CHELSEA v HUDDERSFIELD TOWN

**spireitematt** · 03-02-2019, 02:44

You are relegated there is no question about it. Huddersfield playing in the Premier League has been good as it's lasted but there is no way you could keep competing with teams who spend the ££££ like there is no tomorrow. The same will happen to Burnley, Cardiff, Bournemouth and Brighton at some stage. The Premier League is a league with 6 teams and that's it. The media care about the big 6 and the decisions always seem to go in their favour,you pick up a newspaper and the back page is always United, Liverpool, City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, you watch MOTD and they spend more time analysing decisions on matches involving the big 6, the remaining 14 teams battle it out for survival and to try and not get relegated because to stay in the Premier League it's all about the money mainly from the TV rights.

A lot of fans don't believe the likes of Huddersfield, Burnley, Cardiff, Bournemouth, Brighton, Wolves and many others should be in the Premier League but that's Premier League snobbery and this mainly comes from the armchair fans and foreign fans of the big 6. The Premier League is a league within a league. Next season when you are playing in the Championship again your attendances will drop as the gloryhunters will go back to the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City or they even might go and follow Leeds if they get promoted.

To me the Premier League feels like a TV show it doesn't feel real, it feels scripted and fake with all the diving, dubious decisions etc. People say its the best league in the World but its not, it's the best brand. A lot of people who support a team like United, Arsenal etc will have never experienced what it's like to win promotion or to win on the last day of the season to survive relegation. I think the Championship is more exciting because its unpredictable and you can't predict where teams will finish. It was around Xmas and Forest were playing Leeds on TV and Gary Lineker tweeted that it was a good advert for the "other type of football". What does that even mean? "Other type of football", football's football. Then you've got Sky who believe they invented football in 1992 and that the sport didn't exist before then.

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 03-02-2019, 11:10 by Lord Snooty.)

It now becomes obvious how we got promoted in the first place. All the other teams around us had all experienced this shit show called the Premier League before and didn't really fancy it again. How else can you explain getting promoted with a negative goal difference and never scoring in the play offs?

I remember Barnsley and Bradford getting exactly the same treatment as we're getting now when they had their little time in the spotlight.

"Now you've had your fun and now you've been spanked. Go away you little northern scum."

How else can you explain the way Derby get so close to promotion every year then somehow manage to mess up? They had the worst season ever of this horrible palava. They don't want to go through all that again.

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 03-02-2019, 15:48 by theo_luddite.)

Lot of sense in what you have said Spirite. Thumb up

Thing that the "supporters" of the big six don't get is that if they only played each other it would soon get boring. One of them would be bottom of their mini-league and probably every season, unless promotion and relegation was still allowed, in which case one of them wouldn't be big six anymore, and probably more, as time went by. Oh, and Leicester would never, ever happen again would it? Not that it's likely to anyway. Also a lot of the so called fans support whoever is top of the league at the time. Wasn't hard to spot the tourists on the Tube coming back to Central Larndan either. Half & half scarves Doh

- really?

I was stood with about half a dozen Belgian's on my row - they'd come to see Depoitre - they claimed. The reaction when Hazard was subbed seemed to say otherwise. Whistle

Funniest/stupidest moment of the match, off the pitch. 3 jobsworths in Fluorescent Orange tops removed a 'Cheslki fan' from the front row of the next section over for trying to generate some atmosphere in the library that was otherwise their 2/3rds of The Shed end. Persistent standing maybe? We didn't sit down at half-time let alone during the match. OK he was 6'19" tall but cut the lad some slack. He was probably visiting from somewhere else in Europe for the first time too. Laugh

Amelia Chaffinch · 03-02-2019, 15:59

The northerners weren't trying to talk to Londoners as well, were they?

theo_luddite · 03-02-2019, 16:10

I smiled at a couple of them before realising they don't do that either.

Amelia Chaffinch · 03-02-2019, 16:20

Should have spoken to them in Midden English, that would am proper confused them.

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 03-02-2019, 19:13 by theo_luddite.)

Nah, leave that to the Wolves fans. Can't understand what they say when they're in West Brom let alone Larndan.

Tbh, I can't understand some of 'em in the local either. Only moved here 30 years back so still acclimatising. Or getting acclimated, as my Yank mates say. Doh

**spireitematt** · 03-02-2019, 19:51

(03-02-2019, 15:45)theo_luddite Wrote: Lot of sense in what you have said Spirite.

Thing that the "supporters" of the big six don't get is that if they only played each other it would soon get boring. One of them would be bottom of their mini-league and probably every season, unless promotion and relegation was still allowed, in which case one of them wouldn't be big six anymore, and probably more, as time went by. Oh, and Leicester would never, ever happen again would it? Not that it's likely to anyway. Also a lot of the so called fans support whoever is top of the league at the time. Wasn't hard to spot the tourists on the Tube coming back to Central Larndan either. Half & half scarves - really?

I was stood with about half a dozen Belgian's on my row - they'd come to see Depoitre - they claimed. The reaction when Hazard was subbed seemed to say otherwise.

Funniest/stupidest moment of the match, off the pitch. 3 jobsworths in Fluorescent Orange tops removed a 'Cheslki fan' from the front row of the next section over for trying to generate some atmosphere in the library that was otherwise their 2/3rds of The Shed end. Persistent standing maybe? We didn't sit down at half-time let alone during the match. OK he was 6'19" tall but cut the lad some slack. He was probably visiting from somewhere else in Europe for the first time too.

Premier League is already boring, it feels soul less. The Premier League is mainly aimed at armchair fans, foreigners and fans in this country who can afford to go. Football used to be affordable but ever since the Premier League has come along it's mainly for the middle classes and the upper classes who have the ££££££ to spend, look at Chelsea without money they would be finishing 7th or 8th in the League and that goes for a few other clubs in the Premier League too. Can't see a Leicester scenario happening again the Premier League wouldn't allow it. Anybody who buys or wears a half & half scarf should be banned from going to football, I've noticed that half & half shirts could be a thing in the future and that would be just dreadful.

Another thing which annoys me about Premier League fans (mainly the big 6) there fans go on about a crisis or that they are depressed etc with the football or results, these people don't know what a crisis is, come back to me when you've seen your team have back to back relegations and gone out the football league altogether. Now that's a crisis!!!

Also vloggers piss me off too but that's football in general. You go to games and you see people with cameras, phones, iPads taking selfies or filming themselves react to goals, now there is nothing wrong with taking pics of the game or videoing bits of the match but if you are a fan how can you experience what is going on and how can you celebrate and go mental when your team has scored a last minute winner, you can't can you? Well you could but you'd have to drop the camera. I remember when we won L2 in 2013/14 season and we played Fleetwood at home last game of the season and we needed to beat them to win the league and a woman and her family were sat a row in front and the way she was talking it was like it was her first ever time at a football match and she spent most of the game talking selfies, texting and uploading them to social media, she didn't really care about watching the game at all and I found it all weird and I thought you've took up a seat, not bothered to even watch the game or show an interest when a real fan who actually supports the club has probably missed out witnessing it.

**Lord Snooty** · 04-02-2019, 15:35

Well for the first time this season I couldn't summon up the effort to watch the highlights. Not even the two penn'orth on the Linekar show.
Saw the two penalty incidents online. Pathetic, but not unexpected.