He stuck 4 past Torquay at Home Park one Boxing Day, with Norman Piper getting the other 2 goals, what a game that was!
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What ‘unpopular opinion’ do you have?
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i can sort of see the rationale for this though because there’s fairly obvious growth potential for women’s football and arguably a moral obligation to boost it given the way it was suppressed in the past.
Conversely, there’s no need or justification for promoting lower league men’s football. It’s been well established for decades and while many people watch it, they’re not really interested beyond their own team.
Personally (and this may be another unpopular opinion) I’ve couldn’t care less about any lower league game that doesn’t affect Argyle. I think I’ve literally never watched one on TV and haven’t been to a live one for years. I’d struggle to name more than a dozen or so football league players excluding ones with connections to Argyle and am only dimly aware of what clubs are in the championship or league 2.
I’m not into women’s football either but if Argyle had a women’s team that made it onto TV i might take a passing interest. If this is true of Man U or Arsenal or Chelsea fans it probably equates to a higher level of engagement than something like Mansfield v Middlesbrough in the men’s game where the small number of people that give a flying one about the teams involved will mostly be at the stadium.
Here’s my unpopular opinion. We desperately need a cheese tasting room, like Tottenham have in their new stadium. Where’s our ambition? Why do we have to rely on those northern cockneys to show us how it should be done? Reflecting our regional differences, perhaps it could be a pasty tasting room? Come on Argyle, wake up.
If you find something like Women's football annoying then you need to have a think about yourself and why you go looking for things to get annoyed about
My unpopular opinion - even the worst ref we've ever seen at Argyle is way better than 99% of us on here (and I know there have been some true stinker of performances).
I just think refereeing is an exceptionally difficult job and I admire anyone who puts themselves in the middle of dealing with sly players, furious managers and 20,000 people yelling obscenities at you (often when you're getting in right!).
I just think refereeing is an exceptionally difficult job and I admire anyone who puts themselves in the middle of dealing with sly players, furious managers and 20,000 people yelling obscenities at you (often when you're getting in right!).
Havent you just contradicted your own argument? The fact there is so little coverage of L.1 and 2 means you are not familiar with it and cant name players despite many more watching it than the rubbish WPL. I find it insulting to the intelligence that they keep trying to plug it when anybody understanding football knows it is very low quality.
No, you've missed the point - the reason I don't know much about the football league isn't that there's not enough coverage, it's that, apart from Argyle, I'm completely uninterested. They could broadcast it 24/7 on all major TV networks and aside from the Argyle-related content, I wouldn't pay any attention. I think this is probably true of most lower league football fans (swapping Argyle for their team) and almost all supporters of the big Premier League clubs (ie the overwhelming majority of football fans).
On women's football, as I said, I'm not much interested in that either. I was just offering a theory as to why it isn't completely unreasonable that it gets a generous profile relative to the lower league clubs in the men's game.
