Comment by zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
liverpool opened up pandora's box. it'll be difficult to go back to the old, competitive ways. unless you institute a salary cap and get rid of relegation... lalalala.
View ArticleComment by Dr Dreadful on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Liverpool's success didn't come from money, though. Their secret was a combination of internal stability, team spirit, a series of master coaches each of whom had learned at the feet of his...
View ArticleComment by Zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
and yet only once in the past decade has a team outside of the top-3 (and almost always top-2) in total player wages (transfer plus salaries) been able to take the title (and that was Man U in 2006-7,...
View ArticleComment by Zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
"Total player money" may be a better phrase than "total player wages" in that first sentence.
View ArticleComment by Christopher Rose on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Zingzing, picking on the last 10 years is fairly arbitrary, but it does pretty much coincide with the big investment era of Chelsea and Manchester City. It is not a period I'm too happy about either...
View ArticleComment by Zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Man U hasn't been shy about spending either. As for the last 10 years thing, it's the state of the game today...
View ArticleComment by Christopher Rose on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Zingzing, I think we've taken this riff about as far as it can go...
View ArticleComment by Dr Dreadful on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Probably, especially now Stan's thrown in his two plastic Aussie bucks' worth. :-) Speaking of things we're not happy about, one of those would be the histrionics that are all too familiar in modern...
View ArticleComment by Christopher Rose on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Agreed, that was a bad tackle, but wasn't it also accidental rather than intentional? Some players, such as Paul Scholes, simply can't tackle to save their lives!
View ArticleComment by Dr Dreadful on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Whether it was intentional or not, it was dangerous play. Besides which, there's no consistency. Every week we see players going in to tackle and winning the ball cleanly without even touching their...
View ArticleComment by Christopher Rose on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Replace the refs with robots!
View ArticleComment by zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
"Zingzing, I think we've taken this riff about as far as it can go..." the brick wall of reality, eh? if all we can do is agree to disagree about whether man u spends a load of money (they do, they...
View ArticleComment by Dr Dreadful on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
UEFA, the European governing body, is introducing controls, but they are aimed at preventing a club from spending beyond its means rather than limiting what they can spend. Basically, clubs must send...
View ArticleComment by Zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
I just wrote a long comment, but the iPad decided to delete it. In the end, every team should theoretically be able to compete, and I just don't see that in the epl, and I think that the relegation...
View ArticleComment by Zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
and that's why I watch international football. I've tried to get into mls, but I can shrug off a New York loss in minutes, while a u.s. loss will send me me into a glorious spiral for days. That tie in...
View ArticleComment by roger nowosielski on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
No wonder you're not a man of ideas, zing. You watch football too much. To a Brit or an Aussie, a European or a South American, it'd be of no consequence because it's in their blood. But for a Yank?...
View ArticleComment by Zingzing on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
Cheap, roger. I grew up playing the game. Don't lay my failings on my love of der futbol. That's just lazy.
View ArticleComment by roger nowosielski on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
In that case, I take it back.
View ArticleComment by El Bicho on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
someone's looking for a fight
View ArticleComment by roger nowosielski on Why Good Friday Is Indeed a Good Day
I admit it. With all the spam attacks of late, it's been kinda dull here, so yes, I'm itching.
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