The nature of a football club (1 Viewer)

[Sky Blue Dal]

Swansea, forest, Ipswich, Doncaster, hull - that enough for you?

Just wondering .... Do you know how there contracts are written, whats in them and whats been agreed between the two parties?? ..... maybe there owners did some shrewd rent agreements with there council (which is most likely). The fact Grendel, is that not all contracted rental agreements that these clubs have are the same. They probably have owners who are more competent than ours. Even now when they are offered a rent free, they twaddle of 35 miles away to play in a sub standard ground and pay rent.

You couldn't make it up!!!

 

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[Sky Blue Dal]

That's the wider problem, isn't it.

Back in the days when a club was owned for ego/putting something back into the community (OK, mostly ego) then there was a sense of the need for competition in the rules.

Now, when convicted money launderers have a burning desire to own a club in the Midlands: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/03/birmingham-city-owner-carson-yeung-guilty the rules get changed for self interest.

Before, the self interest was the competition. Now? It's the need for cash.

But we don't have to buy into that, do we?

That is the dark side of capitalism my friends ....

 

[blueflint]

Joe Elliot unscrupulous? There you go.

i deliberately didn't mention names unlike you

 

[shmmeee]

So the moral of this thread is: piracy of football streams will save football?