Lack of interest in Hull City.

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I'm sorry to say it is not lack of interest in Hull City for me these days its the dissolutionment with football as a whole, its sad, as I can take it or leave it, whereas years ago I would have lapped up every morsel of football news, action, transfers, the whole lot. But now I just shake my head at yet another multi million pound transfer and wonder when the wheels came off this whole charade parading as a sport I once idolised.

When a man is tired of football, he's tired of life - Dr Johnson
 
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:angry:

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 <laugh>
 
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:angry:

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 <laugh>

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.
 
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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.
 
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:angry:

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 <laugh>

This ^^
Absolutely 100% this
 
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:angry:

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 <laugh>
 
The driver in F1 is completely immaterial, as demonstrated by the FACT that Button wasn't considered good enough to get a drive for any team until Braun launched theirs and next thing he was world champion.

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.
 
This ^^
Absolutely 100% this

I've moved beyond that towards Bayern Munich territory.

Some interesting quotes from Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness in Bild this morning, who says that "there is no player in the world worth 100 million euros."

"I do not want to buy a player for 100 million euros even if I had the money," he said. "That would be too much of a waste of money.

"We have reached a point where we have to be damned careful. Because there is a point where maybe the fan has had enough. Now we have to say 'enough is enough'."

Do we agree?
 
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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.
 
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.

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.
 
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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.

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.
 
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

Murdoch bought the paper in 1969.
 
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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 ;)