Originally Posted by
Psaw2
You've hit the nail on the head anti clough. There cant be a ceiling to success. My personality type has an all or nothing element, give 100%, or nothing at all. There is a route to the top, but its in name only. Contributors to this thread have expressed tradition, and memories, not ambition beyond div 1.
Notts County or Cambridge only getting that far is unacceptable. True competition should be about innovation, creativity, intelligence, gambling, and initiative. Creating a level playing field seems impossible, having said that the Americans have done it through a draft.
There cannot be a more boring fixture than ManCity v Huddersfield, or Swansea. Great for home fans...another win. Celtic have been boring me rigid for decades, Celtic fans pay to shoot fish in a barrell. Look at the state of Scottish football now.
In the 60s Div1 now the premiership, was genuinely exciting, two points a win, and the top to bottom was not far apart in points or talent. Top five was spit by a whisker.
That's all gone, for good. Now its a rich mans game, the people who run Peterboro spent 13 million on players pre season, which is probably pocket money for them. For there own entertainment. Its their club, not Peterboros.
Another aspect was Liverpool played at Napoli recently, in the 60s the whole country would be glued to that, Italy v England. Yes that Italian players v English players, who was best? etc, the dirty Italians v the fair English. That's gone, there are few English players.
Cheating is accepted now, because fortunes are made or lost. There is a wealth of non league down here, ill stick with that.
Remember match of the day in the 60s, with a swaying Liverpool kop, it brings a tear to my eye in lost joys. Someone will now mention Hillsboro, that's how fckd up football is now.