Check out Interview: former head of recruitment at Bournemouth, Des Taylor from The Price of Football on Amazon Music. music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/…. #afcb
The Americanisation of our football pyramid, at the top predominantly, continues at #avfc won’t be long before we do something similar at #afcb
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Marcelo Bielsa on modern football:
“I am sure that football is in a process of decline.
“It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore.
“If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football.
“For me, the introduction of technology like VAR does a lot of harm to football.
“This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal.
“As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted.”
Good to see people like him calling it out 👏
Phones, vlogging, and anything else that causes fans to not get behind their team, even if not singing just shouting encouragement, can get in the bin as it’s a major contributor to crap atmospheres. I ignore/turn off my phone at #afcb shame I’m in the minority
🇩🇪 🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Borussia Dortmund will REWARD fans who DON’T use their phones during matches!
The German club is introducing a new “Fan Mode” in its official app, where supporters earn points for every minute they go without unlocking their phones.
Fans who collect the most points can win SIGNED SHIRTS and shopping vouchers.
The initiative comes after a study found that 63% of supporters regularly use their phones during matches.
This away support is the fuckin bollocks
Making Dean Courts atmosphere look one step shy of a retirement home bingo evening
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English Premier League fans couldn’t care less about income streams and profit margins. When we were in the lower leagues we did. We even used to do things like raise funds to sign Eddie Howe #afcb
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James Richardson sitting at a cafe and reading the Corriere dello Sport headlines.
Simpler times.
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When smart phones came out at first it was a bit of a fun, the original insta algorithm was just your pals posts in the order they posted them. Fast forward 15 years and this sinister glowing rectangle has totally changed societal behaviour and dominates youths every waking hour.
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There is nothing more boring than older people telling younger people that they are doing it wrong and things were better in our day.
But they are doing it wrong and it was better in our day.
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- Vitality logo saga.
- Dismissing long standing staff with poor comms.
- Charging as much as a ST for parking and not communicating with the DSA.
- Now charging extortionate prices for terrible beer at the ground.
Shit show summer in terms of PR from the #AFCB hierarchy.
£285 for a szn, for 1 parking space, is simply disgusting. A sign of the times that governing bodies allow owners to do this, and of society in general, as #afcb fans aren’t outraged by the club taking advantage of ppl who already have enough to contend with. Deplorable decision
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🚨 BBC Sport will broadcast 38 live matches from Italy's Serie A this season.
(Source: @BBCSport)
Cat A game pricing, good decision and fair play 👌 rewarding loyalty on first glance seems to be fair and give the people who have gone the most the best chance to attend. If I still had my szn ticket I’d sign up for all 4 games without a doubt
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I hate the look of it but this is fucking mental. Imagine if the same people had this energy when it came to fighting against a sponsor that was linked to actual cyber slavery, blood sport and corruption, not just a pink circle.
ditchthepink.co.uk/
It is gross 🤢 but it won’t matter as English football fan culture will allow it as we moan but do little to nothing about the problem. If in Germany, they’d refuse to buy a single shirt to promote action & change for the fans voice to be heard. We are so soft at #afcb
🍒 Late to the party here, but another total monstrosity from @afcbournemouth.
‘Vitality blob-gate’ well documented, but absolutely criminal taking the official club badge off to try & ease in a silent rebrand.
An absolute nightmare for the club this pre-season. #afcb.