Sheffield United (A) - Sun 27th Aug, 14:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

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SSBlue said:
In fairness the PL is worth £billions now so there's a lot more at stake if it loses appeal. But City's period of dominance has gone hand-in-hand with the TV contracts increasing massively.
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How can it lose its appeal when you see the way Manchester City plays and the players we have, it's another red-top media Myth that City is Bad for the game, The Premier League is not a one-team league far from it, every team wants to beat the best team and Manchester City have to play that every week,
 
Wonder which route it will take? (I used to be a Peak District walking junkie and I would like these city centre flat dwellers to see some beauty))
 
Loco Blade said:
I remember going to games at Bramall Lane in early seventies when the pavilion was still up . Australia played an Ashes test in 1902 . Bramall Lane is the oldest still active football ground in the world and if you go down Charlotte Rd near the ground to the B+Q the first ever football match as we know it was played on the site . The Sheffield Rules and London Rules were amalgamated and the rest is history . Travelling to aways you miss these original grounds tbh like Brentford , Bolton . Enjoy it while they still exist . ⚔️
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Manchester City exist, in part, because of Sheffield United/Sheffield the city.

Manchester was a rugby city in the late 1800s and, despite the early success of the Lancashire clubs further north (Blackburn Olympic, Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End), that didn’t change.

However, the train lines built from Manchester to Sheffield is what began to change things. Sheffield was a football city and along that train line football clubs started popping up that hadn’t been previously seen as people could travel to Sheffield and could take in football. They’d go back to their areas and want to start a football club.

Glossop North End were an early one, Hurst were the biggest club in the Manchester area in the early years… then the clubs you see the Newton Heath who were related to a railway company and St Marks/Gorton/Ardwick clubs who were on the Sheffield line who had people involved that eventually formed City in 1894.
 
SSBlue said:
In fairness the PL is worth £billions now so there's a lot more at stake if it loses appeal. But City's period of dominance has gone hand-in-hand with the TV contracts increasing massively.
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Indeed. Our title races, final day excitement and the players we’ve bought and teams we’ve built are what has had the biggest impact on the worldwide interest in the PL and what has driven the sharp rise in TV deals most.
 
I'm out on a family do in the Northern Quarter today. Anyone know any decent pubs around there I can sneak off and watch it in.

Cheers blues!
 
Here now in boozer just a heads up one of the old school bbc has said there going in Wetherspoons apparently, be careful if you are heading that way don’t know how true this is but thought I’d pass it on, in somewhere called champs £2.75 a pint seems ok sport on etc
 
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