Comments on: Why Football’s Financial Pyramid Is All Wrong

By: Melon Man

Melon Man — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:47:22 +0000

City were also the biggest club in England at one time, hence still holding to this day the record crowd attendance outside Wembley vs Stoke at Maine Road.

Now that is real history.

By: Melon Man

Melon Man — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:19:16 +0000

Very funny Tony,
but yes, City in the past have done some mad stuff, like winning the league one year, then getting relegated the next, the only team to score and concede 100 goals in a season.
Of course, if all you want is United and Arsenal sharing the league every year, nice and safe with your Champions League cartel, then I have no common ground with you, nor would I want to be a “fan” like you.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:03:17 +0000

What a la citee? They came up from third tier and won the league. Lol

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:23:49 +0000

Never said it was a good business for society just said they are not going to give their money away

By: Melon Man

Melon Man — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:58:45 +0000

When I played amateur football in all it’s forms, I didn’t need a financial incentive to play my very best, and I didn’t get one of course.
Professional football is different in as far as it’s a full time job, but take away the financial inequalities, then you still have the heart of football beating healthily – look at the Olympians this summer, they were incentivised as fook!
TV wasn’t invented when football was taking off in this country in the form we know it, and was far more level in the competitive sense, no massive TV inducements to make certain clubs ridiculously big.
I want to see a return to the days when a club could come up to the top division and win the title, or at least come close – TV money is at the heart of all that is unfair in football.
And don’t get me started on Financial Fair play regs, what a dirty business they are.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:10:22 +0000

If the only “incentive to do well” in a sport is to make money then it’s no longer a sport.

It’s the same with all the “football is a business” types who suddenly change their mind when their own clubs are faced with the sort of financial disasters that would liquidate any normal business.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:07:30 +0000

City were a little club too once, before they became the PR agency for an oil-rich emirate of course.

The old ITV split of 50/25/12.5/12.5 between the divisions would be a start and truly reflect the depth of interest in our national sport.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:05:30 +0000

Allowing temporary brand clubs like Chelsea to own their smaller competitors would make the current situation worse not better.

It’s tragic that our national sport could learn a few lessons in how to make a sport interesting and competitive from the arch-capitalists across the Pond.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:03:22 +0000

You must be blind if you think Tesco’s current business model is good for our society.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:01:06 +0000

Eventually (possibly only after a majority of FL teams are supporter-owned and the current system has shafted their club) fans of every club apart from 4-5 global “brand” clubs will realise that the current unfair arrangement is to the detriment of our entire national sport and 99% of its clubs.

I believe only Charlton’s directors (to their credit) seriously broached the subject of a fairer distribution of TV income when they enjoyed their temporary stint at the top table.

Sadly the Premier League does not need the rest of English football’s massive infrastructure as much as it once did due to the influx of cheap but mostly pretty ordinary, foreign players and that doesn’t help.

All in all it’s just another one of Murdoch’s many crimes against our country.