[Football] Worst things about being in the Premier League

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BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
NSC Patron
Jul 14, 2013
21,706
Newhaven
The constantly changing kick off times. The one thing I do like with the Championship is that most games are 3pm on Saturdays other than the midweek schedules.
Sky Sports seemed to be regularly turning up at the Amex when we were doing well, seem to remember plenty of games moved for tv to Fridays and Mondays.
 






The Grockle

Formally Croydon Seagull
Sep 26, 2008
5,697
Dorset
Thr PL is brutal.You can be in decent form, play really well yet get sucker punched by a team that's offered nothing all game. Almost all teams have at least one top, top player who can punish you.
In the championship, if you're a decent team regardless of your stature (within reason) you can go on massive winning/unbeaten runs.
 




Sid and the Sharknados

Well-known member
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Sep 4, 2022
4,289
Darlington
People who know f-all about football and are plastic supporters of ‘big‘ clubs sending you messages with some half-arsed assessment of what they think ‘is going wrong at Brighton’
I've spent most of the season telling Leeds and Newcastle fans that we're actually not all that great this season, and suddenly in the last week they've started telling me that we're shit (in a nice way, to be fair. I don't bother talking to arseholes).
And just as they've finally taken my point, we win a game. I just can't win. :lolol:
 


Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
15,015
Garth Crooks and, to a lesser extent, Chris Sutton.
 


nsclurker

Well-known member
Apr 3, 2018
354
If you are near the top of the Championship you don’t get many 3pm on a Saturday. A lot of evening games as well. Some viewing the Championship with rose tinted glasses.
Yup. We had a lot of Friday night games when we were doing well in the Championship.
 
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BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
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Jul 14, 2013
21,706
Newhaven
People who know f-all about football and are plastic supporters of ‘big‘ clubs sending you messages with some half-arsed assessment of what they think ‘is going wrong at Brighton’
I try not to comment on X about the Albion anymore or read replies to the official BHAFC account, used to be great when it was Twitter and before we got promoted.
I don’t follow anything to do with the PL including the Albion on instagram.
The plastic Chelsea fans that have probably never left Africa seemed to be the worst on X
 


Jam The Man

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
8,141
South East North Lancing
Three things for me:

Officiating not being up to standard. I don’t believe it’s corrupt, it’s simply incompetence and not good enough for the elite level.

The painful speed of VAR. I could probably swallow it a little more if it wasn’t so damn slow. Roll on semi automated offsides.

Morons on X who claim to know something about football
 






A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
18,175
Deepest, darkest Sussex
Thr PL is brutal.You can be in decent form, play really well yet get sucker punched by a team that's offered nothing all game. Almost all teams have at least one top, top player who can punish you.
In the championship, if you're a decent team regardless of your stature (within reason) you can go on massive winning/unbeaten runs.
It’s also so, so easy to go 4 / 5 / 6 losses in a row if the fixture list isn’t kind and you find yourself in a position like we’ve been in the last couple of months
 








timbha

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
9,998
Sussex
Waiting up til gone 11pm to see us as the last match on MOTD (deserved today) and then getting only a couple of minutes
 




el punal

Well-known member
I think that the Ipswich friend’s POV was that another season in the Championship, strengthening the squad etc and then getting promoted to stay up, would be preferable than a season up and then going straight back down.
Does your Ipswich friend come from Norwich? It seems that way if his POV is correct. Honestly, what a complete load of tosh. You get promoted you deal with it, it’s called reward for your endeavour in having a successful season. This cobblers about another season in the Championship is laughable. Ipswich have spent 21 years trying to get out of the Championship plus the year they went into League One. I would imagine more than any other club that they’ve had a belly full of second tier fare.
 


Coldeanseagull

Opinionated
Mar 13, 2013
7,839
Coldean
Punditry
When smaller club beats bigger club, it's reported as bigger club missing out on going top/second/third, rather than being beaten by smaller club and how astonishing that is. I know they all have to follow the money and the bigger clubs help bring in money for the 'brand'...but it makes my brow furrow punish:
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
50,879
Faversham
People who know f-all about football and are plastic supporters of ‘big‘ clubs sending you messages with some half-arsed assessment of what they think ‘is going wrong at Brighton’
Come on. There are only 3 or 4 new threads a week on NSC like that :shrug:
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
50,879
Faversham
Punditry
When smaller club beats bigger club, it's reported as bigger club missing out on going top/second/third, rather than being beaten by smaller club and how astonishing that is. I know they all have to follow the money and the bigger clubs help bring in money for the 'brand'...but it makes my brow furrow punish:
It has always been like that, though. We have only been in the top flight for a few years so it seems like a new thing to us. When they were talking about how Manure will need to bounce back from their draw against Bolton before their Important next match against Arsenal, we weren't taking any notice. Instead we were waiting for a 30 second clip of our win against Rotherham on the Football League Highlights show at ten past midnight, with Steve Claridge and the woman with the strange blond hair.
 


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