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RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 11/12/2013 10:31
(10/12/2013 21:25)CX06 EBK Wrote: I'm not really bothered by all the politics and so forth, if all the stars aligned and they ended up in the Premier League, what would your opinion be? Many people support teams because they were from that city (which is true for a lot of red and blue fans on here I assume) and really couldn't care less about the bullcrap that goes on behind the curtain. The English National Team is vastly overrated by the home media anyway and are nowhere near the level of teams such as Spain, Italy, Germany and so on.
So you don't care that the Premiershit Cartel is permanently damaging grass roots football in this country, and therefore the game's long term viability?
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - CX06 EBK - 11/12/2013 14:39
No because football doesn't interest me as much as it obviously interests you. I follow it more passingly as I have things of a higher priority. All I know is football on the whole is full of politics from here all the way to FIFA and that will probably never change. There has been match fixing allegations again this week which have gone pretty much unspoken of here, all of which seems to be happening in leagues under the Premiership.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - Jack - 11/12/2013 20:52
So what's your answer to his question DVL?
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 12/12/2013 15:25
(11/12/2013 20:52)jcksmnr Wrote: So what's your answer to his question DVL?
Sorry, didn't spot a question in his last post.
By the way, I raised match fixing a few days back on this thread. Seems that english football now at risk of being dragged into same kind of corruption morass as cricket, snooker and overseas footie.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - H101GEV - 12/12/2013 15:58
(10/12/2013 21:25)CX06 EBK Wrote: If all the stars aligned and they ended up in the Premier League, what would your opinion be?
Still haven't answered it, DVL.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - Jack - 12/12/2013 18:36
(10/12/2013 15:01)CX06 EBK Wrote: So if Macclesfield ever made it to the "Premiershit" I take it you'd stop watching them and support a "real" football team?
This I'm waiting for the answer to.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 12/12/2013 18:53
(12/12/2013 15:58)507009 Wrote:(10/12/2013 21:25)CX06 EBK Wrote: If all the stars aligned and they ended up in the Premier League, what would your opinion be?
Still haven't answered it, DVL.
Could you clarify what you mean by the phrase ' if all the stars aligned' and ill have a go?
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 12/12/2013 19:06
(12/12/2013 18:36)jcksmnr Wrote:(10/12/2013 15:01)CX06 EBK Wrote: So if Macclesfield ever made it to the "Premiershit" I take it you'd stop watching them and support a "real" football team?
This I'm waiting for the answer to.
That one!
No brainier for every supporter of every football club, but as we haven ' t managed it in over 140 years of existence, and there is absolutely bobbins chance of it ever happening in the next 140 years under the current system, its an irrelevant question in the context of this discussion.
however, we do get an occasional tilt at Premiershit opposition. Only lost by single goal to the eventual FA cup winners in 4th round last season after beating Cardiff City in 3rd round, and the season before that we took Bolton Wanderers to a reply.
No inverted snobbery here as I still bought my season ticket for our one season in league 1 in the late 1990's when we played the likes of Manchester City, Fulham, Wigan Athletic and Stoke City, as I do now we are back in non-league and playing the likes of Braintree, Salisbury and Hyde. Still loyal, still love the game, but fear of its future unless we wake-up and stop the Premiershit Cartel sucking an ever increasing share of money out of the English game. Not just my opinion, but shared by academics and financial experts.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - H101GEV - 13/12/2013 19:39
That's still not a proper answer though, is it?
All I can say regarding the politics is it's hardly rosy in the garden in other European leagues. La Liga is arguably the world's best football league alongside the Bundesliga, yet the almost obscene wealth and TV dominance of Barca and Real is causing real suffering amongst the smaller teams.
RE: 2013/14 Football Season - DVL418 - 14/12/2013 18:30
(13/12/2013 19:39)507009 Wrote: That's still not a proper answer though, is it?
All I can say regarding the politics is it's hardly rosy in the garden in other European leagues. La Liga is arguably the world's best football league alongside the Bundesliga, yet the almost obscene wealth and TV dominance of Barca and Real is causing real suffering amongst the smaller teams.
It might not be the answer you want, but its the truth.
La Liga proportionately hands over three times as much money to support the game in Spain than the Premiershit does for the English game. The amount the Bundesliga gives is even greater but I don't have the exact figures to hand.
Yet the Premiershit Cartel continues to be allowed to bully the English game into accepting a smaller share year on year, and is allowed to poach and steal young players from junior clubs with little or no consequence or compensation. Not politics but fact.
Another disturbing Fact is that actual participation in football in this country is now showing year on year decline, the speed of which is somewhat masked by the increase in female football participation, yet in Spain and Germany it is increasing. Not politics, facts.
All we ask is for the Premiershit Cartel be stopped from bullying the rest of English football into eventual oblivion, and hand over the share of TV income that was promised when they broke away, but was ripped-up after just two seasons and has never been restored. Indeed, they have cut it further with each new tv contract despite the value of the dels increasing. Not politics, fact.
On a brighter note, we won again today, and the two Sheffield Wednesday scouts that sat in front of me never stopped tapping their iPads - I remember the days that a notebook and pencil sufficed.