Newcastle , Sunderland , Wednesday are huge clubs without the plastic tossers United, Liverpool and Leeds have
Newcastle fanatical support comes almost exclusively from the area
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Newcastle , Sunderland , Wednesday are huge clubs without the plastic tossers United, Liverpool and Leeds have
Newcastle fanatical support comes almost exclusively from the area
The amount if money involved in football now, is verging on the obscene, and has been for a while.
Whether fans agree with it, or the mechanics and morality of it all, is a discussion that could go on for ever.
If more foreign wealth is gonna come into the British game, then i for one, am glad it’s Newcastle.
Their fans have been loyal for what seems an eternity, and apart from the odd flirtation with potential success, have been rewarded with the middle of a doughnut.
It will be a great watch if they begin to ruffle a few bigger feathers..
You are telling me that lots of people in Cardiff wear Cardiff City tops ?
Maybe on matchday when fans from all over South wales are there but not in the way they do in Swansea, there is a very strong link between Swansea the football club and it's population , mostly because of top flight football and an active community programme
Cardiff City just expect people to support them
The percentage of Swanseas population who watch them is far higher than Cardiff
I don't live in Cardiff
I am there all the time though
Even down the bay in the summer you see more man United and Liverpool tops than Cardiff
It simply isn't a city where the population gets behind its football team like they do in Derby, Forest , Sheffield , Portsmouth and even Swansea
Sludge, I was like you once, convinced we would never average more than 25,000 if we became an established Premier League club, but our average gate in 18/19. when we were in the top ten in the country, proved me wrong. I used to call the Ninian Stand extension "Tan's folly", but our last season in the Premier League proved that there was a need for it. While Cardiff will never be a hotbed of football support for the club that represents it, things have moved on since your formed your opinions.
Wearing your teams shirt around the town through the week doesn’t appeal to me.
I don’t think you can gauge a teams support by it either.
What is a fact though, is the 4 times we played at Wembley recently we sold out our allocation, and could have sold a lot more, and as ToBW has mentioned, we had tremendous support in the Premiership.
That tells me, that we have a massive hometown fanbase when the team are doing well.
You could say from that, that we have a lot of fair weather fans. Or you could say that the good folk of Cardiff, will get behind their team when the club are showing ambition and playing well, but are too cute to just spend their hard earned, blindly following the team when they are serving up dross.
We have a tremendous hard-core support
It's just everyone else vanishes if we are not doing well
We can pull em in , we have a huge catchment area .......its getting them to stay that's the matter
Was having a coffee a few years ago in a cafe , group of cyclists turned up
Bloke saw my city badge , said I wasxa season ticket holder when city were in the Premier league .......under malky ......I said do you still get down there now ? He said no , I am a Liverpool fan , said he went to see city play the big clubs
I am afraid South Wales is full ofvthese fans and big crowds in the Premier league mean nothing if they do a runner
Agreed ... have always had a soft spot for both NUFC & SFC.
The money invested will immediately benefit the locality.
There is no limit on spending on infrastructure (training facilities / academy etc)
They can increase capacity or build 100k stadium if they want.
There is a limit on how much they can spend on the team ... FFP
Did not realise about the 15/19 Saudis involved in the NY attacks, but the deal has been done so there is no point digging up issues related to the country who is one of the UKs best customers.
We’ve barely skimmed the surface in Cardiff itself….if 10% followed us that would be 40,000 people, let alone Barry, penarth etc which are all but connected anyway. It’s hardly surprising, the club does little to market itself in the city, but it will put on buses to the valleys to get them here.
Encouraging and pleasing thing in work this morning, the bloke doing the dry lining had his two young lads with him, about 13 & 14, one had a City top on (which pleased me no end). They were helping dropping plaster boards off. I wasn’t aware that one of the lads, bloke in his 30s, doing the boarding was a ahem ‘Liverpool’ fan, the youngsters knew though and the one in the City top shouted ‘Liverpool wanker’ at him as they were leaving