(29 May 2015, 10:34 am)Andreos1 I have thought about the stadia thing for a while.

I am not sure whether it would have happened or not.
The influx of TV money from the likes of Sky, have possibly helped speed things up - but on the other side of the coin, I am not sure football would have been as marketable - with the old stadiums.

If you go back to the early days of Sky and the Premier League, there were old grounds. Oldham, Boro, Sunderland, Coventry, Southampton etc
With prize money and TV revenue, we gradually saw the stadia improve. Clubs could afford to do it.
Football became glamorous, as a result of three things: Taylor, Premier League and Sky.

There will be exceptions to the rule like, with SJP being extended the first time round via club money and a tie up with Cameron Hall (John Hall paying himself basically) and the whole ball started moving, prior to promotion into the top flight.

(29 May 2015, 10:58 am)MrFozz Here is a question for you mate

Name a team who were founders of the Premier League i.e. they were involved in the meetings when the breakaway was discussed, but have never played in the division?

Don't google it [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]

(29 May 2015, 11:36 am)Andreos1 Pure punt, but Luton?
Trying to think who had a season or two in the top flight around late 80's/early 90's.

Millwall came down in 88/89 if I remember right.
Oldham played a season or two of the Prem.

Cambridge came close to promotion a couple of times, as did Notts County. They never made it.

(29 May 2015, 11:38 am)MrFozz I'll give ya that one, Notts County were relegated in the final year of the old 2nd Division

The first teams to come to my mind when I first heard that was Oxford, Peterborough, Cambridge and Brighton who were there or thereabouts in the old 2nd div

(29 May 2015, 11:53 am)Andreos1 Never thought about Oxford.
They went off the boil after Maxwell fell off his boat.

Who was the team in question?

(29 May 2015, 11:18 am)MrFozz One comment I heard a while back sent shivers through me, regarding where we found ourselves by 1992(Premier League and Sky entry into the game), it does sound quite bad when I say it but...

It was as if Bradford and Hillsborough had to happen, disasters that were inevitable, if they never happened when they did, it would have happened some other time, I think we needed the wake up call, most grounds had no improvements since the early 20th Century, no new Stadia for nearly 40 years(Roots Hall, Southend).

The one aspect of the Taylor Report I will never agree with is the need for All-seated stadia, Taylor never blamed Terracing for the deaths, that should never have made it into the report.

I believe we needed to get away from the massive kop style terraces, I will never forget being on the Fulwell End at Sunderland in 1990 or 91 and when Sunderland scored I was shoved into the barrier, cut my lip and nearly had a few teeth knocked out when I was smashed into the crush barrier...Though I never minded paddocks The Clock Stand and Main Stand...Did there used to be paddocks at SJP down what is today's Milburn Stand and East Stand???

I will shut up now, am starting to talk shite

(29 May 2015, 11:53 am)MrFozz The team was Notts County

(29 May 2015, 5:02 pm)leestransportphotos You can no longer bet on who will be the next Gateshead manager...

#ColinCoopersBlackandWhiteArmy

(30 May 2015, 12:46 pm)Davie Rio Ferdinand has retired http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32944097

(30 May 2015, 12:53 pm)MrFozz Don't think he had much choice, being widowed recently and having young children to look after

He has had a good career, so now is a good a time as any to pack in

#farewellrio
#nebhashtags

(30 May 2015, 1:14 pm)Davie I agree there, I also think his legs were starting to go, he didn't have the pace he once had

(30 May 2015, 1:18 pm)MrFozz Some big names have left the BPL this season...

Frank Lampard
Steven Gerrard
Rio Ferdinand

There is only really John Terry left from England's so called 'Golden Generation'

(30 May 2015, 1:21 pm)Davie They will be missed next season...

(30 May 2015, 1:18 pm)MrFozz Some big names have left the BPL this season...

Frank Lampard
Steven Gerrard
Rio Ferdinand

There is only really John Terry left from England's so called 'Golden Generation'

(30 May 2015, 1:24 pm)MrFozz Liverpool are knackered without Gerrard, look how they went in the aftermath of Suarez leaving, now they have lost the man who is the club through and through

(30 May 2015, 1:29 pm)MurdnunoC Meh. Frank Lampard left last season as well didn't he?

There's also a slim chance Gerrard might be back next season too.