Konstantin posted:Tell me about it, in Omaha, NE, a city of half a million people, they are demolishing a stadium that holds about 25,000 people and are replacing it with two separate stadiums, one with a capacity of 8,600 and one with a capacity of 24,000. The minor league team that played in the old stadium didn't like it being less than half full all the time, so they decided to build a smaller stadium that they could sell out. The bigger stadium was built mainly for one event that only lasts two weeks. Really? That's more time than say, memorial stadium in lincoln gets used, which is a paltry 8 calender days out of the year. College football stadiums are the worst culprits, they are used for pretty much 8-9 days out of the year, I don't see the problem with these stadiums. And, I can't let you get away so easily Konstantin, I live in Dundee, Omaha is quite able to hold their own and you forgot about the UFL team that is coming to this fair city. ..quite frankly, Omaha reminds me a lot of Newcastle...except the weather is absolute poo poo, but other than that, demographic wise, etc, it's pretty much a dead ringer for home.
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I think in terms of money, American sports stars make more than their European or Australasian counterparts. In baseball in particular you have people who make about $20,000,000 a season, which is quite fantastic. Which is, in terms of European sport, about 385,000 USD a week or about 255,000£ a week, an INSANE amount of money for football. I don't think we'll ever reach the point where a person in football will make that much money, there simply can't be beacuse I don't think the economics of football allow it with the lack of revenue sharing and the like not boosting the coffers of clubs.
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euroboy posted:
10 years eh? The last 6 years must really been hard for him.
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JingleBells posted:They're partly owned by the Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal (worth £19bn) and F1 head honcho Bernie Ecclestone (worth £1.5bn). Although they've not been spending their cash quite like City they've gone and bought some of the best players in the Championship IIRC isn't City basically owned by Abu Dhabi's royal family, each member of whom worth billions which combined bring the actual money at their disposal way higher than it actually is?
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Feb 18, 2011 18:13
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Holy loving poo poo. Burn the Prem down. Burn it.
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Apr 4, 2011 20:47
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Careful now, too many Americans in the league and they'll start trying to gently caress about how the league is run.
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Apr 10, 2011 19:33
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Akileese posted:She's in the Walton family who's father created Walmart. That family is worth like 100 billion dollars so if Stan himself may not have the money to buy Arsenal, she sure as hell does. Holy gently caress Walmart? No. Just run away Arsenal they'll loving nickle and dime you to death.
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Apr 10, 2011 20:13
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this is why I think terraces need to come back. There has to be still a working-class element to the game and honestly I come from a working-class background, though I may be way better off now it absolutely pisses me off to pay a metric poo poo ton of money just to see a game.
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Apr 20, 2011 14:37
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It might work out for Leeds with Ken Bates but you are playing with fire having a man like him in charge of a club, especially one that can quite easily be a consistent top half EPL side with just some right management.
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May 5, 2011 20:09
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BunnyX posted:and about 6 new players minimum I reckon they'll just want to survive the first few years and then slowly build up the Leeds *snort* brand.
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May 5, 2011 21:12
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Adnar posted:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2051618/What-agent-Willie-McKay-doing-Doncaster-Rovers.html Who the gently caress thinks its a great idea to build a team on loans? Surely they will just flounder in the bottom half of the table while their revolving door of mercenary cunts struggle to play with any sense of unity.
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Oct 26, 2011 11:00
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I hate assholes who can't call a spade a spade and insist on dickheadish titles like "talent manager" or whatever daft title Kia has given himself.
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Oct 26, 2011 11:58
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Sucks for Darlo but gently caress the smug assholes, you've got nothing to be proud of.
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Jan 16, 2012 21:22
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Have fun being an northern even more shittier version of Wales, Scotailures
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Mar 2, 2012 21:13
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We have lost only £3.9m this last year and we are on track to breaking even and making a profit for the first time in ages. Mike Ashley may finally be winning me over.
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Mar 9, 2012 09:25
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If they decided to expand to 16 teams and somehow got a better TV deal it'd go a long way to stabilising Scottish football imo
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May 7, 2012 17:00
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It's a shame really because I used to love watching the SPL as a child it's just so delightfully poo poo and tried to play itself up as an awesome league which worked on child me so what can you do, I really wish someone actually fixed scottish football.
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May 8, 2012 04:14
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Sadsack posted:You may now resume laughing at Portsmouth... Dear lord, that could have been us.
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Jul 12, 2012 20:01
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Healbot posted:http://www.elconfidencial.com/depor...escenso-101849/ Hilarious
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Jul 14, 2012 10:12
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euroboy posted:Chelsea have announced that Gazprom will be their new "Global energy partner". I guess Abramovic is just making sure FFP won't be an issue with that deal. Well, I guess that was to be expected. Can't wait for all the owner's companies be major sponsors at all the clubs.
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Jul 17, 2012 18:55
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Bobby Digital posted:Next up: Arsenal and Wal-Mart. It'd be Asda not Wal-Mart (same type of store, concept, different name same owner)
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Jul 17, 2012 19:32
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peanut- posted:They can't really. The guy that signed it did so without proper approval iirc, and was shown the door quickly as a result. Where the hell did you see this? If that was the case wouldn't GM be throwing a huge hissy fit because of the sum of money involved, more than a half a billion US dollars? Sounds like to me you are talking our of your arse.
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Oct 26, 2012 15:40
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drat, I stand corrected, consider your arse non-talking from now on.
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Oct 26, 2012 15:54
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jre posted:Things are looking bleak at Rangers as all the players have all been asked to take a 15% pay cut. They said "naw" God is real and he's a Catholic.
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Jan 16, 2014 22:38
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Gigi Galli posted:Lads, this man is very close to purchasing Leeds United poo poo, Leeds might actually get an owner that spends money.
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Pissflaps posted:Leeds have been bought by about three billionaires in the last five seasons and theyre still loving poo poo. Cursed club in a cursed city.
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Jan 23, 2014 00:17
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Charlotte Hornets posted:How come is HSV such a rich club? Because Hamburger sold their souls to the football devil for success in the 80s and are still riding that wave.
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Jan 23, 2014 17:31
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Gigi Galli posted:I was just about to point this out, haha. Juventus sells out their (smaller) stadium pretty regularly now but the caverns of the San Siro and the Roman Olimpico are still really bad. Seriously, what the hell is with Italy and not going to games? Do ultras really run off everyone? I heard a story that the san siro women's toilets are basically a de facto second men's toilet as so few women go to the games.
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Jan 23, 2014 17:37
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Scott Bakula posted:Newcastle now have Papa Johns as an Official Pizza Partner Ugh. The worst possible pizza.
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pik_d posted:Maybe it's different over there but Papa Johns is better than Pizza Hut and Dominoes by far. Not to say it's great, just... it's far from the worst possible. Pizza Hut is some good poo poo imo, Papa Johns is poo poo. Dominoes is take it or leave it though I pity the fool who thinks that Little Caesar's is good pizza.
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euroboy posted:£51.8m loss? That's nothing. loving hell QPR
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Fists Up posted:Nate Silver did a thing on the distribution of fans across different sporting leagues. That was more pointless stat wankery and the busting out of the gini coefficient just took the piss. loving hell, that article.
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