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Nebbiolo

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I don't know anything about their soccer clubs other than some of the names. But just after Backham had moved to LA, I saw a programme on TV regarding it (in the UK). There was a vote on which clubs were most popular. Predictably, everyone chose clubs from the bigger cities such as LA Galaxy and New York Bulls (I think). The team with the least support, happened to be Real Salt Lake, who are now my American team.

So who do you support and why?

By the way, I know bugger all about RSL, other than they are clearly not too fashionable. I must start to swot up on the club sometime soon.
 
Nebbiolo said:
I don't know anything about their soccer clubs other than some of the names. But just after Backham had moved to LA, I saw a programme on TV regarding it (in the UK). There was a vote on which clubs were most popular. Predictably, everyone chose clubs from the bigger cities such as LA Galaxy and New York Bulls (I think). The team with the least support, happened to be Real Salt Lake, who are now my American team.

So who do you support and why?

By the way, I know bugger all about RSL, other than they are clearly not too fashionable. I must start to swot up on the club sometime soon.
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Chicago Fire
 
cosmos for me






still.

great quote from those days, cant remember if it was best or marsh

so do you prefer playing on grass or astroturf ?
dont know , i havent smoked any astroturf yet

:lol::lol::lol:
 

I could go on for days about the MLS and it's advent back in 1996.

I will say this much:

1) The quality of play has improved considerably since 1996.
2) The quality of play is nowhere near world class standards.
3) The quality of play is good enough to compete in the English Championship and certainly League One for comparison purposes.

Hope this helps.
 
i support dc united
a) because i'm from dc
b) because we're the best team in the league hands down (don't care where we finished this year, we're the best :D)
c)we've won the cup more than any other team (if ya know your history)
d)barra brava, the dc united supporters group, are the best supporters in MLS. this summer i went up to new york on a bus with the supporters (the bus trip is approximately the same distance as a trip from leeds to portsmouth), and dc united ended up having more supporters there then the main home support group! we lost that game, as this has been our worst season in a very long time, yet the barra brava always turn out in full force.

and bill's assessment on all 3 points is pretty much correct.

also, nearly all of RSL's fan base is mormons, thats about the extent of my knowledge about the club
 
you should go by train, smash it up in both directions, destroy the bus from the station and leave calling cards, then blame it on 'that basketball lot', they'll soon provide antiquated rolling stock for your transportation which they wont mind you wrecking as they want to scrap it anyway. you should do a 'warriors run' where you have to run the gauntlet to return home safely, [Poor language removed] you can even adapt a song....

run,run whoever you may be
we are THE famous d.c.
& we'll [Poor language removed] you all
whoever you may be
we are THE famous d.c.
 
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
you should go by train, smash it up in both directions, destroy the bus from the station and leave calling cards, then blame it on 'that basketball lot', they'll soon provide antiquated rolling stock for your transportation which they wont mind you wrecking as they want to scrap it anyway. you should do a 'warriors run' where you have to run the gauntlet to return home safely, [Poor language removed] you can even adapt a song....

run,run whoever you may be
we are THE famous d.c.
& we'll [Poor language removed] you all
whoever you may be
we are THE famous d.c.
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funny enough about clubs providing transportation. all of our trips are independently financed by the supporters groups, or individuals themselves. clubs like shitcago pay for away transportation, but the black and red know they don't need to for us, we don't mind having to pay a bit :)

and as for all the other junk, we have no misconceptions about who we are. we're a fan club, not a firm, i said we were the best fans in the league, not the hardest ;)
 
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Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
you should go by train, smash it up in both directions, destroy the bus from the station and leave calling cards, then blame it on 'that basketball lot', they'll soon provide antiquated rolling stock for your transportation which they wont mind you wrecking as they want to scrap it anyway. you should do a 'warriors run' where you have to run the gauntlet to return home safely, [Poor language removed] you can even adapt a song....

run,run whoever you may be
we are THE famous d.c.
& we'll [Poor language removed] you all
whoever you may be
we are THE famous d.c.
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All joking apart, but this would raise the profile of the game within the world.
 
In the old Nasl I always liked Chicago Sting so I suppose the Firemen would be my team now.
I know it was mentioned on a thread a few months ago but Would like to know what kind of committment the government and TV give to soccer. Ok for comittment, read cash. seems that infrastructure for other sports is superb. Obviously can't compete for popularity with Baseball, football, baketball or even icehockey in the northern states so on a business level no-one's going to be throwing silly money at soccer. Question is, is soccer growing enough in popularity to suggest that money would be well spent on a big promotion push and that as a consequence, the next generation will see millions of kids born into soccer mad families.
 
The biggest problem with MLS is the lack of soccer specific stadiums. I think NY is getting a stadium, its a joke to watch them play on a football field, ditto for NE and KC too. There is nothing worse than watching a game with 7000 in the crowd playing on a football field in a stadium that fits 70000.

Even majority of MLS teams lose money (about 1-3M/year) but the value of the clubs keep rising, which makes them a good investment. The cost to get an expansion club is 50M now and a soccer specific stadium.

The quality is getting better, the best MLS teams could push for a playoff spot in the Championship and the worst are prob mid table League One sides.

There are some things about the league that make you cringe though. The wages some players get is criminal, some players make only 12K/year which I think comes out to less than minimum wage. In order to increase the quality they will have to raise the salary cap from 2M to at least 3M. The clubs play reserve team matches but they aren't taken seriously and I know a few clubs have done things like take people from the PR Dept and put them on the reserve side squad becasue they couldn't field a whole team.
 
Rook said:
The biggest problem with MLS is the lack of soccer specific stadiums. I think NY is getting a stadium, its a joke to watch them play on a football field, ditto for NE and KC too. There is nothing worse than watching a game with 7000 in the crowd playing on a football field in a stadium that fits 70000.

Even majority of MLS teams lose money (about 1-3M/year) but the value of the clubs keep rising, which makes them a good investment. The cost to get an expansion club is 50M now and a soccer specific stadium.

The quality is getting better, the best MLS teams could push for a playoff spot in the Championship and the worst are prob mid table League One sides.

There are some things about the league that make you cringe though. The wages some players get is criminal, some players make only 12K/year which I think comes out to less than minimum wage. In order to increase the quality they will have to raise the salary cap from 2M to at least 3M. The clubs play reserve team matches but they aren't taken seriously and I know a few clubs have done things like take people from the PR Dept and put them on the reserve side squad becasue they couldn't field a whole team.
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So it's chicken/egg type question. does popularity increase and lead to heavy investment from top to grassroots level or vice versa?
 

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