The love for our football teams is being lost with the foreign owners coming into our clubs. I myself have seen the worst side of having an overseas owner in Carson Yeung, Birmingham are struggling financially and are having to sell our best players.
Another foreign owner of a football club who has lost sight of what it is to be a football fan is Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan. Changing the clubs colours is something I could not comprehend, seeing my beloved Blues play in red or another colour in their home kit wouldnât sit right.
In that sense I do feel for the Bluebirds fans, but on the other hand Tan has given them Premier League football for the first time in their clubs history. The Malaysian has publicly spoke of his disappointment in the fans not 100% backing him. The Sun reported:
I am surprised there are fans against the colour. Iâm actually quite disappointed with that.
I was willing to invest and put in a lot of money into the club that several times could have gone bust and had financial trouble and a big court case with the former owner.
We spent £15million last season to buy players and we went up. Thatâs how we got up. Iâm disappointed that after 51 years of not being in the top flight that there are still some fans who donât think we have done a good job.
I may say maybe they are not grateful, so that part is disappointing. But like anything in life in democracy you wonât have 100 per cent support.
We have to think that those against us are about five per cent. We will try to live with that but it is disappointing.
If too many of them show we are not welcome, maybe you will have a new owner.
I canât even imagine what the Cardiff fans must think of these words.
Its like selling the heart and soul of the club to gain top flight football. No matter how much I want Birmingham in the Premier League I would not want to change the foundations of the club to get there.
The new season starts in a few weeks and it will be interesting to see how well Cardiff do, whether they avoid relegation or not, I can still see many fans never coming to terms with the colour change. Would United fans accept playing in any other colour than their famous red, of course they wouldnât so why should Cardiff fans have to accept it?
Vincent Tan can clearly let his money do the talking, and maybe the fans are coming to terms with the change and are overall happy. I myself wouldnât be over the moon with such a drastic change and Iâd like to think no fans really would, but what do I know⦠Iâm only a football fan. -
Rhys Mills