to everyone slaggin the s.p.l. has your club had over100,000 at a game. cmon the hoops, bring on Benfica.?
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What has the size of the crowd got to do with the quality of the football? Scottish football was in a much better state in the 70's than it is now or has been for many years. I saw Celtic play Leeds Utd in the European Cup at Hampden around 1971 and there was a crowd of around 130,000 but those teams were much better than some of the rubbish that is dished up today.
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I agree Fudgie .... we both deserve the plaudits .... whats all that guff coming from the english corner ?....... we only have a population of 5M....... and even though we can only produce 2 teams ( for the mo, c'mon the Jambo's) to qualify for european football, its still a brill achievement ...... anyway, the english leagues are all hyped up by the english media ..... the premiership only has 2 or 3 decent teams in it ...... both the Tic and the Gers would run amock down south ... they wouldnt know what hit them ???????
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Some of us have to work!!  Didn't I just ask the same question last night?\n\nAnyway, With our lack of firepower, it seems I may actually be playing because, Fernandez (assault) , Wales(used to play for jambos so has to miss 3/4 of games due to niggling long term injury) and Big P ishi N ishi ( suspended, thank god!) are all missing and I'm next in line!!!\n\nSo with me and wee Naisy up front, I'll say, we will bag one each and draw 2-2!
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They've drawn 39 if you count today's match.  It would be 38 but the Spurs are a bunch of lowlife cheaters who don't put the ball out of play when there are injuries.
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I'm a proper toon fan take it from me thil be climbing that table expecially in january when Roeder gets some money \n\na say get rid of luque n bring in defoe n strengthing the defense\n\nTOON TOON BLACK NN WHITE ARMY !!!
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liverpool got a tough game ahead.they gotta score twice before even thinking of their place in the last eight.Benfica already has an advantage of a goal.So their job would be a little more easier.But i hope that the coach wouldn't use the defensive technique.It will just burn down the players.I would vote for benfica.
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They would fare okay, don't think they would challenge in their 1st season but they would improve as football teams as playing better sides has to improve you.  Don't think it will ever happen though.  The other teams need the revenue that comes from the big 2 in Scotland.
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Have to agree with you there Monty. a lot of blues fans have been coming out of the woodwork since Roman took over. It's easy to hop onto a bandwagon when it's the fashion.\nI've supported them since i was 6. I've followed them when they were in the old Div 2 and got teased mercilessly when it was all Liverpool and Man Utd. I've been used to years of nothing won! You were lucky if you got 20,000 at the Bridge back then. Now it's just a fashion to wear the tops.\nI went to a friend from work' barbecue - he's suddenly decided to support Chelsea and is wearing the shirt after ( and this is a fact) years of following Blackburn! He says he's fed up of disappointment. I thought that was all part of being a fan?
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For the past seasons i've been a chelsea fan but now that i've heard players like shevchenko are going to chelsea i will think twice about being their fan come next season. Not that i hate chelsea but look at Real Madrid club right now and tell me where there are ranked as far as spanish soccer is concerned. They were a good team back then but once they started buying all superstars they stopped performing. Same will happen to chelsea if they are not careful.Good luck to Abramovich.
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Why don't you rouse a few players up and get a decent Scottish team together then, instead of consistently posting anti-English questions?\n\nI like Scottish people, and have lots of Scottish friends, and you just need to get a life and a decent hobby.
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Hearts are making inroads to improve on this year with buying new players but the key to any succes will be stability: something their campaign lacked this year, with different managers, unhappy players and many, many more things which in no way helped the players.\n\nNext season will be tough, with two qualifying rounds in the champions league means they will start their season early.  If Romanov decides to do what he did in January and sign unknown lithuanians (how many of the 11 players he signed in january are first team regulars?), if he decides to interfere with team selection and player purchases, they will go down the tubes this year, his input, with money the exception, held them back more than anything.\n\nHowever, if players like Hartley, Pressley and the rest of the scottish lads knuckle down as they did this season, with the addition of a couple of class players, they will be up there, however i dont see them breaking Rangers again with Paul Le Guen and his multi-million pund warchest, or Celtic unless they resolve a few issues.  One look at the cup final showed how far they have dropped since December: they struggled against 2nd division Gretna.
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I'm not an Arsenal fan (West Ham) but i have to say that i am impressed with that victory. I thought that Juventus would do you for sure, being so clearly top of Serie A, so i was mighty impressed with your performance! I will support Arsenal in the Champions League! I'm rooting for a Benfica-Arsenal final!
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Ive been a Preston supporter for nearly 20yrs now. I was devastated when Billy Davies left us for Derby last season as it was us that gave him the chance in the first place, then we sold Claude Davis, our Player of the Year and i really thought we were going to struggle this season. Credit to Paul Simpson who has done an excellent job and i hope we go up automatically this time around. The gulf between the Premiership and the Championship seems too great to stay up as we don't have too much transfer funds but i would like the oppurtunity to be proven wrong. C'mon you Lilywhites, lets keep hold of Nuge and Simon Whaley.
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Whichever team that gets the most point deserve to be champion for any season.Rich or not,other teams will push even harder........and yes,we will have more heroes now and thanks to Chelsea. Its a pity though,cash strapped clubs always loses out to the wealthy opponent but lets hope more good players help their respective club to achieve some respectability for club and self.
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life long liverpool fan here.\nsaw every champions league game and uafa game for last 4 seasons so before anyone questions what im about to say i want to clarify im not an armchair supporter!\n\nRafa is at the moment trying to make the best of a bad situation, lets not kid ourselves we do not have a world class squad! we have 5 maybe 6 world class players.\n\nGezza, Cara, Finnan, Risse, and posibly Kuyt and Sissoko the rest would not get in to any other prem team with out a fight!\n\nand untill we get some propper cash from somewear to buy some  great players we wnt catch the top 2.\n\nalso lets not forget liverpool is still a Ltd company not a PLC like the other to 25 teams in europe but to become a PLC and get the cash we will lose the controle and roots we currently have\n\nout of the top 25 earning teams of 2005 liverpool where the only none PLC!\n\nalso Rafa is buying what he knows hes a spanish bloke and buying spanish players this is not difficult to understand if i managed in spain i would buy english player because thats what i know. so we have to give there plays a little extra time to settle in to the english league. but i also agree that some are not pulling thier weight. Garcia for a start is nothing more than a big game showman.\n\nbut finaly we as liverpool supporters have never been ones to critisise a manager we are not united of everton fans are we.\n\nwe are the fans who will sing out losing side of the pitch and as for raffa he has done what only 5 english based managers have done in history and thats wine the cream de la cream European cup.\n\nwe must remember who we are and what he has done for us a fith european cup. \n\nSir Alex was nearlly sacked after 3 years and now we learn he almost joined spurs a year later but they stuck buy him and his 20 years in charge have let united get a good foothold on our records and trophy cabernet.\n\nnow lets give Rafa some time lets suport him through thick and thin and lets remember we never walk alone and nor should Rafa
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I'm watching Portugal -1 vs 0- Kazakhstan, Portugal is all over Kazakhstan.\n\nEdit:  C Ronaldo just scored. 2-0\n\nC Ronaldo, Deco and Simao are playing a stellar game with beautiful strategy.\nIt isn't Nuno Gomes' night, he missed 3 good chances and the poor guy has the crowd booing.\n\nSimao has one more, it should really be 6- nil.\n\nIt is 20h10 and I am finally watching France vs Greece, Hector why didn't you tell me that Zidane was in the crowd, they zoomed on him for a long time.
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I am a season ticket holder for Leyton Orient and enjoy nothing better then spending my time at the ground.  We have some of the most loyal supporters around - which have simply been going for generations and generations and I think thats what makes our club that little bit different to the others.  \n\nI would have to say without a doubt we have the bet supporters - but maybe thats cos I am to loyal to my club??\n\nCome on you O's!!