As anticipated, the cry went out for tos sers and lo, it came to pass..

I don't think you're a tos ser 666. After all you claim to be extremely obese so you probably can't find your male chicken.

comment by 666: Handy Guides’Я’Us (U11795)

posted 11 hours, 38 minutes ago

The top end of the game is so utterly fkd up that it'd take a huge implosion for the sport to regain its once 'beautiful' allure.

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But do you WANT this to happen? What IS your stance?

Government to take action if football doesn't sort itself out..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21238173

I was happy when we had SoD in charge and were seemingly trying to build up a club gradually.

Milfy

if you'd just pause a moment to understand the obvious context of the stuff which you're copying and pasting then you could easily determine my stance by the use of terms such as 'beautiful' and 'utterly fkd up'.

Still, if people want to hi-five you for whooping with delight at my expressed sentiments that's their look-out. I must try to be more magnanimous when you steal my contributions; Vidals manages it all the time, so why shouldn't I?

Spartacus: I'm cuddly, not obese. I could easily beat the likes of you in a 100 yard dash. Well, 10 yards. If I was chasing a kebab van.

Poor sod

666 - you're positively waif-like compared to me.

kebab van?

Why have I never seen one of these? What kind of tune does it play when it arrives on your street?

I still think that some sort of "implosion" will happen. It goes against the laws of economics, physics and general common sense that so many clubs continue to exist on joke balance sheets. Year-on-year over-valued assets, bizarre uber-reliance on future receipts, dependence upon international consumerism in a time of international business turmoil. We all believed until quite recently that banks could never be allowed to fail.

They're in town centres and that, Mostyn, ain't it? Burgers, kebabs, all manner of cooked delicious nutrition for the discerning homeward-bound drunk

666, I knew what you were saying!

Milf:

"knew" what I was saying, or was copying it to pass off as your own and cash in on my stunning insight?!!

I agree to some extent with what MILF has said, but personally I harbour a hope that there may be an implosion of some sort within football. Were this to happen, there might be a chance that the beautiful allure which the game once held might return. What do others think?

I struggle with this. Everyone says Man City are what's wrong with English football. Yet they have the second cheapest tickets in the EPL. Owners that invest heavily in the community, that care about the long term future of the club and want to win things.

On the other hand you've got Arsenal "who do things the right way" who don't care about winning things, have the highest ticket prices in the world, charge 20 quid for a pint. Who's in the wrong there?

It seems City's owners put £100Ms in to our economy, invest in the community and get hammered. I think we should welcome these type of owners with open arms

Sport needs to be competitive Sutton, otherwise there is no point. It isn't competitive if a few teams skew the advantage hugely in their favour by buying all of the good players. It becomes a meaningless procession of no interest to anyone who likes their sport to come with some doubt about the outcome.

Or I could just have said

Football is more popular than ever. Look at how the prem ended last season. It was amazing.

It's about levels. Some clubs will always be bigger than others because of the support they have and there's not a lot you can do about that. Even when Forest were one of the best sides in the country before the Premier League the Man Utds and Liverpools would take our best players at times.

The fact Man City and Chelsea have big money backers means Man Utd don't win the league every year as they probably would otherwise.

The only way round it is to say to clubs you can all only spend the same. But then you'd have owners at clubs making millions of fans. Or FFP which means one club will be twice as rich as everyone else.

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Wellies

American sport seems to have maintained equality better than Europe because of salary caps, College drafts and the like. You don't get the same few teams dominating endlessly like we do. As someone who has recently lived there, what can we learn from their model?

I would ask Toronto Tree, only he's unbelievably thick.

Ooh! Ooh! I've got it!!

All fans of televised matches should meet outside the ground wearing nought but cowboy hats and then all walk in separately after 15 minutes!!

The telly cameras would pick it up, the pundits would talk about it and that will surely drive the scandalous owners away from the game forever! Yay!

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Ironically the American system is socialist, which goes against everything they apparently stand for. Except when they have a winning team that is.

Let it go 666, FFS. Let us all remember Colbi as he was: respected poster and nemesis of 666.

Can I ask why any of watch or go to football? You all seem to hate it for some reason.

I'm with Sutton, here. It is competitive at the minute. A few years back it was Arsenal or United and they were always streets ahead - now, we've got a tight league in which more teams have emerged. Surely the owners of City have done a good thing by bringing another team into the mix, whilst also trying to improve the football and general community around their team. And, as Sutton said, they've kept prices low and shown a real dedication to the team.
Arsenal's owners, on the other hand, are making their team noncompetitive when they could make them competitive.
Yes, it's unlikely that we'll see many seasons when a team can do what we did when getting promoted and finishing third, but compared to 5/6 years ago things are already more competitive and exciting.