Lordeffingham
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Yes, sometimes, people are able to justify things with a good arguement on paper, which is reality is just pure spin, and though appearing on the surface to be all about 'fairness and equality', is in truth absolutely to the contrary.
If you look at what developed football wise, on a World wide basis, and was created in almost every Country excepting England pre 1990, it's a no brainer, almost every Footbal League in the World grew a system, whereby only two, three or in rare cases maybe four Clubs ruled the roost and dominated all of their Domestic footballing competitions.
Every true footbal fan I assume would prefer there to be some actual 'competion' and not just have a system in which pre season it is accepted that one of 2 or 3 Clubs win everything, each year?
The contrary is certainly the case, and has been so in most Countries for decades, and flies in the face of any fairness and genuine competition.
Up to 1990 in Englland, and even more so the further back you go, particularly in the 60's and 70's, success was achievable by almost any Club, and all had a genuine chance ie: City, Utd, Leeds, Chelsea, Derby, Forrest, Villa, Spurs, Ipswich, Norwich, QPR, Liverpool, Everton, Wimbledon, Arsenal, West Ham, Newcastle etc etc.
After that point however, other than when some wealthy owners have intervened, genuine competition went out of the window, and obviously the cases of Blackburn, Chelsea and City are cases in point, whereby the Monopoly on the two horse race scenario was broken, and the cycle interupted giving and increasing the spread and share of power.
New owners from consortiums from around the Globe have been intervening in our game for the past decade, and cotinue to do so, and each brings with it the opportunity to share the potential winnings and spread the success over a larger group of Clubs.
However in cases of some Clubs, any chance they might have had will be dashed by the FFP rules, and although this probably won't fully dent City's chances of staying seated at the top table, other smaller Clubs, will never be able to satisfy the regulators due to smaller stadia, lower fan base and far lesser means of generating the cash flow to justify their owners cash investments.
We all surely want a more level playing field and a larger group of competeive Clubs to be involved, but shutting this door will just perpetuate the tight grip those Clubs like Utd, Real Madrid, Barcellona, Bayern, Milan, you know the Clubs I'm talking about, it's the ones that never stop referring to 'History' as though it justifies their permanent possition at the top table.
We were very, very fortunate at City, as are the supporters at Chelsea, that our owners arrived at a point just prior to Platini conspiring with the European hirachy in an attemp to shut up shop, but though I'm sure we will still possibly even benefit in the long term, it doesn't make it right, and for them to even consider the use of the word 'fair' in the title of their new rules is an absolute joke.
The only bonus at this stage is that I honestly believe that as and when they try to impliment restrictions, and there is then a legal challenge, that he (Platini) and they(UEFA) will fall flat on their faces, leading to the demise of some of those Clubs that have had a real UNFAIR advantage for far too long.
If you look at what developed football wise, on a World wide basis, and was created in almost every Country excepting England pre 1990, it's a no brainer, almost every Footbal League in the World grew a system, whereby only two, three or in rare cases maybe four Clubs ruled the roost and dominated all of their Domestic footballing competitions.
Every true footbal fan I assume would prefer there to be some actual 'competion' and not just have a system in which pre season it is accepted that one of 2 or 3 Clubs win everything, each year?
The contrary is certainly the case, and has been so in most Countries for decades, and flies in the face of any fairness and genuine competition.
Up to 1990 in Englland, and even more so the further back you go, particularly in the 60's and 70's, success was achievable by almost any Club, and all had a genuine chance ie: City, Utd, Leeds, Chelsea, Derby, Forrest, Villa, Spurs, Ipswich, Norwich, QPR, Liverpool, Everton, Wimbledon, Arsenal, West Ham, Newcastle etc etc.
After that point however, other than when some wealthy owners have intervened, genuine competition went out of the window, and obviously the cases of Blackburn, Chelsea and City are cases in point, whereby the Monopoly on the two horse race scenario was broken, and the cycle interupted giving and increasing the spread and share of power.
New owners from consortiums from around the Globe have been intervening in our game for the past decade, and cotinue to do so, and each brings with it the opportunity to share the potential winnings and spread the success over a larger group of Clubs.
However in cases of some Clubs, any chance they might have had will be dashed by the FFP rules, and although this probably won't fully dent City's chances of staying seated at the top table, other smaller Clubs, will never be able to satisfy the regulators due to smaller stadia, lower fan base and far lesser means of generating the cash flow to justify their owners cash investments.
We all surely want a more level playing field and a larger group of competeive Clubs to be involved, but shutting this door will just perpetuate the tight grip those Clubs like Utd, Real Madrid, Barcellona, Bayern, Milan, you know the Clubs I'm talking about, it's the ones that never stop referring to 'History' as though it justifies their permanent possition at the top table.
We were very, very fortunate at City, as are the supporters at Chelsea, that our owners arrived at a point just prior to Platini conspiring with the European hirachy in an attemp to shut up shop, but though I'm sure we will still possibly even benefit in the long term, it doesn't make it right, and for them to even consider the use of the word 'fair' in the title of their new rules is an absolute joke.
The only bonus at this stage is that I honestly believe that as and when they try to impliment restrictions, and there is then a legal challenge, that he (Platini) and they(UEFA) will fall flat on their faces, leading to the demise of some of those Clubs that have had a real UNFAIR advantage for far too long.