Disillusioned with Football £££

[malg]

The matchday experience is morphing in to one you may encounter at the theatre or an NFL game which we don't f*cking need. Going to the games was a regular social event for many local fans but it's now being forced in to a luxury. Whilst in some respects it's for the better in that there's less violence but for local families who aren't rich it's becoming less accessible. Demand from tourists is pushing up ticket prices, for one game a year these tourists can afford £80+ tickets and to spend a fortune in the club shop. This amount isn’t sustainable for locals fans who've supported a club for years and are wanting to attend regularly.

I can promise you that it isn't a luxury down in 111. Piss heads and people snorting coke in the bogs. It's very, very far from luxury.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

It is a game, it is fun, I don’t actually care about the finances and politics, I just like watching great football.

 

[Crouchinho]

Football has always been money orientated. They've always had to balance the books and make profit. The fees and wages are out of control but as long as there is advertising and TV rights to fund it, it'll keep going.

I rememebr the papers going nuts when they found out Roy Keane earned 50k a week and compared it to everyone in the stadium paying a quid. Rewind 10 years before that I remmeber Lineker in the papers getting pelters for earning 3k a week at Spurs and Sugar saying football is a business too.

It isn't just football. The money golfers, boxers and all them North American sports gets is silly too. I bet the Indian cricket league must pay some handsome money too

 

[BlueMoonday]

I can promise you that it isn't a luxury down in 111. Piss heads and people snorting coke in the bogs. It's very, very far from luxury.

That's authentic matchday experience

 

[half & half derby scarf]

As I've got older I've tended to give less fucks about things that aren't too important. Football is one of them, we all know that the money involved is ridiculous, best to not let it rule your head.

My thoughts exactly. I see the Premier League as some sort of WWE spinoff. All that is missing is player introductions with 'Rocky' theme music and compulsory scorpion kicks for goalkeeper clearances. Doubtless there are examples of both already. Oh and VAR apologies before the incident has taken place.

 

[Cellarite]

Did I click on RAWK by accident?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Money has always ruled football, especially since 1990.

Social Media and 24/7 football is far more detrimental to the sport than how much players get paid.

It‘s bizarre that people seem to use the same banter, year in, year out, and not get tired of it.

There’s no real time to digest any game fully these days as the next one has already started.

As a kid, it was so exciting when The Big Match was on ITV and the FA Cup final was amazing as they were so rare.

Now, if you see the early Sunday match is Luton Vs Bournemouth, you’ll probably do something else instead.

The genie is out of the bottle. It’s never going back in.

Fans will drop off the merry-go-round when they’ve lost the energy to keep going on it.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Is anybody else feeling completely disillusioned with the way football is at the moment?

If I'm honest, it isn't going to stop me watching it, or being a fan - but I think the money involved is just totally unacceptable. Especially when you consider what is happening in the real-world that we all live in (mortgages/rent shooting up, people can't afford food or heating, people living on the street).

The money footballers receive has been daft for a long time. £10,000 a week, then turned into £100,000 a week, which has then turned into £200,000 - £300,000 a week becoming the norm for a top players salary (this is before their contracts with Nike/Adidas etc). But now (though he is unlikely to go there) Mbappe has been offered £1.9m A DAY, to go and play in Saudi Arabia! £58m a month! It is just not right, and they shouldn't be allowed to even offer it. If the Saudi's have that sort of money available to just give away, why aren't they doing something good with it in the world!? Instead of giving it a footballer. All they are paying for is his name and image - at £1.9m a day, where is the incentive for him to actually play well?

Transfer fees don't bother me too much (though they are ridiculous too) but at least they stay in the football system for a while and the money gets passed down to the lower leagues eventually. But, I guess it still ends up in the players pockets in the end!

I went to watch Manchester Giants Basketball last year, and couldn't believe how good the players were after the game. Kids were allowed onto the court to have their photo taken with the players - who were more than happy to hang around and do so. In football, the players are ushered off by Security and you have to hang around for 1-2 hours after a game if you wanted to see them, and even then there is a barrier and security - and the best you can do is wave at them.

I even had to unfollow all the City players on Instagram over the last few weeks as I couldn't bear to look at the photos and videos they posted of them hiring luxury yachts for a week, or staying in huge Villas without a care in the world for how much it actually costs - whilst I'm sat at home getting anxious about my mortgage going up a few hundred quid a month.

I know I'm ranting - and I completely appreciate that for them to earn this amount of money they also have to train and work very hard, and accept being scrutinised by thousands of people every week, and have very little privacy when they step out of their house etc. But, I still don't think this warrants the amount of money they receive.

I'm also probably jealous, and obviously wouldn't turn it down if it was offered to me - but I would certainly give away/do some good with a large part of it, because lets be honest, who really needs that much money per week? I'd give my right bollock to get £100k a year!

Cheer up Txiki.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

From a City point of view football has never been better! I'd love us to spend spend spend...It's not my money!

Having said that, I don't like the way Sport is going in general. Whether it's Football, Golf, Boxing ect I think the likes of Boxing especially is more or less finished. I'm a massive Boxing fan and I absolutely hate it now.

Spence v Crawford happened just the weekend gone and there wasn't a word about it basically no build up to it yet they are two of the best pound for pound boxers in the world. There's more talk about Nate Diaz v Jake Paul ffs. I doubt we'll see any of the top two in any division fight anymore with all the money the Saudis are offering for Boxer v Youtuber ect.

Football hasn't gone that bad yet. I think it's safe to say Premier League games will be played abroad in the future. Football like other sports won't want to be left behind "moving with the times".

At some point in the future, YouTubers and influencers will be playing for Super League clubs for the opening weekend derby day tour of the USA where Blue Moon City will be playing Red Devils United in Chicago and the Real Whites will be playing the Cool Cules in LA.

 

[SWPISHOME]

At some point in the future, YouTubers and influencers will be playing for Super League clubs for the opening weekend derby day tour of the USA where Blue Moon City will be playing Red Devils United in Chicago and the Real Whites will be playing the Cool Cules in LA.

Hard to believe that this is a very high possibility of happening in the future! It's crazy, But true.