Portsmouth to be closed down

IMO we have a real strong lower-league system in England.

Liverpool's next

I saw you had posted and i said to myself 'i bet its to do with Liverpool' and you didnt disappoint

What happens to all their players then ?

Are they all going to be released ?

Cameron_LFC wrote:I saw you had posted and i said to myself 'i bet its to do with Liverpool' and you didnt disappoint

HenryGale wrote:

Cameron_LFC wrote:I saw you had posted and i said to myself 'i bet its to do with Liverpool' and you didnt disappoint

Its true tho!

HenryGale wrote:Liverpool's next

No debt..

Cameron_LFC wrote:I saw you had posted and i said to myself 'i bet its to do with Liverpool' and you didnt disappoint

Same.

Dan wrote:

HenryGale wrote:Liverpool's next

No debt..

You'll get relegated and it will all crumble

Dan wrote:

(polskaGOLA) wrote:I'm not familiar with England lower league as you guys are, but it happens many times every season throughout Europe.

For example, Siracusa CF closed to financial problems in the mid 90's, the supporters bought the license of a smaller Promozione club in Siracusa that in their season got promoted to Eccelenza. The got up to Serie C2 for a few years before dropping back to Eccelenza in early 2000's, than they had financial problems and got relegated to Promozione, then in the summer they bought the license of a club in the Serie D, and played there that season. They got promoted twice, and are now in the Serie C1, one promotion to Serie B.

It happens all the time, and nobody complains nor finds it as an issue. Then again I can imagine English lower league is much more important than in Italy, seeing as England has such a low number of lower league teams compared to Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia etc. and just buying a license is much more of a big deal.

Eh?

Those countries have more lower league teams. Italy in particular probably has about 10 times the amount of lower league teams than England.

(polskaGOLA) wrote:

Dan wrote:

(polskaGOLA) wrote:I'm not familiar with England lower league as you guys are, but it happens many times every season throughout Europe.

For example, Siracusa CF closed to financial problems in the mid 90's, the supporters bought the license of a smaller Promozione club in Siracusa that in their season got promoted to Eccelenza. The got up to Serie C2 for a few years before dropping back to Eccelenza in early 2000's, than they had financial problems and got relegated to Promozione, then in the summer they bought the license of a club in the Serie D, and played there that season. They got promoted twice, and are now in the Serie C1, one promotion to Serie B.

It happens all the time, and nobody complains nor finds it as an issue. Then again I can imagine English lower league is much more important than in Italy, seeing as England has such a low number of lower league teams compared to Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia etc. and just buying a license is much more of a big deal.

Eh?

Those countries have more lower league teams. Italy in particular probably has about 10 times the amount of lower league teams than England.

Sure about that? We've got a massive system - just not many know how big.

i wonder for example if italy has a 4th tier team with 12k attendances, or a 5th tier team with 5-6k. for englands size then we have an impressive infrastructure

Yah I know, 10 divisions.

Italy on the other hand...

Serie A and B
Serie C1 which is divided into 2 leagues
Serie C2 which is divided into 3 leagues; all clubs in Serie C2 and above are professional or semi-professional.

Serie D which is divided into about 16 leagues; some clubs are semi-professional
Eccelenza which is divided into 28 or so leagues
Promozione which is divided into alot of leagues. (same as Eccelenza or maybe more)
than after that there are 4 more huge groups of leagues whose names I don't remember.

Each of these individual leagues have 14-20 teams in them.

Italy has the most extensive and massive system in the world BY FAR. England is no match, no country is any match, not even Brazil.

Germany's system is about the same as Englands, Poland's is a division or two smaller, France has a huge system, probably bigger than England's, Spain is about the size of England's, and Russia's has many leagues divided into many many smaller leagues like Italy, but it is less extensive, but quit a bit more than England.

Hereford_Lad wrote:i wonder for example if italy has a 4th tier team with 12k attendances, or a 5th tier team with 5-6k. for englands size then we have an impressive infrastructure

Oh, I was not debating infrastructure, support and quality of these teams, just saying that Italy's is much more extensive. Talking about it that way, England's lower league teams are probably on the same level as Germany's and Holland's.

Clubs like Messina and Venezia in Serie D and lower do get over 10k regularly though.

England has the most leagues in population to club ratio I think or something like that.

If you count semi pro leagues then look at all the big sunday leagues and stuff here like the yorkshire one.

Or maybe that was Brazil cant remember but I dont think its Italy.

(polskaGOLA) wrote:Yah I know, 10 divisions.

Italy on the other hand...

Serie A and B
Serie C1 which is divided into 2 leagues
Serie C2 which is divided into 3 leagues; all clubs in Serie C2 and above are professional or semi-professional.

Serie D which is divided into about 16 leagues; some clubs are semi-professional
Eccelenza which is divided into 28 or so leagues
Promozione which is divided into alot of leagues. (same as Eccelenza or maybe more)
than after that there are 4 more huge groups of leagues whose names I don't remember.

Each of these individual leagues have 14-20 teams in them.

Italy has the most extensive and massive system in the world BY FAR. England is no match, no country is any match, not even Brazil.

Germany's system is about the same as Englands, Poland's is a division or two smaller, France has a huge system, probably bigger than England's, Spain is about the size of England's, and Russia's has many leagues divided into many many smaller leagues like Italy, but it is less extensive, but quit a bit more than England.

http://www.thepyramid.info/asp/pyramid3.asp

There's ours.


Bear in mind it doesn't include the 'sunday league' leagues that connect to the lowest level on there.

Like I said, Italy's is about several times bigger.

Also keep in mind, those leagues in Italy each have mostly 16-20 teams, (some with 14) compared to the 10-14 in England's smaller divisions.

Also, does this have any relevancy to anything?

Good job me and my mates scrapped plans for an away trip to Pompey in favour of Watford

That would of been a waste of £35

Just remembered, last year they were FA Cup finalists. Two years ago, they won it.


Shocking.

Stop bumming everything foregin please Polska.

Oh and btw, I agree with you on the Polish Pussy being better than the English.

2 girls in my college are Polish. Both are fit. Poland currently has a 100% Pussy rate to me.

Was there ever a doubt about that Forest? :p

Also, remember, to me you guys are all foreign.

Always have liked Pompey for some reason.

forestfcfan wrote:Stop bumming everything foregin please Polska.

Oh and btw, I agree with you on the Polish Pussy being better than the English.

2 girls in my college are Polish. Both are fit. Poland currently has a 100% Pussy rate to me.

Inappropriate.

Aurora! Aurora!

Dan, I made a bigger avatar for you you know, check the chat thread last few pages.

Anyway, anyone remember my epic Portsmouth founded by Ottoman Spies troll thread on EA?

Dan wrote:

http://www.thepyramid.info/asp/pyramid3.asp

There's ours.


Bear in mind it doesn't include the 'sunday league' leagues that connect to the lowest level on there.

FUCKING HELL

Portsmouth

It's mainly Arry's fault.

(polskaGOLA) wrote:Wow a couple years ago...

Hull City was playing in League 2
Grimsby was playing in League 1
Luton was playing in League 1
Stoke City was playing in League 1
Wigan Athletics was playing in League 1
Southampton and Portsmouth placed 11th and 12th respectively in Premiership
Manchester City was in the Championship
Newcastle was playing Champions League Football
Leeds was playing Champions League Football
Wimbledon FC was playing in the Championship
Chelsea did not have 98% of their current fanbase
Arsenal was winning trophies

What else did I miss?

4 years ago Luton were in theChampionship, and at Christmas 2003, Saints were 4th in he prem.

How times change

Liebherr wrote:Portsmouth

Is it really that funny? They're a club and there's a set of fans losing their team.

Doesn't matter if they are a rival, I'd hate to see Everton or Man United go out of business.