The European football thread - Page 360

ukhotstove · 11-03-2006, 05:45 PM

He was ridiculed at the time he wore them, personally I prefer black boots and detest white boots.

Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 05:46 PM

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Why? Are you having uncomfortable feelings doing so?

No, I don't care. I just thought it was only strange people that supported.

Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ukhotstove

He was ridiculed at the time he wore them, personally I prefer black boots and detest white boots.

I don't mind white or silver as long as it is one colour (not multi-tone).
Anything else should be banned IMO.

bababui · 11-03-2006, 05:49 PM

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No, I don't care. I just thought it was only strange people that supported.

Maybe thats a feeling you picked up from your parents? How did your Dad escape being a football fan?

Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 05:52 PM

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Maybe thats a feeling you picked up from your parents? How did your Dad escape being a football fan?

I don't know how, and I've never asked.

bababui · 11-03-2006, 05:54 PM

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I don't know how, and I've never asked.

Is he a bit scary? He might be happy to tell you.

Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 05:56 PM

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Is he a bit scary? He might be happy to tell you.

No, he's not scary. I just think it was the fact he was brought up in a town that wasn't a sports town (bar horse racing) at that time.

bababui · 11-03-2006, 05:58 PM

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No, he's not scary. I just think it was the fact he was brought up in a town that wasn't a sports town (bar horse racing) at that time.

Was football mainly a working class pasttime?

Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 06:01 PM

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Was football mainly a working class pasttime?

Yeah it was.

ukhotstove · 11-03-2006, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Sdpm100

I don't mind white or silver as long as it is one colour (not multi-tone).
Anything else should be banned IMO.

I've always worn Puma, they've always been less flash than adidas and nike.

bababui · 11-03-2006, 06:05 PM

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I've always worn Puma, they've always been less flash than adidas and nike.

I prefer the lightest possible.

Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 06:06 PM

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I've always worn Puma, they've always been less flash than adidas and nike.

And of course in baseball, blue is cool to wear as well.

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Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 06:27 PM

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I've always worn Puma, they've always been less flash than adidas and nike.

I was never flash either when I played football. Just a bog standard pair of black boots made by someone I can't even remember.

The Funk · 11-03-2006, 06:45 PM

Hi everyone. Black boots are the best.

bababui · 11-03-2006, 06:47 PM

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Hi everyone. Black booty is the best.

Foxed.

Sdpm100 · 11-03-2006, 06:48 PM

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Hi everyone. Black boots are the best.

I was never good enough to wear fancy dan coloured boots.

I think my black boots were Mizunos.

The Funk · 11-03-2006, 06:56 PM

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Hi everyone. Black Books is the best.

Fixarooney'd

The Funk · 11-03-2006, 06:59 PM

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I was never good enough to wear fancy dan coloured boots.

I think my black boots were Mizunos.

I was actually pretty good at football, but I never bothered learning any tricks like doing loads of keep ups. Didn't need them, I was too busy kicking arse to have time to ponce around and show off.

zoraster · 11-03-2006, 07:32 PM

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Leigh was a top finisher in the ECNat just five years ago. What happened to make it all go so wrong??

In reality it hasn’t gone wrong at all. That one season was the typical aberration you often get when sides get promoted into a new division. You have a club full of confidence after the previous seasons success, with the winning habit well entrenched. A lot of clubs dramatically overachieve initially when they have momentum behind them, and then in following seasons they return to their natural level. Take that first season out the equation and Leigh were never competitive in the Conference, with a best finish of sixth from bottom. Not getting relegated despite finishing in the drop-zone for two years didn’t help them either. They’ve become firmly entrenched in the losing habit after three straight years in the bottom two.

By-the-by even their promotion seasons were dramatically out of character. Take that five year burst out the equation that saw them get two promotions and fifth in the Conference and you have to go back to 1985 to find them finishing in the top half of their division, and the 1960s to find them being regularly competitive.

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Leigh only get about 400 on average, don't they? And even when they were in the Conference, I don't think they averaged even 1,000 in any season.

Or am I wrong then?

Nope, not wrong at all, if anything you are over-estimating. They're not getting anything like that sort of average now they don‘t get the figures boosted by visits of big Conference clubs. This season they are not even averaging 200, only getting over that figure for the visits of Kettering and Scarborough (251 and 215 respectively).

03/04 566
04/05 435
05/06 233
06/07 179 thus far

ukhotstove · 11-04-2006, 02:58 AM

What the crowd figures also don't take into account are the away fans, unlike say a baseball game were the crowd is say 98% of the home team if not more a football game can vary.

The last two games I've seen Leigh play the crowds were pretty much the same but both have been bolstered by away fans, more so the Redditch game rather than the Alfreton game.

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