promotion without spending anything

[sportinguista]

Due to financial constraints they made no summer signings at all. None in January either. Seven academy developed players in the squad. Only lost 2 games all season. Just saying...it can be done without blowing the bank if the club is well run, well supported (Sporting and Betis easily top the crowd averages) and the academy is well developed.



In a final day of the kind we Blades know only too well, Sporting cruised to a 0-3 win away at the champions, Betis, while second placed Girona conceded a last minute equaliser at home to lowly Lugo to leave them third on goal difference.

 

[blade too long]

We should twin with Gerona, nice town, HANDY FOR lloret and barcelona
Betis made 8 changes for this game,saying players were shattered . Its led to a few heated exchanges

 

[Barney]

If any manager tried doing anything remotely like that with us, he'd be out the door before he see's August.

 

[sportinguista]

Betis' coach responded by saying they'd " got their homework done already which entitled them to play whoever they wanted"

 

[blade too long]

plus although they spent nothing on transfers they brought in several players on rather hefty wages with revenue from their best players

spains relegated clubs do not recieve parachuite payments , but sporting de gijon are a decent sized club, much bigger than Gerona, has 3 times the population

 

[sportinguista]

And the way they blew it yesterday...and they really blew it...that twinning idea with Girona sounds about right!

 

[blade too long]

footballs full of twists like this , we arent the only club that disappoints

 

[sportinguista]

Well, this time, for once, my team is the success story...makes a change

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

plus although they spent nothing on transfers they brought in several players on rather hefty wages with revenue from their best players

spains relegated clubs do not recieve parachuite payments , but sporting de gijon are a decent sized club, much bigger than Gerona, has 3 times the population

If I remember, Gijon was a World Cup venue was it not?

 

[cal the blade]

footballs full of twists like this , we arent the only club that disappoints

difference is
very few do it as often as us

 

[sportinguista]

Gijon's El Molinon stadium is the oldest pro football ground in the Spanish league. It was indeed a World Cup venue and host to the infamous game between Germany and Austria in which neither team attacked once the appropriate score had been sorted so both teams could qualify. At Algeria's expense. (Another team as blighted as the blades, clearly)

 

[cal the blade]

is gijon pronounced heehon?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Isn't it Xixón?

 

[blade too long]

difference is
very few do it as often as us

 

[blade too long]

STILL HAVE TO CATCH UP BRENTFORDS 7 LEAGUE ONE FAILURES IN THE PLAY OFFS

 

[cal the blade]

STILL HAVE TO CATCH UP BRENTFORDS 7 LEAGUE ONE FAILURES IN THE PLAY OFFS

we cant have em all

 

[sportinguista]

Isn't it Xixón?

Very good, someone's done their homework!

 

[blade too long]

If I remember, Gijon was a World Cup venue was it not?

it was the venue for the austria v germany non match when neither team played as they manuafactured a mutually agreed result
it is known as the disgrace of Gijon locally
xixon is the basque version Gijon is Castilian , proper spanish ie majority
alicante airport is now alicante elche airport , but the original spelling is Elx
its like those stroppy scots who insist they live in Alba

 

[blade too long]

just for background , here is sporting gijons ground


and here is geronas. Ive been to both

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Very good, someone's done their homework!

No, just been there a few years ago. They aren't quite as radical as the Catalans, but the Asturians are still proud of their language. If you go, you'll come across the Asturian spelling.

 

[blade too long]

have been many times have a friend up there ,lives in Lastres, beautiful green area of spain. been many times through the north after landing at Santander to drive through


also Girona , as its spelt in Catalan still in with a chance of promotion as they have a play off with Real Saragosa or Zaragoza again depending on your beliefs

 

[sportinguista]

it was the venue for the austria v germany non match when neither team played as they manuafactured a mutually agreed result
it is known as the disgrace of Gijon locally
xixon is the basque version Gijon is Castilian , proper spanish ie majority
alicante airport is now alicante elche airport , but the original spelling is Elx
its like those stroppy scots who insist they live in Alba

Xixòn is the Asturian spelling not Basque, coming from Bable, the Asturian language (or dialect depending on your politics)

 

[Blade for Sale]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Gijon's ground is the only major stadium in Europe to have been designed by a woman? Also haven't their fans got a bit of a reputation?

 

[sportinguista]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Gijon's ground is the only major stadium in Europe to have been designed by a woman? Also haven't their fans got a bit of a reputation?

Like many clubs, they have a small band of idiots - the Ultra Boys - but the reputation generally is that Sporting has one of the most loyal fan bases in Spanish football.

 

[sportinguista]

Blades and Sporting...since 1997 and now on their third denim jacket together.

 

[super_pig]

is gijon pronounced heehon?

only on the BBC news.. like Baaal..
(Basel. .the locals say Basil.. as in brush)

 

[Blade56]

Promotion without spending. Isn't that what he who's name shall no longer be spoken tried to do in his first season here?

 

[blade too long]

only on the BBC news.. like Baaal..
(Basel. .the locals say Basil.. as in brush)

dont get me started on shrewsbury , or shrowsberry

 

[Fulwood Blade]

dont get me started on shrewsbury , or shrowsberry

lol - when you are married to someone that says they are off for a barth and not bath for the past 35 years, the queens English tends to grows on you after awhile.

UTB

 

[blade too long]

I always thought it was Lemster ,never realised it was Leominster
and in Leicestershire Beaver Castle is written Belvoir
Barnsley though say Barugh green like a sheep Baaaaa Green