Is football still a sport

[soulman101]

Financial fair is a farce, to get anywhere in football you have to buy it.
I am not one bit envious of any club. We have always earned any success, nobody has ever put their hands in pockets.
Apart from Tony Hale paying a couple of months wages , never got any credit for this, or Thompson when he invested.
Wolves and villa didn't have a pot to p"ss in, now look at them.
Man city and Newcastle both good clubs now funded by dirty money.
The Southampton, Bournemouth and Leicester all broke the rules to get promotion and then paid small fines for breaking the rules.
Can you name the last team to have won a major honour with out buying it.
Good to see Blackburn, Leicester and Wigan win , but without a sugar daddy they would have still been a third tier bankcrupt club.
Forrest are spending a fortune, just got Morgan white from wolves today £42m, have they got a dodgy owner
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sp...promotion.html
If we had a sugar daddy and could spend away to compete, not sure if I would like it.
Much prefer the old days when you built as side, like Shankly, Clough ,Revie and our old mangers in the 50s and 60s.
Is it just me who feels that football has lost it's sporting integraty like motor sports etc.

[baggieal]

Financial fair is a farce, to get anywhere in football you have to buy it.
I am not one bit envious of any club. We have always earned any success, nobody has ever put their hands in pockets.
Apart from Tony Hale paying a couple of months wages , never got any credit for this, or Thompson when he invested.
Wolves and villa didn't have a pot to p"ss in, now look at them.
Man city and Newcastle both good clubs now funded by dirty money.
The Southampton, Bournemouth and Leicester all broke the rules to get promotion and then paid small fines for breaking the rules.
Can you name the last team to have won a major honour with out buying it.
Good to see Blackburn, Leicester and Wigan win , but without a sugar daddy they would have still been a third tier bankcrupt club.
Forrest are spending a fortune, just got Morgan white from wolves today £42m, have they got a dodgy owner
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sp...promotion.html
If we had a sugar daddy and could spend away to compete, not sure if I would like it.
Much prefer the old days when you built as side, like Shankly, Clough ,Revie and our old mangers in the 50s and 60s.
Is it just me who feels that football has lost it's sporting integraty like motor sports etc.

Agree Lloyd and all about money! Clubs should be fan owned. Scarborough have risen from the ashes - promoted - new ground - Jonno Greening as Manager and 100% fan owned. Those supporters must feel so proud unlike ours who are shafted by a dodgy China man and a dinosaur of a manager! Well done the Sea Dogs!

[boinggazmic]

Good point. I live amongst Forest fans and even they can’t believe what’s happening. Just throwing money at it will come back to bite them in few seasons they believe. This guy in charge is too good to be true. Still cooper isn’t a mug , he must feel as though he’s won a wonka bar or 2.

[Leicesterbaggie]

You're perfectly correct soulman, football isn't a sport anymore but a business. Let's face it, until they were taken over by billionaires the likes of Man. City and Chelsea were very ordinary clubs. Yes, they had their successes but no more than many other clubs up and down the country. I can remember the times when at the start of a season many sets of fans, us included, had thoughts that perhaps this season we can win the title. There's now only a half a dozen at most, who have these thoughts. Newcastle will be with them soon but only because of the take over by the Saudis and not because of their own efforts.

It's a shame, but that's the way it is now. Like all areas of life today, money talks!

[soulman101]

Good point. I live amongst Forest fans and even they can’t believe what’s happening. Just throwing money at it will come back to bite them in few seasons they believe. This guy in charge is too good to be true. Still cooper isn’t a mug , he must feel as though he’s won a wonka bar or 2.

Hi, my Dad was Nottinghamshire, Sutton in Ashfield, and have cousins who support Forrest.
So for me I'm pleased for them,but for me now money and football don't sit right for me.
I would the same if it was our club.
Man City's 68 title is worth 100 times more than their resent titles. In my opinion.

[mickd1961]

My dad’s dad was born in 1910 and in the 70’s and 80’s he lamented at “today’s football” compared to the 20’s through the 50’s.

He used to call the players “pansies and poufs” and thought the game had gone to Hell in a handcart.

My next door neighbour in the 80’s was a old bloke born around 1900 to 1910 who was an Albion fan.

He was very unimpressed with our great 70’s side and reckoned that nobody was fit to lace Jessie Pennington’s boots!

It was a privilege to have been able to have spoken with people like my grandad and this neighbour who were able to talk about football almost back to it’s birth.

Like being able to look back to the Big Bang.

[kettering_baggie]

In those past eras, I don’t think that any Albion sides back then were saddled with such useless ‘players’ as Zohore and I doubt that any previous owners of the club cared less about it than the runt.

[soulman101]

In those past eras, I don’t think that any Albion sides back then were saddled with such useless ‘players’ as Zohore and I doubt that any previous owners of the club cared less about it than the runt.

Joe Mayo would improve our front line.

[Prando]

Well said soulman buddy. Integrity is not a word associated with professional football - Albion included.
I also consider the players’ agents have a lot to answer for.

[Omegstrat6]

Quite agree with you Soulman! There was a point when money was needed in the game to invest and develop it and players certainly needed to be able to earn more but -probably from the 80s onwards?-the balance of sport/business has now swung too far in the wrong direction. Alongside the greed of agents, Sky have a lot to answer for too!

I posted earlier about Jon Spurlings book "Get it on" which covers football here from the late 1960s to the end of the 70s. Recommend this to anyone interested in the game over this period and it shows how football became increasingly commercial and media savvy.