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Post by topman on Sept 18, 2014 12:24:34 GMT
Phoned Sky recently to reduce my bill and a very pleasant female admitted to have never heard of BRFC or indeed BCFC (much as I dislike the latter)
However she claimed to be a football supporter - 'following' Liverpool!! |
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Post by p4perlant3rn on Sept 18, 2014 13:14:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 21:17:47 GMT
Never heard of BRFC? Sounds good to me!
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Sept 19, 2014 2:22:51 GMT
The majority of Liverpool "followers" have probably never heard of Blackburn or Birmingham let alone the two crappy Bristol clubs.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 7:43:29 GMT
Phoned Sky recently to reduce my bill and a very pleasant female admitted to have never heard of BRFC or indeed BCFC (much as I dislike the latter)
However she claimed to be a football supporter - 'following' Liverpool!! Like most Liverpool fans she probabably doesnt know where Liverpool is on a map of England or has ever been anywhere near a game they've played in either. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 8:15:19 GMT
Phoned Sky recently to reduce my bill and a very pleasant female admitted to have never heard of BRFC or indeed BCFC (much as I dislike the latter)
However she claimed to be a football supporter - 'following' Liverpool!! Like most Liverpool fans she probabably doesnt know where Liverpool is on a map of England or has ever been anywhere near a game they've played in either. Really? |
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Post by LJG on Sept 19, 2014 12:12:41 GMT
This probably has more to do with who you were talking to and less the current state of football in the UK (abysmal as it is). You see the problem here is that the person you were talking to is a telesales operator for a living. Those who work in sales and marketing generally have two factors at work that make them the scumbags they are:
1. They are, generally speaking, interminably stupid
2. They will say the first thing that comes into what little brain they have in order to make a sale/retain a customer
That being the case she will have assumed that most renewals will be being done by people generally only interested in the Premiership - Pick a Premiership team to lie about supporting in order to get the sale. But when presented with a non-premiership "supporter" her minuscule synaptic capacity was unable to generate further lies in order to cover up the fact she knows nothing about football - hence she's never heard of BRFC. Indeed, I would stake money on her having "never heard of" Oldham, Leyton Orient and Nottingham Forest too.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 14:00:49 GMT
Like most Liverpool fans she probabably doesnt know where Liverpool is on a map of England or has ever been anywhere near a game they've played in either. Really? Yeah really! Same goes for the feckless parasites you see walking around Bristol in their Chelsea/ / Manchester/ Arsenal/ Learpaul tops thinking they are superior to everyone who has the bollocks to support their local team. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 14:53:49 GMT
Yeah really! Same goes for the feckless parasites you see walking around Bristol in their Chelsea/ / Manchester/ Arsenal/ Learpaul tops thinking they are superior to everyone who has the bollocks to support their local team. Some of those feckless parasites as you call them just happen to support them as their second team, their first being Bristol Rovers - they are allowed you know. |
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 15:24:48 GMT
Yeah really! Same goes for the feckless parasites you see walking around Bristol in their Chelsea/ / Manchester/ Arsenal/ Learpaul tops thinking they are superior to everyone who has the bollocks to support their local team. Some of those feckless parasites as you call them just happen to support them as their second team, their first being Bristol Rovers - they are allowed you know. Some people like you you mean? Supporting any of these clubs because they are glamourous and win stuff is feckless and if everybody was like that there would be about 4 teams left in England . You might redeem yourself by being an active supporter of your local club but I can assure you most do not and they are the reason why most clubs in this country can no longer dream of being champions or playing in Europes top club tournament. Like was possible before the Premier League was invented. Some people say Sky is the problem but they are only interested in revenue from punters. It's therefore the treacherous weak willed gloryhunter who is the real cancer for clubs like ours. The only way the culture of gloryhunting will change is when such behaviour is ridiculed and seen as unfashionable. That might begin to happen if we stopped pandering to these people who are destroying our great game and held them out for parasites that they are. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 15:41:06 GMT
Yeah really! Same goes for the feckless parasites you see walking around Bristol in their Chelsea/ / Manchester/ Arsenal/ Learpaul tops thinking they are superior to everyone who has the bollocks to support their local team. Some of those feckless parasites as you call them just happen to support them as their second team, their first being Bristol Rovers - they are allowed you know. Yep. Have missed maybe half a dozen of Rovers' home games in the last 15 years, but also follow a PL team and go 8~10 times a year when Rovers are away. I wear their shirt sometimes as well. Have followed that team for 40+ years, long before Sky broadcasting. Didn't realise that I was destroying our national game, I thought it was the money from global TV rights and spin offs from that exposure that was the problem. |
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Post by Gregory Stevens on Sept 19, 2014 16:03:28 GMT
Bamber, I tried following a premier team, but it never felt anything like rovers. Do you really feel it for them like the gas? Curious as I think Im a 1 club man!
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Sept 19, 2014 16:04:08 GMT
Some of those feckless parasites as you call them just happen to support them as their second team, their first being Bristol Rovers - they are allowed you know. Yep. Have missed maybe half a dozen of Rovers' home games in the last 15 years, but also follow a PL team and go 8~10 times a year when Rovers are away. I wear their shirt sometimes as well. Have followed that team for 40+ years, long before Sky broadcasting. Didn't realise that I was destroying our national game, I thought it was the money from global TV rights and spin offs from that exposure that was the problem. Who is you Premiership club Bamber? Hull,West Brom, Stoke City or the like? If so fair enough no harm done but I suspect not. You don't realise what the root of the problem is Bamber because you don't think that your behaviour makes any difference same goes for everyone else who supports a club for reasons of glamour and glory. But multiply the individual effect by millions and there you have the global TV audience that Sky and the ilk will pay the massive money for that ends up in the hands of the few clubs supported by these millions of individuals who think their behaviour makes no difference. Every gloryhunter is a single cancer cell to clubs like ours. A single cancer cell doesn't kill anything but millions certainly do! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 16:29:34 GMT
Yep. Have missed maybe half a dozen of Rovers' home games in the last 15 years, but also follow a PL team and go 8~10 times a year when Rovers are away. I wear their shirt sometimes as well. Have followed that team for 40+ years, long before Sky broadcasting. Didn't realise that I was destroying our national game, I thought it was the money from global TV rights and spin offs from that exposure that was the problem. Who is you Premiership club Bamber? Hull,West Brom, Stoke City or the like? If so fair enough no harm done but I suspect not. You don't realise what the root of the problem is Bamber because you don't think that your behaviour makes any difference same goes for everyone else who supports a club for reasons of glamour and glory. But multiply the individual effect by millions and there you have the global TV audience that Sky and the ilk will pay the massive money for that ends up in the hands of the few clubs supported by these millions of individuals who think their behaviour makes no difference. Every gloryhunter is a single cancer cell to clubs like ours. A single cancer cell doesn't kill anything but millions certainly do! From the fact that I've followed them for over 40 years, and it isn't Liverpool, it's hard to think of myself as a 'glory hunter'. Back then you could take almost any of the top flight clubs at the start of any given season and they were in with a shout of winning the title. There isn't one penny goes to my other club that would otherwise go to Rovers. I've done every scheme / scam going, starting with scratch cards and rosettes at Eastville, Share Scheme, bought dreadful tacky shirts, nylon scarves, dreadful mugs, 50/50 tickets, programes that have nothing whatsoever in them worth reading, coats with pockets in the wrong place so everything falls out when you sit down, polo shirts with head holes that are too small to get your head through, hats etc etc, so I'm sorry, but I can't regard myself as part of a cancer that's somehow destroying Rovers. What difference does it make if I chose to spend additional time or money following Stoke, or Man City, or any other team? I also have a club that I follow outside of the UK, I lived there for a while and wanted to take in some local footy, does buying their shirt also make me a bad person? And no, it's not one of the Italian giants, or Ajax, chances are that you will never have heard of them and wouldn't recognise the shirt anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 16:35:09 GMT
Yep. Have missed maybe half a dozen of Rovers' home games in the last 15 years, but also follow a PL team and go 8~10 times a year when Rovers are away. I wear their shirt sometimes as well. Have followed that team for 40+ years, long before Sky broadcasting. Didn't realise that I was destroying our national game, I thought it was the money from global TV rights and spin offs from that exposure that was the problem.
Who is you Premiership club Bamber? Hull,West Brom, Stoke City or the like? If so fair enough no harm done but I suspect not. You don't realise what the root of the problem is Bamber because you don't think that your behaviour makes any difference same goes for everyone else who supports a club for reasons of glamour and glory. But multiply the individual effect by millions and there you have the global TV audience that Sky and the ilk will pay the massive money for that ends up in the hands of the few clubs supported by these millions of individuals who think their behaviour makes no difference. Every gloryhunter is a single cancer cell to clubs like ours. A single cancer cell doesn't kill anything but millions certainly do! This is getting worse what are you talking about? So now it's down to a few big clubs you don't like. Out of interest where were you born/live? And you don't need to be a Glory Hunter to follow another club, some have an affinity with them or family reasons etc. Who the hell are you to judge. |
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Post by Jon the Stripe on Sept 19, 2014 16:40:20 GMT
Who is you Premiership club Bamber? Hull,West Brom, Stoke City or the like? If so fair enough no harm done but I suspect not. You don't realise what the root of the problem is Bamber because you don't think that your behaviour makes any difference same goes for everyone else who supports a club for reasons of glamour and glory. But multiply the individual effect by millions and there you have the global TV audience that Sky and the ilk will pay the massive money for that ends up in the hands of the few clubs supported by these millions of individuals who think their behaviour makes no difference. Every gloryhunter is a single cancer cell to clubs like ours. A single cancer cell doesn't kill anything but millions certainly do! From the fact that I've followed them for over 40 years, and it isn't Liverpool, it's hard to think of myself as a 'glory hunter'. Back then you could take almost any of the top flight clubs at the start of any given season and they were in with a shout of winning the title. There isn't one penny goes to my other club that would otherwise go to Rovers. I've done every scheme / scam going, starting with scratch cards and rosettes at Eastville, Share Scheme, bought dreadful tacky shirts, nylon scarves, dreadful mugs, 50/50 tickets, programes that have nothing whatsoever in them worth reading, coats with pockets in the wrong place so everything falls out when you sit down, polo shirts with head holes that are too small to get your head through, hats etc etc, so I'm sorry, but I can't regard myself as part of a cancer that's somehow destroying Rovers. What difference does it make if I chose to spend additional time or money following Stoke, or Man City, or any other team? I also have a club that I follow outside of the UK, I lived there for a while and wanted to take in some local footy, does buying their shirt also make me a bad person? And no, it's not one of the Italian giants, or Ajax, chances are that you will never have heard of them and wouldn't recognise the shirt anyway. Have to put myself in with your category there Bamber, i have no shame in saying i support Bristol Rovers, and follow another British club and go to watch their games when i can, plus i watch with interest a European Club. UTG |
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Post by Gregory Stevens on Sept 19, 2014 16:46:53 GMT
Guys, guys..it's tv what does it. If you support a team you watch on tv you are no different to anyone buying a sky or bt subscription.
It's tv that feeds the power of big clubs, by PREVENTING young fans going to their local ground.
Saying bambers following of a big club is like saying supporting England is part of the problem.
It's tv. So, ready to give up sky, champions league, at home or the pub? Thought not.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 17:02:12 GMT
From the fact that I've followed them for over 40 years, and it isn't Liverpool, it's hard to think of myself as a 'glory hunter'. Back then you could take almost any of the top flight clubs at the start of any given season and they were in with a shout of winning the title. There isn't one penny goes to my other club that would otherwise go to Rovers. I've done every scheme / scam going, starting with scratch cards and rosettes at Eastville, Share Scheme, bought dreadful tacky shirts, nylon scarves, dreadful mugs, 50/50 tickets, programes that have nothing whatsoever in them worth reading, coats with pockets in the wrong place so everything falls out when you sit down, polo shirts with head holes that are too small to get your head through, hats etc etc, so I'm sorry, but I can't regard myself as part of a cancer that's somehow destroying Rovers. What difference does it make if I chose to spend additional time or money following Stoke, or Man City, or any other team? I also have a club that I follow outside of the UK, I lived there for a while and wanted to take in some local footy, does buying their shirt also make me a bad person? And no, it's not one of the Italian giants, or Ajax, chances are that you will never have heard of them and wouldn't recognise the shirt anyway. Have to put myself in with your category there Bamber, i have no shame in saying i support Bristol Rovers, and follow another British club and go to watch their games when i can, plus i watch with interest a European Club. UTG Yep. I would laugh my cock off if Rovers ever beat my 'other' UK team. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 17:11:01 GMT
Guys, guys..it's tv what does it. If you support a team you watch on tv you are no different to anyone buying a sky or bt subscription. It's tv that feeds the power of big clubs, by PREVENTING young fans going to their local ground. Saying bambers following of a big club is like saying supporting England is part of the problem. It's tv. So, ready to give up sky, champions league, at home or the pub? Thought not. Won't have Sky, never have, never will. But I can't stop supporting my top flight team just because the market that they operate in has changed, and has gone a long way towards destroying all of the UK's national teams. But you wouldn't know if I were a Sky subscriber if you saw me walking down Fishponds Rd in my PL team's shirt. Judging by what you've written here you would turn your nose up and call me a glory hunter. |
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Post by Jon the Stripe on Sept 19, 2014 17:26:59 GMT
Guys, guys..it's tv what does it. If you support a team you watch on tv you are no different to anyone buying a sky or bt subscription. It's tv that feeds the power of big clubs, by PREVENTING young fans going to their local ground. Saying bambers following of a big club is like saying supporting England is part of the problem. It's tv. So, ready to give up sky, champions league, at home or the pub? Thought not. I appreciate your points. I must tell you, personally i do not have Sky or any other TV Sport package. I have BT Broadband so i get some free football, but i'm on my way to watch Rovers when most of their coverage is on. |
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