Originally Posted by
bridpie78
I blame the premier league and sky for everything that is wrong with the game we all love, most of these premier league fans' know nothing of the real game, the premier league is sterile and artificial it is more like scripted soap opera than sport for a local community to enjoy, many PL 'fans'have never been to 'their' teams ground never mind spent a wet, cold tuesday evening sipping a bovril and watching their team get pumped at gigg lane under the floodlights, those memories are the ones that make any successes we might have worth all the suffering,
Bury have always been a club like Notts in my memory lots of downs with the occasional season of triumph, today is a sad day for lower league football and could mark the beginning of the end, there are still several clubs on the brink of failing and i'm sure many more just teetering above the abyss.
Interesting that you mention a root and branch review, i remember this phrase being used over and over after a poor england world cup several years back, the FA was going to sort out the game from grassroots to premier league, whatever happened to that? all i've seen is a bigger TV deal for the PL, player wages and transfer fees going through the roof and the only knock on to teams like bury,coventry,macclesfield,notts,bolton,port vale,blackpool etc etc etc is that they can no longer compete in the transfer market, so have to pay ridiculous wages to be able to compete,greedy chairmen overspending and buying into the hype in an attempt to reach the pot of gold a couple of promotions can get them. just 15 miles from Bury and about 60 places up the FL ladder Man Utd can afford to pay a guy 500k a week to sit on the bench,while his agent angles for another multi million £ move to Italy and thats just one example,
Greed has infected the game and it all started with the Premier league and skytv , i hope these 'fans' are happy when there are only 20 teams left standing.
a sad day for proper football