The best league in the world?

It’s a globally televised soap opera that needs to create and perpetuate narratives and storylines. AFCB are one side character on show. We were assigned a part for our first couple of seasons but have long since outlived the script given to us.

I can recognise all that but also look past it, as all I really care about is AFCB, game by game in whatever league we find ourselves in.

Long may we keep refusing to stick to our lines.
 
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I couldn’t care less if it is or not but if it isn’t the best league in the world what is?

As a neutral the only league I ever watch when afcb aren’t in it is the Championship…not sure people elsewhere in Europe would hold the same view?
 
RobTrent said:
Well done on answering your own question in the very next sentence.
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Yes I'm making a point that it's all a load of crap perpetuated by certain media companies who have a vested interest in spinning it. Next you'll be telling me that Gillette isn't the best a man can get and that Carlsberg probably isn't the best lager in the world.
 
SlowDownDerek said:
Yes I'm making a point that it's all a load of crap perpetuated by certain media companies who have a vested interest in spinning it. Next you'll be telling me that Gillette isn't the best a man can get and that Carlsberg probably isn't the best lager in the world.
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It’s ok. You admitted you were wrong, but there’s no need to spin it off into a different subject. ;-)

Ps. DuckDuckGo makes the whole Vitals experience so much better on my phone.
 
thegazzyb said:
Can't disagree with any of that and to be honest I never bought into the notion of the EPL being the best league in the world in the first place !

The PL needs to be very careful because decisions like those we experienced on Saturday are starting to make the league seem "quite suspect" to foreign markets. The commentators on Spanish DAZN were struggling to see how the penalty could be given AND how our goal was disallowed. Things like that will devalue the PL to foreign markets if they don't get a grip of it. Nobody is going to pay top dollar for TV rights to a league which they sense is being manipulated.

Glad to be in this league of course, but there is a lot to dislike about how the league is run !
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It's weird the level of acceptance I had for both of those decisions. I wasn't angry, just resigned.
 
Def_II_Royalz said:
It's weird the level of acceptance I had for both of those decisions. I wasn't angry, just resigned.
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I know. Me too. But it did please me to hear the commentators querying both decisions and asking for the viewers' opinions on Twitter ( old school me ! ) etc.
That was some meagre consolation. It is starting to be noticed !

Apparently some junior Cherries are starting to tell their Dads that they don't want to go on away days to the top six anymore, because they don't see the point.

That really is a sad indictment of how far-off kilter things have become.
And to be honest, the kids have a point !
 
thegazzyb said:
I know. Me too. But it did please me to hear the commentators querying both decisions and asking for the viewers' opinions on Twitter ( old school me ! ) etc.
That was some meagre consolation. It is starting to be noticed !

Apparently some junior Cherries are starting to tell their Dads that they don't want to go on away days to the top six anymore, because they don't see the point.

That really is a sad indictment of how far-off kilter things have become.
And to be honest, the kids have a point !
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Where have you heard that?
 
RobTrent said:
It’s ok. You admitted you were wrong, but there’s no need to spin it off into a different subject. ;-)

Ps. DuckDuckGo makes the whole Vitals experience so much better on my phone.
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Lol, what? I'm making a point about the term "best league in the world" being a load of old b*llocks that means nothing to me as a supporter. I'm not wrong about that.
 
RobTrent said:
I don’t watch in case Neil shows up ;-)

Just kidding.
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Yes, I think that was the one actually :p, although I watch a few so can't be 100% sure. Some Dad post match was saying that his lad no longer wanted to go to big six away matches because it feels like we will never be allowed to win whatever we do. Probably not true, but sad that he feels that way and I can certainly understand WHY he feels that way !
 
In response to a couple, I’m not getting all ‘rose tinted’ about what away days at the likes of Oldham and Hartlepool were like. I genuinely get as much pleasure seeing us play at these grounds as I do at the Emirates etc. the pleasure for me is not about who we are playing or how high up the ladder we are, it’s about following my local team. Of course I want to see us be as successful as possible but my word, the journey is better than the destination.

Like many in the Bournemouth area, if it was really that important to me to follow a team in the top division then I would just have followed Saints in the first place.

In my twenty + years of supporting us if I had to rank my top five seasons it would be:

1- 14/15 championship promotion
2- 09/10 league 2 embargo promotion
3- 12/13 league one promotion making the championship got the first time in my life time
4- 08/09 -17 great escape
5- 02/03 Play off win

Although we all want us to be progressing and competing at the highest level possible, the paradox is that spending years in this league just existing like many others is robbing us of potential special memories and moments. The kind of moments that what being a supporter are all about. If we got to Europe then maybe I’d feel differently, but with the funds being Newcastle and Villa even that is becoming ever more unlikely now.

I feel genuinely sorry for Palace fans, what have they had to enjoy over the pad ten years? Staying up. That’s it.
 
Waz afcb said:
In response to a couple, I’m not getting all ‘rose tinted’ about what away days at the likes of Oldham and Hartlepool were like. I genuinely get as much pleasure seeing us play at these grounds as I do at the Emirates etc. the pleasure for me is not about who we are playing or how high up the ladder we are, it’s about following my local team. Of course I want to see us be as successful as possible but my word, the journey is better than the destination.

Like many in the Bournemouth area, if it was really that important to me to follow a team in the top division then I would just have followed Saints in the first place.

In my twenty + years of supporting us if I had to rank my top five seasons it would be:

1- 14/15 championship promotion
2- 09/10 league 2 embargo promotion
3- 12/13 league one promotion making the championship got the first time in my life time
4- 08/09 -17 great escape
5- 02/03 Play off win

Although we all want us to be progressing and competing at the highest level possible, the paradox is that spending years in this league just existing like many others is robbing us of potential special memories and moments. The kind of moments that what being a supporter are all about. If we got to Europe then maybe I’d feel differently, but with the funds being Newcastle and Villa even that is becoming ever more unlikely now.

I feel genuinely sorry for Palace fans, what have they had to enjoy over the pad ten years? Staying up. That’s it.
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Just to give the devil his due: spending years in this soap opera is the only way we might finally be able to increase capacity and get more locals, youngsters in to see the team (accepting it’ll bring tourists also). Time will tell!
 
thegazzyb said:
I know. Me too. But it did please me to hear the commentators querying both decisions and asking for the viewers' opinions on Twitter ( old school me ! ) etc.
That was some meagre consolation. It is starting to be noticed !

Apparently some junior Cherries are starting to tell their Dads that they don't want to go on away days to the top six anymore, because they don't see the point.

That really is a sad indictment of how far-off kilter things have become.
And to be honest, the kids have a point !
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The kids need to man up and the parents need to sit them down and recall good old days when we might get 1 or 2 away wins all season, and those were probably on a wet Tuesday night up north somewhere ;)
 
redharry said:
The kids need to man up and the parents need to sit them down and recall good old days when we might get 1 or 2 away wins all season, and those were probably on a wet Tuesday night up north somewhere ;)
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Totally agree. They should be glad that they have a Dad who can take them to the football in the first place.
I would have given my right arm to have had that as a kid !

My Dad was too busy hacking lumps of coal from the pit face to take me to football. By the time he'd trudged home through the snow, adjusted the chain and pumped the tyres on our three speed Sturmey-Archer family transport and I'd finally climbed onto the rear rack, it was inevitably already too late to make even a very late Dean Court kickoff, never mind an away day !

Kids these days, eh ? Don't know they're born ! :p
 
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The best league in the world? Probably not. The most marketable? 100%. We have clubs owned by countries that have staggering amounts of money to invest in playing staff and then pay them staggering amounts of money per week. The money attracts the best players in the world to those clubs which keeps the sales rights of the league the highest in the world. There's no fun watching Man Cheaty win the league every season and the fact that are likely to win their fourth in a row shows how uncompetitive the league is becoming. But , the masses abroad who follow Man Cheaty ,Man Utd ,Liverpool or Arsenal, purchase the merchandise and are willing to pay £100's of pounds to watch a match when visiting the country want to see these teams scoring 4 or 5 goals every week. It's entertainment. The FA generates incomprehensible amounts of money from viewing rights and tournament final ticket prices so why would they care how disjointed the league is becoming? As long as the money keeps rolling in , eh? The notion that an uncompetitive league does nothing for the supporters who follows the teams outside the top 6 or 8 means nothing to the FA. When the Euro Super league arrives they're going to sh1t themselves. It will be interesting to see what happens when the FA finally grows the balls to penalise Man Cheaty for their 100+ misdemeanors. Would relegation to L2 lead to them push hard for the super league or would they look to build their way back up through the divisions. Can you see Foden strolling out at Fleetwood, or Haaland banging them in at Grimsby, Grealish falling over at Gillingham? There's no way that the FA will let that happen nor the owners of the club. Especially when it's the FA itself that promotes this division as the best in the world. I have a feeling many supporters of many clubs in it would disagree
 
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