Great Depression.....how would it impact football?

If you are to believe some key economists, we are on the edge of a financial abyss; a deeper recession than ever seen.

Putting aside your political allegiances, or even if you fundamentally disagree with said economists (although things will get much worse, it's hard to predict how bad), it got me thinking; what impact would it have on football and particularly Liverpool (or your club)?

Would you still go to the match if you couldn't put food on the table; i doubt it. Would you cancel your Sky subscription or your home insurance...or both? Would you still fork out obscene amounts of money for the latest shirts for the family? How would we (society and football fans) think about the sums of money being payed to footballers? Will it make any difference at all?

just provoking some thought

 

If it got that bad, I don't think I'd be worrying about the impact on football.

 

Firstly, I don't have a Sky subscription - I wouldn't give Murdoch a penny after he failed to lift a finger over the S*n's reporting of Hillsborough (at least not until the £££ started flashing over sales). Shirts - I make do with my antique shirts from the 90's - I've not bought one since God was in the team - already can't afford to buy myself shirts, what with the cost of buying them for my two boys.

Regards player wages, they are a reflection of the money in the game - if the teams across the globe are being hit financially, the wages, wherever you are, will drop. We're probably seeing the last hurrah for massive wages in this generation of footballers. I suspect that clubs will be a bit more careful for the next 10 or so years...

As for how it'll hit Liverpool, well, the answer is not as badly as if Statler and Waldorf were still in charge. We'd have been in administration by now if they were still mismanaging the show...

 

Players price is no longer going to be quoted in Euro...because the currency is going to die.Britain too smart for staying out of
European currency.

 

Just a bloody shame our government bought so much Euro to prop the damned thing up then, isn't it?

 

Football is symptomatic of the malaise in the wider economy. It's all very well saying the game generates the money to fund transfer fees, wages etc., but by what means? StJohn says he can't afford shirts for himself or his boys- this is an indication that the cost of supporting footie for ordinary people has become too high.
Big business moved into football in order to exploit it's popularity and make vast sums of money for people who too often have little interest in, or feel for, the game-with little regard for the needs or the wishes of the fans, without whom it wouldn't exist in it's current form.
It's a shame it takes a disaster on the scale of a global depression to make people even think that maybe it's all gone too far.

 

and yet football can be good for the economy. Think how much tax footie players plough into HMRC each year. Aguero alone will pay around 6 million in tax. beggars belief

 

Look. I come on here for some light relief. I don't want to be made to feel more pissed off than I am every time I watch the news. What goes around comes around. It's an historical fact, even for those of you who decry 'history'

 

I tend to agree. We can very easily talk our way back into recession. It feels ****ty enough already - let's move on to something else purlease.... GKRK

 

If only it was all talk! However, I take your point(s)....subject closed.

 

Feck - only 10 years until Adolf Hitler invades Poland then! Will have to buy some war bonds - the value should go up nicely...

 

The truth is nobody knows. If you consider that this whatever it is started in 2007 then we are already in a depression. The standard economic definition of recession is 2 Quarters of negative flat growth and nobody in the developed economies have matched their performance since 1st Q 2007. So we are all in a depression only nobody wants to admit it!

However football will carry on.

 

G'day cobber How is it in a land down under? Crap news about Lucas, eh?

 

G'day Red! Still jet lagged but it was 36c. Today it's 0100 and still in Tshirt and shorts!!! Australia is bloody expensive.

Bad news about Lucas but hope we don't panic and make any crisis buys

 

We have quality in depth in CM with Spearo, Hendo, and Shelvey-o available to choose from. Of those, I think we'd be looking at Jay and Jord to be stepping into those big Lucas-shaped boots...

 

I agree Saint. If that were to work then I agree with the Shelby return. Perhaps a lot will depend upon just how close Gerrard is to full recovery.

 

All I care about is beating Fulham on Monday. Would be one thing to take my mind off the rest of the **** this country is in.

 

I spoke to my football reporter mate last night. He tells me Gerrard is two weeks away from a return. Fingers crossed