Bury, Bolton, WCFC and the world

[Noboddy aka Lord Ealing]

I fear the demise of Bury and the plight of Bolton may just be the tip of the iceberg. How long before having their own football club is just a distant memory for many towns? This would be a disaster for our social fabric and for the game itself because there will be no grassroots to develop U.K. talent.

And surely love for the game itself will whither? Who wants to pay ridiculous money to watch premiership games in which a bunch of players are earning more per week than lower league clubs need to survive for an entire season? It’s time the big clubs and leagues woke up and realised the whole house is on fire.

[genghis]

Aug 28, 2019 13:34:13 GMT Noboddy aka Lord Ealing said:

I fear the demise of Bury and the plight of Bolton may just be the tip of the iceberg. How long before having their own football club is just a distant memory for many towns? This would be a disaster for our social fabric and for the game itself because there will be no grassroots to develop U.K. talent.

And surely love for the game itself will whither? Who wants to pay ridiculous money to watch premiership games in which a bunch of players are earning more per week than lower league clubs need to survive for an entire season? It’s time the big clubs and leagues woke up and realised the whole house is on fire.

I think it’s the fans who support the premiership teams over their own town who need to wake up the most. You ask who wants to pay to watch the overpaid players, but unfortunately many, many do. Hence why those players continue to be overpaid, and the gulf between the top premier league teams and the rest of the Football League continues to be so drastic.

There is some irony in the fan who buys a ticket at the inflated price to watch a premiership game, but then spends the whole game shouting about how the players are overpaid. That’s what needs to change.

[oxford]

I have to say that I cannot understand the obsession with premiership football.Especially now the monstrosity that is VAR has made it even less appealing.
I can be accused of a lot of things but as a fan of Swindon, Sutton and City, glory hunter cannot be one of them!!

[Brooksiders Return!!]

Agreed, I have no interest whatsoever in premiership football, its a circus that I don't associate with at all. The main issue with football is that, by its very nature of being so loosely regulated, and a cash business, it attracts the crooks and the chancers. You can sweat the profits out of the business, and/or launder dirty cash through the turnstiles, for a good few years before the s*** hits the fan, and even then, you can walk out scot free! Premiership football is way too rich fro small time chancers, but league 1 and 2 clubs are ideal pickings, as now are Conference league teams.