Craig_J said:
I'd rather have the FFP than what we have now.
At the moment two clubs are in the top 4 who have been brought over and had "investment" put in. They're the two that are hardest to compete with financialy.
Your comparing football purelly to a business, that annoys me more than anything. It's not just a business it's something which is part of the community.
Your right, unfortuantely that is the only way to compete. But does it make it right still?
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I'm sorry to break it to you, but professional football has always been a business. It's just that it's gone from being the equivalent of a corner shop to the equivalent of Walmart.
You might like to go back to the days when top clubs were owned by TV dealers and local doctors and the like, when TV was in black-and-white, when the crowd wore flat caps and carried rattles (and stood) and when the players got a decent wage but were not made for life by warming a bench for three years. Guess what? If all things were equal I wouldn't mind joining you, but it's impossible, and even if it wasn't, football would still be a business.
It is also impossible to make football 'fair' because clubs' sizes and incomes vary so much. Anyway, what is 'fair'? 'Fair' is an subjective not an objective term. I guarantee that if I drew up my manifesto for a 'fair' society and you drew up yours, the two would be utterly different. Simply because 'fair' means different things to different people.
Fans with a romantic view of football, who long for some non-existent golden age, are wasting their time supporting a Premier League team, be it City, Spurs or anyone else. They would be better off watching their local amateur side.
As for 'right' - there is no right or wrong in business (see above) only the law. And in the case of football, the rules of the game and the associations.
When laws and rules are passed, they often have unforseen effects. I think City will have no problem with the fair funding rules, certainly not in the long term. Other clubs are going to find they are a permanent glass ceiling.
And the privileged few, the likes of Rags, Barcelona, and Real Madrid for example, will be safe in their protective cocoon for ever. Very 'fair' that. Very 'right'.