Friday, February 08, 2008
English Prostitute League - coming to a city near you!
I've said before how football mirrors society. Hence the chaotic, colourful intensity of Indonesia with perhaps a hint of tension in the air. The passionless, almost anti septic atmosphere of Singapore. And in England the money grabbing, bending over backwards rush for cold hard cash.
I'm romantic enough still to think of football as just that. Football. It's not anymore and it hasn't been for a long time. Football is little more than a vast money making machine where the name of the game is to squeeze the last possible penny from the fan. This money is then used to pay inflated wages to over rated players.
I hesitate to call football a business. In it's merchandising perhaps. But the regularity with which managers are hired and fired and given hefty 'compensation' packages for their failures beggars belief and surely has no basis on any MBA programme. And who do club chairman ever answer to?
With English stadiums full week in week out, another myth, clubs have been looking overseas for further cash cows to milk dry. Full stadiums? Well, Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Spurs. Perhaps Portsmouth. Newcastle and Chelsea, that's it. The other 14 clubs, nigh on 75 % of the Premier League clubs, struggle for bums on seats.
Now the wonderfully arrogant Premier League have decided it would be a jolly good yarn to play competitive league games overseas. Remember a favourite whine among club managers is they play too many games? Now they want to consider adding Sydney, Singapore and Shanghai to their fixture list!
Bollocks to you and your own, we're the Premier League, we're the biggest and the best in the world.
The proposal, and for the moment it is little more than that, is for each club to play one fixture overseas. Lucky Melbourne eh? They could get Wigan v Fulham. And what joy for Cape Town as they look forward to seeing Birmingham City play Middlesbrough. And you can just imagine the Americans salivating at the thought of Bolton v Sunderland coming to Las Vegas.
Arrogance? Nothing but arrogance and greed. The Premier League would take its games to the highest bidder and I imagine no thought would be given to any local domestic league and the inconveniance caused there.
The fans in England won't be happy. The managers and players may not be happy. Foreign FA's may not be happy. But the beancounters who run our game will be soiling their pants and they're the ones who count aren't they?
I'm romantic enough still to think of football as just that. Football. It's not anymore and it hasn't been for a long time. Football is little more than a vast money making machine where the name of the game is to squeeze the last possible penny from the fan. This money is then used to pay inflated wages to over rated players.
I hesitate to call football a business. In it's merchandising perhaps. But the regularity with which managers are hired and fired and given hefty 'compensation' packages for their failures beggars belief and surely has no basis on any MBA programme. And who do club chairman ever answer to?
With English stadiums full week in week out, another myth, clubs have been looking overseas for further cash cows to milk dry. Full stadiums? Well, Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Spurs. Perhaps Portsmouth. Newcastle and Chelsea, that's it. The other 14 clubs, nigh on 75 % of the Premier League clubs, struggle for bums on seats.
Now the wonderfully arrogant Premier League have decided it would be a jolly good yarn to play competitive league games overseas. Remember a favourite whine among club managers is they play too many games? Now they want to consider adding Sydney, Singapore and Shanghai to their fixture list!
Bollocks to you and your own, we're the Premier League, we're the biggest and the best in the world.
The proposal, and for the moment it is little more than that, is for each club to play one fixture overseas. Lucky Melbourne eh? They could get Wigan v Fulham. And what joy for Cape Town as they look forward to seeing Birmingham City play Middlesbrough. And you can just imagine the Americans salivating at the thought of Bolton v Sunderland coming to Las Vegas.
Arrogance? Nothing but arrogance and greed. The Premier League would take its games to the highest bidder and I imagine no thought would be given to any local domestic league and the inconveniance caused there.
The fans in England won't be happy. The managers and players may not be happy. Foreign FA's may not be happy. But the beancounters who run our game will be soiling their pants and they're the ones who count aren't they?
# posted by Me @ 5:55 AM 
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post something similar in my blog.. though i refrained nyself from blast everything untill I calm myself down first
http://www.bolasepako.com/2008/02/invasion-is-coming.html
http://www.bolasepako.com/2008/02/invasion-is-coming.html
spot on
good to see fans and media are against it but expect sky sports to be completely in favour...que richard keys last night on first edition
everything is rosy in the premier league garden for him and his ilk
good to see fans and media are against it but expect sky sports to be completely in favour...que richard keys last night on first edition
everything is rosy in the premier league garden for him and his ilk
would it be possible that local fans get a taste of watching live football, and watch more of their own league's games?
i agree with you guys tho, if it's not done in conjunction with local leagues it's arrogant as hell!
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i agree with you guys tho, if it's not done in conjunction with local leagues it's arrogant as hell!
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