Danny Eccles

Lidl Bakery Fanatic.

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@nocontextEFC That 2nd sentence has haunted me since 2009

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@SkySportsPL Fully grown men these by the way.

[Scott @Smudge_96]

One more year 👀

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@Paddy_Boyland @leadline84 @EvertonNewsFeed @joextweet You could assume that we would struggle to buy a left back thats worse than 16 so its got to be an upgrade on him.

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@Paddy_Boyland @EvertonNewsFeed @joextweet Any context in the left back comment? Heads have fell off with people reading it as its for an understudy to 16. please tell us that's not what was meant.

[Ben @BT_1878]

Villa and Palace on the verge of European trophies while Everton are posting clips of us avoiding relegation (the first time)

Standards are a joke.

[luke @louorns]

If you need anymore reason to think Celtic have refs in their back pocket. That decision sums it up. One of the worst decisions you’ll see

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@efcanon_ @thebullensview Please tell me you're not going Sunday. We need the win.

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Youngsters need to rediscover the joys of hedge/garden hopping. Though not in my neighbourhood obvs.

[Happily Dissatisfied @nocontextEFC]

Just seen a video of all Lukaku’s goals from 16/17

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@MattJFootball @LondonMarathon Shit that time. Seen some fella do it in under 2 hours before.

[Leicester City @LCFC]

Full-time.

#LEIHUL | @BCGame

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@TacticallyMatt @Adam_Jones94 Agreed. Really don't think it helps booing our own player onto the pitch in a derby though.

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@TacticallyMatt @Adam_Jones94 To be partial, i dont think it helps when hes getting booed onto the pitch. No wonder he puts in a performance like that.

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@MattJFootball @TheBlueRoomEFC @lesroberts77 @ian_efc @wharton_john @WD1878 @PeterJMacca Tried making kopites claim jimmy saville as one of thier own.

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@AndrewMuriithi_ @Benjwinst We sold our womens team in the summer mate.

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@WhoScored Add in tarkowski, keane and Braithwaite to these.

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@KieranMaguire @mjshrimper @nytimes

[Danny Eccles @dannyecho90]

@LivEchoEFC @joe_thomas18 Any ideas on what they have done if it isnt the blind trust route?