And this is why I'm so f****d off with football

[Bartleby]

Imagine a Blades v Owls league game being moved to a different country?

Hardly the most likely fixture they would cherry pick though is it?

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Hardly the most likely fixture they would cherry pick though is it?

That's where the 'imagine' bit needs to come in mate!

 

[Tom Bott]

Oh yeah......money, AGAIN.

Capitalism at it's finest, like the mince pies, available at the end of September .......

 

[The Crab]

What, like Rotherham?

Too much of a culture shock for the pigs.

Be like when Del Boy went to that posh house…

 

[The Crab]

To be fair, I’d have been happy for our fans if the whole of the 23/24 had been played overseas!

Half of it was played underseas, we were sunk by Christmas…

 

[Sheffsteel]

If they ever did that with a blades match, I’d be down the club and handing my season ticket back. I’d be done with the game.

I’d be surprised if there isn’t an uproar from the fans of these two clubs

Think fans need to make up their minds.

Do they want the best players and success or not. Increasing/ boosting finances usually comes at a price.

The Spanish clubs can’t compete with the Premier League, tv income isn’t even 50% what the PL receive. Also the PL is easily the most popular and most watched league in world football.

What can the Spanish league do to compete with the English Premier league?

They can create new lucrative multi millions dollar markets. Football is big business, you either grow or dwindle, your choice.

 

[SwissBlade]

Think fans need to make up their minds.

Do they want the best players and success or not. Increasing/ boosting finances usually comes at a price.

The Spanish clubs can’t compete with the Premier League, tv income isn’t even 50% what the PL receive. Also the PL is easily the most popular and most watched league in world football.

What can the Spanish league do to compete with the English Premier league?

They can create new lucrative multi millions dollar markets. Football is big business, you either grow or dwindle, your choice.

Can’t I just support my local team anymore?

It’s not grow or die

 

[Godbeblade]

I don't think the premier league are blameless in this as weird as it might sound.

All the money in the world is in the Premier League so in order to compete, La Liga need to do something outlandish like this to get more money in.

I worry that once the first domino has fallen the rest are soon to follow. Although, for me, the Premier League is now more of a global league rather than the top of English football. The men in suits don't care about the match going fan when the global reach will bring in so much more money.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Think fans need to make up their minds.

Do they want the best players and success or not. Increasing/ boosting finances usually comes at a price.

The Spanish clubs can’t compete with the Premier League, tv income isn’t even 50% what the PL receive. Also the PL is easily the most popular and most watched league in world football.

What can the Spanish league do to compete with the English Premier league?

They can create new lucrative multi millions dollar markets. Football is big business, you either grow or dwindle, your choice.

Guarantee the money, go the whole hog (apologies to all at S6) and transfer the Spanish League to America. Barcelona to Miami, Real to Los Angeles. Fuck Yeaaahhhh!

 

[Bladesman101]

I actually think the argument that it enhances the product to be flawed. The fact that the premier is in the uk is part of the product, and people might come to the uk to watch a premier league game for real. I would become a Sheffield FC fan the day we agree to something like this. It irks me that Jim White on talk sport always bigs it up, think the Saudis have sweetened him tbh

 

[Davalon]

Football has changed a lot in my time.

As a club our fanbase has remained similar compared to many but we've still picked up our fair share of stuck up cunts in more recent times.

A quick look at the executive box most home matches makes me smile. Often see people I've known donkey's years in there who were either closet pigs in a former life, or have found a new hobby now they've made a bob or two.

I think it's a long way off, if at all, but if football continues down the route some want it to, there will come a point where the average football fan will look very different.

If we reach that point, then clubs like ourselves will be in trouble as the new fans won't have anywhere near the same loyalty.

 

[Bartleby]

That's where the 'imagine' bit needs to come in mate!

You're a dreamer (but you're not the only one)

 

[YES Blade]

Let them get on with it, it’ll only be the likes of Man U, Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal etc.

I couldn’t give a fuck what them lot get up to, they’re on a completely different level to us that it’s like we aren’t even playing the same sport!

 

[AnotherBlade]

Personally I’d be over the moon for us to be that big a deal that they’d actually want us to play in the states. Would be booking a flight as soon as it was announced.

It's a working class sport! Half our fans are probablt living beyond their means watching us at the fucking Lane!!!

 

[loyalblade95]

They have customers who arrive late, go early, and spend stupid amounts of money on merchandise, unless they are lucky enough to catch one of the tee-shirts fired into the crowd from a fake cannon. And don't even get me started on the f*****g 'kiss-cam'
GIVE ME MY SPORT BACK!!!!

And that is why, because non-supporters spend money on merchandise in the club shop whereas genuine fans don't, it's happening over here with some of the premier league big six as well.

That's why some match day tickets are getting so expensive, because some owners would rather have 2000+ plastic fans who come two or three times a season and spend hundreds of £'s in the club shop, instead of 2000+ genuine supporters who have been season ticket holders for 15-20 years.

 

[JJBlade]

Can’t I just support my local team anymore?

It’s not grow or die

In todays world it is grow or die. Football is no longer the flat cap wearing, woodbine smoking and beer guzzling pastime that even the players used to do at half time, and the sooner our fans more than any other in world football realise it the better

 

[SwissBlade]

In todays world it is grow or die. Football is no longer the flat cap wearing, woodbine smoking and beer guzzling pastime that even the players used to do at half time, and the sooner our fans more than any other in world football realise it the better

I don’t think it’s been that for 30-40 years. But that also doesn’t mean that growing is playing games in the USA either. Money is one thing but so are the fans and clubs won’t have it if their fans don’t turn up for the rest of the season

 

[Jim Mcdonald]

No one outside of Sheffield would care about a Sheffield derby so they wouldn’t.