Pampered players who have a socialist relationship with manager and our wet board of directors rather than a hierarchical position in a results machine. And it's not just us, player power has infected and rotted the whole league. The poor saps in the media see this as a competitive revival, the players see this as wow, I don't even have to turn up to make bank. When Ferguson retired the game of Paisley, Clough and Ramsey retired with him. It's not a team game at the top any more, it's a shop window for individuals. They play a couple of seasons, maybe bunging in an effort in the first year, coasting through the second while they focus on the more important matter of the contract renegotiation.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
How disgusting was Theo Walcott yesterday? How much more can our lilly livered manager and club do for this kid before he commits to 90 minutes every week? A cracking goal against the gypos? Theo evidently thinks this buys him a free ride. No professional pride or sportsmen's ambition.
Too much money. The top teams can't afford to drop out of the top 4. There's too much commercial shit riding on it. To many huge pay packets to service. To many rivals sniffing around with unlimited bank balances.
The fans are consumers. They pay for admittance and after that they are owed nothing. They have no investment in the club beyond the cash transaction. Turn up if you want, cheer if you want, fuck off if you want because there's a queue of consumers behind you.
Some of the smaller clubs have figured all this out and have opted to play as a team. A team will wallop a collection of self-interested individuals any day. Our cosy little socialist club run by the players and serviced by the bean counters who are in it for the share price were annihilated on the pitch by a football team yesterday. Ty (the poster boy consumer fan) says so what? It happens. They'll still finish 10 points behind. Ty is cancer.
Reply With Quote