Decent piece from Martin Samuel

That's a decent bet. What a ****ing shambles caused by "no one tells me how to run my business".


****ER

 

Community tickets? They charge the youth team to watch so doubt they’re giving away many tickets.

 

To be fair I am one that has paid for their pass and not going.

 

I did that for the last 2 months of my membership.
I gave my pass to one of my mates.

 

Only whilst they are winning. If they drop off it will be back to 10k gates.

 

To be fair my son is going when he can, grandson has a passes and never misses a game, but my son works some Saturdays, but goes when he can.

 

I have lost the appetite for the game (mainly due to Allams).
Hopefully I get it back...who knows.

Today, I heard that a 20yo Man City player has bought a £2.25m house and he has yet to make a PL appearance.

The game is well and truly ****ed.
A player can receive (not earn) in 1 week what the average guy earns in 20 years.

 

How about this bloke? Football at the top level is like an alternative unverse.No wonder lot of people are becoming some what disillusioned.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/chelseas-longest-serving-player-matej-10828294

 

Probably against an unknown team from Moldova or Belarus

 

Yeah, teams who qualify for the Champions League are often unknown.

Or did you mean unknown to you?

 

It says he doesn't have a work permit to play here.
That never seems to stop the other million or so working here illegally.

 

To me, though I doubt many could name the Champions of Belarus.

 

Okay.
I take it all back, he's earned his £2.25m house

 

I bet ****loads could in Belarus.

 

Well maybe he has earned it, by practicing his skills sufficiently that he's good enough to make it financially worth Man City's while to pay him that much. I don't get all the hate for players getting big wages, like that in itself is a big problem. If there's all this money swilling around in the game, it should absolutely go to the people who make the game happen rather than ****s like Allam, Oyston, SISU, Duchatalet, the West Ham mob, or agents.

The governing bodies need to do something to make cheaper tickets happen, it's not the players' fault.

 

The only people to blame for players’ high wages are the paying fans. If they all ceased their Sky / BT subscriptions, stopped buying merchandise and stopped buying tickets then the game wouldn’t be awash with money.

Pure market forces - fans have an appetite, suppliers charge more for it, players get their cut.

 

I’ve just binned off Sky. That’s one tiny step towards bringing Premier League to its knees.