There’s already sustained challenge from Leicester, Everton and villa are well funded, Leeds could revive, so I can’t see how offering six spots is a bad thing other than devalueing the whole competition and ultimately pushing football further toward the cliff edge of pointless oblivion. Where I live.
It won't change much anyway... Come May the top 4 will be man City man united Liverpool and Chelsea.. Once every 5 to 10 years will see a club like Tottenham arsenal or maybe Everton/villa sneak in there in who would still get their solitary year in the competition.
To be fair, how was it ever much different? Bigger clubs have always dominated, we just got ****ed by Mike Ashley when we had a chance to be one of the 6. Clubs used to have little eras but those times were SO long ago. I don't know why they have to keep tampering and tampering. If the powers that be had focused on controlling the money - wages, fees, agents - instead of trying to invent new ways to make clubs richer, we'd not be in this mess. There was nothing wrong with a European Cup for champions, then a UEFA cup for the rest. Salary caps, transfer restrictions, limits on loans, all should have been the priority but we've all be completely dicked by rich assholes trying to get richer, at any cost.
It's just the way it is... I've accepted it and in truth I enjoy a relegation battle more than middle table football. If we get a takeover and start doubling money great, but otherwise I've accepted where we are and what's on offer. I don't go to games anymore and won't under Ashley out of principle, so tbh I can't really complain too much its just something I watch now.. Im not forced.. I pay TV money in suppose so on part of he monster.
I'm hanging on by a thread. I have this forum and a stream to watch live games. I didn't watch Everton at all, caught glimpses of Palace and really only pay attention out of a sense of duty and a kind of macabre sense of "how bad can it get NOW". I watch absolutely NO other football at all, it has no interest whatsoever. I'm interested to see if removing Ashley might spark something again. I think my interest might be rekindled in Newcastle but I can't see myself ever being bothered by football again - the money men have ****ed it right up. It irritates me that it's always referred to as "entertainment". No, WWE is entertainment (masquerading as sport) - pro football is elite sport. Nobody is watching the Olympics to see if someone can do something entertaining, or golf trick shots. Hell, tennis is about Djokovic, Federer, etc., not that weird Aussie bloke. The enjoyment is from seeing sportsmen and women at their best, it's not Hollywood or a ****ing movie. The lines are all blurred now - Sky really killed it constantly referring to the "neutral" and "entertainment". Neutral my arse - you watch to see someone win. How any fan of another team derives pleasure from Man City being unbeatable is beyond me. I want to see a passionate team play well and compete, so that me and my fellow tribesmen can feel a sense of pride. That's where everyone gets it wrong about Rafa - football is about PRIDE, not entertainment.
I think essentially it's about just focusing on winning single games.. There's no more pleasure in finishing 8th than there is 17th to me. Even the big club or should I say the clubs that were in a top 6 position at the right time and have sucked the life out the game will implode eventually because the interest will disappear imo.. Its becoming like formula one.. All it takes is the fans of the clubs they feed off to start not bothering and they're ****ed. I mean will the interest always be there abroad in the grounds are empty? Soon the league will resemble the spl.
Football in the 80's and early 90's was pinnacle. Once the money came in it has ceased be true football. It's a game played by athletes on bowling green pitches. Sterile. You just have to watch the big match to see what has been lost.
You could argue nufc were the catalyst of the spending but unfortunately we spend money we didn't have and wasn't sustainable, however If Ashley had kept us up the top where we usually were and just bankrolled us a handful of years we'd probably been one of the top 6 now now not Tottenham... We lost out on the mega bucks
I believe that the takeover is still ongoing and very much alive and that is the way the club see it as well
Right I want non-Twitter info from what @captain wrong and @Hung,Drawn and Quartered are claiming. Why or how has Charnley buggered off, and why does anyone within the club feel the takeover is alive?!
@Hung,Drawn and Quartered didn't get it from twitter. He got it from someone who works at the club. Charnley left a long time ago. He's stayed away Chill.
