Part of the BBC cuts saw the erasing of the Football Fanzine BBC 606 website. A great dis service to football fans in England. It gave a voice by comment to the silent majority.
I have been a life long Tottenham Hotspur supporter, and I have decided to write on but on a different tablet...this blog, my own blog.
Football in England has got too greedy since Sky TV pumped huge amounts of money into the game, greedy chairman, greedy players, all disloyal in the main to their ever faithful fans. Football allegiance is like no other, it is one and only, it is lifetime. But many players have become foreign mercenaries, except the English players do not travel well abroad.
So avarice has led to the rich greedy clubs getting richer and more successful to the exclusion of the other clubs. Success breeds success based on an increased revenue stream. Other clubst can only compete on the bumpy uphill slope of a playing field, by spending money they have not got, on buying and paying exorbitant fees and wages.
This has led to the decline of the English national side. Players like Rooney, Ferdinand and Lampard look good alongside world international players each week playing for their clubs. When positioned alongside their own countrymen exclusively, they are shown up for what they are, no pride, no passion, no skill, just losers. Where are the likes of Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton , Alan Ball, Nobby Stiles, Martin Peters, who would run, tackle and run until they dropped. There are not many today to compare with yesterday.
Today we have substitutes, unfit players, who still get money they have not earned. The Spurs double side of the sixties used 14 players in that all winning season. Today EUFA have limited squads to 25 for less than 90 minutes of work twice a week. Most of the fans watching will have worked in excess of 35 hours that week.
This money money money situation has to be resolved, else the game will spiral out of control, the sport is now a business and the bubble will burst. The fans will suffer for a game they love and have to pay more and more for, through the turnstiles and replica kit.
FIFA is corrupt and incompetent. Players rule, contracts mean nothing, players and chairmen betray managers and fans.
I suppose all fans like me, live on for the next season, another attempt to win a trophy, and above all .....hope.
Last Season Luka Modric was voted player of the season and rightly so by Tottenham fans. Now he wants a transfer to Chelsea. Berbatov a few years ago hid under a car blanket on the back seat of Alex Fergusson's car in order to sign from Manchester United and escape White Heart Lane. Berbatov was not even on the subs bench for the European Cup Final, and serve him right. These players, as good as they are, still make mistakes, still miss passes, tackles, goals, they are far from perfect, they are professional and some cannot even kick the ball with either foot.
Football is a team game, there is no room for passengers. Ball watchers should stay on the terraces in their seats and not change into a team strip , put their boots on and walk onto the pitch.
I hope Modric stays, I hope he starts scoring goals. I hope Spurs become consistent, I hope they win something. I hope Manchester United fail. Another season dawns..............let the games commence.
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