Friday, March 16, 2007

Phew

Was having a mini rant this morning, in the bathroom, as I got ready for work, listening to Radio 5 Breakfast... all because of the Football League trying to suggest that the 'lower' leagues weren't currently exciting enough. He hem - because the Premiership isn't a one horse race is it?!

So several ideas were to be discussed as a means of spicing up games which were liable to end in a draw... WOT ROT! The Championship and League One are the tightest leagues to watch at the minute - a matter of points separate top teams and potential relegation teams. A run of 3 wins can see you in play off spot - a run of 3 losses, basement bound. Now I have in the last fortnight seen an exciting draw and mediocre win... BUT that is the nature of the game. STOP trying to change it to meet money grabbing sources. The true fans like it the way it is - its the likes of Sky and wealthy chairman who have created the rot that has set in in the Premiership... let em rot in peace I say - leave us less famed teams to enjoy our SPORT!! The cheap away ends with no roofs, no seat backs and expensive cans of Boddingtons. The walks to far flung grounds from northern railway stations. Leave us to enjoy the knowledge that every Saturday at 3pm our team will be playing, and no doubt during that time over enthused stewards will turf out an away end supporter. The ref will be jeered the linesmen taunted. Face it we are already adept and making our own excitement!!! SO how exactly does a penalty shoot out make a game more exciting - in fact on that basis, why bother having the first 90 mins at all?!

Anyway seems I am not alone in my opinion...

AND the mecca appears on the beeb website!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well said! The Championship is such an exciting league this season, and that's coming from someone whose team has nothing to play for! Automatic promotion, play-offs and relegation are all up for grabs, with every place subject to change. I wish money men, idiots and clueless twerps would leave the lower leagues alone, and keep their stupid ideas to the revolting, shallow Premiership

Karoona said...

Hooray!
Lower league team supporters UNITE!!

On the Ball City!
The Last Waltz with the Gills!

Anonymous said...

But it is a professional game, isn't it? So it is all about money. Complaining about money ruining football is like complaining that oxygen is ruining breathing.

Or does that make me a clueless twerp?

Karoona said...

No comment your honourable known admirer. Twerps clueless or not are a matter of opinion.. based on, I imagine, actual attendence...

In the meantime it has been reduced to being ALL about money. Not the game but the money.

At the expense of all else. Which is why most people watch it on TV... £££'s have made the TV companies & made the Prem clubs whilst they have bled the lower teams/fans dry. Where is the new talent coming from? Who can afford to support their rise? Once spotted they are snapped up and sat on a Prem bench for seasons on end - why? cos ££ talks...

Let's talk again when we have witnessed yet another abysmal England outing...