maninasuitcase
President
Man City are out as well now and Ed Woodward at Manchester United is resigning.
1.It will be back jn a different format. It is only a stepping stone to the World league anyway.
2.The sooner it happens the better.
1.FWIW I happen to agree with your first comment.I tend to think it's some sort of grotesque ploy to to get more money out of Sky or whoever buys next season's TV rights anyway.
2.Not sure why you think this? (unless you think clubs like SUFC etc will somhow be better off if the big boys cut their links with the rest of the game ?)
Obscene greed in football starts at the very top, including the not fit for purpose governing bodies. The get rich quick ethos filters down and helps destroy smaller clubs, whilst the money goes straight to the top. The sooner they are gone and armchair PL fans stop aiding and abetting the pyramid scam of English football, the better we will all be.
The longer they hang around before the inevitable happens the worse it becomes for us.
Rather thought it was some of those armchair PL fans who were in fact subsidising us. "Trickle down " economics and all that.
Edit.I notice that neither the FA nor any of the other football associations involved threatened to chuck any of the 12 clubs out of their domestic leagues. Perhaps next time?
https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...er-league-has-shown-another-football-possible Meanwhile you might be interested in Paul Mason's take on a European Super league.(Warning this article first appeared in the New Statesman).
In fairness to the Real Madrid president, when you listen to his justification you realise that actually there is another side to the argument.
They were doing this to save football as young people are not interested in football because there are so many meaningless matches. We shouldn't be so quick to condemn when there it is obvious that he and the rest of them were doing this for our benefit, not his or his team.
(Maybe he should wonder why in Spain there are so many meaningless matches and tackle the problem at source, not create a ****show to paper over the cracks.)
Young people aren't interested in football because it's too expensive, they've priced football based on the fact that they know established fans will grumble about the cost but pay anyway because they are fans, young people aren't established fans so if you tell them it's £40 a month to watch their team then they'll just find something else to watch. Plus watching an illegal stream is incredibly easy to do, even if you are a fan already most young people know how to watch the match for free.In fairness to the Real Madrid president, when you listen to his justification you realise that actually there is another side to the argument.
They were doing this to save football as young people are not interested in football because there are so many meaningless matches. We shouldn't be so quick to condemn when it is obvious that he and the rest of them were doing this for our benefit, not his or his team.
(Maybe he should wonder why in Spain there are so many meaningless matches and tackle the problem at source, not create a ****show to paper over the cracks.)
Young people aren't interested in football because it's too expensive, they've priced football based on the fact that they know established fans will grumble about the cost but pay anyway because they are fans, young people aren't established fans so if you tell them it's £40 a month to watch their team then they'll just find something else to watch. Plus watching an illegal stream is incredibly easy to do, even if you are a fan already most young people know how to watch the match for free.
Young people aren't interested in football because they would have to put their phones down for a whole 90 minutes and concentrate (i suppose they could take a breather at half time)Young people aren't interested in football because it's too expensive, they've priced football based on the fact that they know established fans will grumble about the cost but pay anyway because they are fans, young people aren't established fans so if you tell them it's £40 a month to watch their team then they'll just find something else to watch. Plus watching an illegal stream is incredibly easy to do, even if you are a fan already most young people know how to watch the match for free.
Rather thought it was some of those armchair PL fans who were in fact subsidising us. "Trickle down " economics and all that.
Edit.I notice that neither the FA nor any of the other football associations involved threatened to chuck any of the 12 clubs out of their domestic leagues. Perhaps next time?
https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...er-league-has-shown-another-football-possible Meanwhile you might be interested in Paul Mason's take on a European Super league.(Warning this article first appeared in the New Statesman).
Trickle down economics don't work in English football. Every player and agents look up and expect better wages. Fans and chairman alike believe you can buy success. If they can sign X why can't we afford Y
Football has become the worst form of keeping up with the Joneses. Clubs like ours simply don't need to have a £5m per year wage bill in the lower leagues. Turns out more money means more charlatans being attracted to football and just more debt for each club.
Even Hullbridge who are Ryman North which is 8th? tier have a £60,000 pound wage bill. below them in Essex Senior there are strikers on £250/300 per week.
In England football could pay for the best sporting facilities in the world. Instead we have obscene amounts filtered into the hands of a few hundred people, many of whom are registered as an overseas company to avoid all British tax.
If the PL did give every L2 team another £5m we would just have the same squad and agents on double their current wages and a wider gap between players and fans, with even less loyalty. That is a gap that is already spoiling lower league football for me.