Great post Yarn yes the younger generation seem to want everything yesterday , but going back to footy we are in the division which is obscene & most players are over rated & earn far to much money , but let's embrace where we play our football & try to compete its not just west Brom who have to pay over the odds for players its all the teams , & this is where every other team out side the prem wish they were ,& are striving to be their so spend a bit Albion on quality keep us in the best league in the world & competitive.
Fair play.
My argument has always been that if we have the best league in the world, why do the Spanish and German clubs always grab the trophies at club AND international level?
Technically it isn't the best league in the world, that would probably be the Spanish League, but the games in the prem are not as one-sided as some of the games in other countries here any team can beat another on their day and the top teams have to work harder to win games than which probably doesn't help when the teams play in Europe.
Last season the top 6 lost 35 games between them. They played each other 30 times. A few of those would have been draws, lets say 5. That means the top 6 lost 10 games between them all season to the lower 13 clubs.
Most competitive league?
Fanzines predicted the future pretty well about 20 years ago: letters to Grorty Dick were saying that Murdoch would ruin the game, and the only possible way to halt the decline was NOT TO BUY SKY. It became a national campaign.
I've never subscribed and the only way to get Football back to how it was is if every proper fan cancelled their subscription. That would work if only the fans could see it, and explain it to their kids.
I've no idea how much Sky charge, but the stay-at-home fans could probably afford to go back to watching live football instead, and those games would be Saturday 3 o'clock kick-offs!
I can't disagree that Sky has helped inflate the cost and fees involved in football, but if you want a real villain who made the greatest impact and change in English football then how about David Dein of Arsenal? He was the genius who pushed for home clubs keeping their gate receipts instead of the 50/50 split that football had always insisted on since the League's foundation. Dein (and Arsenal) were also prime proponents of the Premiership - a competition that ensured in effect 6 or 7 clubs would only be in a chance of winning. Leicester were a glorious exception but there's no doubt that the Premiership and the change in the allocation of gate receipts knackered a lot of "smaller' clubs while making the rich ones even more rich, and I would say profligate.