We've been spoiled.
I've followed the majority of the Afcon, as can be seen in the thread, and the quality on show is so minimal. The athleticism is there but the engrained training and composure that brings isn't. This has meant some tackles* that aren't worthy of the term. How there aren't more broken legs, ankles and torn achilles is nothing short of amazing. Some very tough players made of bulletproof stuff.
Our games in the main I tend to follow on the radio, comms usually has a valuable view on how good we are or not, it's almost as live as being there, and the sound from the crowd comes through better than with the morons on tv comms.
They took CL games off terrestrial tv, and they can shove them. Smaller channels tried for a bit with the other euro competitions but were progressively priced out. So shove them to.
Problem is it feels like it's become some hedge fund management product. Besides the supporters home and away they mess around at every opportunity there is no connection to what made football in the first place, the communities that brought the interest.
Everton are not an overly toxic club in terms of ownership, currently some u.s. multiclub conglomerate, previously some financier with connections to the top table in russian politics, previous uncle bill good times TM, previous some christmas hampers charlatan, previous the Moores littlewoods millionaires. We can track local interest through that ownership chain. We are not a caricature example either.
I have no idea what the WC will look like, I don't see it looking anything good, (the weirdness of the possibility of one ticket for one game sold enough times making $1B for fifa through their exclusive % stake in every transaction rule per sale is beyond perverse).
In fact the current malevolent malaise around digital ticketing at BMD is more than annoying, cutting fans out that would otherwise have attended is a slap in the face to everything our club and support stands for. Or did.
French open tennis was expunged to a digital pay channel, TDF the same, boxing used to be terrestrial, then it went to digital, now it's gone to saudi ppv and it's a mess.
The trick is to have no interests, no character, to care for absolutely nothing, and become a drone of a human being simply existing.
Maybe Buddhism was right all along, they can't buy and franchise enlightenment, the only thing that is yours is yourself. For now.
don't stink. its now just foreign owners basing there companies in England.
