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leetotty

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Where is football going. There is no equilibrium type factor in football the richest clubs are at the top. You can practically predict the top 4 for the next 10 years unless another club is bought by a billionaire. There doesn't seem to be a way of bridging the gap; Managers make little difference (they can only be worse aka moyes) non top 4 players like when we had bale aren't quite good enough to bridge the gap. Even the refs seem to agree, we get decisions against lower finance teams but teams above seem to getting the rub of the the green aka manc / chavski.

The authorities have not made a rule change to improve football since the back pass rule. FPP is unlikely to affect anything due to the ease of loopholes.

So what we are left with is simple. We are what we are and unless something exceptional happens (like Manchester United in replacing the whole back-room staff) we can't expect much more.

Now I know people will point to the fact we have finished in the top 4 recent times but that was the exception.

This is a very loose and general point which I know could be more clearly emphasized and more comprehensively expressed but I hope you get the gist.
 

Spurger King

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Where is it going? It's already gone there mate. Soulless joke of a 'sport' in this country.
 

TheAmerican

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We are 1 of the richest clubs in the world, top 15 for the last 10 years.

Next please...
But we have repeated the same mistakes over and over again. New managers frequently, failing to land the players we've targeted, failing to hold onto our stars. You don't go anywhere when you rebuild a team every few years, no matter how much money you have.
 

wiggo24

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Corrupt already. Getting worse.

Absolute farce, every season just makes me fall out of love that little bit more. Video replays would help as well. Refereeing errors make a huge difference to the table, and that seems wrong in this day and age.
 
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HodisGawd

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We may be apparently be one of the richest in the world, but we are not in the top four richest in this country, which is what matters. But I don't want us to win because we are richer, and that is what football about these days. I'm not falling out of love with Spurs, but I am falling out of love with football. And not just as a reaction to today. The authorities have to do something, but they won't.
 

nightgoat

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Mouse!

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I miss the magic. The FA Cup is dead. The League is a formality. The Carling Cup isn't worth a damn unless you're in the final. The Europa League is a farce. The Champions League is the be all and end all, and that's not winning it, that's just getting into the competition.

The problem with football is really quite simple, and that is that it's too valuable. It's worth too much to the owners, the authorities and the TV companies. All the while it's becoming worth less and less to the those that are really invested in the club, the emotionally invested - the fans.
 

THFCSPURS19

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Jan 6, 2013
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I miss the magic. The FA Cup is dead. The League is a formality. The Carling Cup isn't worth a damn unless you're in the final. The Europa League is a farce. The Champions League is the be all and end all, and that's not winning it, that's just getting into the competition.

The problem with football is really quite simple, and that is that it's too valuable. It's worth too much to the owners, the authorities and the TV companies. All the while it's becoming worth less and less to the those that are really invested in the club, the emotionally invested - the fans.
Spot on. Transfers seem to be the most exciting bit of football now, which shows football is now a business rather than a sport.
 

Azazello

The Boney King of Nowhere
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Indeed. Says something that the most we can hope for is to get entry to the CL, a competition we have no real chance ever of winning. Many fans would take an improved cash-flow position over trophies.

Passion. That's what it's all about.
 

UncleBuck

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I've come to the conclusion that I now want to see some clubs go under, not just the likes of Birmingham with Carsten Yeung buy some powerhouses of European football, Liverpool and man U are the two for me. Chelski and Citeh mean nothing, all they are are money laundering playthings for crooks, they have no history.
What 'made' football twenty years ago is the thing that is slowly killing it.....money. Whether its sky, bt, setanta....it doesn't matter now, when you see the situation QPR are in it's pathetic as to their parachute payments.
A friend of mine said to me yesterday that for a home game at Luton town its £18. £18 for a non league game? How can that be justified?
Sorry, i've really fallen out of love with the 'beautiful game'....
 
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Lilbaz

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Need to scrap the champions league format. Creates to much of an imballance. If you think it's bad here look at the smaller leagues around europe. Olympiacos have won the league 15 out of the last 16 years.
Have an fa cup format for all the top league teams in europe. 10 rounds has over 1000 teams.
Enforce ffp but also bring in salary caps.
Scrap loans for over 21 year olds. Will stop teams hoarding players.
 

LSUY

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Personally I think a lot of top flight teams are done for, sooner or later the bubble will burst, the millionaires will bugger off, leave the debts behind & the corporate fans will disappear with them. And I won't miss the Chelsea's and Man City's, in fact I look forward to the day they do a Portsmouth.

If I'm perfectly honest I don't really care about what happens to the Premier League, aside from Tottenham matches I don't go out of my way to watch the other PL games. This season I've watched the Football League Show more than I have MOTD. I'm currently watching Albion Rovers scramble to defend their one goal lead at Ibrox and I have to say I've found that more entertaining than an awful lot of matches from the supposed best league in the world.
 

SteveH

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Jul 21, 2003
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Nothing wrong with the game when you're winning.

Ask Wigan fans this morning. I bet Liverpool fans think this season is the mutts nutts.

You lot are are a lot of old women at times.

Its sport, get over yourselves.
 

leetotty

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Nothing wrong with the game when you're winning.

Ask Wigan fans this morning. I bet Liverpool fans think this season is the mutts nutts.

You lot are are a lot of old women at times.

Its sport, get over yourselves.

Nothing to do with winning or losing, I am not that fickle, as to why I started this thread, I am not sure I could ever classify "Tottenham" as winners apart from the odd cup final over the past 30 years. For me football is not sustainable in its current format for providing enough entertainment and prolonging my interest. Football is no longer in my eyes a natural phenomenon that intrigues, entertain. But maybe its all part of getting older and maybe the younger generation are still satisfied enough.
 

SteveH

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Jul 21, 2003
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Nothing to do with winning or losing, I am not that fickle, as to why I started this thread, I am not sure I could ever classify "Tottenham" as winners apart from the odd cup final over the past 30 years. For me football is not sustainable in its current format for providing enough entertainment and prolonging my interest. Football is no longer in my eyes a natural phenomenon that intrigues, entertain. But maybe its all part of getting older and maybe the younger generation are still satisfied enough.

Football is all about winning and losing. If we had won on Saturday this place would be totally different. Yes it fickle but human beings are I'm afraid. As you get older Spurs will still pull us all over the place emotionally and turn old men in to teenagers for good and bad. But as we all get older I hope we all learn and realise we all talk a load of rubbish about this game at times. But we just can't help ourselves.

COYS
 
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