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Coventry v Stones

Ultimately outclassed. A game too far really. Were never going to recover from the early goals. Have to say Coventry's attitude was spot on. But the fact remains they progressed much further in this year's competition than us.
 
BBC gushing that they made over £700K, "a massive amount for a non-league team" and "makes such a difference to them". Really started to piss me off that an amount that took a team 8 games to earn, an amount that can help them survive for several seasons, is an amount that some premiershit players earn in a year. Yes, Maidstone are a non-league team however that sort of amount could make a massive difference to teams in L2 or even L1. Lower league and grass roots football is desperate for money to survive while Sky and the BBC are happy to let them burn in favour of the PL. The fact that Maidstone achieved what they did (including galvanising the whole town) , and they're not the first, shows how much could be achieved with proper apportionment of money down the football pyramid.
 
Feared the worst after 15 minutes at 2-0, so actually 5-0 isn't the worst result in the world all things considered. Total domination from Coventry first half, but second half Maidstone had a little more territory and a few set-plays which were pretty comfortably dealt with in honesty. Two very late goals adding gloss to the scoreline, but it wasn't an embarrassment by any means. Coventry fans were loud and up for it as well so it was a decent atmosphere. Nice to know it's not just Gills that have some absolute numptys in the fanbase though, some of the Stones representation around us were vile.
 
Vambogills said:
Probably come from the 50% of non regular fans who just fancied a gobby day out.
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They have the gobby teens like we do, definitely. They also have the old boys, the ones who were probably around in the 80-90s, roaming up and down the carriages on the train looking for Gills fans a few seasons ago.
 
Detritus said:
BBC gushing that they made over £700K, "a massive amount for a non-league team" and "makes such a difference to them". Really started to piss me off that an amount that took a team 8 games to earn, an amount that can help them survive for several seasons, is an amount that some premiershit players earn in a year. Yes, Maidstone are a non-league team however that sort of amount could make a massive difference to teams in L2 or even L1. Lower league and grass roots football is desperate for money to survive while Sky and the BBC are happy to let them burn in favour of the PL. The fact that Maidstone achieved what they did (including galvanising the whole town) , and they're not the first, shows how much could be achieved with proper apportionment of money down the football pyramid.
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Sky sports & the PL deserve each other.
 
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