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  1. On 15/06/2023 at 21:00, PHILINFRANCE said:

    As I’m sure many on here know, he was married to Lesley Crowther’s daughter - LC used to star in Crackerjack with Peter Glaze.

    LC used to live in Corston, near Bath (not Wiltshire), and I had the pleasure of meeting them all one afternoon at the village fête.

    He really was a very friendly and approachable young man, not at all like his stage image, as, indeed, was LC, but he (Phil L) was so obviously very high on something.

    A very enjoyable afternoon, though.

    Random but my mates first girlfriend was PL's daughter, my mate went to a boys school in Bath and she went to a Girls school in Bath, 

  2. 11 hours ago, MarcusX said:

    No thread on this yet?

    Bit disappointing as this was one I really wanted to go to but couldn’t get tickets, one of my best mates is Maltese and we all went out on a football trip a few years back. Great place for a “lads” trip that’s less common than the usual.

    No Man City players starting tonight, punishment or just additional rest as their season finished later?

    Interesting to see Trent looking like he’s in a midfield role from the line up I’ve seen.

    Cant see past a big win for England here

    I didn't know it was on until this morning when I saw the score!

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  3. Reminds me of the Kaiser, I've just finished the book and there is also a doc.  He was a professional footballer who never played a game, but got signed to various clubs based on fraud, and also his willingness to set up players and owners with women!  Very interesting story, some clubs even signed him twice and he played for all the top Brazilian teams

     

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6823890/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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  4. 2 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

    La Liga has been the best league in the world for the last 20 years so that claims long gone. 

    You are looking at the wrong thing, it's not the quality of football that matters its how you sell it and the Prem has always done an amazing marketing job, that's why it has so much money being pumped in, because more people watch it as a result, the "best league in the world" is a self fulfilling prophecy 

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  5. 11 hours ago, Super said:

    Anyone else have the England shellsuit?!

    I had the sticker album which was actually made up of loads of weekly magazines which went in a binder (which I still have!)

  6. 42 minutes ago, mozo said:

    I agree with you, it's fun for the fans, but I'm just saying there's limited prestige and I'm surprised people would rate it as a notable achievement.

    I also think that if you have too many European competitions it cheapen the kudos of getting into Europe. 

    Presumably anyone that ranks this as a legitimate European conquest would also feel the same if a new cup competition was introduced for all the teams 8-10th in the Prem (versus European equivalents). Why not?

    Are you on the wind up?  We don't have anymore European comps than before, they have just rebadged them.  If winning a European trophy is not deemed notable then what is?  As per my other post I assume you don't recognise any form of achievement lower down the leagues as worthy of note?  Our double year, so what, it's not winning the Prem is it 

  7. 3 hours ago, mozo said:

    I think you're focusing on the wrong thing. Of course West Ham will join the competition, extra revenue will answer that question, and of course the fans will celebrate any success they get.

    The point is that a competition whereby two 7th placed teams meet in the final, is not something to associate with European glory. This has replaced the old Cup Winner Cup which at least was winner vs winner.

    When we won the Football League Trophy in 2015, did it feel like an FA Cup win? Or a League Cup win? No, the value was much lower. And the value of this thing West Ham won is pretty low in the scheme of things. Lower than the League Cup, I'd say.

    How is the value low, how many trophies are up for grabs every season?  4 if you are in Europe.  That's it, just 3/4 opportunities for silverware between all the clubs.  To win one of those trophies is a great achievement, whether it be the Euro Conference or Prem, and should/is celebrated as such.

    Yeh European football isn't the same as it was, but what is?  If you only want the winners of the leagues and cups to compete on the European stage to give it kudos I.e. like it was pre Champions League, then that ship has sailed.  You could argue it was easier to win back then as less games to play so actually a bigger achievement now, especially with the increased demands of the Prem.

    The West Ham fans last night didn't look like they thought it was a lesser achievement, and I don't remember City fans at Wembley not loving the win.  Does winning League 1 mean less because it's not the Prem?  Should Wrexham wind it in because they've only got promoted to the league?  

    I think you are focussing on the wrong thing to be honest.
     

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  8. People saying the euro competitions (excluding Champs League) are poor standard and also belittling the achievements of winning it, I wondered what do you think West Ham and all the other teams should do?  Not enter it?

    I would love us to be in with a chance of playing some European teams, what an amazing measure for our clubs success to compete with other teams in Europe.  Yes it's not the champions league and yes it's not Barcelona or Munich or Madrid, but newsflash, the likes of West Ham (let alone us) will probably never dine at that top table, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be a tournament for teams outside that top bracket.  West Ham and Fiorantina are still big big clubs, and it was great to see them play each other. 
     

    Look at Brighton and Brentford etc, they are our recent peers and they have qualified or nearly qualified for Europe, how amazing is that for their fans!  If you hate these competitions you hate football and life if you ask me!

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  9. I'm trying to buy a mini kit for my daughters 1st birthday, and when I click on 'personalise' so I can add a name and number, it doesn't give the option to do it?  I read some comments that the numbers are washing off, does anyone know if they have stopped adding names and numbers until they sort this issue out or is it the website?  Thanks in advance

  10. 21 minutes ago, Percy Pig said:

    I like these posts, it's pretty obvious that the timing will be 8pm because that is the optimum time for engagement (my wife's business relies on social media promotions and any new product release is invariably announced at this time to boost views, engagement and therefore sales.

    It's also pretty obvious that with international duty and previous posts that "Tuesday" will be the day that it will more than likely be today.

    But you've presented it as if you "know" something. 

    Very interesting.

    pulp fiction check out the big brain on brett GIF

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  11. 10 hours ago, Lrrr said:

    As said for my its a symptom that our media department is lazy, they haven't been able to come up with something new or original in 4 years, or haven't even tried to potentially. But its also evidenced by other things, one person in the media team saying it was too much hassle to put full 90's of the games online for fans to watch when in reality all they'd need to do (or more likely an intern) would be to have it uploading on another tab in the background. They also put zero effort into the academy, a few seasons ago when the club used to put highlights packages of academy games out it wasn't even the media department who put them together, it was the academy analysis department who would put them together and send them to the media team to then put online. The highlights packages used to give fans an insight into the academy teams and were relatively popular, well the highlights videos haven't even been done in the last 2 seasons. They've also stopped live streaming U21's fixtures despite the show pitch at the training ground having a purpose built gantry there to allow it, why? Because the media department can't be bothered spending 2 hours filming a game for fan engagement despite us having one of the most successful Cat 2 academies and how much credit gets given to the club for how many academy players we have in the first team it would be great for fans to be able to watch U21's games.

    So as said, the media team is lazy for doing anything which goes beyond the job description.

    I think you need a partner

  12. 18 minutes ago, Lrrr said:

    Time off actually, but just annoyed they act like its some big feature of the club when the reality is (as said) that its just unimaginative at this point and actually coming up with something new would be better. 

    Why would it be better?  I don't know if any other clubs that do it?  Its just a bit of fun really what's the big deal?

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