Is it time for the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to intervene in the Premier League?

I was one who gave you that argument back. I was wrong, but don’t tell anyone!

Shh

 

How many people would actually want that though?

 

It doesn't matter, that's not the point.
EDIT: No, I'll rephrase that. It does matter. It's the reason why the dice are so heavily loaded and why professional football is a waste of a competition. If you want to be entertained, fine. But if you have dreams that one day your team will win a title, then stop wasting your time and do something else instead.

 

It kind of is, we're never going to be able to compete with the top clubs and most are pretty accepting of that, small business can't compete financially with big business shock.

Does this logic apply to the lower leagues or is it okay when it's not us being affected?

 

That's the point of lower leagues, isn't it. You have broadly similar levels. It all goes utterly stupid when one reaches the top 1-6 of the Premier League. If football's finances could be properly regulated, without loopholes, so that the game returned to a more level playing field [pun intended] then it would be so much more entertaining. But it's the same old, same old. Boring. Just goes to show that what's best for the Premier League isn't actually what's best for public entertainment. So you have the media machinery, and punditry, to generate interest. As Brian Clough said, 'just shut up and let's have the football'. Of course, he was talking during a more competitive era.

 

Ah now we disagree... it’s not an entertainment, it’s a disease. I’ve got it and it’s incurable.

I do It because I do it.

What else in life do you choose to do and then carry on doing despite all the pain it causes you and money it costs? There is nothing.

Ok, Marriage.

 

Yes but the restructure of the parachute payments has made it much it harder for the smaller clubs to make the PL which I would have thought is the same principle except we have benefited from it.

You're preaching to the converted in terms of the PL btw mate, I'd have happily seen us relegated either of these past two seasons.

I don't support Saints to see us win titles either and I highly doubt that many people do, football is about much more than winning or entertainment.

Are you suggesting that clubs such as Liverpool and Manchester United shouldn't be able to spend more than us?

 

A lot of what you said could apply even more to Formula 1 and yet people still keep watching that. I have always thought it would be interesting to see all the drivers have the same standardised car...level the playing field and see who comes out on top. The problem would be that all the money would go out of it.

 

Yes. I don't watch F1 either. But that's for various reasons, only one of which is I find it boring.

 

I have always suggested that there is a better way to do things to make elite football more competitive and not have the attention concentrated in pockets of London, Manchester and Liverpool.

 

Ah yes, I remember the disease you have. So surgery ain't gonna cut it.