Recent content by Hansa

Haven't really followed this thread, so just a couple of random thoughts: I cancelled my PL subscription this summer, and I'm glad I did. This takeover wiped out the last bit of enthusiasm for the English game (my interest in the Champions League waned a long time ago), and the PL deserves...

Great atmosphere, but that Seven Nation Army-crap after goals annoys the hell out of me, no matter which team does it.

This should carry absolutely no weight. Half the country has either no interest in football, or outright hates it. If you gave me a similar question about the Eurovision Song Contest or whatever, I'd probably call for a boycott, no matter what the cause.

What is it with people saying "he had played the ball, so no penalty"?:houllier:

That doesn't really matter. Otherwise you could just do whatever you want with a player after he has played the ball.

Morata, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm surprised you didn't regard eating surströmming at any time of the year as a cardinal sin :)

Eating surströmming and drinking glögg today in honour of our neighbours in the east. Come on you yellow bastards!

We can get the second best option, though - that the Glazers finally wake up and realize that draining the club of resources will have consequences. With continued protests, they might eventually get their act together and make some firm promises about the running of the club.

Warning: Incoming rant about the Champions League. :) There's one thing the "Super League big 12" have managed to do (and you've got to hand it to them), and that is to convince the majority of fans in England over the last couple of decades that "nobody wants to watch [insert two quite decent...

Yeah, you can almost tell the age of a fan by the disdain they have for teams outside the top 15, not realizing that many of these teams were pretty damned good before the centralization of power and money in the game.

Yes, I am relatively optimistic that the European market will turn its back on this project. But I think it's quite clear that they are targeting a very young demographic, the ones who might become paying customers for the next few decades. Shorter games, maybe a penalty shoot-out after every...

While I'm not opposed to the Champions League as a format, I miss the level playing field we had before. I wrote in another thread about the first year of CL football, where the group stages had teams from Sweden, Belgium and Russia, but not England, Germany and Spain. Then the big nations began...

To be a fan in America/Asia, you really need to be a night creature. For the first time, they can move games to cater for these markets, and they will.

Yeah, but I'm thinking: What will the atmosphere be like? If English fans boycott the damned thing, the games wouldn't exactly have an electric atmosphere. In contrast, if the fan groups/ultras around Europe (Germany, France, Turkey, etc) get their act together in what becomes the new Champions...