sussexpob wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:
All this rhetoric that Premier League status "good for the town and the economy", but Huddersfield sold themselves out by abandoning their once prolific academy for the sake of a couple of million. This was a club who produced local born players Jon Stead and Alex Smithies from eight years old, primary school children in Huddersfield and Kirklees denied the chance to emulate past heroes.
Prolific academy!!
A striker who has only scored in league two, and a keeper who never played above the mid table of the championship. And nothing else.
In terms of ranking academies, if that's the output going back the 70s when Huddersfield were last in the top flight with a few homegrown lads, I'd probably guess it ranks somewhere very near the bottom of the pyramid.
Premier league or fielding journeyman local born shite in league two???
Alviro Patterson wrote:sussexpob wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:
All this rhetoric that Premier League status "good for the town and the economy", but Huddersfield sold themselves out by abandoning their once prolific academy for the sake of a couple of million. This was a club who produced local born players Jon Stead and Alex Smithies from eight years old, primary school children in Huddersfield and Kirklees denied the chance to emulate past heroes.
Ditching the Academy goes against the legacy achieved by those and to class the above players as "local born shite" is an insult. Football exists outside the Premier League and that is where the best fairytale stories are made, not surviving for 17th spot and classing 4th place the equivalent of winning a trophy.
The Professor wrote:Try to exclude myself from league football as best I can but Everton's treatment of Allardyce has been dogsh*t
The Professor wrote:Try to exclude myself from league football as best I can but Everton's treatment of Allardyce has been dogsh*t
budgetmeansbudget wrote:Crying all the way to the bank with his 6 million pound payoff.
13.5 million in total over the years including a million quid from the FA for breaking rules which led to his England contract termination.
Everton were 13th when he took over, had just thumped West Ham 4-0, so he didn't need to do alot except bore the fans rigid.
No sympathy from me.
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