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buddy..........IT'S CALLED ECONOMICS. Soccer is a business. Your favorite club is not playing soccer because they want to entertain you. They play because the owners want to make money. Owning a soccer franchise is no different than owning a restaurant franchise. It's not "sickening". The best way to make money as a sports franchise is to have a winning team, and the best way to have a winning team is to have good players. Players and managers are paid what they are worth. When you hear of giant contracts, the players are being paid exactly what they deserve. I am an American NBA fan. LeBron James makes $31 million this season. He is worth every penny. Why? Because he brings in a gently caress ton more money than $31 million. Yes, professional athletes are paid a lot. They deserve it.
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UnlimitedSpessmans posted:They play because the owners want to make money.
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For those who don't know, these are supporters of a club that has literally only existed for two years.
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Nostradingus posted:For those who don't know, these are supporters of a club that has literally only existed for two years.
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Owned by gazillionaire oil sheiks.
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Playing in a baseball stadium that cost a whole lot of money.
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kolarov having one of the highest scores lol https://twitter.com/WhoScored/status/808311258118287360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw lol https://twitter.com/ManUtdUSA/status/808677565376274432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Crazy Ted posted:Oh man is this guy in for a rude surprise Whatever. Replace make money with launder money in some cases. He is still right.
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this was all over the news obs, and i wish i was at the gathering of old white men who came up with these great ideas
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Jesus Christ.
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This would work for me too tbh
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The Big Taff Man posted:This would work for me too tbh Most of them aren't even that ridiculous.
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fat gay nonce posted:Most of them aren't even that ridiculous. Like the middle two are absolutely fine (and should be incorporated across the board really, no-one wants a smelly bib and gently caress playing in -5c sleet), it's the "i.e. coffee shops/on the back of toilet doors" that gets me, because clearly only girls like a coffee or a poo poo. The last one is just ridiculous.
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Here's the full report http://www.thefa.com/~/media/files/pdf/womens/attracting-new-girls-and-women-into-football2.ashx?la=en
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blue footed boobie posted:Here's the full report
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blue footed boobie posted:Here's the full report "Have a variety of different balls in your bag and let the girls choose which one to use"
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I had to have a belly laugh at the posts from blogs and websites getting giddy that Pep Guardiola, when asked about my MirrorFootball column, looked puzzled and asked: "Stan Collymore?” They’ve had a field day, gleefully saying “he doesn’t know who you are etc” which, bearing in mind most of these journalists wouldn’t be recognised in their own front room, makes it even funnier. If Pep doesn’t know who I am, that’s absolutely fine, all he needs to do is watch Sky Sports, there’s usually the 4-3 game (Liverpool vs Newcastle, 1996) on, or used in an advert. Maybe he could give the former manager of his current club, Stuart Pearce, a call and ask him about who Nottingham Forest’s greatest 11 is, managed by a true great of the game, rather than one spoon fed lots of cash to get success. Or ask Robbie Fowler, Liverpool legend, and someone I’m sure Pep knows the name of, who his best strike partner was amongst Owen, Rush, Viduka, Shearer, Cole et al. ... And to all of those bloggers and journos laughing in Pep’s press conference today at my expense, I’ve won awards in YOUR industry and have a 15-year playing career to back it up. If Pep genuinely dismisses me, just imagine what he thinks of you! I’m comfortable not being known by Pep - Brian Clough knew who I was and rated me highly. He was a double European Cup winner who did it from scratch, not from an Abu Dhabi or Qatar silver spoon. I’ll make sure I state my name, National Union of Journalists' number and full address when I’m next at the Etihad, just in case Pep, just in case. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/its-fine-pep-guardiola-doesnt-9452252
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holy poo poo what a meltdown
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Lenin Riefenstahl posted:It can't be real 
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straight up brolic posted:Jesus Christ they are either ridiculously daft or obviously trolling "Soccercise is an instructor led aerobic exercise or circuit class, typically lasting 45 – 60 mins in length. It can be delivered indoors or outdoors and combines a variety of fitness exercises with a football." "Play music alongside participation. You could allow the group to choose their own playlist (as long as it’s suitable!)" "Allow girls the time to check their phones within a session or incorporate a twitter break so participants can tweet about the session" "Based on the idea that women like to exercise together, consider targeting existing groups of women i.e. gym classes/mother and daughter groups" "Slogan Suggestion: Keep calm and play football" oh my god this is too good to be true
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Crazy Ted posted:Well you'd think so, but this is England we're talking about... COME ON OUR GIRL_S
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Lenin Riefenstahl posted:It can't be real I'm assuming that they gave a marketing company a pile of money to come up with a strategy for making the game more appealing to women, and that's what the marketing company shat out. And of course the FA just distributed it on its letterhead because they're incompetent.
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abuse culture. posted:COME ON OUR GIRL_S
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blue footed boobie posted:I'm assuming that they gave a marketing company a pile of money to come up with a strategy for making the game more appealing to women, and that's what the marketing company shat out. And of course the FA just distributed it on its letterhead because they're incompetent. It seems like someone wrote the report in good faith and then thought, "I'm going to insert some crazy poo poo to prove no one reads these things."
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EvilHawk posted:it's the "i.e. coffee shops/on the back of toilet doors" that gets me, because clearly only girls like a coffee or a poo poo. To be fair, bathroom stall ads are just the women's equivalent of the ones above urinals, it's not crazy to advertise poo poo in the washroom
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A lot of this reminds me of parents giving me their helpful teaching tips which demonstrated they had no idea about kids in general, and specifically their own kids. imagine going up to a girl's team trainer and telling them maybe they should use pink bibs and twitter breaks?
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I'm sure millions of women were sitting around thinking "Wow I'd sure love to play football, if only they offered me a pink lanyard for showing up three times"
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vyelkin posted:I'm sure millions of women were sitting around thinking "Wow I'd sure love to play football, if only they offered me a pink lanyard for showing up three times" The ones that want to play football already do. It's about tricking other ones into it to bump up numbers for diversity quotas. I recommend more focus on the shoes.
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sassassin posted:The ones that want to play football already do. Right thread.
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sassassin posted:The ones that want to play football already do. how could there possibly be more focus on boots than there already is? LOL at all your shite-house fuckers playing co-ed wearing $100 plus boots in neon colours, basically anything that ain't addidas world cups or puma kings shows you to be a massive tool
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JFairfax posted:how could there possibly be more focus on boots than there already is? The cheapest boots are usually pretty brightly colored, at least here in the US.
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see now all we have to do is have this conversation about football shoes around some girls and they'll be sure to want to play
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shut the gently caress up and post some terrible football related poo poo https://twitter.com/TrollFootball/status/808788049769406465
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JFairfax posted:I had to have a belly laugh at the posts from blogs and websites getting giddy that Pep Guardiola, when asked about my MirrorFootball column, looked puzzled and asked: "Stan Collymore?” "I'm not owned! I'm not owned!"
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