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Stopspot said:
That's a Halo clan emblem ffs.

For all the talk about VAR and such killing the game. The real death of the game is the corporatisation of it and the removal of club's traditional identities.

Not saying you cannot revamp a club emblem (ours is relatively new and a good one), but you have to keep some sort of connection to the old at least.
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All this stuff done with Juve crest and branding is a monstrosity!

While I think mild tweaking is more than OK from time to time, sometimes it's an improvement and sometimes not, it does enable supporters to argue for or against it and the fact that they are small tweaks means it's easy to change back if it doesn't work out.

I really like our current emblem, the tweaks made to the cockerel made it sit prouder and bolder. Personally, I thought it was a shame that we dropped the shield around the cockerel.
 
Stopspot said:
He doesn't use his maternal surname as far as I know. Unlike his mother who is very much a modern day fascist. He seems to be trying to distance himself from that part of the family.

It's gonna be tough in such a public job but good luck to him.
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Unfortunately, the environment of Lazio is fascist and racist: certainly the story will have negative reflectors
 
Burke said:
The reason serie A had the best players , (souness and rush even went there in the 80s, two cavemen out of place), was the offer of the highest salaries. Gascoigne was on something like 20k a week 30 years ago. Maradona went there for the same reason.
Clubs owned by old world big boss head of the table type figures who paid cash, bonus stacks in your pocket, dodgy money, often missed payments too but made it back. There was not much of a company. Now the cashflow is a trickle

What is the connection with Italia 90 though? I don't see it
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The reason the premier league is so big is because of money too.🤷‍♂️and probably every bit as dodgy ie man city
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
Not Scottish but no one was ever lumbered with...Hanson Souness Dalglish Archibald Gough Gemmil Robertson...Alan Hutton...maybe🤔
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As a kid i used to wonder why if Scotland had all these great players playing for English clubs, how come their National team was rubbish. Surely if Dalglish, Souness, Hansen, Strachan etc were that good the Scottish national team should have been mustard.

Instead i watched them get spanked at most tournaments. I suppose now qualifying for a tournament is an achievement so they relatively speaking they were better then than they are now.
 
Burke said:
Scottish players were tough and rough as was the game. The typical centre forward would score once ever 10 matches but was good with his elbows holding play and good with a tackle. So their best were defensive minded. In the league this was necessary but techincal european teams would pass and run rings around the national side. England too, didn't romania have like a 40 year undefeated record against england. Croatia, yugoslavia czech as well
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Pretty sure this not at all accurate. Was it not a Scottish side that first won a European club competition? They have also constantly produced small nimble skillful players. Pretty sure their relative lack of international honours correlates to the country's size(pool) of players. Think I read only Croatia out perform this metric in all world football.
 
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