Why don't you include the old Division 1 as 'top flight'? I saw Blackpool play at Goodison in the old Division 1 (Stanley Matthews days).
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Why don't you include the old Division 1 as 'top flight'? I saw Blackpool play at Goodison in the old Division 1 (Stanley Matthews days).
ScoobyBlue
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Their belly's aren't big enough for Leicester fans
Alanbileysfeathercut
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Carlisle?
4737carlin
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Yeah they did the double over us!!!
O yeah your right, it was Premier League I was reading about, when football started for some haha
davids
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Yep. They were my first game 5-0 in 62,but Matthews was at Stoke by then,lucky enough to see him in 63, although Meagan had a quiet afternoon.
toffeejack
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oh right haha i thought the question was about the prem as i thought there would surely be more than three teams if it were top flight.
sadly the division one was before my time, wish it wasn't the case.
Dan Tanner
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Ha ha ha.... I just remember my bird coming in and her mate in work told her that Everton fans going were going to get done in by a crew and she was worried that I'd get smashed in or arrested. I showed her the pictures were they all wore "princess tiaras" and a " my little pony" push toy and she burst out laughing.
Them pictures still kill me to this day
I saw Blackpool at Goodison in 1948/49 season. It was also 5 - 0. Boxing day, huge crowd hoping to see Stanley Matthews but he didn't play. Funny that you never knew he wasn't playing until the teams came out! There was six inches of snow on the pitch that day, also on the crossbars. About 10 minutes after kick-off, Eddie Wainwright had a shot that skimmed the bar and took a bite shaped chunk out of the snow on the crossbar. It was still there at the end of the game. Funny the things that stick in your mind.lol
GrumpyBlue
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West Ham's rent at their London Stadium "does not even cover cost of staging matches", the ground's owners say.
Lyn Garner, London Legacy Development Corporation chief executive, also said "high operating costs" and "a lack of commercialisation" meant they were facing "losses for the next 97 years".
West Ham have paid an annual rent of £2.5m since moving in in August 2016.
The stadium, built for the London Olympics in 2012, has been dogged by controversy over its finances.
In July, it was revealed £450,000 of taxpayers' money had been spent on unsuccessfully searching for a sponsor for the venue, which cost £323m to convert into a football ground after an original estimate of £190m.
It was planned that any sponsorship would offset some of the £140m losses expected over the next 10 years.
Garner told a London Assembly meeting that the cost of moving seats for events was also a factor in why taxpayers were having to subsidise the stadium - though that cost had come down from £11m to £4m this year.
But she continued: "To be honest, what is really driving the problems here are the low rents paid by the concessionaires, particularly West Ham.
"The elephant in the room is the fee that they pay us in a usage cost does not cover the event-day costs, and that's before we go anywhere near a commercial advantage. It simply does not cover the costs of running the events on a day-to-day basis.
"The stadium is a centrepiece of the legacy of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It's really important that we tackle the public subsidy issue over the next few years. There is much to do and many reasons for it."
West Ham told BBC Sport they had offered to help the LLDC identify commercial opportunities and had only ever honoured the terms of their tenancy agreement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45439883
Lyn Garner, London Legacy Development Corporation chief executive, also said "high operating costs" and "a lack of commercialisation" meant they were facing "losses for the next 97 years".
West Ham have paid an annual rent of £2.5m since moving in in August 2016.
The stadium, built for the London Olympics in 2012, has been dogged by controversy over its finances.
In July, it was revealed £450,000 of taxpayers' money had been spent on unsuccessfully searching for a sponsor for the venue, which cost £323m to convert into a football ground after an original estimate of £190m.
It was planned that any sponsorship would offset some of the £140m losses expected over the next 10 years.
Garner told a London Assembly meeting that the cost of moving seats for events was also a factor in why taxpayers were having to subsidise the stadium - though that cost had come down from £11m to £4m this year.
But she continued: "To be honest, what is really driving the problems here are the low rents paid by the concessionaires, particularly West Ham.
"The elephant in the room is the fee that they pay us in a usage cost does not cover the event-day costs, and that's before we go anywhere near a commercial advantage. It simply does not cover the costs of running the events on a day-to-day basis.
"The stadium is a centrepiece of the legacy of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It's really important that we tackle the public subsidy issue over the next few years. There is much to do and many reasons for it."
West Ham told BBC Sport they had offered to help the LLDC identify commercial opportunities and had only ever honoured the terms of their tenancy agreement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45439883
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
The binman chronicles
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How Boris Johnson hasn't been run out of the country for this I shall never know. Should have awarded it to Spurs and they could have knocked it down and built an athletic stadium elsewhere. All costing diddly squat to the tax payer, yet here we are an extra 300 odd million down the road and that figure will continue to grow over the next 100 years. It's a national disgrace.
The binman chronicles
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Unfortunately for the sake of the public purse we need more, we need them to go bust so the new co. can be charged the correct amount of rent that actually at least covers the expenses for that stadium.
Minimeister
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Wednesday night before, we lost at relegation threatened Oxford (Gary Lineker...) and they won at home to Leicester
3 days later we beat Southampton at home 7 something and they won at Chelsea to win the league
Then on the Monday night we beat West Ham at home in the battle for second
Then we went to Wembley and lost on the Saturday.
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