by under the tin »
02 Aug 2014 09:28
floyd__streete You've all missed the point here
The football has been mediocre, but true.....we've seen worse, far worse. But why do we go in the first place?
I started out of a sense of belonging to a movementThe football is secondary in some ways to the experience. The experience now? A stadium devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever,
This is a reflection of the changing demographic of football attendee. (note I do not use the word "supporter")miles from anywhere (least of all, pubs),
This reflects our society's wider obsession with personal transport. We're far too sophisticated to use public transport, and so car parks need space. ergo: out of town.populated by sub-Soccer AM generation drones lapping up the latest glib gimmicks thought up by a social-media-gone-boring PR team.
Footballer wages are unsustainable, so the game had to sell out to the television/gaming/social media industry. It's not a national sport anymore. It's an advertising platform.I could just about struggle through another season of that on a regular basis were it not for the fact that we are now a club owned by some unscrupulous finance company who are trying to shift the business to a bunch of unknown foreigners we have little hope of getting to know/understand before they themselves inevitably shift it on to the next bunch of questionable, cashless chancers.
It's hardly surprising, though. With footballer wages being what they currently are, what right minded local businessman would touch a football club with a bargepole?The club these days is about as unique and charming as a branch of Tesco.
That last sentence could be equally applied to most pro football clubs in England these days.
