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https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/apr/06/english-football-blame-culture-premier-league

 

A slightly uneven article, but it makes some good points.

 

The final few paragraphs in particular really hit home:

 

There is an element of broad-brush here but the wider point remains: if you were trying to design a system hostile to collaboration and solidarity, you could scarcely do better than English football in 2020. Tribal, commercial self-interest is why the game can barely lift a finger to fight racism. It’s why the application of video technology has been such a mess. It’s why scheduling and player workload are a disgrace. It’s why there is still no sustainable funding model for the women’s game. And in the jaws of its worst crisis in a generation, it may just be why its ham-fisted attempts to secure its own future have descended into discord, distrust and in-fighting.

 

It was striking to read, the week before last, that the Bundesliga’s top four clubs (Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen) have pledged the equivalent of £18m to support their smaller rivals. The French Football Federation is working to set up a solidarity fund for ailing clubs. Of course no country’s game is free of greed, bickering or self-interest but there does seem something innate in English football’s resistance to collective action, its lionisation of the one-off gesture, the individual act of generosity, the PR coup or– as Liverpool neatly demonstrated on Monday evening – the PR-inspired U-turn.

 

It’s the stench of a sport that has gnawed away at its own wider obligations until there are virtually none left to speak of, that has largely shed its pretence of shared destiny and interdependence, the sense that on some level we are all part of the same game. This pandemic has exposed the faultlines in English football, an unsatisfying coalition of chaos that may yet come loose entirely. What emerges from the rubble is anyone’s guess.

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Just hope that the paying public exact their retribution on this greedy bunch of shysters by means of cancelled SKY subscriptions and vastly reduced attendances.

 

Thoroughly convinced that due to lack of Government action the only way the game will be cleaned up is for it to be bankrupted by a popular revolt of the fanbase.

 

Not just the Premier League either but all levels of the professional game.

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Yep, football is eating itself...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/20/efl-considers-transfer-embargo-on-clubs-who-defer-players-wages

 

The EFL is to consider preventing clubs who defer the wages of their players from spending money in the transfer market.

 

In a move to be discussed between the league and its clubs this week, the proposal would necessitate that any money owed to playing staff be paid before a club could add to their squad or increase the collective wage bill.

 

The concept of an embargo originated with the Professional Footballers’ Association, which gives it a good chance of succeeding. A reluctance on the part of the players’ union to countenance pay reductions has been one reason behind the gridlock.

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22 minutes ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said:

Yep, football is eating itself...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/20/efl-considers-transfer-embargo-on-clubs-who-defer-players-wages

 

The EFL is to consider preventing clubs who defer the wages of their players from spending money in the transfer market.

 

In a move to be discussed between the league and its clubs this week, the proposal would necessitate that any money owed to playing staff be paid before a club could add to their squad or increase the collective wage bill.

 

The concept of an embargo originated with the Professional Footballers’ Association, which gives it a good chance of succeeding. A reluctance on the part of the players’ union to countenance pay reductions has been one reason behind the gridlock.

 

So those working to keep a club as a going concern, earning a pittance for their troubles, can do one.

 

But as long as the over paid, over rated money grabbing @rseholes get paid, everything will be okay.

 

VVVankers, each and every one of them.

 

 

 

 

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On 12/04/2020 at 05:02, Utah Owl said:

Just hope that the paying public exact their retribution on this greedy bunch of shysters by means of cancelled SKY subscriptions and vastly reduced attendances.

 

Thoroughly convinced that due to lack of Government action the only way the game will be cleaned up is for it to be bankrupted by a popular revolt of the fanbase.

 

Not just the Premier League either but all levels of the professional game.

If i could cancel the football element of my sky subscription i would..

I'd be lost without sky for Cricket, Golf, Box sets etc!

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