http://www.urban75.org/blog/goodbye...ife-fan-finds-salvation-in-the-lower-leagues/ Just a quick article from a Cardiff Fan that didn't accept Tan with open arms and actually did something about it.
What an excellent article and it just shows how these mega rich people who buy football clubs can end up destroying their history. If that happened at CR and our strip changed from yellow and green, then I'm not sure I'd keep going and paying around £600 (plus 'match day costs' of around £10 per home game) a season.
Can fully understand him, and any others who´re getting sick of the commercial circus the Premier League has become. If I wasn´t an ardent City supporter but just a football fan in general, I don´t think I´d ever watch the Premier League at all, far too driven by money and greed. But fortunately the Cardiff scenario is unlikely ( though not entirely impossible) to happen at Carrow Road, but if it did then I dare say there would be quite an exodus there as well. Just one more thing we should all be very grateful for about our club, we have owners who put the club and the fans first, and lining their pockets, second.
Good to see him take action rather than complaining and posturing about things. It was clearly a wrench, as it would be for any fan of any team (not renewing my S/T was bad enough!! ) but he's come out the other side much happier. Just goes to show like in the Prem is anything but a bowl of cherries for around a dozen clubs and the 'survive at any cost' mentality has taken a lot of enjoyment away from the game I used to love a great deal more than I do now.
And so say all of us. Luckily, Delia and co did not give to to Fernandes' (sp) demands and let him take over at CR!!!!
The problem is that every team wants to get in to the Prem but the only reason is for money. Everyone knows the same 4 to 6 teams that will be at the top each season so it's just a case of try and stay somewhere near the middle for the "have-nots" of the league. It's completely sucking the passion out of the top tier and for me, passion is a huge part of football. While I never WANT to watch Norwich lose or be relegated, I could accept it because for me, the Championship is a better league. There's more to play for, the teams and fans tend to be more passionate and you don't have complete dominance by the same teams every season.
Visionary of the future as a reflection of the past, or just a principled individual who can't accept change? The fact is that you can't change history and tradition no matter what the blogger drags up to support his stance. The club colour change is an immotive subject and a ridiculous whim on the part of Tan. It's fair to say that 100% of the club's supporters are against it, and that's the one thing that's turned some away from the club like this guy. If Tan hadn't done that, they would be singing his praises from the roof tops for the 99% of the things he's done for the club and not kept on blabbering about it. The media grasped upon poor old Malky when he was dumped and set him up as the victim, whereas Tan was portrayed as the anti-christ, and it's been used against him by those who saw it as an opportunity to create more bad blood. As more and more information is coming to the surface surrounding the events at the club since last June (not just the ones the media reports), it's becoming increasingly obvious that that was far from the truth. If this guy wants to switch allegiences to Dulwich Hamlet, then the best of luck to him - it seems to suit him geographically anyway despite the angst he demonstrates in his blog. The vast VAST majority of us will stick with the club of our lives - since the mid 60's for me. There is one thing for sure - Tan will go eventually as has Malky recently. The one thing we have now is a club to support and that looked a forlorn hope just 3 years ago before his arrival - we were about to go tits up if the truth be known. We intensely dislike his imposition of red over blue, but even that will change back again eventually. In the meantime, we carry on.
And now Rooney in negotiations for 300K a week. Poor lad must be needing some advice - what on earth has he been living off for the last couple of years? My heart bleeds for him. All those who say a professional footballers career is a short one and they deserve the cash can do one. Man Utd have debts of how much? I'm gladdened by the fact that I don't pay these guys salary as I am a no good stream watching exile, but for the love of all things fair in this world - 300K a week? The world has truly gone mad.
If the money's there and some one wants to pay it to them then then frankly id doesn't matter what other think. The truth of the matter is that Rooney is worth more to united whilst playing for them than he would be in a cash sum, with a long contract with a high financial value also increases his value in the market. If the European courts outlaw the current player trading practices and moves to a position where then only have to pay off the contract that means that Rooney would still cost a large amour of money to buy. Also despite their debts United have a large operating revenue and make a significant profit. Its how the world work.
The salaries are undoubtedly grotesque but is it worse than a Hollywood star making $20M per film, a banker who went to the right school being paid a six figure salary? It's the system, sky has fed this monster, but the big boys of Spain and Italy were paying bigger before us and still do, most of the transfer records belong to real Madrid, the world and capitalism is broken and corrupt and it'll get a whole heap worse before it gets better. So who should get the money, fat cat chairmen? Agents? Rupert f'in Murdock! Unfortunately whilst people continue to pay their subscriptions around the world, nought will change. Bah!
You forgot the music industry where equally huge sums are paid to often pretty talentless people. As for a remedy, you could invite the Taliban to take over. There'd be no football, no banks, no films and no music. That would quickly sort it.
A boring and regurgitated argument nowadays, but for me, if they have to play the role of celebrities, which many of them do, regardless of whether they are on board with doing so, then yeah, for me, they deserve it. Couple that to the fact that half of the country seem to think footballers are respnsible for being role models to their children (apparently there's nobody better?)...see, for me, that's when the world went mad. Everything else just came after. I blame Italia '90.
Boring and regurgitated it may be - doesn't mean it's right. It's a shame when we get bored of immorality and just let **** happen. Apathy sure is dangerous!
When mega-rich people treat clubs like toys they are fine until they end up breaking them and of course everyone else (supporters particularly) suffers. The stance from the Cardiff fan is admirable.
Talent is often mearly a perspective. Think Dunga vs Romario. Do I consider Justin Bieber in anyway talented? No he just has a great money making machine around him. Do I consider Lennon and McCartney talented, hell yeah, they could be genius's (Musical) in my eyes. However Chantelle down council estate may disagree! As for the Taliban what a fun world they would give us, at least they'd keep them pesky women in there place! Bah!
Wedding fayres can do that to any man! I actually zoned out completely on the 3rd florist to tell us pretty much the same as the preceding 2. I am reaching a just pick what you like just don't subject me to another florist, cake maker, clothes hirer etc etc. Can you just wake me up on the morning of making sure you have my passport ready for where ever we end up on honeymoon! Bah!
Always a sound policy to begin as you mean to carry on. Just throw in the sponge from the start and you'll be fine!
