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Boycott of Sky TV?
- Thread starter On the Left Wing
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On the Left Wing
KIT NAPIER
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There are some excellent points on here ...
Clubs that have gone bust since 1992:
Aldershot
Maidstone
Telford United
Airdrieonians
Clydebank
Others such as York City and Notts County have come within hours of going out of existence.
But the facts are that in less than 180 days Wrexham WILL cease to exist, unless a buyer for the club is found. And Cambridge Utd and East Stirlingshire could follow within weeks.
Others such as Grimsby aren't that far behind .... this could be the season when the football league starts to bleed
Clubs that have gone bust since 1992:
Aldershot
Maidstone
Telford United
Airdrieonians
Clydebank
Others such as York City and Notts County have come within hours of going out of existence.
But the facts are that in less than 180 days Wrexham WILL cease to exist, unless a buyer for the club is found. And Cambridge Utd and East Stirlingshire could follow within weeks.
Others such as Grimsby aren't that far behind .... this could be the season when the football league starts to bleed
Storer68
New member
The argument is a load of bollox.
Sky created the Premier League by dangling loads of cash under the old FL Division 1 chamrmans noses.
Why should they foot the bill for other company's (ie FL clubs)mismanagement and inability to pay their bills..
The real problem is the collapse of the domestic transfer system whcih was a lifeguard for all the smaller clubs. Now they cannot sell their best assets on because Premier clubs no longer look at the FL as a breeding ground for premier League class players.
A case in point:
Man Utd paid Everton £28m for Rooney whereas Everton paid Southampton £8m (ie 28% of the Rooney price) to repalce him
Sky created the Premier League by dangling loads of cash under the old FL Division 1 chamrmans noses.
Why should they foot the bill for other company's (ie FL clubs)mismanagement and inability to pay their bills..
The real problem is the collapse of the domestic transfer system whcih was a lifeguard for all the smaller clubs. Now they cannot sell their best assets on because Premier clubs no longer look at the FL as a breeding ground for premier League class players.
A case in point:
Man Utd paid Everton £28m for Rooney whereas Everton paid Southampton £8m (ie 28% of the Rooney price) to repalce him
Hatterlovesbrighton
something clever
On the Left Wing said:
Of those
Aldershot and Maidstone both went out of business before the Sky Deal came in.
Telford were in the conference
Aidrieonians and Clydebank are Scottish and are now effectiveley merged.
captainmorganrum
Wrexham
Hatterlovesbrighton said:
It was more of a 'hostile takeover' really if I remember.
Spiros
Well-known member
Although Sky put the money in it is up to the FA and (more so) the Premiership as to how it is divided. The problem is set to get worse as the Prem chairmen take further control of the FA and vote to give themselves a larger slice of the cash. So the inequality is created by the FA.
The problem of clubs going bust has always been around and is more related to crooked and/or overambitious chairmen than anything else. The problems at Wrexham were caused by the likes of Guterman & co, not by Sky. The problems at Leeds, Bradford, Leicester, etc were caused by chairmen believing that they could spend their way to the top and then milk the rewards. Our problems were a mixture of the two - Bamber spending more money than we could afford, Archer taking advantage of the situation thus created.
The one party that hasn't caused these problems is Sky - they just pay the high price for the product. Any boycott is aimed at entirely the wrong place.
The problem of clubs going bust has always been around and is more related to crooked and/or overambitious chairmen than anything else. The problems at Wrexham were caused by the likes of Guterman & co, not by Sky. The problems at Leeds, Bradford, Leicester, etc were caused by chairmen believing that they could spend their way to the top and then milk the rewards. Our problems were a mixture of the two - Bamber spending more money than we could afford, Archer taking advantage of the situation thus created.
The one party that hasn't caused these problems is Sky - they just pay the high price for the product. Any boycott is aimed at entirely the wrong place.
The Laughing Bluebird
New member
Hatterlovesbrighton said:
Yes, they did.
Aldershot were declared bankrupt in March 1992, and Maidstone failed to start the 1992/93 season. The first Sky Premier League deal came into effect in August 1992.
In fact, not one Premiership or Football League club has actually gone out of business since Sky got involved in the game.