The Evolution of the Beautiful Game (1 Viewer)

[Moff]

David Bond, the BBC's Sports Editor has done a good article on the current state of English Football, which is an interesting read.

Part of the article is about a recent trip to Dortmund, where he looked at the German model for football, and spoke to Joachim Watzke the Chief Executive of Borussia Dortmund, who said,

"clubs like his ensure fans feel a part of the club by involving them as members. Thanks to the 50 plus one rule, no one businessman or company can take control of German clubs. He believes the English ownership model results in fans being treated as clients and has killed the romance of the game"

It seems German football has the right idea, and it is only a pity that English football could not see the potential disasters that could befall clubs by allowing them to be controlled by a single owner, such as an inept uncaring owners like Sisu, who clearly dont give a damn about us!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22314015

 

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[oakey]

We have allowed our clubs to be kidnapped by any crook who has access to a big enough wad with the purpose of increasing his wad. If the club is successful, by chance, most fans are happy. If not then look for another crook or chancer to start again. Meanwhile the fans pay the ransom in higher ticket prices, Sky TV subscriptions and the players live millionaire lifestyles.
It would be great if it all came crashing down and local communities got their clubs back. Highly unlikely. More chance that our clubs will be feeder clubs for a big 6 or 7 and the majority of young fans have one of those as their first team and their local club as their second team. I predict most future fans will support one of the big 6 as standard as they will have saturation coverage in the media. A bit like the way supermarkets dominate. Unfortunately CCFC will be a corner shop in that analogy.

 

[Moff]

David Bond tweeted that the biggest comment he keeps getting about the English game is that its, 'lost its soul'

I think CCFC's was sold and destroyed by a number of mercenaries over the last twenty years or so.

 

[Colin1883]

We have allowed our clubs to be kidnapped by any crook who has access to a big enough wad with the purpose of increasing his wad. If the club is successful, by chance, most fans are happy. If not then look for another crook or chancer to start again. Meanwhile the fans pay the ransom in higher ticket prices, Sky TV subscriptions and the players live millionaire lifestyles.
It would be great if it all came crashing down and local communities got their clubs back. Highly unlikely. More chance that our clubs will be feeder clubs for a big 6 or 7 and the majority of young fans have one of those as their first team and their local club as their second team. I predict most future fans will support one of the big 6 as standard as they will have saturation coverage in the media. A bit like the way supermarkets dominate. Unfortunately CCFC will be a corner shop in that analogy.

Or even a market stall outside Tesco... we're already there...

 

[SkyBlueRuffian]

Don't the Germans pay around £12 per ticket?

 

[SBS]

Don't the Germans pay around £12 per ticket?

Get travel included within that as well. Wish we had that set up here, the atmospheres are incredible. United vs Arsenal yesterday was terrible and that's one of the biggest games in our league.