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Football is broken beyond repair on 15:31 - Feb 12 by franniesTache
I go to football to watch Saints not the opposition, the "biggest" game to me is the one that means the most, not the one with the most famous players. The game this season that'll be the biggest is the one where we smashed a small provincial league one side 4-0 in their own backyard in a cup many think is irrelevant.
Football is a day out with my mates, a chance to see my family, pride in my city, my heritage and an excuse for a p*ss up and a laugh (and a way to vent and let off steam from the week).
I love Southampton, i love the city, i love it's history, i love my roots, history and heritage. Playing the "big" teams doesn't change that one bit.
So no, no i don't give a f*ck if they f*ck off and take the cancer that is money, tourists, plastics and overseas fans, hype, media and noddy c*nts talking about stats and transfers with them.
In fact i'll celebrate it, because i hate everything they stand for.
“People think there must be a lot of thinking in this Premier League,” the late Graham Taylor said at the time. “There is none … I think a lot of this is based on greed.”
He's not wrong
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Football is broken beyond repair on 18:59 - Feb 12 by dirk_doone
People keep going on about 'the top six' but they are different every year. Even Saints were in the top 6 in 2016 and Liverpool and Chelsea weren't. The current top six are Liverpool, Man City, Leicester, Chelsea, Sheffield United & Spurs. The top six in 2016 were Leicester, Arsenal, Spurs, Man City, Man United & Southampton.
Assuming Liverpool will become champions for the first time in 30 years, there will have been 5 different Premier League winners in 8 years. Next season, there will almost certainly be a different top six yet again.
The main reason we are not competing for a top six place this season is that we have particularly unambitious owners. Any club of our size, with ambitious owners, like Leicester, Wolves or Sheffield United, can break into the top six.
You say that a lot dirk but the instances you mention are rare outliers. Did you read the article posted by the OP? Good to have your views on that directly as I feel it gives the bigger and full overall picture/trend.
Great read as others also stated but in honesty I found it a bit depressing in the end and it took off yet another chunk of my interest in PL football.
To try a paint a picture of slight improvement in PL competitiveness is rather simplistic. If you look at the previous last 10 years, we had 4 clubs always in the top 6. In the last 10 years, apart from six occasions we now have 6 clubs generally making the top 6.
All that has happened is the competitiveness has broadened to include 2 additional perennial top 6 finishers ie both Spurs and M City, who have finished in the top 6 every single season in the last decade.
In the last 3 seasons, all 6 clubs have finished in the top six, so you could easily argue that it has got worse since Leicester won.
It’s all related to money, worldwide TV deals for the top 6, academies now poaching youngsters from any club they want, super-size squads etc.
Football is broken beyond repair on 15:31 - Feb 12 by franniesTache
I go to football to watch Saints not the opposition, the "biggest" game to me is the one that means the most, not the one with the most famous players. The game this season that'll be the biggest is the one where we smashed a small provincial league one side 4-0 in their own backyard in a cup many think is irrelevant.
Football is a day out with my mates, a chance to see my family, pride in my city, my heritage and an excuse for a p*ss up and a laugh (and a way to vent and let off steam from the week).
I love Southampton, i love the city, i love it's history, i love my roots, history and heritage. Playing the "big" teams doesn't change that one bit.
So no, no i don't give a f*ck if they f*ck off and take the cancer that is money, tourists, plastics and overseas fans, hype, media and noddy c*nts talking about stats and transfers with them.
In fact i'll celebrate it, because i hate everything they stand for.
100% agree with all this, and the hope for a European Super league.
Part two of the article, and this hits the nail on the head.
"One of the huge problems inherent to this is the global mass of supporters that the 11 biggest clubs are developing, at the expense of everyone else. It is a huge factor in disparity."
And there we have it, in black and white, plastics are a cancer on the game.
Football is broken beyond repair on 14:04 - Feb 14 by franniesTache
Part two of the article, and this hits the nail on the head.
"One of the huge problems inherent to this is the global mass of supporters that the 11 biggest clubs are developing, at the expense of everyone else. It is a huge factor in disparity."
And there we have it, in black and white, plastics are a cancer on the game.
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