Oof. Must be great when you’re on gravy train like this. You can never fall off 
I can’t really understand the finances of football. Why not have a clause in the contract about performance, and have that as cause for a reduced payoff when you’re fired? The whole game seems to have got itself into this spiral of increased salaries without performance requirements, it’s just absurd.
Clubs have allowed themselves to get pushed into accepting wage bills of 85-110% of revenue. They’re utterly helpless to actually manage players anymore as they’ll just fuck off somewhere else and get paid even more; managers can entirely fuck up and still have their contract paid up in full. It’s madness.
Isn’t the problem managing Agents? They drive the players behaviour. As with any business other than the likes of supermarkets who have the power to control their smaller suppliers, the purchasing department gets beaten up by the Sales department.
Nope they’re all slaves to the quite obscene amounts of money that TV has poured into football. Everything, including the behaviour of agents and players is completely predictable.
Won 2-1 after letting in a really stupid goal in the 92 min. 
whose performance though - the players? the manager? the coaches? the board? who is to blame when a team under performs?
can’t see you losing it now - race for 2nd is more interesting…
Yes I remember.
Capacity 82,905.
In 1983 they were averaging 12600 for home games.
Remember going in mid to late 70s,45,000 for the big games,but far less for many others.
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Year before the money came;
1 Manchester United © 38 25 8 5 74 34 +40 83 2003–04 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Arsenal 38 23 9 6 85 42 +43 78
3 Newcastle United 38 21 6 11 63 48 +15 69 2003–04 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4 Chelsea 38 19 10 9 68 38 +30 67
5 Liverpool 38 18 10 10 61 41 +20 64 2003–04 UEFA Cup First round 1
6 Blackburn Rovers 38 16 12 10 52 43 +9 60
7 Everton 38 17 8 13 48 49 −1 59
8 Southampton 38 13 13 12 43 46 −3 52 2003–04 UEFA Cup First round 2
9 Manchester City 38 15 6 17 47 54 −7 51 2003–04 UEFA Cup Qualifying round 3
10 Tottenham Hotspur 38 14 8 16 51 62 −11 50
11 Middlesbrough 38 13 10 15 48 44 +4 49
12 Charlton Athletic 38 14 7 17 45 56 −11 49
13 Birmingham City 38 13 9 16 41 49 −8 48
14 Fulham 38 13 9 16 41 50 −9 48
15 Leeds United 38 14 5 19 58 57 +1 47
16 Aston Villa 38 12 9 17 42 47 −5 45
17 Bolton Wanderers 38 10 14 14 41 51 −10 44
18 West Ham United ® 38 10 12 16 42 59 −17 42 Relegation to 2003–04 Football League First Division
19 West Bromwich Albion ® 38 6 8 24 29 65 −36 26
20 Sunderland ® 38 4 7 27 21 65 −44 19
Sunderland looking consistant.
Still not sure how west ham managed to go down that season looking at there team.Cole was the captain at 19.
1 England GK David James
2 Czech Republic DF Tomáš Řepka
3 England DF Nigel Winterburn
4 Scotland MF Don Hutchison[4]
5 England MF Lee Bowyer
6 England MF Michael Carrick
7 Scotland DF Christian Dailly
8 England MF Trevor Sinclair
9 England FW Jermain Defoe
10 Italy FW Paolo Di Canio
11 Northern Ireland MF Steve Lomas[5]
14 France FW Frédéric Kanouté[6]
15 Republic of Ireland DF Gary Breen[7]
16 England MF John Moncur
19 England DF Ian Pearce
20 England DF Scott Minto
21 Australia MF Richard Garcia
22 England FW Les Ferdinand
23 England DF Glen Johnson
24 England DF Rufus Brevett
25 France MF Édouard Cissé (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain)
26 England MF Joe Cole (captain)
29 Guinea FW Titi Camara
30 France DF Sébastien Schemmel
That was the last year I had a season ticket. We were relegated because Gary Breen (on a free) was the only player brought in the previous summer and the defence needed an overhaul. Dailly was shite, Repka was a lunatic and suspended plenty, Winterburn past it etc, etc… Also iirc Sebastian Schemmel who was Hammer Of The Year the previous season, fell out with Glen Rodent and his performances dropped off alarmingly.
Titi Camara… HAHAHAHAHA!
Saw them against Exeter a couple of years before then,still had rio,stuart pearce,Sukar etc…
Newton Heath was founded by a Liverpudlian in Manchester. They renamed themselves Manchester United and moved out of the City into Stretford in Greater Manchester. Manchester City reside in Manchester itself. Not many People know that. 