All fans please - 'myfootballclub' - the poll.

[kained&able]

Could you explain to me why it would be good for a small club to lose their identity and become an utter novelty. Then can you explain why it is different for a big club?

Oh and I believe Oxford won a major trophy more recently than West Ham so I dunno what that means.

yes thats right oxford are a bigger club then west ham. Thank you for putting me right. Well done.

A small club that is about to go out of business gets to survive thats abpout the only draw for a scheme like this. If a real chairmen has finances then obviously that is preferable. If a club can't even be run on a shoe string then why not. Its worth one club having an experiment at least.


dave

 

[tangerinedream]

yes thats right oxford are a bigger club then west ham. Thank you for putting me right. Well done.

A small club that is about to go out of business gets to survive thats abpout the only draw for a scheme like this. If a real chairmen has finances then obviously that is preferable. If a club can't even be run on a shoe string then why not. Its worth one club having an experiment at least.


dave

Glad to pass on a bit of wisdom - anytime.

Fair enough if you meant a team that had no other way to survive - it wasn't clear that you meant that. It seemed as if you were saying all 'little' clubs might as well do it. Which you weren't. So there we go.

 

[bigbry]

As a Coventry fan I definitely don't want my team taken over by a bunch of internet nerds and run by committee

Would you rather your club was taken over by a bunch of random football fans from the internets, or Ken Bates?

But then again ................ where do I send my fiver to when faced with that sort of choice.

 

[JTG]

i think for a smaller team, it might work but anyone in the championship, premiership, it isn't a goer really is it

I don't see that argument really. Either it's a good idea or it isn't, I don't see how the size of the club is important at all.

How would it be a good idea for Swansea but not for Hull?

 

[JTG]

yes thats right oxford are a bigger club then west ham. Thank you for putting me right. Well done.

Well Oxford have won more in the last 25 years than West Ham have

 

[zenie]

Yeah Oxford are a tiny club aren't they

wycombe?

 

[tangerinedream]

So far we have Marius, a Cardiff fan (championship) and tbaldwin (who I can't remember who he/she supports) - Interesting how lots of people keep telling us how it's a great idea for all little clubs, yet the fans of the 'little clubs' don't seem to agree.

Any comment on this from those who back the scheme? Don't you find it alarming that your presumptions about 3rd, 4th and 5th tier fans are seemingly verywrong? Will you be backing out of the scheme in the light of this poll?

 

[Gromit]

Langston might be selling Cardiff to Myfootballclub soon the way things are going.

Point proved. Backroom bastrads fucking with our club, I'd rather a group of well intentioned strangers not looking to get rich.

 

[tangerinedream]

Langston might be selling Cardiff to Myfootballclub soon the way things are going.

Point proved. Backroom bastrads fucking with our club, I'd rather a group of well intentioned strangers not looking to get rich.

Oh, I can see that - not having a go at you at all. The curse of Ridsdale and all that, just interested as to see what them who keep telling other people how they feel about this takeover idea will respond to the poll.

 

[JTG]

well I support a 'little' club and I love being told what's good for me by people who think they're qualified to comment because they watch Chelsea occasionally in the pub.

 

[tangerinedream]

I just want to say, well done for ringing, because people like you really are the life and soul of football, I think it's great you watch your pointless little clubs in your pokey little grounds and sing your quaint old songs, oh yes, Bristol Rovers, oh, very good, Really are, true fan, new ground as well eh, thing must be looking up, great. Now what was it you wanted to say?, Sorry, it's time for the news and sport, then Dean from Whitley Bay wants to talk about Ole Gunnar Solskaar's scrotum. Can't wait. Keep those calls coming to the home of football and well done to the guy from Bristol City for ringing in, tremendous, great, grassroots, Heres Susan Bookbinder with the news

don't forget 606.

 

[JTG]

Marvellous

 

[Gromit]

don't forget 606.

You mean racist 606 who enforce against any anti-english sentiment but anti-welsh sentiment is fine and not racism.

 

[tangerinedream]

You mean racist 606 who enforce against any anti-english sentiment but anti-welsh sentiment is fine and not racism.

That'll be the one.

The only beeb presenter I can stick is Adrian Chiles, and then only cos he's amenable and he seems to have some vague sense of being a fan. The rest of them I'd like to burn in a big bonfire. I hate Alan Green so much that I hate Spoony and Mark 'Lawro - ooh, I love the colour of those shirts, c'mon lets be reasonable, would Graham Souness have had all those jobs if he was really so bad?' Lawrenson considerably less than him.

Then we'd have 'Red Hot Soccer Chat'

 

[JTG]

I've come to the conclusion that liking and appreciating football is a very, very small time pursuit in Britain.

parroting the opinions of ill informed nobheads on the telly/radio is a national sport however

 

[tangerinedream]

The only time 606 has ever been good was when Danny Baker did it.

There has never, ever been anyone who has otherwise made it entertaining. It was only good when Baker did it, because he tried to make the effort to talk about stuff like 'Which footballer is most medievil looking' and 'Has your mum ever made you an unoficial club strip' or 'How bad is the worst player at your club - let's find the worst player in the whole league'

It's cringeworthy when Green tries to do things like this, because he doesn't get it. Baker used to piss himself genuinely when some guy rung up going on about his home knitted Leyton Orient kit or something like that.

He also used to boot people off who rang in with calls like "I want to talk about Chelsea's injury crisis" unless they had a theory like - "I reckon it's because Frank Lebeouf is cursed cos he looks a bit like an Egyptian mummy"

Why do they give 6 or 7 hours a week to people talking about

"I think Wayne Rooney's metatarsal is a big blow, but Jermain Defore should be in the England Team in his place because he's been arround for a few years and deserves a chance"

then another muppet saying

I think Darren Bent deserves his chance actually, cos he is better than Jermain Defoe

It's not in the SLIGHTEST BIT INTERESTING. AGHHHH It is a show with no soul, no humour, no love, no energy, no nothing. It's anodyne and bland, stale and repetitive.

I know Baker is a tosser in some respects, but he was the only person who ever understood that the culture and ephemera of the game is inherantly more interesting than the 'burning issues.' He recognised that probably, most people who tuned in had been to watch a crappy 0-1 defeat away from home in the rain and wanted a bit of laugh or a proper rant. I don't care about Chris Evans and all that, give me him over anyone else now.

The muppets that do all these shows just don't get it - They're not, never have been and never will be fans. They're self styled experts who havn't paid to get into a game for 30 years, if ever.

Why? Why? Why?

 

[tangerinedream]

Here are just a few of the items you might have missed:
*The Bradford City fan who sold his sexuality to the devil at Old Mother Shiptons wishing well so that his team would make the play-offs. They did. His girlfriend then dumped him and, ever since, no other human being has so much as sniffed his now redundant regenerative organs.
*The callers who dressed-up as Standard Liege scouts and visit top British teams where they are wined and dined and generally treated like royalty.
*The poetry of John Toshack.
*The various callers who claimed that Brian Kilcline - the "rough looking", six-foot five ex-Coventry player, "dabbles in the dark arts" and used to live in a house full of manikins dressed in period costume.
*The goalkeeper arrested for murder during a game shortly after he tried to cut off his wife's lovers' penis with a carving knife.
*How Redknapp translates into Dutch as "sore penis".
*The Manchester City player who, when Alan Ball was manager, allegedly commented: "If he mentions 1966 again I'll shove that medal up his fingermousing*** arse."
*The keeper with a diagnosed bladder problem who saved a 'Beckham-style lob' whilst relieving himself in his ever-present portable urinal.
*The keeper who deflected a shot onto the head of a female OAP spectator. Who promptly dies.
*And last, but definitely not least, there's Joanne - the young lady who phoned the show claming to have slept with three players from the same Premiership tea. And their manager. And who, for the next 10 weeks, continued to call in with details of her further conquests, all from the same team. Who had to be rushed to hospital mid-coitus with 'twisted testicles'. Although most of the details were kept off for obvious legal reasons, Joanne did describe one "three-in-a-bed romp" where the two footballers leapt out of bed stark naked and proceeded to re-create a goal for her. Using a Ferrero Rocher as a football.
But the world is full of boring bastards and not everybody gets this bizarre punk/fanzine/Cockney music hall mix. Between them the duo have been sacked more times than Ron Atkinson. Long time Baker-watchers have fond memories of the ex-NME hack, ex Daz salesmanand ex-chat show host literally screaming at his wretched BBC producer: "Why are you putting calls like this through? I keep telling you! You idiot! We're not that kind of show!"

*The various callers who claimed that Brian Kilcline - the "rough looking", six-foot five ex-Coventry player, "dabbles in the dark arts" and used to live in a house full of manikins dressed in period costume.

If the entire output of Alan Green's life contains a concept this interesting as the above one. I'll eat a garden shed or something. I really will. I don't care if it's not true.

Brian Kilcline surrounded by manikins dressed in period costume. It's the best thing ever.

 

[JTG]

*stands and applauds*

 

[JTG]

I met Kilcline in a motorway service area once on my way home from some game somewhere or other. He was at Swindon at the time.

He is ten times scarier in real life than he looks. He didn't have any mannequins with him though.

 

[JTG]

I was on some Baker and Kelly show on a saturday morning once as well. I phoned in 'cos I actually knew where Albion Rovers play (still do).

They kept me on for the rest of the day as their expert on the location of obscure football teams in residence. Booted me off when I fell down on the precise location of Marine though

 

[twistedAM]

I met Kilcline in a motorway service area once on my way home from some game somewhere or other. He was at Swindon at the time.

He is ten times scarier in real life than he looks. He didn't have any mannequins with him though.

Did you look in the back of his hearse???

 

[tangerinedream]

I never rung Baker and Kelly but I did have a 10 minute converstation with our charismatic owner Owen Oyston on Local Radio where I said he was a liar. He'd just sacked wor Billy Ayre (rip)

I'm listening to an old one I found on interweb. It's got stories about a player who had to wear a sports bra and a pitch marked out in vim.

I must have heard your call cos I used to listen religously.