There is more than one way to skin the proverbial cat, but you need a bit of luck... our competitor pays 10 mil and he flops, we pay 500k for an untried and he smashes it. That's where a good scouting system pays off.
I remember reading some stat about the average IQ of criminals. It turns out it had been taken from the prison population. i.e those who had been caught. :)
Agreed. But mirroring the media, people do love a stat and we would only fair marginally better if we used 7th as the measure. As you say though... statistics; pah!
What is everyone arguing about? 34 years in the top flight and an Cup win (considering the size of the club/resources, etc) is excellent.
15 years of struggle in Champ/L1 (considering the size of the club/resources, etc) is poor.
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