Ozz

Well, something about footall keeps some people happy, IE How many Huddersfield fans came over last night? 5~6,000? The price was obviously right for them and the chance of turning over a bigger team, a prem team provided enough incentive for them to make the effort. To be honest, I was quite jealous of them, loads of passionate singing, good atmosphere in the away end and they were in the game for most of the match. Not been like that following Rovers for a while, maybe since Sheff Wed in Semi away at Hillsbrough?

Well now its Bellamy against Huddersfield, last night(3rd Goal).

If you`ve ever seen the Peter Sellers character in Dr Stranglelove who cannot control his right arm from forming a Nazi salute, then you will have recognised him as the linesman on the Jack Waker Stand side of the pitch during the first half. Unbeleivable.

According to the reporter on talkSPORT radio this morning, Jon Stead looked like he was just wandering round in a daze during last nights cup tie at the Stadium of Light. Poor kid.

As I posted in the Huddersfield thread, there are no guarantees in paying to watch professional sport. One week it might be a pile of crapola, the next week, the same team play like world beaters. The difference now of course is that the stakes are much higher. As a lad I used to pay £2 or whatever it was to get into the BBE and if they were shoite, which they invariably were, then WTF? £2 wasted. As Jimmy Cloggy says, to see a shoite game of footy and spend hundreds of pounds in the process is another thing all together. I think it`s Paul who was praising Lancashire Cricket for the entertainment at the 20twenty games-Pound for pound entertainment that plsses all over Premiership football these days. Football used to be unique in so far as people would turn up regardless of the dross served up-the emotional bond to your club would pervade over the lack of quality. But with millionaire dead eye players infecting our clubs like Dutch Elm disease, the emotional bond is loosening and that, tied in with the crappy negative dont-lose-at-all-costs tactics and £30 admission prices PLUS wall to wall TV coverage, which for me by the way doesn`t work as I would as likely not watch a game on TV `cos its boring as I wouldn`t watch a game live, means....attendances will dwindle till any or all of the above factors are dealt with. Football in this country is the peoples game, the workers game not the plaything of the Prawn Sandwich types. The sooner it is given back to them, the better.

I haven`t missed a League cup game since West Ham away(2-0 BTW) mainly because the majorityof these games are very cheap to get in to. That and I`ve nowt better to do most Wednesday nights. The breadknife insists on watching the Bill and I hate it.

This is one of the bizarre things about watching football-there are no guarantees. You could watch 37 league games out of 38 and see crud week in week out and the fact remains that the 38th could still be an absolute craking match. It`s just that at £10 to watch, the gamble is reduced considerabley than that of £30.

I bet Eileen Drury didn`t see that one coming.

Not the Biffin Bridge?

Is he still doing that one-eyed bird off of Futurama?

I agree.

I have just worked it out! Falling attendences is due to ###### football matches! I beleive!!!!!

Tris, do you mean if we loose then Highes gets potted?

Newcastle=worst defence ever Bellamy=quiet good at football Mike Riley=bizarre guess work expert Souness=jammy sack dodging tash denial sweaty sock Rovers=poor do. £30+£10 ale money+lift money+£2.00 Balti pie+ten pints consolation beer money after paggering off shittest team in division= £100 for a 3-0 dicking! I love footy!

We bashed them until Shearer scored. Fantastic free kick that was, ######. Then it all went tits up. woe is me. Toon army ! kiss my arse you bunch of soft sad gimps.

Every week or so I come within yards of various Prem players as I lean against the wall at the Darwen end to scream my words of encouragment at them. Never get any replies though, for some reason. Stuck up gits. Least they could do is to tell me to #### off back.

What if it`s 3-3? Both sacked?

Oooh, I love a happy ending!

Do they do it in XXL????

Merely illustrating the facts, and getting our poor turn out excuses in early...

For those of you, like me, who are not season ticket holders the adult admission price for Cat A matches (IE Newcastle) the ticket price is now £30.00. Just in case you were thinking of coming down rather than watching it in the pub.

What about Billy off Six Feet Under?

Top idea! Signing for the crowd! could totally confuse the opposition, and we could swear like f@ck and no-one would know! Except the deaf signers of course. And they can three rubs, a shake and slide off the palm off!

If it`s any help, I`ll glady ###### on people for 4 pound 5 shillings and a penny.

Yea but Dave I`m sending you some POMagne!