I'm not a football fan anymore, I'm only a Hull City fan. My love for football was slowly eroded in stages. First came the ridiculous money involved and then the cheating and I don't just mean diving players. I mean cheating officials, owners, agents etc. Oh Well, I'll I thought, I'll just be a City fan. I can't just stop being a City fan, it's what I do, it's a huge part of my life... And then came the Allams I'll hold on to the great mantra, CITY TILL I DIE and I'll bide my time and be patient. That first home game after they've gone, will be beautiful. Edit: I bet we'll go and lose the ****er though
I can't remember the last time I watched a premier league game live that we weren't involved in. Must be about 3 or 4 years. Says it all.
Last season I kept a regular watch on the Championship from start to finish. Yesterday I took a look at the PL page and table on the beeb website for the first time and turned off after a few minutes. No amount of hype and merchandising can disguise it's an inferior product and utterly predictable. Also the match officials in this league don't appear to have the same determination to favour the biggest clubs like those bent bastards in the PL.
Button was with Honda. Honda became Brawn. If the driver in F1 was immaterial, all of the competitors would cross the finish line in team pairs. Top tip; they don't.
Have to say I don't understand people getting upset about large transfer fees. I mean, a million quid is a ridiculous amount of money for a footballer and these fees have been commonplace for decades. The top ones are now reaching £100m or even £200m but so what? It's not that much different to the first £1m transfer in 1979 is it? It's all on a scale completely out of touch with the standard individual but then so are most large businesses. Supply and demand dictates that these footballers are deemed to be worth what they are by the clubs. Football is ridden with problems, but seemingly large transfer fees alone isn't one of them. It doesn't drive ticket prices up - the cause of that is greedy clubs, willing fans and a lack of regulation.
Just the fact that the two fastest drivers currently are in different cars and there are three different cars in the current top four positions, shows what a ridiculous statement it was.
I don't get upset PLT as far as I am concerned they can all bankrupt themselves, I hardly have any input to the game these days, but I do have Sky Sports, not for the football as it first was but my wife likes tennis and darts, no comment on that, so the Sky Sports is mainly for her. I did like La Liga at one point, I enjoyed some of their games more than our own, the but decline in the general interest has been gradual over many years. Back in the 70's and 80's I used to buy The Mirrror and Sun, The Sun not owned by Murdoch then, and read up about the football every day, then the guys I worked with, this was on building sites, used to mix up the pages of each paper so that if I read what I thought was the Mirror nothing seemed to make sense until I realised the mix up lol.
Wasn't quite that quote was it though ET? Although I do get the point, on this occasion I beg to disagree with the analogy.
To be honest how interested in City I am is completely unrelated to the quality of the players we sign, or sell It certainly is related to how little the owners give a **** about us...yes I realise I'm probably too precious but it certainly detracts from the amount of ****s I could give It certainly is related to the whole social side, meeting friends, putting the world to rights over a pint, shared experiences (good and bad and worse) etc ...still be happy if we got Musa in though
