Quote Originally Posted by Ice Berg Kamping View Post
You know - this is what I beat myself up most about. I agree 100% with you - and its really sad that these days, unless you follow the natural resources billions then you are almost bound to decline as a football club.

But would we feel the same feelings of depression if Kroenke wasn't such a tight-fisted ****? Its easy to take the moral ground and say yes - but the problem is that ultimately football is about what happens for 90 minutes on the pitch, and when you have the best striker in the country scoring the winning goal over your main rivals in the 90th minute the last thing on your mind is going to be how you reached that point. I like to think that I care about morals/ethics, but when we were winning titles 10 years ago, I wasn't thinking about the finacial constraints on Coventry or Southampton.

Its the same in football as it is becoming in any other walk of life. A melting pot of avarice; short term-ism and lack of real values. Are the players themselves ultimately responsible? Most of them are thick as pig shit and morally stunted. I blame the money men more. The agents; the lawyers; the sell out shareholders...and to an extent we fans are to blame as well. We keep buying the over-priced tickets to see something more resembling WWF by the day, and lapping up the football celebrity gossip on the back pages.

That's where I stand on the situation and as long as us fans keep looking in the wrong direction and blaming the players, our pockets will continue to get pinched. The burden is all on the players and they're paid well, but they're pawns in this. Or small pieces at least.

Gossip rags like The Sun are all too concerned about the lifestyle players lead and the spotlight is firmly on them when it comes to football. When it all goes wrong it falls on their shoulders and fans get on their back. What about the faceless agents that are ruining the game. What about the crooked owners and why aren't journalists doing more to do look into the background of the people that run our clubs and what they do to make money? We've seen how bloody crooked Fifa are and more should be done to clean up the game and get it back to being about the grassroots. I've grown tired of blaming the players all the time. Would anyone or us here stay loyal to company so tight fisted and crooked? It doesn't happen, even if you love what you do.