Oso planning to go pro
Watching the championship playoff. I’m setting the o/u on total points next year in the prem for 20. Smart money will be on the under.
I think a better O/U might be goals scored…and the same total may apply. Luton scored 57 in 46 matches in the Championship, lowest in the top 10. Unless they somehow bring in a legit EPL strike force, they are gonna be scare ripples in their opponents net. Coventry was 58 in 46, so it would have been the same there. Gonna be a worse version of what Huddersfield tried to do a few years ago
Really glad for Luton. Meteoric rise, they have a great fanbase. I have a number of old Hatters buddies that are undoubtedly overjoyed today.
finally what im sure is lifelong fandom paying off in spades.
Luton Town is Wrexham without the American/Canadian actor ownership and an FX show.
It is, I got some fantastic accounts of the Luton Littlewoods Cup runs in the late 1980s & the Reading/Luton Simod Cup final in 1988. The site we all used to chat on is gone, and the last time we talked regularly Luton was out of league football.They are, as a club they've yo-yoed up and down the football leagues, and won improbable cups along the way. It'll be interesting to see if Wrexham can match Luton's rise in terms of speed. 9 years is crazy fast, but I'm not sure a TV audience will be that patient.
Also, Wrexham has some well monied owners for non-league football, but not sure they compare well to the other owners in Leagues One and Two.
If by totally fine you mean survive in 1/2 and possibly contend for the championship, I agree. I was comparing them to Luton Town's rise to the PL.
They were getting L1/2 level players in conference, so I think they can probably earn another promotion, maybe two with luck, but there are a lot of millionaires/billionaires that use the football league like roulette, thinking they can gamble their way to the Prem. Their financial edge diminishes as they go up, but it'll be interesting to see if being the real life football version of The Office is an additional enticement for talent.
Anyone interested in TST that kicks off today? I have a friend playing for the Cincinnati squad, and I'm interested in how the USWNT does against the boys.https://tst-stats.com/landing/index
"Karim Benzema is reportedly signing a three-year, $643 million contract to join Al Ittihad. "#sportswashing
I had this queued up before the big LIV bomb today, but I don’t see this as sportwashing as much as a vanity project. The Qatar WC? Sportwashing. LIV, sportwashing. If they had bought WWE, sportwashing. Visit Saudi being the biggest and most notable in game sponsor for IPL cricket this year? Definitely.But this feels no different than what the Chinese League did a few years ago. Or the Russian dudes who fund a couple women’s basketball teams and pay WNBA stars 3-4x what they make in the WNBA, It’s just backing up Brinks trucks of cash to get secondary super stars to play in their crappy domestic league. If Saudi tried to fire the Super Leauge back up and add their top 4 Saudi teams to United, City, Real, Barca, etc…. Then I’d change my tune. Speaking of Saudi soccer, I randomly sat next to Alexander Isak, from Newcastle United, on a flight back from Vegas to Chicago yesterday. Took me a good 20 min initially to place it. Really nice guy, humble guy, wanted to sleep but chatted happily for a bit, took multiple peoples bags down from the overhead after the flight. Was traveling with a friend who got bumped back to coach due to some issue. Also made me realize how much those guys have to love traveling in the US. One of the biggest young stars in the EPL, making $10MM a year, likely gets mobbed daily in the Toon… flying more or less solo without an entourage and during our flight and 5-10 min after that I saw in ORD, I was the only one who recognized him.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.