Media thread 2022/23

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Blueknows said:
Not reading it but did they talk about Littlewoods money and the rags outspending everyone after floating on the stockmarket
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That’s not entirely true mate. They outspent everyone be before they floated ;)

Can’t remember if it was 1988 or 1989 where they spent £7.5m on players when their turnover was £9.5m

79% of turnover, so the equivalent of us spending £506m this summer

Theirs however, was all done with money earned organically thro (lack of) success & it definitely wasn’t a gamble using any sort of borrowings to help them become the behemoth the became in the 90s

They 100% did not do very similar to us by investing a shit load of money which hadn’t directly come from the club just prior to their period of success

(Just like Liverpool didn’t do similar whilst in division 2 in the 60s, or Blackburn with Jack Walker, or Arsenal in the 30s)

Pretty sure all the above is true, but the way the media is, doesn’t really matter if it’s true or not, just need to keep on repeating it :)
 
Leeds manager bemoaning the fact that the game is fast developing the 'one minute' goal kick! We've had that phenomenon at The Etihad for season after season. Every goalie that turns up for the opposition goes through a very specific process - placing ball a particular way AFTER he has deliberately misplaced it with the writing askew, clearing the caked on mud reminiscent of any Manchester playing field from October to April from his boots, checking whether he trusts his full backs to play out, deciding it's too dodgy and waves them up the field to occupy four square yards of turf and hope they get a throw-in off the back of Kyles head, all before toe-ending the ball into touch. Cue the minute goal kick.

I think ten seconds is ample for a keeper to return the ball to play. Failure to do so would result in a corner for the opposition. That's stop the fuckin' timewasting. Same with throw-ins.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Leeds manager bemoaning the fact that the game is fast developing the 'one minute' goal kick! We've had that phenomenon at The Etihad for season after season. Every goalie that turns up for the opposition goes through a very specific process - placing ball a particular way AFTER he has deliberately misplaced it with the writing askew, clearing the caked on mud reminiscent of any Manchester playing field from October to April from his boots, checking whether he trusts his full backs to play out, deciding it's too dodgy and waves them up the field to occupy four square yards of turf and hope they get a throw-in off the back of Kyles head, all before toe-ending the ball into touch. Cue the minute goal kick.

I think ten seconds is ample for a keeper to return the ball to play. Failure to do so would result in a corner for the opposition. That's stop the fuckin' timewasting. Same with throw-ins.
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No, you're wrong, Eddy always gets penalised for his first offence.
 
Big Swifty said:
No problem. We all have false memories about something or other.
You must have a history thingy, Click on "home" instead of blue Moon Forum when you switch on
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@Big Swifty bloody hell every day is a school day. Thanks to your good self, not only have I found the history section but learnt that we did not lose to Bury in the next round as I have always believed, it was Bolton.
Bury was the following year.
 
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