Buying the league?

M18CTID said:
Another advantage the "old money" teams had was that there was nothing like the level of bitterness in the game from opposition fans, pundits, journos, you get now so anyone getting benefactor investment - no matter how big or small - was given a free pass, and it was pretty much accepted.

On a similar note about present-day bitterness but regarding a different football topic, regarding perceived dodgy finances and the animosity towards City, I don't seem to recall anything like this same level of outrage 25 years ago when another English club were guilty (and admitted to being guilty) of making illegal payments to players and were punished accordingly. Sure, the punishment was quite harsh but Sugar later got some of it reduced when he went to arbitration, yet there were no lingering accusations of them being cheats or whatnot. Incidentally, 4 years earlier Swindon were promoted to the top flight after beating Sunderland in the play-off final but were relegated a few days later when being found guilty of something similar. In fact, IIRC they were originally demoted 2 divisions but got it reduced to 1 division on appeal, whereas Tottenham escaped relegation completely:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...ion-over-illegal-payments-but-fa-1422815.html
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I`ve been say this for a while.

Well said
 
goalmole said:
Get ready for loads of shit coming your way if you start winning things, which would be great (the winning, not the shit) because that would mean another of the entitled clubs being pushed out. It would also mean that the league would be a lot more competitive which is exactly what the rag dipper journos don't want.
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And the ‘no history’ insults from all the jcl glory hunters that will be completely ignorant of wolves as a club and instead just view them as a threat to the glory club they chose to follow
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
This treble has really riled people. They don't like it!
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Not just winning the treble , but beating the media darlings Liverpool to the league ...who lets not forget only lost one game all season and if extra points where awarded for shots from outside the area ... and if it was the old system of 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw and...and... should get a trophy for highest placed runners up...and Klopp ......and Virgil van Hype...and those famous magical European nights at Anfield..etc etc.. Its European royalty weve pipped to the title here people , not one of your run of the mill riff raff clubs , its like executing Bambi
 
ccr said:
Didn't Leicester out spend all the teams in the Championship to gain promotion ?
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Yep, made quite a few heavy losses:
Leicester City have agreed to pay the Football League £3.1m to settle the league’s long-running claim that the club breached financial fair play rules when they made a £21m loss in their 2013-14 season. Leicester won promotion from the Championship that season after their owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who owns Thailand’s duty-free company King Power, had invested more than £100m since his 2010 takeover, and subsequently they won their unlikely Premier League title in 2016.

The Football League’s then-new FFP rules, aimed at improving its clubs’ financial sustainability particularly in the Championship, set out sanctions including heavy fines for clubs which made losses greater than £8m in 2013-14. Leicester, spending heavily on players’ wages, made a £34m loss in 2012-13, then reduced it to £21m, partly due to receiving a large increase in income from a marketing deal signed with Trestellar Limited, a company run by the son of the former Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards. That deal, under which Trestellar sold the sponsorship of the club’s shirt and stadium back to King Power, is understood to have been under investigation by the EFL when considering whether Leicester breached the rules.
 
Blue Feather said:
But....you haven't got any history. You were crap in the 50's and no-one has ever heard of Billy Wright and Stan Cullis. In the 50's LFC were brilliant in Div. 2 and losing to Worcester in the FA Cup. Now, that's real history for you
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But, but, Southern plastics tell me football didn't exist before 1992!
 
ancoats said:
i love the old chest nut buying the league hahahahahaha from the 1960s football change and rich owners invested their money into football and clubs, united and liverpool had a backer and money from outside of football louis edwards the butchers and liverpools littlewoods pools and all the top teams had a wealthy owner ??????

then we have the 1992 skysports premier league and manchester united they was a partnership hand in hand and printing money with a subscription fee every month, united knew they had cornered the market and nobody could touch them, they was being beamed into homes around the world every week forget everybody was treaded the same with live games that was bollocks and sky fucked over the other 19 clubs with broken promise of being on tv every week hahaha you had to be playing united if you was ever on live in their prime slots and super sunday

so fuck them and if they think football and revenues money being generated from gate figures is based on that they are puppets ??? all the top clubs in the premier could open the gates for free its that small the revenues club make today
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Arsenal did it in the late 1920s and went on to dominate the 1930s
 
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