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Totally ripped this off a Boro fan from 606 but its an an excellent read all the same.....Oh and to the over zealous mods who seem to struggle to understand how something like this might relate to QPR...Don't move it.
Sitting reading rumours that Chelsea are to pay £40m for a player it struck me that the Premiership has become pointless. It is not really sport, nor really a competition. At least not in the fashion that we previously understood the terms. It is beavily skewed in the favour of a small number of "elite" clubs.
All you are watching is what happens in life if you let those with the money/power to set the rules. Surprise, surprise they set rules that keep them where they want to be. They limit or preferably prevent anyone else from taking their continuing riches from them.
Any team with aspirations of winning anything will be dealt to if they become too strong. If say Tottenham get close to the top 4 their best players will be plucked from them in the next (or one after next) transfer windows.
Football in England used to be about your local team. You could expect to see at least some of the cream of the local talented players play for the thier local team. This is not the case in the Premier League in the main was watch bands of mercenearies scrabbling over the highest purse available.
The Premiership, especially the Champions league clique is franchise football. There is nothing that relates the clubs to the locality apart from the fact that the ground is where it is. The fan base by definition has to be national/international to generate the income the multimillionare owners require.
A team that tries to do something based on local talent, as i beleive the Boro has are actually doomed to limit their ambitions to top of the championship/midtable mediocrity. Perhaps we should simply accept this. There is no way we would ever be allowed to gate crash the higher echelons and to assume otherwise is naive
I think striving for the Premiership is pointless. Do we really want to go back to watching Chelsea beat us 5-0? These type of results are becoming more prevalent as the middling team realise there is no point in trying to compete as the playing field is sloping vastly against them. So what should happen next.
A Franchised European League should be created. Each region should be allocated a team. These teams should be placed in a league from which there is no promotion or relegation thus they do not need to plunder the lower leagues to keep the aspirants down. Each year the European League can buy a specified number of player from the English leagues.
The English league can then contain a range of teams who might win the league and an honest competition can ensure whereby when anyone goes to watch an English league match there can be a reasonable chance that their team can win a match and you are not pitting a team with an income of £500m againt one with an income of £10m.
This is the only way that the "needs" of all can be satiated. A European Franchise league will mean that those team can access maximum income from TV and merchaniside sales. By making the team regionalised guarenteed large staduims can be filled regularly with people prepared to pay a premiuim to watch brazilians, italians and varous africans slogg it out with a smattering of the more capable british players.
The English league can then revert to local teams with a core of local players playing against each other for local bragging rights.
Unless this happens or somethign similar I think the premiership will eventually implode. Or polarise into a mini league with the top four playing to half full stadiums whenever they travel to pick up their regulation wins against the likes of Bolton, Wigan, WBA, Portsmouth, Birmingham etc etc...
Sitting reading rumours that Chelsea are to pay £40m for a player it struck me that the Premiership has become pointless. It is not really sport, nor really a competition. At least not in the fashion that we previously understood the terms. It is beavily skewed in the favour of a small number of "elite" clubs.
All you are watching is what happens in life if you let those with the money/power to set the rules. Surprise, surprise they set rules that keep them where they want to be. They limit or preferably prevent anyone else from taking their continuing riches from them.
Any team with aspirations of winning anything will be dealt to if they become too strong. If say Tottenham get close to the top 4 their best players will be plucked from them in the next (or one after next) transfer windows.
Football in England used to be about your local team. You could expect to see at least some of the cream of the local talented players play for the thier local team. This is not the case in the Premier League in the main was watch bands of mercenearies scrabbling over the highest purse available.
The Premiership, especially the Champions league clique is franchise football. There is nothing that relates the clubs to the locality apart from the fact that the ground is where it is. The fan base by definition has to be national/international to generate the income the multimillionare owners require.
A team that tries to do something based on local talent, as i beleive the Boro has are actually doomed to limit their ambitions to top of the championship/midtable mediocrity. Perhaps we should simply accept this. There is no way we would ever be allowed to gate crash the higher echelons and to assume otherwise is naive
I think striving for the Premiership is pointless. Do we really want to go back to watching Chelsea beat us 5-0? These type of results are becoming more prevalent as the middling team realise there is no point in trying to compete as the playing field is sloping vastly against them. So what should happen next.
A Franchised European League should be created. Each region should be allocated a team. These teams should be placed in a league from which there is no promotion or relegation thus they do not need to plunder the lower leagues to keep the aspirants down. Each year the European League can buy a specified number of player from the English leagues.
The English league can then contain a range of teams who might win the league and an honest competition can ensure whereby when anyone goes to watch an English league match there can be a reasonable chance that their team can win a match and you are not pitting a team with an income of £500m againt one with an income of £10m.
This is the only way that the "needs" of all can be satiated. A European Franchise league will mean that those team can access maximum income from TV and merchaniside sales. By making the team regionalised guarenteed large staduims can be filled regularly with people prepared to pay a premiuim to watch brazilians, italians and varous africans slogg it out with a smattering of the more capable british players.
The English league can then revert to local teams with a core of local players playing against each other for local bragging rights.
Unless this happens or somethign similar I think the premiership will eventually implode. Or polarise into a mini league with the top four playing to half full stadiums whenever they travel to pick up their regulation wins against the likes of Bolton, Wigan, WBA, Portsmouth, Birmingham etc etc...
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