"the premiership"

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  1. Sup

    SuperTyke Well-Known Member

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    Was talking at work the other day an I mentioned 'the premiership' and was met with the most confused look I have ever seen. The person I was talking to (in his early 20s, watches premier football every week and knows the names of every player) has never heard of the term 'the premiership' and thinks I'm weird for saying it.

    Now apart from the the fact that my weirdness is no secret I can't be the only person in the history of mankind to have called it that since it's name officially changed to premier league can I?
     
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  2. Donny Red

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    You're not in a minority. My mates and I still refer to it as the Premiership.
    Force of habit I suppose.!
     
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    Lots of people still do, I know this because it irrates me! So I notice.
     
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    I still say Premiership. It's interchangeable with Premier League as far as I'm concerned so can't see why he wouldn't know what you meant. Is he a bit daft?
     
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    Hate the term 'Premiership'. Was so glad they went back to 'Premier League'.
     
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    I still call it a division 1 to confuse people even more.
     
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    Me too. And if you mention two points for a win they think you've gone mad.
     
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    He isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer but he does know a lot of facts and figures about the premier. Can tell you everything about the under 21s of most teams but has zero common sense.
     
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  9. Con

    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    He's not from Hemsworth is he?
     
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    SuperTyke Well-Known Member

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    I knew somebody would say that but no he's not. He's a Dee dar
     
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    Talking of the Premiership. Man City Ladies have just been on BBC 1 playing Arsenal Ladies.
    They were playing at the City Academy Stadium. It's as good as many League One grounds.
     
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    You work with Hemsy?

    Edit: Curses. Someone beat me to it!
     
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    It's bloody 'Championship' that gets my gooert. All because sponsors can not be associated with anything secondary. Ask anyone who are the football champions and they will answer, - whoever the chuff it was won the premier league last season. Certainly not anybody from the league we're in...

    And 'Champions League'.? No it int. It's the champions plus each country's 3 or 4 least worst losers league. And 'Champion's League Final'? 'League Final'? Talk abart moving the fecking goal posts...
    Grrr...:mad:
     
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    You should have said this at the beginning.
     
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    Championship is solved by calling it Division 2. Try it a mighty burden is lifted.
     
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    I remember the season ITV got the rights for the highlights and called the programme 'the premiership.'

    It was *****.
     
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    ITV football in general is *****
     
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    I get saddled with this all the time in Germany. The people here can't grasp that our league 2 is actually league 4, league 1 is league 3 and the Championship is league 2. They can just about accept that the Premier League is league 1, which does actually make sense.

    They ask how a team can win the Championship when there are another 20 teams higher up than they are? I just tell them it's a load of ******.
     
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