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An Americans take on his first trip to the Valley
Karim_myBagheri
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Thought this might be of interest to a few on here. i always like to read what outsiders have to say about the club. This is a bit of a tourist guide piece but its rather well written.
apologises if this has already been posted. it's dated back in October. before we got rid of that Belgium.
https://englishsoccerguide.com/english-soccer-game-charlton-athletic/
apologises if this has already been posted. it's dated back in October. before we got rid of that Belgium.
https://englishsoccerguide.com/english-soccer-game-charlton-athletic/
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Excellent read!!1
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"a bit of pre game atmosphere" and he takes a picture of a train. Decent research there from the fella.12
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Enjoyable read.
("Greenwich Holiday Inn Express surrounded by empty fields". Blimey!!!)0 -
Four posts in and nobody has mentioned the missing apostrophe in the title?7
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An interesting perspective, and well written, but that piece made me slighty ambivalent to the idea of one day returning to the Prem.
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I still find it fascinating that college (university) football and soccer stadiums are 60k capacities filled up week in week out in the USA. But it’s not the same as watching teams with proper history over here.0
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When it comes to college football, I have to disagree about the historical side. It was seen as more prestigious than the professional game until WWII or so, and even now, there is a LOT of loyalty toward one's alma mater (or local college side), though in perhaps a slightly more grandiose way than local football over here (not that that's good or bad - it's the respective cultures).Ross said:I still find it fascinating that college (university) football and soccer stadiums are 60k capacities filled up week in week out in the USA. But it’s not the same as watching teams with proper history over here.
(Made me think of this relatively new tradition - but a great one nonetheless - Wisconsin doing the Jump Around:
https://youtu.be/tODlPxhbGF8?t=40 ) 7 -
Most college football programs over here only have around 8-10 home games a season, same with the NFL, so people try to get to the games.0
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Interesting and well written piece.0
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Can you imagine ‘ the jump’ in the cupboard end and all the shouts of “Siddarn”!4
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Ross said:I still find it fascinating that college (university) football and soccer stadiums are 60k capacities filled up week in week out in the USA. But it’s not the same as watching teams with proper history over here.The numbers are even crazier than that. They dwarf the NFL and always have. It helps there are only games on Saturdays.
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Impressive yes but can we have away turnouts for Oohaa?NapaAddick said:Ross said:I still find it fascinating that college (university) football and soccer stadiums are 60k capacities filled up week in week out in the USA. But it’s not the same as watching teams with proper history over here.The numbers are even crazier than that. They dwarf the NFL and always have. It helps there are only games on Saturdays.5 -
Michigan have a tradition of announcing the score of my old colleges games at HT and FT - https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/sports/ncaafootball/slippery-rocks-tie-to-michigan-is-all-in-the-name.amp.htmlNapaAddick said:Ross said:I still find it fascinating that college (university) football and soccer stadiums are 60k capacities filled up week in week out in the USA. But it’s not the same as watching teams with proper history over here.The numbers are even crazier than that. They dwarf the NFL and always have. It helps there are only games on Saturdays.3 -
Must have been an amazing experience @ValleyGary playing football at uni out there mate. Please tell me it was exactly like American Pie
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Haha exactly like American Pie mate and I can tell you it definitely helped having an accent.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:Must have been an amazing experience @ValleyGary playing football at uni out there mate. Please tell me it was exactly like American Pie2 -
That video is great. We should do that at The Valley.0
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Football for a fiver, bunch of plastics...NapaAddick said:Ross said:I still find it fascinating that college (university) football and soccer stadiums are 60k capacities filled up week in week out in the USA. But it’s not the same as watching teams with proper history over here.The numbers are even crazier than that. They dwarf the NFL and always have. It helps there are only games on Saturdays.0 -
Got to experience this before. Everyone, and I mean everyone joins in! Really cool to seePaddyP17 said:
When it comes to college football, I have to disagree about the historical side. It was seen as more prestigious than the professional game until WWII or so, and even now, there is a LOT of loyalty toward one's alma mater (or local college side), though in perhaps a slightly more grandiose way than local football over here (not that that's good or bad - it's the respective cultures).Ross said:I still find it fascinating that college (university) football and soccer stadiums are 60k capacities filled up week in week out in the USA. But it’s not the same as watching teams with proper history over here.
(Made me think of this relatively new tradition - but a great one nonetheless - Wisconsin doing the Jump Around:https://youtu.be/tODlPxhbGF8?t=40 )0 -
Do that in some UK stadiums and there would be more than a light fitting falling down!1
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Who the feck told them to go an eat at the bloody Holiday Inn Express?bazjonster said:Enjoyable read.
("Greenwich Holiday Inn Express surrounded by empty fields". Blimey!!!)1
