If you want to talk stats, where did you get the 'quadrupled in a decade' stat from? According to this: https://teamukfl.com/blog/ukfl-by-the-numbers-is-american-football-popular-in-the-uk/, Statistica had it at about the same C29k in 2016.
So you like American football. Good for you. You know I didn't praise any of them. You know the point I was making and didn't address it, so let's stop the thread derail shall we?
I began by stating that the viewership worldwide including America is already larger than rugby. I also don't doubt the commercial power of the NFL. However, as I said, its all about the NFL. There will never be a worldwide federal body that is not under the major control of the NFL members...
There is a certain class of men who will always assume that everything that inconveniences them has a very simple and easily enacted solution that people are just not doing out of spite. Whenever I read their complaints, I run them through an internal translator and they almost always come out...
It's already bigger in that 123.7 million in America watched the Superbowl. However only 62.5 million viewers outside of the US, compared with a worldwide audience for the most recent RU World Cup Final of 94 million, so it's global impact isn't as significant. They're both way behind the...
Woody Guthrie was inspired to write a poem expressing his outrage that media reports of this 1948 plane accident listed the names of the crew and called everyone else just 'Deportees'. It was later put to music by Martin Hoffman, popularised by Pete Seeger and recorded by lots of different...
I'm currently reading 'Kliph Nesterof's 'Outrageous' which traces the long long history of the culture wars in entertainment. There's some great stuff in there that highlights the links between the current right wing extremists in power in the US and the John Birchers, KKK and Heritage Society...
Shame that the single edit removed the really biting verse of this classic. "Like a dog lying in the corner..." and "You will never understand how it feels to live your life with no meaning of control". It's a class war anthem that a lot of people just sing along to.
Funnily enough, I bought a copy of Dorian Lynskey's history of protest songs today: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/20/33-revolutions-minute-protest-songs.
Also noticed the SWP selling papers, which seemed like a throwback and reminded me that, although they weren't the most...
Some really good songs on here. Just for info. "The World Turned Upside Down" song about the Diggers was actually written by Leon Rosselson. Bragg's version is definitive, but here's the original:
I have to add Clive Gregson and Elvis Costello's heart-breaking 'Shipbuilding', inspired by...
As has been said before, our recruitment goes in cycles. Although FH has had a lot of money spent on new recruits, they take time to bed in. Time that the squad RDZ inherited had already had. The Athletic did a study a few years back of the peak age of players in different positions. I've...
It's not just Facundo he's letting down.
Cooper had 10 points from 12 games when they sacked him -8 goal average. They were in 16th, a point above the drop;
Van Nistlerooy's also now had 12 games: 7 points, -20 goal average. They are 18th, two points below the drop.
During his stint, their...