I get what your saying but capitalism does have various forms or regulation. Everyone has to abide by the regulations otherwise they get penalised. Be it the banks being dodgy, or me paying my PAYE late.
True but anything which is anti-competition is pretty hard to pull off, there's a reason why cartels aren't legal. The 1998 Competitions Act was mostly us just making sure we were falling in line with the rest of Europe and that's saying something because as a country we're keen not to regulate anything which stifles trade. There's a bunch of EU Law cases wherein companys have successfully brought countries to task over not being allowed to invest and make sustainable losses in order to grow their brand. On the face of it the regulation in football does stand out as something which would be hard to enforce in other industries.
I think Premier League needs to introduce a new rule saying anyone named Manchester City will get 10 points deducted every 5 minutes. It's only fair.
Yes but those regulations have to be lawful and the concept of business owners being restricted in how much they're allowed to spend looks questionable at the very least.
The thing is, there are owners. And then there are oil emirates. Basically, City are owned/ran by Abu Dhabi and now Newcastle are ran by Saudia Arabia. Any other idea that it's individual owners is utter bollocks and we all know it. Do people genuinely want to see a situation where clubs of this ilk can basically offer a million pounds a week to any player they want unhindered? There have to be some form of restrictions. They go about it the wrong way, the simplest thing would be a reasonable salary cap.
Agree with most of this but I suspect the average fan doesn't care how big clubs are outspending theirs. I'm not sure why a fan of Ipswich would care that Man Utd can spend hundreds of millions more than them because they've grown as a club for the past 70 years whereas Man City are because they've been bought by a state. The outcome is the same, neither are what they'd probably see as "fair" we're just more used to one than the other.
I've always been against FFP, not because I think the concept is bad, but that it is impossible to enforce. I think FFP is always going to be a losing game and people will always find loopholes, and if they don't, the best players and staff will move to countries where they can find loopholes. All FFP achieves is making those that try to play by the rules at a disadvantage over those that don't. Not that I don't think PL should be going after Man City. They should. If the rules exist,.they should try and enforce them... ... But I still think FFP should never have been set up.
