English Premier League 2012/2013 - Real World Football - FM24/25 Update

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By Shola | Permalink | On 07 March 2013 - 20:51 PM

Football: ADDICKS EYE CHRISTIAN AID... FROM RONALDO.

Byline: TONY STENSON

CHARLTON are chasing Ronaldo... Christian Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon and his strike partner Ricardo Quaresma.

Manager Alan Curbishley has had both players watched recently and received glowing reports.

His latest check was a recent Portuguese under-20 international against Greece.

Curbishley admits his problem has been the lack of goals - Jason Euell is top with five in the league. "The transfer window stays open for a month so there's no hurry to act without thought, but I am not ruling out moves," said.

Charlton have a good reputation in Portugal after the signing of Jorge Costa from Porto.

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CURBISHLEY: Reports

If I remember correctly we tried to sign him and instead signed Hugo Viana, who never really fit again. Maybe Ronaldo would've been like that if he'd wound up at SJP.

By Slashman X | Permalink | On 08 March 2013 - 18:04 PM

It was the fans complaining not the club.

True but I guess its a similar principle. It's a circular thing given that, at the same time this furore first begun ahead of the Arsenal-MCFC game, there were protestations from Liverpool fans they were being charged similarly AOT figures. The amazing one was the Southampton fans being charged £53 for the opening day outing at MCFC.

Ticket pricing is a mess across the board anyway. I suppose it's discussed in circles almost every week/month/year but any further rises and surely you'll see more empty seats. Be a bit much too given the bumload of cash Sky & BT are throwing at the league next year.

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08 Mar 2013 21:48:56

Ticket prices need to be high to get the money from Sky/BT.

If tickets were reasonable, people would go to games rather than watch them on TV.

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By Shola | Permalink | On 08 March 2013 - 21:48 PM

Ticket prices need to be high to get the money from Sky/BT.

If tickets were reasonable, people would go to games rather than watch them on TV.

That's rubbish

After a quick search, it appears the league average %age attendance last year was over 90%. In addition the big teams that tend to get the most TV time have average attendances even closer to 100%. So they wouldn't be affected much by dropping ticket prices.

Plus, I'll take a stab in the dark and say the average viewing figure for a PL game is far far higher than the empty attendance in whatever stadium is hosting the game. So the amount of extra people that would go to the game thanks to cheaper tickets would have a small effect on the viewing figures.

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08 Mar 2013 22:10:35

Not to mention the fact that alot of people cant go and see their favourite team play because they aren't local, maybe back when Sky Sports started showing the football it was the case but now its just greed. Same goes for the stupid 3 O'Clock KO ban that is in place.

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08 Mar 2013 22:54:59

Also the fact that most of the people watching the Premier League on tv are from overseas means dropping ticket prices wouldn't do fuck all to tv numbers. It's the same with kits, there is no fucking way it costs them anything near $50 to produce it let alone $130 and that's what they try and flog it for over here in Australia...

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By KEV0 | Permalink | On 08 March 2013 - 22:54 PM

Also the fact that most of the people watching the Premier League on tv are from overseas means dropping ticket prices wouldn't do fuck all to tv numbers. It's the same with kits, there is no fucking way it costs them anything near $50 to produce it let alone $130 and that's what they try and flog it for over here in Australia...

The overseas thing doesn't really apply cause pretty much all games are available to watch for anyone outside the UK, Its just us that get shafted because of rules put in place years ago when people generally supported the team nearest to them or people just didn't leave the place they were brought up.

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09 Mar 2013 09:52:01

Stewart downing Twitter Q&A turned into shambles.
When Liverpool came up with the, perhaps not carefully thought out, idea of hosting a Twitter Q&A with Stewart Downing they obviously didn't think it would become a field day for the haters loitering in cyberspace.

Instead of gentle questions such about who was the biggest dressing room joker or who is the most difficult defender to play against (probably all of them), the #askdowning thread was besieged by fans making fun of the player even we refer to as LEFT WING JESUS in our MirrorFootball Twitter feed.

Downing has had a torrid time at Anfield since his £20million move from Aston Villa, which included failing to score a single goal or assist last season and being publicly criticised by manager Brendan Rodgers at the beginning of this campaign.

Here are a selection of some of the wise cracks aimed at the Reds winger:

@DualeAdam1 If you were a footballer, what would your preferred position be?

@Liam Payne ?Payny_01 How did you feel last season knowing Tim Howard was closer to lifting the golden boot than you?

@BillHansen28 So you left Aston Villa for Champions League football. How's that working out for you?

?@McFarlaneJordan A re you the only professional footballer to be neither footed?

@Notcarlcole On a scale of 1 to Jesus, how good are your crosses?

@Dave B MUFC ?Bowsy_How did it feel to have more arrests than assists last season?

@arpan_manutd Do you know any footballer (except you) who is neither footed?

@Jon Barbuti Which Premier League bench is the comfiest?

@Fergie's Hairdryer How do you get to the other side of the road when you don't know how to cross?

@marc sepetowski ?sepo_efc Do you consider yourself to be just as bad as jordan henderson?

@?JacobCampbell5 Did you pick number 19 because you knew it would take about 19 months before you did anything of any kind of use ?

@?Abdn_Horror_Guy If you were to transfer away from Liverpool, how many goats and cows would your new club receive in the dowry to take you?

@?lloydturner1 How do you ignore all this abuse and carry on day to day ?

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"@Fergie's Hairdryer How do you get to the other side of the road when you don't know how to cross?"

My favourite.

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They're brilliant

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09 Mar 2013 15:23:49

Sunderland 1-0 up at QPR - Fletcher

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09 Mar 2013 15:40:19

Lukaku!!

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09 Mar 2013 15:44:22

Haha some of those questions are good.

Keeping an eye on Reading-Villa. Reading went ahead but could only hold on for a minute - crucial game.

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09 Mar 2013 15:45:54

And Reading have messed up even more now! 2-1 Villa..

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09 Mar 2013 16:43:49

Poor Stewie Downing.

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09 Mar 2013 23:17:09

My word the media wankfest over the prospect of QPR surviving. If they do survive I think I might become lactose intolerant from all the cheesy platitudes Harry Redknapp will get.

Saying that Townsend and Jenas did score some brilliant strikes today.

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10 Mar 2013 02:12:29

I reckon it's funnier how people will lie to themselves to refuse to give Redknapp any sort of credit whatsoever

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By Shola | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 02:12 AM

I reckon it's funnier how people will lie to themselves to refuse to give Redknapp any sort of credit whatsoever

Rubbish. Most people accept he's doing a good job, whilst at the same time acknowledging that his spending seems incredibly risky and hypocritical considering the comments he made when he first took the job.

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By Shola | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 02:12 AM

I reckon it's funnier how people will lie to themselves to refuse to give Redknapp any sort of credit whatsoever

It'd be a lie to say he deserves no credit - what I'm saying is that we'd get the amount of credit multiplied tenfold and then rammed down our throats for time immemorial.

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10 Mar 2013 11:08:11

It's often journalists who delude themselves into giving Redknapp none of the credit. - Not aimed at any one on here.

Redknapp has done a very good job so far and QPR have a very good chance of staying up, if he manages to pull it off then he should definitely be in the running for Manager of the Year.

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10 Mar 2013 15:34:11

I'd be surprised if he wins it - it'd be effectively saying that throwing money in a bid to survive is a good way to manage a club.

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10 Mar 2013 16:15:24

This game is shit

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By Shola | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 11:08 AM

It's often journalists who delude themselves into giving Redknapp none of the credit. - Not aimed at any one on here.

Redknapp has done a very good job so far and QPR have a very good chance of staying up, if he manages to pull it off then he should definitely be in the running for Manager of the Year.

It's probably the opposite tbf, the media go into a wankathon about him and then fans over-react the other way.

I tend to agree with that second sentence though.

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10 Mar 2013 16:21:54

Good finish from Suarez

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10 Mar 2013 16:23:20

That is a brilliant goal tbf, the litlte pass from Coutinho, Enrique holding that off nicely and perfect pass through

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10 Mar 2013 16:24:49

Coutinho ifb.

Spurs fans "Luis Suarez, you know what you are". Ironic from a group of fans who call themselves Yids.

Feck. Spurs don't really deserve that, but we should have taken more of our chances.

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10 Mar 2013 16:52:25

Cracking recovery from Bale to set it up

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10 Mar 2013 16:55:24

It was never a free kick like

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10 Mar 2013 17:00:41

Exactly, goal stemmed from spurs having the free kick, then the ball going out wide and Bale coming back onto the pitch where the ball was. Johnson was terrible at the back post though