RODNEY FERNIO Posted 18 August 2017 Posted 18 August 2017 I say love ...... but personally my love is still there but is diminishing with every next season. Mahrez has done everything he has done at this club ... but seems to forget we were the ones that rescued him from obscurity. Coutinho , Sanchez , Van Dijck , Sigurdsson .. refuse to kick a ball for the club that gave them their name and made them wanted. Qatar ... owners of the two richest clubs in World football seem to be exempt from Financial Fair Play rules so they can spend as much as they want and also bribe their way to the World Cup and make us all think that playing the biggest tournament in the World ( Olympics does not come close ) in one of the hottest countries in the World is a sensible option. Anyway viva Jamie Vardy and Marc Albrighton .... guys like you restore the love.
m4DD0gg Posted 18 August 2017 Posted 18 August 2017 2 minutes ago, RODNEY FERNIO said: I say love ...... but personally my love is still there but is diminishing with every next season. Mahrez has done everything he has done at this club ... but seems to forget we were the ones that rescued him from obscurity. Coutinho , Sanchez , Van Dijck , Sigurdsson .. refuse to kick a ball for the club that gave them their name and made them wanted. Qatar ... owners of the two richest clubs in World football seem to be exempt from Financial Fair Play rules so they can spend as much as they want and also bribe their way to the World Cup and make us all think that playing the biggest tournament in the World ( Olympics does not come close ) in one of the hottest countries in the World is a sensible option. Anyway viva Jamie Vardy and Marc Albrighton .... guys like you restore the love. It did 25 years ago.
Kitchandro Posted 18 August 2017 Posted 18 August 2017 Best not to think about it too much I find. If I'm honest I know most footballers are entitled, money grabbing dicks who don't really care about football clubs. But if one of them scores for my team (or even against a team I don't like) it still brings a smile to my face. Lloydy just scored for Burton and I was well pleased for him FFS. Money is killing the game but more in the way that it's not a working class sport anymore - ticket prices are too high and it's marketed as a fashionable pastime for the middle class and well off families rather than somewhere for hard working people to shout their lungs off and actively enjoy the experience.
Fox92 Posted 18 August 2017 Posted 18 August 2017 It did years ago. It ain't aimed at working class people anymore.
Countryfox Posted 18 August 2017 Posted 18 August 2017 57 minutes ago, Kitchandro said: Best not to think about it too much I find. And there you have it .. get down to the ground, watch the match, shout your head off, have a pie and a pint and go home ... and then chunter away how we woz robbed by the ref on Foxes talk ...
Jordan Posted 18 August 2017 Posted 18 August 2017 29 minutes ago, Fox92 said: It ain't aimed at working class people anymore. Is anything else these days?
SystonFox Posted 18 August 2017 Posted 18 August 2017 JAMIE VARDY HAVIN A PARTY MARC ALBRIGHTON CROSSES LIKE JESUS
Fox92 Posted 19 August 2017 Posted 19 August 2017 9 hours ago, Jordan said: Is anything else these days? Well, yeah, but this was about football.
Guest Posted 19 August 2017 Posted 19 August 2017 I think money is the killing the game that those of us alive watched in the 70's, 80's and even 90's. I think for the youngsters of today, this is football so no problem.
boots60 Posted 19 August 2017 Posted 19 August 2017 A player is transferred for a world record fee Supporters are incredulous at the vast sums of money in football Newspapers go to town with tales of the new superstar Concerns are raised regarding the huge wealth of top football clubs Alf Common Sunderland to Middlesbrough 1906 £1,000 Nothing changes
m4DD0gg Posted 19 August 2017 Posted 19 August 2017 Bubble will burst eventually and a traditional big club will go to the wall.
davieG Posted 19 August 2017 Posted 19 August 2017 Probably but you need to remember what was there just before, sitting in a crowd of 32k even with their clappers is a big improvement on standing on what felt like my own on along with 10k other miserable souls watching us lose to Milwall in 1991 the year before the top clubs set up the PL. True things picked up with the arrival of MON but football in general was dying on it's feet with the aftermath of the hooligan spoilers.
tom27111 Posted 19 August 2017 Posted 19 August 2017 This gets talked about constantly. Basically, no. If it takes away the enjoyment for you and you don't like it anymore, stop watching. It's always been about money. People were probably saying the same thing in the early 60's when Jimmy Hill got the maximum wage abolished.
Jordan Posted 19 August 2017 Posted 19 August 2017 3 hours ago, Fox92 said: Well, yeah, but this was about football. Don't be an ass.
Corky Posted 20 August 2017 Posted 20 August 2017 There are aspects of the game that were probably better decades ago, there are aspects that are better now. Nostalgia is a fantastic thing but it generally only remembers the good things about the past. The money has taken the game away from the common man, absolutely, but I'm sure some fans didn't like £1 million or £5 million being spent on players 25-30 years ago. The age of social and 24-hour media gives more coverage and therefore more issues to discuss in greater depth.
Fox92 Posted 20 August 2017 Posted 20 August 2017 5 minutes ago, Corky said: There are aspects of the game that were probably better decades ago, there are aspects that are better now. Nostalgia is a fantastic thing but it generally only remembers the good things about the past. The money has taken the game away from the common man, absolutely, but I'm sure some fans didn't like £1 million or £5 million being spent on players 25-30 years ago. The age of social and 24-hour media gives more coverage and therefore more issues to discuss in greater depth. Football wages has always been ahead of the working man. Stanley Matthews got paid the max wage of £12 a week at Blackpool. That was in the late 40's/early 50's. But everything else has changed. Football was for working class in terms of ticketing and I think we all feel so distance from that now. So many people feel distant from their clubs and that's sad.
DJ Barry Hammond Posted 20 August 2017 Posted 20 August 2017 Sadly it's not just football now... money is effecting other sports too. But the key thing money is killing in football is the link between the players and the fans. One of the romantic notions of later day football was that those whom played professionally even at the top level were not too far removed from those that watched. These days, it's a lot harder to directly identify with the players and their lives as people because they're thurst into riches you and I are unlikely to ever experience. Ok, some players are still reasonably grounded with that wealth, but trying to comprehend someone can be worth £200 million+ against the backdrop of the minimum wage of £7.50 an hour... it just doesn't sit well. The other areas I think are killing football, which is also routed in the money aspect, is the saturation on TV and the evaperation of traditional sporting principles such as fair play, respect and simply enjoying the game.
Durnerz Posted 20 August 2017 Posted 20 August 2017 Football is a millionaires playground at the top. Players are effectively poker chips. I'm still excited by watching a game but the transfer window and general huge sums of money for very average players is soul destroying. There needs to be a wage cap or transfer cap in place but that won't happen while the fat cats behind the scenes watch their money roll in. The way of the world sadly.
RODNEY FERNIO Posted 20 August 2017 Author Posted 20 August 2017 Ok I started this thread but just looking at some of the old heroes on the net. Tom Finney ... a one club man for Preston ... not playing for his prime years because he was fighting in the second world war ... born into abject poverty and trained as a plumber so he could supplement his football income . Stanley Matthews ... again missed his prime years because of the war ... made his debut in 1931 and played his last professional game in 1965 !!!! Bet neither of them made much money from the game.
fuchsntf Posted 20 August 2017 Posted 20 August 2017 Naaaa !!! Tho I am grey , winkly, and ancient....I refuse to play the grumpy ol man, I'll let Kitch do that!! Each new generation, will accept their sports presentation..fans are fans.Football fill stadiums, prawn sandwiches, and WClass young players pockets. In my day a football career, got you a pub, a B + B, or a haulage company, or Beer for the future. Now, you can become a Jeans model, invest in Hotel chains, blow your head off, on drugs +beer. Not go on a cruise, but own the ships....So what.!!! .I lost it when big brother became standard TV, and the contestants became super stars. The Money god, and the chasing of it, has already killed us, ask any decent Zombie or Vampire from today...
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