, we'd all still call it the German League. We wouldn't call it the German and Polish League.

    I think the Barclays Premier League is an English Premier League that allows a few select Welsh Clubs in it. It may also allow Celtic and Rangers one day.

    Just because Swansea are there doesn't suddenly make it non-English. Swansea is just the exception.

    The reason it is called the Barclays Premier League and not the English Premier League is for sponsorship reasons. Barclays want people around the world to link their name with the league. But if you're trying to promote the Premier League in Asia and other regions, where no-one has heard of Barclays, then the fans there will call it the English Premier League, because Barclays is meaningless to them.

    It couldn't be called the English and Welsh Premier League, because Wales has it's own Premier League (it might be called something different).

    I will probably cop a lot of flak for this, but just think about it from the position of someone who's neither English or Welsh? It is clearly an English League system that has a few Welsh teams. And I think the Welsh system has one or two English teams.

    Should Welsh teams be allowed to play in it? Of course they should. Because the Barclays Premier League and English Pyramid System doesn't have any rules that bar teams from outside England. Even a French team could play in it.

    This should be about football, not petty nationalism. Any great league should want the best teams playing in it. And at the moment Swansea are one of those best teams.
     
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    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    finally a reasonable answer...
    by the way who are the two english teams in the welsh league...
    if CELTIC or rangers want to play in a decent league they should have to start qualifying from the bottom leagues and not just be put into the prem...
    euro football or accrington stanley..
    cant see anything happening soon
     
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  18. JamieT567

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    I don't think you understand that all you have to do is make an account and you can edit Wikipedia, I could edit it right now so it was called the Welsh Premier League, so then you would be in the wrong league, right?
     
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    LOL. One teacher edited Wikipedia before handing out homework and then checked how many of his pupils had the wrong answer - most of them.

    But to be fair, your edit wouldn't stay for long, as more senior people are in charge of the different sections, and they would just change it back.
     
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  20. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    my point exactly..
    someone else brought up wikipedia
    not me

    if you changed it to the wpl at least you would be in the right national league
     
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