The best days were when the players played for the shirt they wore, and the wages left them enough to join the rest of the team for a pint after a hard fought game against their relegation threatened mates!..
Something we'll never see again!..
I might be wrong, but could you blame the Premiership for the way world football is these days, because if I remember rightly in the days of the shirt prices were family friendly and your dad could buy you your favourite strip for Chistmas, something that a lot have problems with these days!..
We always blamed the Spanish and Italian leagues for the state of football back then, but these days they blame the Premiership, tv money, the prices in,(for a man with kids doesn't leave much for the wife eh?)and the overpaid pancies that have perfected the dying swan!..
The days when I watched the whole of football, cup cames, tables, and everything that goes with it are no longer there, I only watch what my team now do, and the Premier I don't have a clue who is where and how it will end, and that has lots to do with the money that flys around and people trying their hardest to get the next guy in as much trouble as he can!..
Bring back the days when other sports didn't laugh at a player doing his bit to add to the death of the swan!.
McParlandTheGreat
Going back in time, in any year there were always just a very few teams who you knew were in with a chance of the title, in that year. And usually at least one of those misfired. Nothing has changed.
Absolute rubbish, when I started watching football in the 1950s through to the late 1960s, something like a dozen different teams all won the title from 1950 until 1969, sure one or two teams won the title a couple of times, but to have that many teams over a couple of decades win the title shows you really how competitive the league was back then.
Today you have only three teams who realistically between them are going to buy the title, Man United, Chelsea or Man City.
The problem was SKY and the formation of the Premier League. Since then, the differences between clubs have grown and grown, getting further away from each other.
It's said to think that a great manager - someone like Clough - wouldn't be able to turn a team in the second division into title winners in the first division, just by his great management skills. Look at some fantastic managers at the moment like Moyes, Pardew, Redknapp, all good, who don't have a chance to win the league.
Then Man Utd and SKY pundits complain about City spending so much, despite it being the only way to get to the top these days.
Best Fans - 7 years of lies, BATES OUT (U2196)
posted 1 minute ago
The problem was SKY and the formation of the Premier League. Since then, the differences between clubs have grown and grown, getting further away from each other.
It's said to think that a great manager - someone like Clough - wouldn't be able to turn a team in the second division into title winners in the first division, just by his great management skills. Look at some fantastic managers at the moment like Moyes, Pardew, Redknapp, all good, who don't have a chance to win the league.
Then Man Utd and SKY pundits complain about City spending so much, despite it being the only way to get to the top these days.
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This
Bubbles™ - The Number WUM ONE
Arthur Rowe with Spurs, Alf Ramsey with Ipswich and Cloughie with Derby and Forest brought teams up from the lower division to win the title within a couple of years.
Never in a million years going to happen now. Which really is quite sad.
It says something that I have absolutely no interest in the Cup Final today, not just because of the time, but it is because it is the same old same.
Sandy
Don't blame you mate, if we weren't in it I probably wouldn't watch it. The best final for me was the 2008 one when it was Pompey vs Cardiff, two teams that were different.
This year in particular the tradition has just been ruined. Sad really
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It wasn't to long ago Sky tried to buy ManU!..
If that had happened what would football be now?.
Sadly it's all caused by big 6 from late 80's wanting more money from tv rights than itv were giving them. They were gonna breakaway from football league, then got the rest of old 1st division to go with them. That became the EPL and why the higher up the league the more millions a club will receive. Making it an attractive place for multi millionaires 2 launder money.
Implemented correctly the FFP rules (or that general idea) could work IMO. It would take a long time to work though, just like it's supposed to take a long time to build success in football... not just bypass the building process with loads of money.
Unfortunately the fair rules will not have the positive effect that they should have. You only have to look at City and the sponsorship that they receive for the nameing rights of the stadium. It's a farce and the powers that be haven't been minded to have stopped it.
Then all the money from foreign owners also give the top teams a much better chance of securing a place in the Champions League.
Unfortunately, it will never change. The die is set.
"It wasn't to long ago Sky tried to buy ManU!.."
You mean they don't own man u ???, They should do with the amount of money they put their way.
Highland, as far as I know they also wanted to buy the Premeir, so who would have got the most then?..
They'd have the top teams getting richer, and the others fighting the drop!..
Imagine the Premier investigating itselfe when they thought they were being hacked!.
Germany, Sky may have sabotaged us because of the threat we posed to Man Utd.
Allan Leighton was our deputy chairman and was/is on their board.
Good article Weare, but imho Stevenage are the new Wimbledon
(Isn't that two or three successive promotions now for Stevenage? And in the play-offs again after today )
Bolton fan in peace...
Just wanderd over for a look really, but have to say this is the best article ive read in a long time.
5*
How many of you would love to see football go back to a time when over a few decades, 10 different teams would win the title and FA Cup.
Days when clubs like, Shef Wed, Bolton, Leeds Aston Villa, Burnley etc etc etc were all big clubs at one time
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posted on 5/5/12
The best days were when the players played for the shirt they wore, and the wages left them enough to join the rest of the team for a pint after a hard fought game against their relegation threatened mates!..
Something we'll never see again!..
I might be wrong, but could you blame the Premiership for the way world football is these days, because if I remember rightly in the days of the shirt prices were family friendly and your dad could buy you your favourite strip for Chistmas, something that a lot have problems with these days!..
We always blamed the Spanish and Italian leagues for the state of football back then, but these days they blame the Premiership, tv money, the prices in,(for a man with kids doesn't leave much for the wife eh?)and the overpaid pancies that have perfected the dying swan!..
The days when I watched the whole of football, cup cames, tables, and everything that goes with it are no longer there, I only watch what my team now do, and the Premier I don't have a clue who is where and how it will end, and that has lots to do with the money that flys around and people trying their hardest to get the next guy in as much trouble as he can!..
Bring back the days when other sports didn't laugh at a player doing his bit to add to the death of the swan!.
posted on 5/5/12
McParlandTheGreat
Going back in time, in any year there were always just a very few teams who you knew were in with a chance of the title, in that year. And usually at least one of those misfired. Nothing has changed.
Absolute rubbish, when I started watching football in the 1950s through to the late 1960s, something like a dozen different teams all won the title from 1950 until 1969, sure one or two teams won the title a couple of times, but to have that many teams over a couple of decades win the title shows you really how competitive the league was back then.
Today you have only three teams who realistically between them are going to buy the title, Man United, Chelsea or Man City.
posted on 5/5/12
The problem was SKY and the formation of the Premier League. Since then, the differences between clubs have grown and grown, getting further away from each other.
It's said to think that a great manager - someone like Clough - wouldn't be able to turn a team in the second division into title winners in the first division, just by his great management skills. Look at some fantastic managers at the moment like Moyes, Pardew, Redknapp, all good, who don't have a chance to win the league.
Then Man Utd and SKY pundits complain about City spending so much, despite it being the only way to get to the top these days.
posted on 5/5/12
Best Fans - 7 years of lies, BATES OUT (U2196)
posted 1 minute ago
The problem was SKY and the formation of the Premier League. Since then, the differences between clubs have grown and grown, getting further away from each other.
It's said to think that a great manager - someone like Clough - wouldn't be able to turn a team in the second division into title winners in the first division, just by his great management skills. Look at some fantastic managers at the moment like Moyes, Pardew, Redknapp, all good, who don't have a chance to win the league.
Then Man Utd and SKY pundits complain about City spending so much, despite it being the only way to get to the top these days.
===========================================
This
posted on 5/5/12
Bubbles™ - The Number WUM ONE
Arthur Rowe with Spurs, Alf Ramsey with Ipswich and Cloughie with Derby and Forest brought teams up from the lower division to win the title within a couple of years.
Never in a million years going to happen now. Which really is quite sad.
It says something that I have absolutely no interest in the Cup Final today, not just because of the time, but it is because it is the same old same.
posted on 5/5/12
Sandy
Don't blame you mate, if we weren't in it I probably wouldn't watch it. The best final for me was the 2008 one when it was Pompey vs Cardiff, two teams that were different.
This year in particular the tradition has just been ruined. Sad really
posted on 5/5/12
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posted on 5/5/12
It wasn't to long ago Sky tried to buy ManU!..
If that had happened what would football be now?.
posted on 5/5/12
Sadly it's all caused by big 6 from late 80's wanting more money from tv rights than itv were giving them. They were gonna breakaway from football league, then got the rest of old 1st division to go with them. That became the EPL and why the higher up the league the more millions a club will receive. Making it an attractive place for multi millionaires 2 launder money.
posted on 5/5/12
Implemented correctly the FFP rules (or that general idea) could work IMO. It would take a long time to work though, just like it's supposed to take a long time to build success in football... not just bypass the building process with loads of money.
posted on 5/5/12
Unfortunately the fair rules will not have the positive effect that they should have. You only have to look at City and the sponsorship that they receive for the nameing rights of the stadium. It's a farce and the powers that be haven't been minded to have stopped it.
Then all the money from foreign owners also give the top teams a much better chance of securing a place in the Champions League.
Unfortunately, it will never change. The die is set.
posted on 5/5/12
"It wasn't to long ago Sky tried to buy ManU!.."
You mean they don't own man u ???, They should do with the amount of money they put their way.
posted on 5/5/12
Highland, as far as I know they also wanted to buy the Premeir, so who would have got the most then?..
They'd have the top teams getting richer, and the others fighting the drop!..
Imagine the Premier investigating itselfe when they thought they were being hacked!.
posted on 5/5/12
Germany, Sky may have sabotaged us because of the threat we posed to Man Utd.
Allan Leighton was our deputy chairman and was/is on their board.
posted on 5/5/12
Good article Weare, but imho Stevenage are the new Wimbledon
posted on 5/5/12
(Isn't that two or three successive promotions now for Stevenage? And in the play-offs again after today )
posted on 8/5/12
Bolton fan in peace...
Just wanderd over for a look really, but have to say this is the best article ive read in a long time.
5*
posted on 8/5/12
How many of you would love to see football go back to a time when over a few decades, 10 different teams would win the title and FA Cup.
Days when clubs like, Shef Wed, Bolton, Leeds Aston Villa, Burnley etc etc etc were all big clubs at one time
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Me me me me me.
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