Is football going in the right direction in this country?
Do people think that the Prem league becoming a closed shop for the top clubs and the support for the relegated teams with huge cash payments, to ensure they get promoted straight back is runining the game?
To add further insult the people that run football have now introduced and agreed Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) which will give better oppurtunities to the bigger clubs for youth poaching at low liability!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2011/10/football_league_votes_in_favou.html#299200
What I am getting at is, I like the championship as it currently is, as it can be won by more than just 2 teams.
In another few years the Prem clubs will just bounce straight back up due to their financial power from Prem funding. This will open up a tiered system in the Championship and that will become a stale league.
How long before the powers that be realise that they are runing the game outside the Prem League.
Will we end up with just 2 leagues in the near future?
Beautiful Game or not?
posted on 26/10/11
Can't you tell its half-term??
posted on 26/10/11
Good point Taiwan don't wanna risk the possibility of sanctions or a pride park embargo so I apologise for my ill founded argument and youthful folly.
Old One Eye think you'd be dissappointed with my wallet the older I get the thinner it gets but I will not complain, if i work just that little bit harder I and Derby County will be free.
posted on 26/10/11
Reminds me of something my first bandleader said when I kept complaining about having to play rubbish covers to earn a living and why couldn't we play some rock. He just shook his head sagely and said:
"Kev, Thin Lizzy equals Thin Wallet....."
posted on 26/10/11
That's deep Moj - I'm gonna go and set up my own broadcasting company now; who do you guys want as pundits...Robbie Savage I think could headline it....lol...cue the hatred.
posted on 26/10/11
Me. I can't work any harder
Pay freeze for two years, work longer, less pension
posted on 26/10/11
K so it's Robbie Savage and View from at the moment, any other suggestions...or will I have to resort to the afore mentioned insurrectionary activity and general liberation of the footballing world.
posted on 27/10/11
wellies, if the 'free world' (you know that place which invades other countries and oppresses any internal or external political ethos which do not submit to its ideals...yer as free as my a$s) does invade, least Derbyshire will make good grounds for guerilla warfare. XD
posted on 27/10/11
"Old One Eye think you'd be dissappointed with my wallet the older I get the thinner...."
It's not money I'm after, 2 Wellies. I'm a founder member and active campaigner for FLFDW - "Free Lepidoptera From Deep Wallets" - and yours is full of them.
(allegedly).
FREE THE MOTHS - BUY OOE A PINT.
posted on 27/10/11
Capn and view from, valid posts again.
It would be interesting to see how fans of the big clubs feel about how the game is going? I wonder if they are happy with winning it all the time? Long term effect is a disaster for football.
posted on 27/10/11
Taiwan I agree the Peak District would be happy Guerilla territory could do with a bit more jungle though n OOE your dedication to animal rights shames me a pint for you Sir