Wija 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 50,000 every home game... and with the way they throw money away... OK they haven't won fook all, and in those terms they are nothing, but they have the infrastructure, and fan base. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Huge fan base but that's about it. For a club to become "big" they need to win things more often than not. My opinion of course! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wija 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Huge fan base but that's about it. For a club to become "big" they need to win things more often than not. My opinion of course! I agree to an extent, but without a fanbase and the stadia, training facilities etc etc a club can't be big. I mean Monaco won the CL a few years ago, and have a big stadia, but there are no fans and they are funded by the Royals there... now they are not a big club - my opinion of course... Arguments for and against and I see your point mate. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juffery 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Monaco were runners up and I'm not too sure how big their stadium is. Think it's under 30000. And it's always virtually empty I think. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I used to love watching Newcastle when Keegan was in charge. Ginola, Ferdinand, Beardsley, Lee, Speed etc etc were awesome and all at the top of their game. Keegans mentality was mental but exciting to watch. All that's gone now and I don't think it'll ever come back. One 5Live last night a Geordie phoned in and Tim Lovejoy asked him what he'd prefer, to win ugly or to lose playing the sort of football they played under Keegan. He chose to lose but play lovely football. It's funny how fans of different clubs have different views on it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza_8 233 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Monaco were runners up and I'm not too sure how big their stadium is. Think it's under 30000. And it's always virtually empty I think. According to http://www.worldstadiums.com the Stade Louis II stadium holds 18,521. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juffery 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Aye, I knewit was a pokey wee place. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 I wonder if Big Eck is kicking himself. Newcastle is a bigger team than Brum and TBH they are a safer bet to stay up every year. Yip was thinking the same. When he went to Brum I said he should have maybe waited as 1 of the 3 north east clubs jobs would come up soon. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 There's no saying Eck would have got the job though so it would still have been a risk to wait. He wouldn't have done any worse than Allardyce though - I think Newcastle have shown Allardyce up for what a shite manager he is. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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