No they are just daft! Paint a turd Black and White up there and someone will buy it! I said at the start of the season that it had gone out of control at the Professional level and that people were bored of seeing over paid, molly coddled, arrogant young men being paid double their yearly salary per week. I posted a thread saying it HAD to be time to consider a salary cap WORLDWIDE (Check out the crowds in Italy for instance!!!!!) or the game was in danger of a severe downturn. The general response was "Nahh you can't do that because ..." Which is fair enough, but sure enough - look at what's happening! EXACTLY what I said. Crowds are down, although interestingly enough I see crowds on the whole are actually UP in the lower leagues. You obviously have the extreme examples of FC United and AFC Wimbledon. But I reckon some people are seeing sense, realising they love the game but the game they love is not represented at the top level and gone to watch a lower league team (There is a hint of nostalgic thinking perhaps in this I know) but I've been to a lot of lower league games - Bored working away from home etc. - and had some great times at Barnet, Wycombe, Orient etc. When you can see game of footy STANDING! for maybe £12, the players are blatantly giving their all, their is a fair amount of skill down there - NO it's not Ronaldo or Henry, but it's a good honest product at a good honest price! The fans are quite amiable and willing to talk about FOOTBALL, with that dry British sense of humour almost constantly underlying any conversation. The 'Prawn Sandwich Brigade' will stick to going to Old Trafford or Anfield half a dozen times a year because they think they know the game inside out just because they watch Football Focus now every week. Discussing share and bond prices with their chums at the local Golf Club and just slipping in the odd "Oh yah, Steve Gerrard really is super isn't he what what what. I went to the Arsenal game you know, yah, got tickets from the boss. Really super game what what what". But they get bored at ER or St James Park or Man City because their team isn't winning every week and like the spoilt little twats they are they piss off back to suburbia to practice weird sex with each other ... Sorry have I gone off on one???
> On the crowds....although watching this from afar on telly in the US I too > am shocked at the empty spaces at grounds. Especially in the FA Cup...what > the f*ck has happened to that? I remember as a kid in the early 70s the > Cup was always something special and the grounds were always sold out. On > tv this weekend grounds were half-empty. Is it just the prices, is there > just too much football, did Ferguson ruin it once and for all? > > Very sad. > > Got to admire Newcastle though. Millions of the f*ckers.... > > Nick > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Tim, I sort of know what you mean - I haven't fallen out of love with >> Leeds >> United, I've fallen out of love with football altogether, the whole >> thing now >> seems so openly sordid and corrupt. >> Whoever it was compared the Revie era side to Chelsea, as the side >> everyone >> loves to hate, is wrong because the reasons are wrong, we were hated for >> being >> agressive, meticulous in preperation - the Don Dossiers, professional >> (in >> every sense) and for being likely to turn up at your ground stuff your >> team and >> level your town centre and train station on the way in and out. >> Chelsea on the other hand are hated for one simple reason, the deep >> rooted >> knowledge in the heart of every fan even those who've never set foot in >> a ground >> that they are going to win pretty much everything for the foreseeable >> future >> simply because Roman Abramovich can reach into his pocket and keep >> throwing >> money at it until everything is done. A couple of weeks ago the press >> were >> praising Mohurino for having the courage to put his £30 million pound >> striker on >> the bench - no one apart from the fans might have pointed out that >> a-he's the only manager in the country who could buy a £30 million pound >> player >> b-if it doesnt work out with Shevchenko - Roman will buy him someone >> else >> next week. >> For the benefit of those who live outside London I'm not even going to >> get >> started about the new breed of vile Chavski fans, the bastard offspings >> of >> Maggie Thatcher and Peter Kenyon only without the social graces....... >> Just look around, outside of the top four and for some unkown reason >> Newcastle, crowds are falling at every level, empty seats at "big clubs" >> like >> Villa >> and Man City, not to mention the acres of space at Wigan, Blackburn and >> Reading...... >> I could go on - and on :-) - but whats the point, we all know its true >> accross the board and theres Foxtrot Alpha we can do about it. >> >> Sargento >> >> Quietly confident that Wise will get it right given time (and Papa >> Smurfs >> money) but the medicine may well all but kill the patient first......... >> _______________________________________________ >> the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list >> administrators accept >> no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. >> Leedslist mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >> 'I am in shock,' said Ferguson. _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist 'I am in shock,' said Ferguson.
