So teams that win things and get prize money is now unfair. **** sake, have you heard yourself. You're like one of those ****wits that the BBC bring out onto breakfast television who moan because they've got a **** job and can't buy what other people can. Clubs that win things get prize money. Try winning something instead of crying that it's unfair.
I think to call it a level playing field is wrong, so I actually agree with you on this one. It wasn't a level playing field unless you were the cream of the cream, along with all it's rebranding that dumped off the league and bought into the Prem. Clubs like Manchester United naturally wanted the best for themselves and the tv money...it was pure ****ing greed, and has turned the game into the ****fest that we see today. Overpaid players and all the rest blah blah blah. Of course the likes of Chief will defend it because he's a Manchester United supporter, a club I have no beef with, but to say it was a level playing field is totally wrong, it was level for those who were the cream, that's why they bought into it. Only thing was City came along and bent the rules and bought up all the trophies, so I get pleasure out of them constantly crying over it. So don't let anyone tell you otherwise mate.
I've no idea mate how the pot was shared or whether it came down to how many times you were screened, but it was nowt more than what clubs wanted to do with a European league, keep it for the cream of Division 1 for themselves. In the decades since it ****ed up everything with it's knock on affect down the leagues, which is why so many clubs go under, trying to keep up. In short, Manchester United got the cream and everyone else was a charity case.
No because some clubs ran into financial trouble chasing the Prem money, by spending money and taking risks that was nowt more than a lump sum on a bet, and when that bet didn't come in, it was the real fans that suffered. It created a whole new generation of fans, ones that I even see at my club, they went to the Championship and it became an expectation, but that period at the top for them, was nowt more than a very short period in their history, and those players are idols, yet the long serving ones forgotten. It's whole package of things that created a chain affect. Don't get me wrong, lots of good things came out of it, such as nice new stadiums, if you can still afford to go at inflated prices, and it knocked a lot of the violence on the head....so there are positives, but those positives should have been shared across all 92 clubs and beyond, rather than paying ridiculous wages and transfer fees...we needed caps...and no I certainly don't forget the Trevor Francis' of this world. I just feel it all could have been better and fairer, theres a reason rich Russians took over clubs like Chelsea, and Arabs at Man City, good forms of money laundering, it made the game corrupt....although the game was already corrupt....Fergie time...it was taken to whole new levels, let's not forget, some business men syphoned off money rather than spend it on leaky roofs. The football going fan is merely a by-product these days, replaced by TV viewers and merchandise...corporate are king. Billion pound stadiums if you can afford the eighty quid to get in.
I agree on caps tbh, but I think that's never gonna happen unless you get a top level financial collapse... And even then good luck getting man city to agree. they'd sue the Premier league fatser than you can say 130 charges
The days of football being a fair competition ended decades ago, and ever since the people with grubby hands have been active in making sure it stays that way. They bought the success, and fear other people doing the same damn thing. Let me know when these great clubs want a fair contest please! Sorry, but until then nothing they do is impressive! It may have been back in the day, but never since. Leicester are the only impressive club since TV money, and what did they do? punish them and they had to sell their best players. At least Manchester City don't bullshit. I mean, at least be honest with yourselves.
I think it's difficult to apply caps without the whole of football taking it onboard, otherwise players will just go abroad, but something certainly needs to be done, it's obscene...and when people talk about poverty and foodbanks, but then others spend £80 to watch their team, you just know the game is fooked. I can't see it being corrected now, because too many business men and corrupt officials walllowing in it. Thatcher wanted to cleanse the game, and pretty much achieved her goal by shifting it to the middle classes....but that's just my view mate.
