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The real big problem is ticket prices - if they were at a semi-realistic level whereby people could be bothered to go, I doubt most proper fans would be bothered, simply because they could go to more games.

Whoever thought of 11:15 Man C v Everton and 5:15 Boro v Portsmouth should be taken out.

The reason a lot of crap games are on is because every team has a quota of matches - to fill this quota, sky show two smaller teams playing each other, purely because it kills two birds with one stone. This in turn allows them to show games featuring the bigger clubs and giving them mega so much it'll make you vomit coverage that everyone will want to watch (and hence pubs will have to pay a mint for). Those games that are in the middle can therefore be prone to being left out. Our first derby with the scum wasn't televised as there wasn't anything really interesting about it, however the last one was, purely because the media were hoping for judas to turn us over and make us look idiots. Instead we spoilt the party.

The only really attractive game we have on sky is at home to Chelsea, presumably because it'll be a reasonably close game on an evening kick off, with the inevitable second half chelsea goal spree, allowing the pundits to praise chelsea's greatness while heartily condemning us to relegation. Not that it matter, because we're going to beat them this time.