would motivate more than a than a 7000 mile round trip to godforsakenistan three days before a date at old trafford
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im just explaining why spam bosses have chosen to ignore the europa league
fwiw if i were a spam supporter i think i'd be ok with it
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the future. there are three* avenues of blissful joy for 'small' teams, watching good & competitive football, beating top teams (and sneering at their ghw fans), battering rivals. all require bringing in good players and keeping them for as long as possible, both of which require money.
*oh yea and also winning fa cups
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tough to estimate how many league pts it costs, havent seen (or done) rigorous analysis of it but there's plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest EL participation has a significant impact on league fortunes
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ham's o/u in june was 40.5, is now 44.5 with shorter odds on the over so call it 45. but i dont know what proportion of that shift is a response to the EL exit vs other factors (they've spent a bit, but enner valencia's long term injury wont have done their number any good).
is possible that der june markt expected ham not to take their first team on EL away days anyway which further complicates matters.
sn they sent out a youth team including a right back ive never heard of who is clearly not ready, spam crashing out in these circumstances is not representative of the high quality of tblitw
They were pretty bad over two legs. They were terrible in the first leg until Collins was sent off and made hard work of a bunch of has beens and never will bes last night.