Jealous of Chelsea or Man City

[Jimboefc97]

So there is 1,426 Billionaires in the world
last year we came 6th in the most popular league in the world in the most popular sport, what am I missing here? what else do we have to do?

This, but I just think the stadium is the main problem in investors eyes, that and Blue Bill

 

[caught]

More envious of Manchester United: finding an outstanding manager, building a squad on the foundations of academy graduates and very smart purchases (Keane, Cantona), and dominating the domestic game for two decades.

Everton had more league titles than Utd when the PL began, and our diminishment as a top team in the early 90s coincided with a broadening of the gap between the best and the rest. Terrible timing for us.

Being jealous of Man City or Chelsea isn't quite the same. It's like being jealous of Andrew Lloyd Webber for getting to put his winky in 80s-era Sarah Brightman: it would be lovely to put your winky in Sarah Brightman, but when you know it's only happening because you've got money your winky will probably get a bit soft. Sarah will pretend she hasn't noticed while you're slugging motionlessly inside her, but you know deep down everything is terrible.

To be very specific, my point is that every single male Chelsea and Man City fan has not had an erection since they were taken over.

I'll add that anyone saying they'd enjoy the success a billionaire would buy them is exactly the same as saying they'd enjoy having sex with a flaccid penis. Literally identical.

 

[kenada_blue]

Chelsea have never had a manager that made them a dominant successful team until Mourinho turned up. Therefore he's untouchable to them.

City will be the same when their "saviour" arrives.

 

[bluemangroup]

More envious of Manchester United: finding an outstanding manager, building a squad on the foundations of academy graduates and very smart purchases (Keane, Cantona), and dominating the domestic game for two decades.

Everton had more league titles than Utd when the PL began, and our diminishment as a top team in the early 90s coincided with a broadening of the gap between the best and the rest. Terrible timing for us.

Being jealous of Man City or Chelsea isn't quite the same. It's like being jealous of Andrew Lloyd Webber for getting to put his winky in 80s-era Sarah Brightman: it would be lovely to put your winky in Sarah Brightman, but when you know it's only happening because you've got money your winky will probably get a bit soft. Sarah will pretend she hasn't noticed while you're slugging motionlessly inside her, but you know deep down everything is terrible.

To be very specific, my point is that every single male Chelsea and Man City fan has not had an erection since they were taken over.

Coincidentally, my penis looks like Andrew Lloyd Webber when it's soft.

 

[caught]

Coincidentally, my penis looks like Andrew Lloyd Webber when it's soft.

They used the same mix of dog foreskins and chicken feet to build his face as they did with Harry Redknapp. Find me a soft penis that, in a certain light, doesn't resemble either of them and I'll find you a Chelsea fan with a fleeting erection that isn't identical in diameter and temperament to an elusive tadpole.

 

[bluemangroup]

They used the same mix of dog foreskins and chicken feet to build his face as they did with Harry Redknapp. Find me a soft penis that, in a certain light, doesn't resemble either of them and I'll find you a Chelsea fan with a fleeting erection that isn't identical in diameter and temperament to an elusive tadpole.

You seem to spend a lot of time looking at and measuring penises

 

[RFUS]

*Envious

 

[njligernj]

Not sure who is winning so far but AF's article from 1925 was pretty damn good.

... to answer OPs question ... there are only two possible answers:

a) People who are jealous and admit it.

b) People who are jealous but don't want to admit it.

I am in group A.

Look at it this way: Over the last twenty years or so which I can remember (most pre-10 years old stuff is kind of a blur aside from crying a lot on Cup Final day) I've seen one FA Cup win, one CL kind of qualification, a few nice moments, losing out on the only viable plan for improving our future (KD), a far less appealing stadium argument, a lot of very horrible near relegation seasons, and a whole lot of insane nonsense I won't bother typing out but it's in the board thread.

What if in another twenty years I was saying: Over the last twenty years or so I've seen six league titles, a bunch of domestic Cups, two CL titles, an owner who doesn't respect our history, new glory hunting fans who embarrass me, and a couple of players whom I truly did not like (despite the success they brought).

Isn't that just a similar situation of good/bad with some higher highs? It's pretty unlikely you're going to have super success and none of the negatives that come with that. Just seems like either way there is stuff that makes me angry ... why not take some titles too?

Doesn't really matter if one is "better" than the other ... I've had 20 odd years one way and I wouldn't mind giving the other way a shot. After 20 years of that we can sit back and fairly compare the two methods. Kind of like the Moyes stuff really: I liked him and he may well turn out to have been better than anyone else but it's fun and interesting to see what it's like on the other side of the fence (even if it turns out to be not as good).

The oligarchs who are throwing billions about ARE nouveau riche

LOL ... "nouveau riche" ... it baffles me anyone continues to use that phrase. There used to be hundreds of millions of people and maybe a hundred kings -- now there are billions of people and (according to Marco down below) 1,426 kings. Some of us sit in cubicles instead of working the fields or monging up some iron (although billions still work for pennies) but the basic system is effectively identical to how it has almost always been. What does it matter to me if some "high born" has all the money or some "nouveau riche" ex-mobster? It's a fairly meaningless distinction in so far as the impact of having so much wealth consolidated among so few is really the same no matter if it's old or new money.

... and yes I am jealous of both the nouveau riche and old money equally and would love to be a part of either group despite their vulgarity.

So there is 1,426 Billionaires in the world last year we came 6th in the most popular league in the world in the most popular sport, what am I missing here? what else do we have to do?

Support a club that is actually for sale?

not jealous of chelsea or man city. those clubs are engaged in faustian pacts that have seen them lose their souls for grand riches and league titles. when their owners decide that they don't want to "play" no more, it will end in the deaths of those clubs.

Oh no it won't. Obviously they probably wouldn't be title contenders but unless the owners liquidate all the assets prior to leaving they'd still be in better shape than us for quite some time after the billionaires left. Chelsea (who are debt free now remember) could sell many of their top players and have a 100-200m war chest AND they have more money coming in from their stadium and CL. Unless the old/new owner was just out to take money from the club (and that is bad for any club it's hardly unique to them) they should be able to transition fairly easily from a top-3 side to a top-6 side.

I'll add that anyone saying they'd enjoy the success a billionaire would buy them is exactly the same as saying they'd enjoy having sex with a flaccid penis. Literally identical.

I wouldn't want to do it every time but I'd give it a shot as a one-off to say I have.

 

[caught]

You seem to spend a lot of time looking at and measuring penises

...Dad?

 

[EFC David]

Nope, I wouldn't want to see us win a league.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I felt intense jealousy when I went to Stamford Bridge on the last day of the season. Mainly because those fans have been spoilt with success. Watching them chant "We know who we are, Champions of Europe, we know who we are!" really got to me if I'm honest. I just know a large portion of them just wouldn't be there if they weren't winning anything, yet they're allowed to have their footballing dreams realised where as others can't, just because a money mark bought them.

It winds me up. However, one day Roman will ship out. I look forward to returning to the Shed End after a few barren years and seeing how many of those glory chasing barstools are still there

 

[Chang Elephant]

It's the dilution of the Everton master-race that bothers me most mate. Were superior you know?

I don't want lads wearing Joe Bloggs jeans and sh*t trabs celebrating our captain lifting a cup.

We need to invade Anfield, annex the Premier League Title, then take permanent lebensraum over the European continent.

This final solution will however require the removal of Fat Gimp by whatever means are necessary.

 

[Marco Materazzi]

We need to invade Anfield, annex the Premier League Title, then take permanent lebensraum over the European continent.

This final solution will however require the removal of Fat Gimp by whatever means are necessary.

I feel Anschluss with Liverpool would be better as the FA will do nothing to stop us. Also there are 6 million ethnic scousers living in Sunderland, so we can force Peter Cech to give us Sunderland where all his defences are.

 

[chicoazul]

We need to invade Anfield, annex the Premier League Title, then take permanent lebensraum over the European continent.

This final solution will however require the removal of Fat Gimp by whatever means are necessary.

He's one bad communist that Kenwright. We need our living space and that includes beyond Stanley Park. If we have to take it off the wools then so be it.

 

[Chang Elephant]

Kenwright is a redcoat brownshirt and will be dealt with like Rohm was.