Is the football bubble finally about to burst?

[peoffrey]

The grounds won’t be half empty. They’ll fill it full of tourists in half and half scarves. Expect phones out every time a corner is taken. Tickets will be marketed well as packages.

 

[fulabeer]

I'm looking forward to it restarting. There will only be one or two of us.
Definitely getting served quick at half time now! (chips might even be warm)

 

[stonerblue]

You want some?

Hold me back...

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

I think it’s an age thing the younger ones will be more interested while us old bastards who have been doing it 40 years plus have other priorities in our life’s now. Our grandchildren saving money for their future etc etc
I prefer european aways if I’m honest
Proper old school faces you see instead of these half and half fuckers at the etihad

Seems a lifetime ago singing going down with a billion in the bank on a lovely spring day in the Square in Madrid, the metro up to the ground with the fans having a sing off everyone smiling and happy :+(

 

[asahartford1]

Sounds like when we get back to normality, most people will just stay under voluntary lockdown, moaning about not missing City, and never going to watch football again.

While watching old films, and queueing outside supermarkets.

 

[peoffrey]

Seems a lifetime ago singing going down with a billion in the bank on a lovely spring day in the Square in Madrid, the metro up to the ground with the fans having a sing off everyone smiling and happy :+(

I only ever did Sevilla away which was a bittersweet trip. I was in the Irish bar that got attacked by Sevilla fans and was watching my back for the rest of the trip. I never did another which I now regret. Even if I didn’t get a ticket then I’d certainly fancy Munich or somewhere.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I think the jury is out on what happens to football at the end of this crisis. A lot of traditional matchgoing fans of a certain vintage (including me) will probably attend less games for all the sound reasons mentioned on this thread. They may be replaced by a younger demographic who are full of community spirit and desperate to socialise after being in lockdown (like World War 2)... or the game could just carry on eating itself by pandering to greedy players, owners, and cynical biased broadcasters.
The selfish way UEFA, the Premier League, and most club owners have behaved in the last couple of months doesn't bode well for the future.

 

[fulabeer]

I think the jury is out on what happens to football at the end of this crisis. A lot of traditional matchgoing fans of a certain vintage (including me) will probably attend less games for all the sound reasons mentioned on this thread. They may be replaced by a younger demographic who are full of community spirit and desperate to socialise after being in lockdown (like World War 2)... or the game could just carry on eating itself by pandering to greedy players, owners, and cynical biased broadcasters.
The selfish way UEFA, the Premier League, and most club owners have behaved in the last couple of months doesn't bode well for the future.

You are probably right. Some will sack it. Some due to money issues, others because the addiction was broken.
I just think the reasons why people went before will continue afterwards.
As for the money involved, maybe we will see a slight drop for a while. But like any arms race/war, it won't take long for people to forget and carry on as before.
Maybe the broadcasters will get cold feet when the next round of bidding starts. That in itself may cause a sea-change.
The real test for people posting that they are sacking it will be when the football starts again.

 

[bluealf]

Christ. I miss football tremendously. Honestly astounded by the amount of people that seemingly don’t give a fuck about it and aren’t particularly arsed about ever watching City again.

Not so much City but football in general, it is so disconnected from the working class man, the amount they earn, the falling over and squealing at every tackle, the faking that comes with diving and added to the previous comment faking injury, rolling about on the ground until a fully trained physio comes on and dabs them with a sponge or the modern day spray and up they get sprinting away 30 seconds later, VAR do we need to go on?

Truthfully for me, my dreams were fulfilled when Aguerooooooooo hit the net, I had waited all my life for that moment and it was a peak, that moment can never again be recreated in the feels department, some might say that winning the Champs league will be like that but in reality it won't, it is a corrupt as fuck competition that's only purpose is to keep big clubs apart until they can't keep them apart any longer and make money, it stinks to be frank.

Don't get me wrong I have loved to see us winning all these things but like Bill said I would watch other games on the TV and MOTD but now I watch City and that is it, football feels nearly dead as the game I grew up with.

So the answer is for me I haven't actually missed it that much tbh which would have been unthinkable 10,20,30 years ago.

 

[BrianW]

A major factor will be how the economy reacts. To be honest, I expect a depression, not just a recession, which will make 2008 seem trivial. This will have huge knock-on effects on (among other things) people's ability to pay admission prices and Sky subscriptions.

Depending on how the Government seek to deal with the economic crisis (and with this lot I am pessimistic that their dogma will get in the way) this state of affairs could last most of a decade. (The comparable disaster of 1929 only began to be reversed when Governments started spending big bucks on rearmament from about 1936 onwards. You cannot cut your way out of depressions.)

On top of that, I think a lot of people have had a quiet, internal mental revolution with regards to the stuff that really matters. And I am not sure that the stinkingly corrupt game of football is going to be quite as attractive as it was before the virus changed our lives.

I don't think City, United, and the other "big" clubs will be destroyed by this - they will find ways to survive and they will still attract a lot of support. But I can't see it being "business as usual" ever again. Lower down the food chain I expect a lot of "Burys". Equally, there will be grass-roots revivals run on a cheap-and-cheerful basis.