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[dave.woodhall]

http://thebirminghampress.com/2013/10/swings-roundabouts/

[eastie]

Pretty much spot on - lets give harry a rousing rendition of happy birthday to you on Saturday and hope we celebrate it with a game to remember.

[rob_bridge]

Good write up Dave.

I'll take a punt on most played fixture. Both World Wars started just after football season commence, I think.  Did Villa play Everton just prior to the breakout in 1914 or 1939?

[damon loves JT]

I wish I could agree with you about the fluidity of clubs' status in the Premier League. Spurs are able to sign better players for lower wages, and I think that is all to do with being in London. That's not going to change.

[eastie]

I wish I could agree with you about the fluidity of clubs' status in the Premier League. Spurs are able to sign better players for lower wages, and I think that is all to do with being in London. That's not going to change.

Whilst you have a point I wouldn't say its all to do with being in London but partly.
Fulham and qpr are not attracting the players that spurs have done , I think  good players will go to clubs outside London if the money is on offer , but there is no doubt some are attracted by the bright lights of the capital.

[Pete3206]

"A Good Article"     -   Daily Telegraph

"A Triumph!"     -   Variety

[Dr Butler]

Nice article again Dave...oh and Alan Green ? ...what a twat.

[dave.woodhall]

I wish I could agree with you about the fluidity of clubs' status in the Premier League. Spurs are able to sign better players for lower wages, and I think that is all to do with being in London. That's not going to change.

Whilst you have a point I wouldn't say its all to do with being in London but partly.
Fulham and qpr are not attracting the players that spurs have done , I think  good players will go to clubs outside London if the money is on offer , but there is no doubt some are attracted by the bright lights of the capital.

It's not so much the bright lights as the anonymity.

[VILLA MOLE]

Nice article again Dave...oh and Alan Green ? ...what a twat.

Yes but I bet Sir Alan did not make a fuss and make it all about him , because he is not like that at all you know 

[eamonn]

"A Good Article"     -   Daily Telegraph

"A Triumph!"     -   Variety

Who does darren woolley write for?

[damon loves JT]

I wish I could agree with you about the fluidity of clubs' status in the Premier League. Spurs are able to sign better players for lower wages, and I think that is all to do with being in London. That's not going to change.

Whilst you have a point I wouldn't say its all to do with being in London but partly.
Fulham and qpr are not attracting the players that spurs have done , I think  good players will go to clubs outside London if the money is on offer , but there is no doubt some are attracted by the bright lights of the capital.

It's not so much the bright lights as the anonymity.

That's very perceptive. When I lived in Bermondsey, that Rumanian midfielder who played for Spurs - Dumitrescu I think - lived in a little mews house by the river. He never got any grief, nobody batted an eyelid. People in London make a point of being unimpressed by celebrities.

[dave.woodhall]

I wish I could agree with you about the fluidity of clubs' status in the Premier League. Spurs are able to sign better players for lower wages, and I think that is all to do with being in London. That's not going to change.

Whilst you have a point I wouldn't say its all to do with being in London but partly.
Fulham and qpr are not attracting the players that spurs have done , I think  good players will go to clubs outside London if the money is on offer , but there is no doubt some are attracted by the bright lights of the capital.

It's not so much the bright lights as the anonymity.

That's very perceptive. When I lived in Bermondsey, that Rumanian midfielder who played for Spurs - Dumitrescu I think - lived in a little mews house by the river. He never got any grief, nobody batted an eyelid. People in London make a point of being unimpressed by celebrities.

I think it was Ruud Gullit when he played for Chelsea who said that the attraction of London was that nobody bothered him.

[darren woolley]

Another good article Dave.

[TopDeck113]

I'll take a punt on most played fixture. Both World Wars started just after football season commence, I think.  Did Villa play Everton just prior to the breakout in 1914 or 1939?

I was thinking along those lines.  Please let us know as I like to swap such trivia with an Evertonian mate of mine.

[ez]

I think we didn't used to be just equal to them, we were better than them.