How far removed from reality will be premiership become, in 5 years?.

[Stat Brother]

Like many, in sure, I'm really disillusioned with football.
The fact that I say that and mean the prem is the start of a very long list.

We have:-
Moving around the world.
Wages.
Joey Barton.
Man Utd Christmas party.

And today:-
Uproar about Villa's chanting.
Cahill's goal celebration 1st story on 5-live, every half hour.

and on and on.

Watching The Big Match Revisited is a big wake up call to 'how good it used to be', words which would usually fill me with dread.
But this time I feel top flight football, is far from progressing and is in fact on a very slippery slope.

Where will it be in 5 years?

 

[Badger]

Brighton will be at the top of it?

 

[Starry]

Where will it be in 5 years?

with the fork stuck in. football is well and truly done.

 

[coventrygull]

Think football could be on the slippery slope. It dosn't excite me like it used to

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maybe SKY will withdraw the TV money due to some scandal too serious to ignore and the whole house of cards will come tumbling down.

 

[Nemesis]

with the fork stuck in. football is well and truly done.

You are so right.

I hope the bubble bursts soon.

 

[Nemesis]

And to answer the question: Isn't it already so far removed from reality already?

 

[crodonilson]

Best league in the world, the quality is far better than ever before, don't know what everyone is moaning about.

 

[Gully]

Not denying the quality on offer but when the bubble bursts, and it will, it will be an almighty bang. The Premiership doesn't really excite me any more, it is rare that I make it past the first couple of games on MOTD...to be honest I usually fall asleep!

 

[the right footed denilson]

Twenty20

 

[Simon Morgan]

I don't think the Prem is the best league in the world, I think the Spanish league is quite a lot more interesting. One thing that sums up where football is heading for me is these new puma adverts, which really piss me off. There's footage of various players (Crouch, Eto'o possibly) playing in a match and all the players have robotic legs. The advert end with an "until then..." slogan with a picture of the new puma boot underneath it. Now obviously players aren't going to suddenly become bionic (despite what Avram may think), but the whole attitude of modernising football to that extent is what worries me, to be honest. The proposal to play games abroad was also a poor one, but the problem is that things will not move backwards. Players will not be paid less, clubs won't pay less for transfers, agents will not suddenly disappear. I fear things will get worse before they get better.

 

[Stat Brother]

With most other contact sports, esp Rugby, I always find myself thinking 'what would happen if that was done to a footballer'.

The players must know how stupid they are being.
Surely the media must see what's happening, with every tiny little incident is blown out of all proportion.

 

[Stat Brother]

And to answer the question: Isn't it already so far removed from reality already?

My point being, it's already so far removed, but importantly, nobody is saying 'hang on this can't continue'.
So it's going to continue for a lot longer yet, with the media lapping the good and bad up in equal measure.

 

[Wozza]

Best league in the world, the quality is far better than ever before, don't know what everyone is moaning about.

Yes, yes, but you also reckon Carling Cup final day is the "second biggest day in the football calendar". *snigger*

 

[defrocked priest]

The Premier League is getting so lame.The top four clubs with there bottomless pockets and childish antics have ruined it for me.The better football is in the Leagues below.League One where any of the 24 clubs can beat anyone else on any given day and the Conference League with Lewes and Eastbourne have been better than Brighton at times.

 

[crodonilson]

Yes, yes, but you also reckon Carling Cup final day is the "second biggest day in the football calendar". *snigger*

It is in the English football calender after F.A Cup final day. What else is bigger?? The only other occasion I can see which rivals it is Grand Slam Sunday.

 

[who me?]

when the big boys get their way and launch live games on club websites(rather than sign a sky contract)the rest of the premier league will go cap in hand back to the football league. they will still mop up most of the t.v. revenue(the greedy never learn)

globalism will become a fact with clubs more interested in web based revenues,even pennies from 100 million chinese fans will give a bigger income than a 75000 stadium

sky money will be on offer only to the european super league and mugs will still pay it

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think Mitchell & Webb summed up the current situation rather nicely...


YouTube - Watch the Football! -That Mitchell and Webb Look- BBC

 

[blue'n'white]

It is in the English football calender after F.A Cup final day. What else is bigger?? The only other occasion I can see which rivals it is Grand Slam Sunday.

This is something else that really pees me off - this "bigging up" of a particular game or couple of games that may happen to fall on a certain day. "Grand Slam Sunday" is an invention of Sky as is "Super Sunday" or "High Noon Sunday" or whatever. For Heaven's sakes it's two or possibly three football matches - which Sky have probably manipulated anyway to have on the same day. I heard Mike Parry on Talk Sport a few months ago wittering on quite seriously about "It's Arsenal v Man Utd (or whoever it was) today - forget about going to see your team and sit down in front of your television and watch this as it'll be far better than what you were going to watch anyway" and this is precisely the sort of attitude I hate - that Sky and the effing Premier League know best.
I'm not having a go at you crodonilson - you just happened to mention it - but what is so great about "Grand Slam Bloody Sunday" if you don't support any of the teams taking part in it ? What CAN be better in football terms than going to watch your own team whether it be Brighton, Plymouth, Darlington, Walsall or whoever ? Unless you support any of the teams involved in this completely manufactured event it's meaningless.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I can't stand the way that football didn't exist before the Premiership, according to Sky.

The way they dish out awards to players for scoring the most ever Premier League goals, for example. Which basically means they have scored the most between 1991 (?) and 2007. Big bloody deal, do they give out one for hitting the target the most times between, say, 1932 and 1954, war break not included? Why not 1970 to 1981, perhaps?

By the same logic that dictates football was non-existent before the Premier League, then Liverpool have never won the title.

Which I'm sure they would be a bit miffed about...yet they go along with the myth, because they're only interested in the money. Imagine a Liverpool player in 1985 telling the club's fans that he was desparate to finish FOURTH? What do you win for fourth, that the fans care about at least?