Proper football courtesy of the Albion

[y2dave]

The vast majority of posts tonight show a real contempt for the premiership, it's players and the vulgar excess it represents. I don't think this is a knee-jerk reaction, it's well earned by the majority of prima-donna pricks on parade.

Anyway, it's times like this that make me appreciate the Albion and realise how real football still is at our level. I genuinely hope this represents a wake up call for English football but in the meantime i'll quite happilly watch our local boys put in real effort and pride for a relatively meagre livelihood.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

 

[Curious Orange]

The vast majority of posts tonight show a real contempt for the premiership, it's players and the vulgar excess it represents. I don't think this is a knee-jerk reaction, it's well earned by the majority of prima-donna pricks on parade.

Anyway, it's times like this that make me appreciate the Albion and realise how real football still is at our level. I genuinely hope this represents a wake up call for English football but in the meantime i'll quite happilly watch our local boys put in real effort and pride for a relatively meagre livelihood.

You know what, while I was busy swearing at the TV earlier, I knew in my heart that I would have been so much more emotionally involved if this had been the Albion. I can't relate to the England players at all - they aren't like us, don't get me wrong, I expect that the likes of Butters, Kuipers, and Forster all probably earn way more than I do but its not so way in excess that I can't relate to them on some level. Does that make sense?

 

[pasty]

You know what, while I was busy swearing at the TV earlier, I knew in my heart that I would have been so much more emotionally involved if this had been the Albion. I can't relate to the England players at all - they aren't like us, don't get me wrong, I expect that the likes of Butters, Kuipers, and Forster all probably earn way more than I do but its not so way in excess that I can't relate to them on some level. Does that make sense?

Yes. Yes it does make sense. Put it this way, although very pissed off right now, if Albion had lost say an F.A. Cup semi final tonight, I would be suicidal for a week. Tomorrow morning, I will not be that bothered about Englands non-qualification tonight.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Let's never get promoted to the Premiershite...bunch of arse!

 

[Robot Chicken]

Tomorrow morning, I will not be that bothered about Englands non-qualification tonight.

Bet you'll feel differently when the draw for the finals is made and next June when there's no England to cheer on.

 

[pasty]

Bet you'll feel differently when the draw for the finals is made and next June when there's no England to cheer on.

Genuinly, honestly, no. It will just pass me by. I will take no interest in the tournament whatsoever.

Edit - f*** it, I'm going to bed. Nighty night

 

[Nemesis]

The vast majority of posts tonight show a real contempt for the premiership, it's players and the vulgar excess it represents. I don't think this is a knee-jerk reaction, it's well earned by the majority of prima-donna pricks on parade.

Anyway, it's times like this that make me appreciate the Albion and realise how real football still is at our level. I genuinely hope this represents a wake up call for English football but in the meantime i'll quite happilly watch our local boys put in real effort and pride for a relatively meagre livelihood.

I've had a similar conversations over the last couple of years-mainly with 'fans' of premiershite clubs. They don't understand....

 

[Scotty Mac]

 

[Yorkie]

The vast majority of posts tonight show a real contempt for the premiership, it's players and the vulgar excess it represents. I don't think this is a knee-jerk reaction, it's well earned by the majority of prima-donna pricks on parade.

Anyway, it's times like this that make me appreciate the Albion and realise how real football still is at our level. I genuinely hope this represents a wake up call for English football but in the meantime i'll quite happilly watch our local boys put in real effort and pride for a relatively meagre livelihood.

Well said.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I have no problem with the money they earn. If they're worth it to their clubs then so be it. But everyone would have loved the chance to pull on that white shirt, and they've let everyone down... that's just a FACT.

To be honest, I lay the blame for this DISASTROUS campaign at the door of the Ruddy Faced Clown. Game after game he's gambled & made massive mistakes. Putting Carson in goal was a pointless risk, changing to an unknown formation was stupid, dropping Beckham even though he's the only person who looks likely to create was a joke... I could go on.

But let's not forget changing the formation away to Croatia at the beginning of the campaign, and the abject performances that have littered this campaign.

The fact that he doesn't have the BALLS to fall on his sword optimises the man... he's a gutless waste of space. If my club chairman hired him I would stop attending the games

 

[Stat Brother]

The Premiership is getting a hammering for all the foreign players.

If I heard right during Saturday's game, was there 19 English players on show.

Alas money talks, the Prem & Champions league are now far more important than the national team.
Any predictions as to what the national game will look like in 10 years, (I feel a seperate thread coming on).

 

[Starry]

I've had a similar conversations over the last couple of years-mainly with 'fans' of premiershite clubs. They don't understand....

and having been there i can understand why they don't understand. one of my good good friends is a bury fan. we were living the high life and going off to play at the nou camp and mestella, at old trafford and anfield week in week out and he would often say to me come and watch real football at gigg lane. i never did because leeds will always come first. his lower league football was something that barely registered to me while i was busy booking this flight and that ticket to watch the highest level of football in europe/this country.

then all that was swiped out from under us, and now we're playing that same lower league football he often talked of, we're going to what i call proper football grounds, watching players who for the most part do give a damn, surrounded by fans of all these clubs who didnt jump on the glory bandwagon when the premiership and murdoch starting flashing some pounds around.

the premiership is like a bubble, floating around on its own and having completely forgotten its roots.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

the premiership is like a bubble, floating around on its own and having completely forgotten its roots.

Yeah man.

 

[Icy Gull]

The only time I got really angry last night was when we got back to 2-2 and then didn't bother to try and close Croatia down, just kept backing off and letting them have time on the ball. Other than that I just watched a team that I was really struggling to get too involved with getting too heated about. I expend more energy getting involved in the 1st 5 mins of an Albion match and they are the only team I REALLY give a shit about.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

The Premiership is just an international tournament hosted on english soil, just as Germany hosted the last world cup. The team top of the table play 11 foreigners and have a french manager. 30-odd english start every weekend and most of them are defenders.

what hope do we ever have?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Eduardo The Croatian

Why don't we follow Croatia's example and get some South Americans in the England team? There must be some Brazilians who can't get into their national team whose grandparents hail from Chipping Sodbury or Newcastle under Lyme. Sod it, at this point I'd even take a team full of Argies in the famous white shirt!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

More likely to get Argentinians who qualify for England than Brazilians as there forefathers left the UK to build the railways out there. The other problem is the offspring of Welsh sheep farmers who went to live in Patagonia 150 years ago which means they can also play for Wales.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Still got a couple of Wembley performances to look forward to courtesy of the Albion

 

[Silent Bob]

Why don't we follow Croatia's example and get some South Americans in the England team? There must be some Brazilians who can't get into their national team whose grandparents hail from Chipping Sodbury or Newcastle under Lyme. Sod it, at this point I'd even take a team full of Argies in the famous white shirt!

Future England midfielder... you heard it here first...