RE: Football Without Money is Everything
Cracking write up @the-gorilla
Delighted the comment helped with your creative process. You are great at bringing real data and numbers to your posts. Them numbers are very damning for the ever growing gap.
The same can be applied to real life people and their net worth. It takes money to make money as they say. The more you have, the more you can make. It's a simple equation.
What we see in football though is the powers that be trying to facilitate that gap expansion even more. At least the Premier league has the parachute payments for teams dropping out of the top tier, but its the other Championship teams and below that really need the cash injection.
I've been a football man all my life, but to be honest if I started over, I would seriously consider rugby instead. Their sport also had a cash injection, but have managed to retain history, respect and class as well. The money does not over shadow everything else, which is happening in football.
I think all fans everywhere need to holf firm and boycott and redoubling of efforts by Perez and the dirty dozen.
I've just added this which I saw on Sky Sports yesterday -
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/29326/12284888/gary-neville-six-breakaway-premier-league-clubs-attempted-to-kill-english-football-forever
Gary Neville said it much better than I'm able to.
Having played at the top for several years and perhaps, had access to some privilege information, being a senior player for years, his level of knowledge is undeniable.
Love him or hate him, I'm almost tempted to say he's a better pundit than he was a player. 😁
I was never a fan of Gary Neville, until he became a pundit.. Then my opinion slowly changed. You can't argue with his honest and knowledgeable views...
He's spot on in what he's saying here.
He's brilliant isn't he? Whereas Carragher's obviously fed his lines, Neville clearly knows what he's talking about, especially from a tactical viewpoint. He'll make a decent manager if he takes the right job - Valencia was a poor decision.
I've always been fascinated by data and the information (or misinformation) you can glean from it.
I discovered a lot in writing this which I had always suspected but never known. We knew at the time that the creation of the Premier League was a game-changing moment in English football - I wonder if given the choice, whether those that allowed it to happen would let it happen again because it's out of control. Governance by FIFA and UEFA was non-existent due to the huge sums of money the likes of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were themselves making.
Remember, this data's old. I think that the Premier League money increased the season after this data (I could be mistaken here). If these people get their way, miracles like Leicester City will never happen again. And it goes to show quite how remarkable an achievement that was.
The Champions League expansion was Perez & Co.'s Plan B (ironically running alongside Plan A). This will only further widen the gap and cement the big club's dominance.
Those numbers are frightening. Yet still, Reading have beaten Manchester United. We've beaten Liverpool. And if these people get their way, this will never happen again.
Kroenke said:
Notice the use of the word "your". The day we see Kroenke's face in Stoke on a cold Tuesday night is the night that his face will be changed irreversibly. Which won't bother him, because he's got plenty more to choose from.
Man, I'm so angry at this.
Great and accurate commentary!!!