Now whole teams are bought over a year or so. It's being ruined
I’m know what you mean and I hear this type of thing quite a lot
But the facts show English football has never been as popular in its history…..several clubs could easily average 80K +.
Take Arsenal….average 60K but you can pay £50 to be put on their season ticket waiting list…..currently 110,000 are on that ST list.
Suspect clubs like Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd could easily average over 100K if the stadium was bigger.
So I suppose someone is doing something right.
I think part of your disillusion is the realisation that the Premier league is becoming a private club…so you can feel we have nothing to strife for.
Even in the Championship….we showed interest in Ahmedhodzic however Burnley can simply tell him….what ever Sheff Utd offer in wages we’ll double it.
The reason is Burnley are receiving £50 million from Sky this season compared to our £7 million payment from Sky.
Even the owners can’t decide to pump money in because their spending is controlled by TV and gate income.
I remember in the 1970’s, the pensioners around that time couldn’t get their heads around players like TC and other 1970’s players hugging and kissing each other.
They told me “the game has gone soft…much better in my day when it was a man’s game. We shook hands when there was a goal and played with “proper” case balls that became heavy when wet”. Those were the days when it was real football.
They also used to talk about how there would be over 50K at the Lane and over 60K at Owlerton (all the old’uns used that name in the 70’s)
said neither club would ever draw that level of support again.
