Thursday, January 21, 2010
Take me, take me
I've not really been following the Manchester United saga with that much interest, mainly because I never knew leverage was a verb.
But whatever is happening it is just a sad indicment of how money men have taken over the world of football as much as they control everything else we do and have done since the days of the East India Company.
Who owns Portsmouth these days and after all the takeovers why are players' salaries late? What the rubber duck is going on at Liverpool where Gilette and Hicks have to be the worse double act since Cannon and Ball.
That's England for you. Any Johnny Foreigner turns up promising to have the keys to the pot of gold that lies at the end of a rainbow and we are doing up our shoelaces, offering our butts for further penetration.
Of course not all foreign takeovers are bad, Aston Villa seem to be doing just fine and dandy for now, and of course not all English takeovers are good as Newcastle fans would tell you.
Farsighted United fans said before the Glazer takeover this was to be avoided at all costs and no one listened. Well, no one with any money or influence.
How will the Chelsea and Manchester City sagas end?
For United what needs to be done is not sending letters asking Sir Alex Ferguson to resign, relying on his union leader past to get bolshie. What is needed is for fans to boycott games. Let Old Trafford become the Madam Tussauds of the north, reliant only on foreign tourists from Malaysia and Singapore whose only attachment is a red shirt and a guaranteed trophy.
No doubt fans will say 'but I haven't missed a game since before Muncih 58' but if their club's future is at stake the time is now to act and stay away. 'Cos money men only understand one thing and when they see that dry up they turn chicken and bolt faster than Bolt doing 100 metres.
But whatever is happening it is just a sad indicment of how money men have taken over the world of football as much as they control everything else we do and have done since the days of the East India Company.
Who owns Portsmouth these days and after all the takeovers why are players' salaries late? What the rubber duck is going on at Liverpool where Gilette and Hicks have to be the worse double act since Cannon and Ball.
That's England for you. Any Johnny Foreigner turns up promising to have the keys to the pot of gold that lies at the end of a rainbow and we are doing up our shoelaces, offering our butts for further penetration.
Of course not all foreign takeovers are bad, Aston Villa seem to be doing just fine and dandy for now, and of course not all English takeovers are good as Newcastle fans would tell you.
Farsighted United fans said before the Glazer takeover this was to be avoided at all costs and no one listened. Well, no one with any money or influence.
How will the Chelsea and Manchester City sagas end?
For United what needs to be done is not sending letters asking Sir Alex Ferguson to resign, relying on his union leader past to get bolshie. What is needed is for fans to boycott games. Let Old Trafford become the Madam Tussauds of the north, reliant only on foreign tourists from Malaysia and Singapore whose only attachment is a red shirt and a guaranteed trophy.
No doubt fans will say 'but I haven't missed a game since before Muncih 58' but if their club's future is at stake the time is now to act and stay away. 'Cos money men only understand one thing and when they see that dry up they turn chicken and bolt faster than Bolt doing 100 metres.
# posted by Me @ 1:23 AM 
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