Completely agree Willie. I too noticed how odd the Emirates looked in such a run-down neighbourhood. I used to live near Highbury in the '70's and it was still more or less just the local club then.
Murdoch and Sky have slimed themselves between football and the fans and the clubs have colluded with them to rip off supporters. Without the fans the game would be nothing - they're the free 'extras' that create the atmosphere in the show the Premiership (it sticks in my gullet to use that word) flogs all round the world every week. Football, before it was stolen by shits in suits, was the creation of England's now-despised working class, nobody else, and they were often sneered at by their 'betters' at the time. And now, like much of what's left of our industry, these fantastic old clubs have been largely handed over to a bunch of criminal third world thugs, who we're all supposed to admire and wish to emulate simply because they've made themselves obscenely rich by plundering their countries' natural resources. Rant over - but these people make me puke.
