How am I meant to answer this? How can you even ask that question? It's a silly comparison considering the EPL would generate 100x more income over the course of a League World Cup (and would have higher crowd attendances too) The league world cup is a non-event, really. Which is a shame, but...
One swallow doesn't make a summer RE: Crowd attendances. Nashy's point is that A-league crowds are balls (and that was his only point btw). But we are talking a few thousand difference in relation to NRL moreso in comparison to a league that has been established in Australias culture for quite...
Dunno, honestly. There will be alot of resentment from football fans. But I'm pretty sure all administrations will come to an agreement one way or another.
Agree, the A-League is of a very sub-par quality and I personally struggle to sit down and watch a game. Definitely no relection of the amount of people who love football as a game though.
Rofl - ratting on A-league crowds... funny.
Average Crowd for A league in 07/08 Season- 14,610 , 08/09- 12,180
Average Crowd for NRL in 07 Season - 15,750 , 08 Season - 16,051
Big difference there Nashy [icon_drun ... so going by your theory, cancelling a few NRL games isn't exactly going...
And I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't give a rats about League either but that's not what it's about. There was MASSIVE hype, so I dont know what bubble you were living in. People I know who HATE football were getting involved and loving every second of the journey the socceroos went...
Off the top of my head I can only assume refitting sponsorship badges all over the stadium 2-3 times a week, repainting of fields, degredation of fields based to other sports playing on it etc.
FIFA is very strict on these rules, any of the World Cup qualifiers hosted in Australia are not...
I find it funny, because if there was a league world cup that required the A-league and Union to shift for a few weeks everyone would be like all for it.. haha
Anyone know of any online streams for the Fiorentina game? ESPN don't appear to be showing it and Rafa has confirmed Aquilani will start tomorroww goooo