See alot of these types of comments on the Sheff Wed forum too
How football is so unfair, we can't compete and how it's gone to the dogs and isn't the same. compared to to the 70's
but the reality is the bigger clubs with bigger finances have always had an unfair advantage. When us or Sheff Wed are in league 1, no Blades or Owls complain about the unfair advantage that we have the bigger budgets in the league so other clubs struggle to compete against us.
The truth is if Sheff Utd or Sheff Wed were bought my a multi billionaire and we started spending over 200 million every year, our fans would suddenly love it and think it was great to have a sugar daddy who is probably fiddling the rules.
They used to say "football was the working mans sport"
Now it's all changed because incredibly now "football is everyones game", including women and girls.
It's even become fashionable for the wealthy middle and upper classes to fall in love with football.
Also the Premier league is incredibly popular all around the world.
Hence why the Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona with the Italian giants Milan and Juventus are panicking.
Those clubs know that the Spanish league and Italian Leagues have no chance of competing and are holding back their revenues.
So those clubs are desperate to form a European Super league, where the English clubs currently don't need the Euro league.
England is unsual because there are so many big clubs and some of those big clubs are now becoming super clubs.
Reminds me of the argument about corner shops competing again giant supermarkets. Sheff Utd and Sheff Wed are like a corner shop and there's more and more Asda and Tescos, open 24 hours a day hyper markets appearing which sell everything.
There's pro and cons with each mode but I kind of think if the PL is the clear world leader then it must be doing something right.
Morally it's wrong what Chelsea, Man City etc are doing but their success is brought massive value to the Premier League
this trickles down so every Premier League club benefits. So it's tricky to administer a really excessive punishment, for example if Man City were relegated to the Championship, then the Premier League suffers, Man City would struggle to attract the best players and it gives other clubs in other countries a chance to start dominating Europe. Also to be honest I reckon most clubs are looking for loopholes and trying to fiddle FFP to gain some advantage. We were heading for the financial rocks and should have sold N'Diaye and Berge last season. So did we also cheat?
Exactly this. For the 19/20 season, we all thought it was great. We gave everyone a game, beat Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal, Villa, Everton, West Ham etc. Drew with Man Utd in a thriller. Talk was of how we could get established as a top 10 Prem side. Not much mention of hating what was happening at that time. Then it goes tits up and everyone hates the Prem. 'It's corrupt', 'self serving', smaller clubs don't stand a chance' etc. (BTW, no-one seems to have told Crystal Palace, Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth, Fulham etc. that they can't compete). Of course we'll never win the Prem. But having watched us since 1966, the highest we've finished in the top tier is sixth in 1975, so this is not a shock to me. In fact, apart from that season, and the 19/20 season, I don't think we've finished in the top half of the 1st tier (although Silentblade may correct me).
Really don't understand the downer folks have on football now, wanting a fucking 'regulator'. What to regulate what is probably Britain's most successful sector? Premier League matches almost always sold out. More than half of the Championship averaging 25k+. Plenty of tier 3 and 4 teams averaging 12k+. Man City playing the finest footy ever seen in England. The most watched sports leagues in the world. Most industries would crave that kind of success. Indeed, all sports throughout the world would crave that kind of success.
And a team like City dominating for many years is not new. Liverpool won everything just about every year in the 80s. Man Utd similarly 90s and 00s.
Look, I loved the Bassett era etc. when we gave it a go despite pretty much a one or two man team. (Deane, Hodges). But that will always eventually end in failure because of lack of class players. We may go down (probably). We may stay up (possibly). But to think of the pre-Prem days as being some kind of halcyon days for football when hordes followed The Blades up and down the land in great days is fanciful at best. (Went to Spurs for the 2-1 victory in 1973 when SUT coaches were the main mode of travel for everyone. There were precisely 2 coaches went. And I didn't say 'coachloads' as one of them was half-empty).
Just enjoy it, 'cos it's here to stay....
