I am falling out of love with what was once the people,s game, sadly it is no more.The final straw for me was the seeding of the World cup play-offs.
Teams like Scotland,Wales, Slovenia etc are not wanted in major competitions,having said that Slovenia fucked them up good and proper against an over-rated but big nation.
Competitions like the F.A. and S.F.A cups are a dying breed, knockout competitions in the true sense of the word.
Wouldn’t it be great if Platini decided to “unseed” the European championship draw. The outcry would be heard all over the world,imagine Italy,France,Germany and England in one group and Scotland,Northern Ireland,Hungary and Andorra.
I can but dream, Berlusconi and Murdoch amongst others have a lot to answer for and it is all down to greed.
Jim Farry was lambasted for refusing to allow TV companies to show a game when Forfar or similar were playing the same night, he said TV would be the ruination of football as we know it,how right he was.
How many Champions have won the Champions League?? Robbo help.
I never miss Dr, John,s blog and this is no daft fan writing this but an academic who specialises in football management and his reports are frightening.
It is only a matter of time before one of the “big” clubs go tits up and the consequences will be earth shattering and reverberate around the world.
Dodgy dealings will be exposed,over paid prima donnas will be squealing,and Alice in wonderland owners will be jumping off buildings.
Take our own S.P.HELL,the debts they are servicing are frightening, even the big 2,last I heard Killie were 11m ,Falkirk 4m, Hearts god only knows what they owe,but their’s is a “soft “loan HA HA.
Then we have the clubs who have had their shot at glory like my home town team Dundee under the Marr brothers grim and go and do it again with this new guy,some folk will never learn.
Airdrie Utd,The Pars,Livingston,Gretna, Raith, oh and I nearly forgot everybody’s second team the Harry Wraggs.
All of the above were either in administration or close to it.
I have not even mentioned Motherwell yet, they have led a charmed life, saved by league reconstruction god knows how many times and in administration, twice I think,after paying has beens like John Spencer stupid amounts of money.
Henry Mcleish’s paper on the state of football in our country will sort though,aye right,
He will probably suggest a pyramid system like in England,I ask you if you supported Pollok,Talbot,or Arthurlie would you want this,I dont think so.
Greed,single owner tycoons, and property developers are the only ones who make money at the expense of fans who are left in the lurch.
You know the most Ironic thing of all is the fact that Ayr Utd were once owned by Barr construction yet they never got a new stadium of their own.
The games a bogey I fear