Under dyche, I agree it wasn't football.
We're under Moyes now. It's crap football, but at least it's football!
Is it time to boycott football?
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We're under Moyes now. It's crap football, but at least it's football!
It makes more sense when framed as an oligarchy. The owners are in complete control in the NFL in a way they are not in other leagues, and they work together to ensure the overall value of the product continues to go up for their own financial benefit.
It's a closed shop with strong limits on how much can be spent (i.e. paid to the workers that people are coming to see).
It does work to create a much more level playing field competitively as well, but it's not from a socialist perspective.
The difference being that Tottenham is in London. A huge city that can accommodate a franchise team. Birmingham simply couldn't.
HS2 has gone in, and there's nothing like a day out to laud it over the have nots.
Do you get more on-pitch fights?
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £70m
Depends where you go I suppose.
I've given up watching some of it. I havent watched the CL since they changed it to the huge league. They said it would mean more games between the bigger clubs but those games have nothing riding on them when you only need to finish 24th in a league table.
I hardly watch other PL games now either, juet Everton. I used to watch at least one every weekend but it's just become a farce.
I hardly watch other PL games now either, juet Everton. I used to watch at least one every weekend but it's just become a farce.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
I wouldn't describe it as socialist. I would describe it as corporate communism: you basically cannot leave as there is no relegation. A closed shop. A proper iron curtain.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Match times changed willy nilly, prices ramped up for everything, and you get :
Seventeen goalless draws now in this season’s Premier League. That’s already more than last season — and six more than in 2023-24 — and we’ve only just passed the halfway stage.
Seventeen goalless draws now in this season’s Premier League. That’s already more than last season — and six more than in 2023-24 — and we’ve only just passed the halfway stage.
Vaughan
Player Valuation: £35m
great point about the one striker, just became a given for me but 2004-05 was a real tipping point for that tactical change
would be great to have a side have real success with a 442 and a strike partnership and for it to come back in vogue
Same
dachshund
Player Valuation: £8m
Don't know if that's a good dad or just child abuse
I hardly ever watch any football unless Everton are on at a decent time.
Not for any of the reasons you mention above, but primarily because of the players.
I really can't be bothered watching players cheating non stop. Whether it's whinging to the ref wanting a throw in that is obviously the other teams, standing 2 yards away from a free kick or rolling around on the ground pretending to be injured, I have more hatred for their cheating than the amount of enjoyment I get from watching it.
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £80m
Back in the day players committed fouls. Now it's "drawing fouls" which is seen as an essential skill for a front runner. It's so negative.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Make it stop. As if they haven't trashed it enough. The Americanisation of football is a putrid nonsense.