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RE: Football Clubs and Their Grounds
I think holy man and apostle Paul had it bang on when he coined the phrase:
"money is the root of all evil"
It certainly looks that way in football. The veil hiding this greed has always been see through to most modern football fans who have a healthy dose of cynicism. That veil was completely removed by Perez and co in the recent Super League rumblings and exposed football for the money hungry greedy sport it has become. I think the big 6 should face punishments of some sort for signing up to it, short lived as it was. A nice 15 point deduction for each of them!! Can you imagine!! It would make for an intriguing season for the Evertons, West Hams and Leicesters of this world.
It would make it interesting but I fear it would be punishing the manager, players, staff and fans who in the main weren't responsible. That's the big difficulty with what's happened, there isn't really a punishment that only affects the greedy people behind it. Other than banning them from football which would create a legal battle like no other.
I do wonder though if in time, English people will decide to move on and watch a smaller local club (in Eastbourne in my case) and just let the world have what football's become. We've seen it with FC United of Manchester and AFC Wimbledon in particular, both of which have seen what a passionate fan base can achieve.