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Tokyo Sexwale posted:wait until US Arsenal fans realize that Stan Kroenke is a cheap fucker and only wants this Super League for the easy payouts, and Arsenal gets clowned on by the European elite every year and ends up in the bottom half every season wait until Stan Kroenke, a man who was sued by his hometown for taking the NFL team to Los Angeles for profit, has a continent of hooligans out for his blood
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Tokyo Sexwale posted:wait until US Arsenal fans realize that Stan Kroenke is a cheap fucker and only wants this Super League for the easy payouts, and Arsenal gets clowned on by the European elite every year and ends up in the bottom half every season keep going i'm almost there
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FullLeatherJacket posted:I mean, Football Club United of Manchester is literally just jumbling up the existing words until nonsense falls out (it was originally just FC United until someone at the FA pointed out that you have to be named after a place). This isn't the case - e.g. Fisher Athletic (named after a saint), Airbus and all the other works teams that still lurk in the lower reaches of the pyramid, and absolutely shitloads of amateur teams with names like Premier 2 FC (an actual youth team in London, called that because there was already a Premier FC registered somewhere else). Traditionally clubs are named for a place, even if the place is just a pub, but it's not a rule. The name came out of an extremely convoluted series of suggestions slapped down for various reasons - it started with AFC Manchester United, following on from AFC Wimbledon, but this caused every lawyer in the country to get an erection. AFC Manchester followed but was voted down because they wanted to keep the connection with United, AFC United similarly was voted down because they wanted to keep the connection to Manchester. AFC Newton Heath was already copyrighted by a sneaky bastard possibly connected to Man U. At some point they dropped the "A" (there's allegations of drama between the AFC Wimbledon people who were helping the Mancs but I don't know if that's the reason). and "FC United of Manchester" resulted from one of those "A horse designed by committee is a camel" series of meetings and focus groups. *Allegedly* it was supposed to symbolise that they were United and blah blah blah but I prefer the theory that they chose it because the acronym "FCUM" sounds like "gently caress 'em". (Source - my former boss was heavily involved in the early days of the club but ended up leaving because he really didn't get on with some of the others involved)
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Klopp is not particularly happy with this one. https://twitter.com/MelissaReddy_/status/1384210849116540928
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US Arsenal fans are *not* ready to become the pittsburgh pirates of the Supraliga
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bawfuls posted:odds are Matty doesn't know the Champions League exists odds are he’s never thought about football before in his life
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This isn't the case - e.g. Fisher Athletic (named after a saint), Airbus and all the other works teams that still lurk in the lower reaches of the pyramid, and absolutely shitloads of amateur teams with names like Premier 2 FC (an actual youth team in London, called that because there was already a Premier FC registered somewhere else). Traditionally clubs are named for a place, even if the place is just a pub, but it's not a rule. I am a FCUM member but don't post anything on their boards or really have any association outside of 'yup, that's a club I follow' and...yeah it's basically this. Also it's great every few weeks to see the lowest stakes fights about nothing break out in their facebook group. Great comedy, would support angry breakaway fan club team again.
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Slotducks posted:US Arsenal fans are *not* ready to become the pittsburgh pirates of the Supraliga I figure that'll be Tottenham's role
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Slotducks posted:US Arsenal fans are *not* ready to become the pittsburgh pirates of the Supraliga I've never had my rear end kicked by a post harder than this
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skaboomizzy posted:I figure that'll be Tottenham's role there's enough to go around
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rear end cobra posted:love the american takes Uh no, they don't count? Sorry that the most uneducated casual fans don't get equal say to the local fans and organizations that built them into a club that a douchebag billionaire would consider buying. Like, the American system of perpetual leagues came about because groups of owners were competing to be the only game in town and eventually they ran out competition. The European Leagues allowed all comers and have organically created powerhouse teams that are worth something. And now because Barca had good branding awareness and made sure that Messi was associated with shoes or whatever the gently caress on other continents doesn't just excuse their history or the reality of competition. Sorry that some dipshit casual fan can't name any other teams. That doesn't mean that game or league between famous teams will be any good.
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ZeeBoi posted:lol leeds offered liverpool "earn it on the pitch" shirts for warm-ups and it made klopp mad leeds being back in the PL has been great trolling.
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Purely coincidentally, on club name chat, I've just discovered there's a Guru Nanak FC
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rear end cobra posted:love the american takes Who the gently caress are these dipshits
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This isn't the case - e.g. Fisher Athletic (named after a saint), Airbus and all the other works teams that still lurk in the lower reaches of the pyramid, and absolutely shitloads of amateur teams with names like Premier 2 FC (an actual youth team in London, called that because there was already a Premier FC registered somewhere else). Traditionally clubs are named for a place, even if the place is just a pub, but it's not a rule. BUG JUG posted:I am a FCUM member but don't post anything on their boards or really have any association outside of 'yup, that's a club I follow' and...yeah it's basically this. Also it's great every few weeks to see the lowest stakes fights about nothing break out in their facebook group. Great comedy, would support angry breakaway fan club team again. I remember there being a fan vote on the name at some stage, but the working title before anything got put in place was always some version of 'FC United' so nobody liked any of the other options, then at some stage it became FCUM, that's as much as I remember tbh and no idea what was discussed at board level I do remember liking AFC Manchester 1878 a lot, which isn't the specific reason it got rejected but can't have helped
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Bape Culture posted:Who the gently caress are these dipshits debate ~culture~
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Bape Culture posted:Who the gently caress are these dipshits professional american business dipshits
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its time to kill all the rich people and end capitalism imho
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Slaapaav posted:its time to kill all the rich people and end capitalism imho if this is what causes that, i welcome it.
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loving Americans still at it https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1384145642268725258?s=19 ok this one is trolling
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1384180818973581313?s=19 qualifying for the big cash money competition via investing in your team and having them deliver good results in your league = not the best teams being auto-guaranteed a spot in the big cash money competition so owners can rake in the cash without having to deliver any results, american style = the best teams
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mila kunis posted:qualifying for the big cash money competition via investing in your team and having them deliver good results in your league = not the best teams Please don't even try to engage with Matty Y, even typing up this post took more conscious effort than he puts into his braindead takes How can one person have the access and position he does and be so sublimely ignorant and stupid
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ZeeBoi posted:lol leeds offered liverpool "earn it on the pitch" shirts for warm-ups and it made klopp mad Fantastic
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ShutteredIn posted:Americans are into it of course
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this could be a great thread for shitposting if we get away from alexi lalas and matt yglesias tweets imo
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apropos of nothing i am reminded of the time lalas was co-hosting fox’s world cup programming or something and he was holding a fork instead of a pen
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Swoopin in with some takes *eagle shriek*
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No-one gives a gently caress what Alexi Lalas thinks or says. Now if Jozy Altidore has any takes on the situation, that'd be different.
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Probably a year in I guess there will be super league tours abroad PES or rando iOS dev gonna get on ground floor for some super league
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it's not just americans with the dipshit takes, everyone settle down https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1384219019390033927
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