Leyton Orient are in Leyton, about a mile from the Olympic Stadium. It could be argued that Wimbledon has 2 teams - MK Dons (the original team relocated to Milton Keynes) and AFC Wimbledon (the new team formed by the original fans). Watford is really a separate town rather than a suburb, it's a fair distance (by UK standards anyway) out, and there are plenty of others like this as well. Brentford, Barnet and Charlton are the other London teams, I think that's the full list. There's a lot of them.
Wasn't it Rod Stewart who used to own Watford? They nearly made it to the big time last year but I was bummed that Brighton lost the playoff.
Your post is so full of double entendres :rofl: Elton John Owned Watford, and most likely got 'bummed' in Brighton as well
Hahahaha, now that is funny... well good to see your guys didn't need to go through the playoff route to get there. I think you guys had the toughest group as Poland, Ukraine and Montenegro are no slouches although San Marino kind of takes away some of the luster of that group. An automatic 6 points for everyone.
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There is simply no way that Poland, Ukraine and Montenegro were tougher than Belgium, Croatia and Serbia.
This has gone from being a thread about football in England to a thread about futbol in England. How strange.
Spot on - every word of this could have come from me, even the part about 1982! Who would give up their current team to then follow a new team. If the NFL pushed this through the only way I could see it working was name the team 'England' or 'UK'. If the team is named London and only plays at Wembley then it will definite fail. Maybe, just maybe, if the team played around the country (Manchester, London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff) and geared itself to representing the whole UK, it might just catch on but even then it would depend on the team being good (but it's a rare a new team is good to begin with.) We have a previous example of a team failing in London, namely the London Monarchs in the World League in the 90s. Winners of the World Bowl in 1991 and big crowds (all be it with a lot of free tickets given away) but by 1992 the excitement had dwindled, the team was poor and their spot in the World League was taken away. Wouldn't surprise me if a similar popularity curve happened with a London NFL team. .....and don't even get me started on this dopey notion of having a Superbowl here!!
I just don't see why any player would be willing to play there. Constantly having to fly across the ocean and deal with jetlag. Moving further away from family and friends. Picking up FA's would be tough because you'd have to fly them across the ocean just to practice with the team just to see if it'd work out which would be expensive. Just not a practical thing to do.
How does any expansion team pick up fans? The team wouldn't convert many fans who have teams already, but it could develop the next generation of support.
Well, with the Texans, a lot of them were Houston Oilers fans so when another Houston team popped up, they became Texans fans.
While a UK wide team might be more workable there really aren't enough stadia for it. The dimensions of soccer grounds just don't work. They are too wide and aren't long enough. How do you like the sound of a 90 yard field, 8 yard end zones and no saftey area behind? Wembley, Cardiff, Murrayfield are about it. I think worldwide franchises will eventually happen, but it's a long way off and a huge amount of groundwork needs to be done. The IS games are just the start of this. Very few Brit NFL fans want a British franchise in my experience.
That though is a huge undertaking. Would the NFL owners be prepared to fund a loss-making franchise for an entire generation. Are there that many NFL fans who are unaffiliated who would attend in large enough numbers? 10-20,000, maybe, but that's not enough. After an initial burst of interest there would be tarps all over the upper decks.
Very possible... weren't your lads in that group as well? Where do they play their home games? Ibrox? I somehow found my way to a game there courtesy of some Yank who played midfield for them about a decade ago.
-If the team were to be called London ________ , it will fail, people from oop north don't want to follow anything with a southern bias :wink: - If this team 'toured' their home games it would fail, the grounds are just not suitable unless rugby grounds were used and they don't hold many at all. Plus outside of London I don't think we would attract big enough crowds. - If anything it has more chance to succeed in Glasgow than London, just look at how the world league ended. Not in my lifetime. TBH I really wouldn't want that anyway. I like it just the way it is, although I would love to see LA get another team again.
wlaf action.... wait we already did that. i thought it was kinda fun to have a minor league sort of thing during hte offseason i europe and a few american cities. i would do it just straight europe though.. but i dont think that it will catch on like the nfl has here. at least not in the time period that the douchedell wants.
The six teams who will have to shlep to stupid London to play 3 2014 games were annouced today Fortunately the Jets are NOT one of them
Here are the teams for 2014! http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap20...boys-lions-dolphins-to-play-in-london-in-2014
Reading that article it looks like the Jags have committed to playing a game in London for the next three season. Indication of the Jags becoming the UK franchise?
