Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

Reminds me of Ronnie rosenthal

 

It's an overused phrase but I could have scored that.

 

Vincent...........is that you?

 

I've just read a shocking article regarding spending in The Championship and it says that 15 sides in that division spent more than 100% of their income on staff. Nottingham Forest, Brentford and Middlesbrough spent more than 150% of their income in that manner.

More than 150%? Firstly, that's just lunacy. Secondly, how can the rules allow it?

One might think that getting to 'the promised land' of the PL would make it alright? Not so. Most of the promoted clubs made money in their first Premier League season, but after four years just one in four was still in the black.

Madness.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41564471

 

There are some players on staggering wages for the 2nd tier. Mainly foreign players, of course.
The old second division was the place where many young English players cut their teeth and players rejected by the bigger clubs could be picked up cheaply and got a chance to resurrect their careers. Even clubs like Utd under SAF looked to recruit players who developed in this league - Irwin, Bruce, Phelan, Dublin etc. These sorts of players would get limited chances, being overlooked in favour of some B list foreign players on big wages.

 

Happy 80th birthday Sir Bobby Charlton

 

Those happened to be the days where it was extremely rare to go from a club's youth team to the first team.

These days lots of players go from their youth team to the first team to some other club's youth team before being loaned to various other first teams before finally being sold to another first team four years later...

 

What do you mean, happy-bloody-birthday!!!!!
If it wasn't for him and his pals we wouldn't be suffering the hurt of the last 51 ****ing years!!!!
Got a bloody lot to answer for in my opinion!

 

If he hadn't scored those 2 goals against Portugal, West Ham wouldn't have won the World Cup. Stupid ****er.

 

Good point, well made.
And we wouldn't have to endure the constant reminders and overinflated expectations every time the World Cup comes around again.

 

Exactly - nor we would have had to put up with that wretched Baddiel & Skinner song!!

 

He was a good, honest, fair and loyal footballer, and a decent human being. Too nice to be a manager. A lot of footballers today wouldn't go far wrong to model themselves on him. Despite playing for one of our rivals and causing us a lot of grief on the pitch, one has to respect the man.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41596909

When I think of all the divestiture ENIC undertook so
there would be no issues or questions regarding
their ownership of Spurs, this is just laughable.

 

**** Music Alert

 

Spurs legend unlike the judas c**t that betrayed us .

 

BBC Gossip states Poch has said he'd like to manage England one day, his days are numbered with us.

 

Apparently a 38 year old goalkeeper in Indonesia has died after colliding badly with a team mate

 

Everyone has a vision of what they'd like to do in their retirement.

But seriously, if you wanted to ward off the press linking you with the Argentina job, you couldn't go far wrong claiming that you'd like the England job, Poch is cleverer than a lot of people give him credit for and far cleverer than most, if not all, of the hacks.

 

Managing England is career suicide. I can only think of Bobby Robson who had anything remotely like a decent amount of good jobs after that one.

The pay's not going to be better and nobody's going to be handing out Bentley's either. Mauricio Pochettino seems to say "Yes, one day I could see myself doing that job." When he's asked about PSG, Espanol, Argentina,etc. He must think that there's no advantage to him in saying "No". I think that he's right.

 

Tottenham's career suicide and I'm wondering now if Conte is finding club after country a struggle as most coaches do.