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The Hoops are delighted to anounce that chairman artikis has sold the club to 3 wealthy arrabs estimated to be worth 800 billion pounds and renamed the club Manchester City
tonight we have secured the signings of Robinho and any other decent player in the premier league...and almost Dimitar Berbatov.
How mental is all this?
tonight we have secured the signings of Robinho and any other decent player in the premier league...and almost Dimitar Berbatov.
How mental is all this?
Death of football as we know it, started the day Abramhovich bought Chelsea. This is just another nail in the coffin. :(
Money damaged football long ago.
Lets hope it doesn't kill it completely in the future.
More money discrepancy = Less competition within a league = more boredom = tomorrow kids will get their 'kicks' elswhere.
Its a slightly concerning trend, already visible today. It could reach Epidemic proportions, especially in the richer Countries.
In the future relatively poorer Countries will probably dominant football. Give it 30 years we could see some real changes. Already see a change in the dominant countries of old. England and Germany for example. They are no where near same strength in depth as they were. When did you ever see Germany making sure they tied up Polish born players to their National team. France have been doing similar with a lot of African born players. Its because if they had to pick 100% French players they'd be very average team.
Scotland, Ireland do it with English born players. But they are not real footballing super powers.
Will there be moves to stop it? Maybe if England, Germany don't qualify for a 2,3,4, x amount of Competitions. How long before their FA put pressure on FIFA to bring back the 3 foreign player or similar rule or cap tv money or some other radical measure.
Or will it just descent into a more minority sport with clubs starting to price the normal punter out of watching there team. Surely not!?
Football should be a sport for all to enjoy.
Lets hope it doesn't kill it completely in the future.
More money discrepancy = Less competition within a league = more boredom = tomorrow kids will get their 'kicks' elswhere.
Its a slightly concerning trend, already visible today. It could reach Epidemic proportions, especially in the richer Countries.
In the future relatively poorer Countries will probably dominant football. Give it 30 years we could see some real changes. Already see a change in the dominant countries of old. England and Germany for example. They are no where near same strength in depth as they were. When did you ever see Germany making sure they tied up Polish born players to their National team. France have been doing similar with a lot of African born players. Its because if they had to pick 100% French players they'd be very average team.
Scotland, Ireland do it with English born players. But they are not real footballing super powers.
Will there be moves to stop it? Maybe if England, Germany don't qualify for a 2,3,4, x amount of Competitions. How long before their FA put pressure on FIFA to bring back the 3 foreign player or similar rule or cap tv money or some other radical measure.
Or will it just descent into a more minority sport with clubs starting to price the normal punter out of watching there team. Surely not!?
Football should be a sport for all to enjoy.
good points
On the last one, they priced fans out of going to games long ago, football was always a working class game, supported mainly by working class people. I personally had a season ticket for 7 years and gave it up due to the financial demands to go and watch absolute dross games every week...
I have a decent well paid job and cant imagine what it must be like for a dad/mum to take 2 or 3 kids to a game, it must cost an absolute fortune
On the last one, they priced fans out of going to games long ago, football was always a working class game, supported mainly by working class people. I personally had a season ticket for 7 years and gave it up due to the financial demands to go and watch absolute dross games every week...
I have a decent well paid job and cant imagine what it must be like for a dad/mum to take 2 or 3 kids to a game, it must cost an absolute fortune
I was going to say the normal punter to a certain extend has been priced out. Especially at the bigger clubs and certain a normal family on a normal wage would be shelling out a lot to supprt their team.
It is a disgrace really. Sad thing is the clubs grumble if their ticket sales drop. And do nothing to help normal punters back into the game.
ANY club finishing in the bottom half of the table. Why don't they all punters in for the last home game for £5, why not? Maybe even the last 2 or 3. OK you'll here them say season ticket holders have splashed out full whack. Howvere they do get their incentive by getting a few games free anyway. But this would be for the good of the club and the game in general.
They've had a sh1t season. If some of the £5 crew enjoy they maybe be enticed into buying more tickets or even a season ticket. Why can't you easily pay it monthly over the whole year?
Like you I was a season ticket holder for ages. Now I turn up for about 6 to 8 games a season. And take in a few Highland Leagues supporting my home town.
Still attend all competive Scotland games. Some away ones, less since getting Married, due to less money about, shock.
In other news. Not that it affects me as I would anyway. Why as a Scotland fan, unable to attend away games are we having to go the pub to watch it. This would be ok if it was NationWide but I gather England are still getting there games on the BBC. Surely thats descrimination?
If I was older and more of a grumpy bas Id be wrtting a letter demanding a TV license refund. Must be loads of people going find it much harder to watch the game. Difficult as is in Aberdeen. You pretty have to be there at opening time to get in the pub (So I tell the Wife anyway...). Many times seen guys forced to watch from outside looking in throught the pub windows.
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It is a disgrace really. Sad thing is the clubs grumble if their ticket sales drop. And do nothing to help normal punters back into the game.
ANY club finishing in the bottom half of the table. Why don't they all punters in for the last home game for £5, why not? Maybe even the last 2 or 3. OK you'll here them say season ticket holders have splashed out full whack. Howvere they do get their incentive by getting a few games free anyway. But this would be for the good of the club and the game in general.
They've had a sh1t season. If some of the £5 crew enjoy they maybe be enticed into buying more tickets or even a season ticket. Why can't you easily pay it monthly over the whole year?
Like you I was a season ticket holder for ages. Now I turn up for about 6 to 8 games a season. And take in a few Highland Leagues supporting my home town.
Still attend all competive Scotland games. Some away ones, less since getting Married, due to less money about, shock.
In other news. Not that it affects me as I would anyway. Why as a Scotland fan, unable to attend away games are we having to go the pub to watch it. This would be ok if it was NationWide but I gather England are still getting there games on the BBC. Surely thats descrimination?
If I was older and more of a grumpy bas Id be wrtting a letter demanding a TV license refund. Must be loads of people going find it much harder to watch the game. Difficult as is in Aberdeen. You pretty have to be there at opening time to get in the pub (So I tell the Wife anyway...). Many times seen guys forced to watch from outside looking in throught the pub windows.
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i thought about how to impose a 3 foreigner rule which in theory would not convene the european working convention.
Why not make the co-efficient figures relevant to the number of players any team has in their team i.e.
Man U win the champs league which gives England 200 Co-efficient points (just for ease of my math).
During the champ league they played a total of 20 players each of whom came from the following countries.
2 england
1 scotland
1 trinidad & tabago
and for talking sake 16 irish.
So the coefficient points would be allocated 16/20 of 200 to irish, 1/20 of 200 to scots etc etc
That would force FAs all over the world to think again about the amount of home grown players as it will radically effect their countries qualification chances and of course world rankings.
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Why not make the co-efficient figures relevant to the number of players any team has in their team i.e.
Man U win the champs league which gives England 200 Co-efficient points (just for ease of my math).
During the champ league they played a total of 20 players each of whom came from the following countries.
2 england
1 scotland
1 trinidad & tabago
and for talking sake 16 irish.
So the coefficient points would be allocated 16/20 of 200 to irish, 1/20 of 200 to scots etc etc
That would force FAs all over the world to think again about the amount of home grown players as it will radically effect their countries qualification chances and of course world rankings.
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Death of football as we know it, started the day Abramhovich bought Chelsea.
Watched Soccer AM yesterday, and their section called "I (heart) football...." had John Barnes in it. He was presented with a question similar to this (iirc...I was sick yesterday) and he reckoned it was rubbish. Reckoned that some lad in Afghanistan or wherever who had just started playing football wouldn't have a clue about the ins and outs of the premier league (England or Scotland) and would still love the game as purely as any 7 year old kid. And as such, football transcends such rubbish. I thought he had a point. What we think of as "football"...our own premier leagues...is only a very, very small percentage of the, how many million?, people playing it on the surface of this planet. Anyway, I'm a couple of Stella's to the good and finding this football is bigger than the people playing it idea very appealing. Carry on!
Watched Soccer AM yesterday, and their section called "I (heart) football...." had John Barnes in it. He was presented with a question similar to this (iirc...I was sick yesterday) and he reckoned it was rubbish. Reckoned that some lad in Afghanistan or wherever who had just started playing football wouldn't have a clue about the ins and outs of the premier league (England or Scotland) and would still love the game as purely as any 7 year old kid. And as such, football transcends such rubbish. I thought he had a point. What we think of as "football"...our own premier leagues...is only a very, very small percentage of the, how many million?, people playing it on the surface of this planet. Anyway, I'm a couple of Stella's to the good and finding this football is bigger than the people playing it idea very appealing. Carry on!
I certainly meant the English Leagues when I said that, should have been more specific. And as we know it merely means it will take on another incarnation, which to me would seem far less interesting. It is already clearly heading that way, but I suppose if 10 teams ended up with free-spending billonaires it might get alittle exciting again - but then where does that end, you cannot keep spending and spending.
I totally agree with you wrt the EPL, but football as a whole will live on. John Barnes said so!
Seriously, though, I think any club has to continue to run itself as a going concern. If Abramovich wanted to accelerate the process of transforming Chelsea into a top tier club by spending a couple of hundred mill on transfer fees alone, then I see no problem in that. It's the unsustainable wages that I dislike.
Seriously, though, I think any club has to continue to run itself as a going concern. If Abramovich wanted to accelerate the process of transforming Chelsea into a top tier club by spending a couple of hundred mill on transfer fees alone, then I see no problem in that. It's the unsustainable wages that I dislike.
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