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Remember when football used to be about sport?

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TheGayTent Enthusiast

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The main problem is, the clubs exploit the fans "loyalty". And one of the things I hate the most about modern football fans is this indoctrinated false "loyalty".

People spend thousands following their clubs, f**king thousands - and the clubs know this. thats why they release 870 different strips a year at £45 a pop, and the junior kits are vastly overpriced, and the season tickets are priced as absolutely high as they can possibly get, and clubs have their own paytv stations, as well as sky, espn, etc etc. All highly commendable business practices if your customer base arent brainwashed into buying everything you throw at them. I'm stunned by the number of blokes I know who refer to their new replica football shirts in the pub as "smart innit?" no mate, actually it isnt. its a polyester shirt, made in a sweatshop by children, stretched across your 40" stomach, and you look just as f**king juvenile as the other 100,000 people who bought one this week.

since when did "smart" or "nice" get associated with a football shirt?

People brag that they "havent missed a game in 22 years"? I'd be embarrased to admit that nothing has happened in my life in 22 years that warranted missing a f**king football game. not one wedding, not one christening, not one bereavement, not one hangover, not one holiday?

Forget about this indoctrinated "loyalty" and smell the f**king coffee. The club want your money, and the only reason they might put your name in the program once every 8 years, or shout happy birthday over the tannoy - is because they know you are a f**king sheep, and they can pick your pocket while you are stood at the bovril stand.

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True, but for me, the arrival of all seater stadiums has made the rest inevitable. The cash cow of the Premier League has certainly speeded things up, but I think football in England would always have got to the point it's at now in the end. The make up of the fans at games was always going to change once the terraces disappeared.

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eFestivals Mentor

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I guarantee its mostly carp... Pull up any research you want, it is carp as well...

Put up or shut up...

You've clearly already decided it's wrong as your words get to show, and given how much you demonstrate the closed mind you have I'd be wasting my time.

So I'll happily let you bumble along in your own ignorance, believing yourself to be right. :)

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eFestivals Mentor

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:lol::lol::lol:

You are so full of shit... Next you will be telling me your mate knows all the governments secert nuclear info but will only talk to you B)

the person full of shit is the person dismissing properly conducted research without knowing a thing about it to know whether it's dismissable or not. :rolleyes:

You've stated that you've made up your mind on the matter from your position of total ignorance.

I'm very happy to leave you there. :)

When you have demonstrated that your mind is open to things you know nothing about, only then will it be worth me bothering to show you things you don't know about for you to learn the truth.

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Steve P Newbie

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A lot of the problem is, people tend to believe what they want to. When the Taylor Report came out, and in the few years grace clubs were given after to adhere to the findings, fans were worried that new stands and all seater grounds would lead to an increase in ticket prices.

However, we were told, and I remember being told - and if i searched back through my programmes I'm sure I could find it - that when we went all seater, some areas of the ground would remain 'cheap', and on a par with the ticket prices in the old standing areas. i.e. the old North & South Banks - what are now the BM and STB stands. This lasted for all of one year....

Apathy is the biggest problem. Fan power can work - it certainly worked at my club over the bond scheme.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/6221674.stm

and you think they aren't part of the problem ;)

Chasing the Premier greed leave you here... Their fans wanted it, they got something else... The fans can't keep screaming for success and then when it blows up say, it ain't our fault...

Would this have happened if they had lived to their means ? of course not...

Now, that IS my last word on the subject...

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I don't see how aiming to go as far as you can as a team makes you a c**t as long as you're doing it within your means.

Yes, alot of people involved in football are total c**ts and alot of fans but certainly not all.

My team (Hamilton Accies) have had alot of highs and lows in the last 20 years. Nearly being run into the ground by thieving, unsrupulous, greedy c**ts who sold the ground with promises of a new one, which eventually took seven years to build.

During the homeless years fans travelled for miles just to see a home match, week in week out even when we were getting pumped by our local rivals, the core group of fans kept going. One group of fans eventually got together and put forward a candidate for the local election where they came 5th with 5.5% of the votes (one place above Lib Dems) this eventually forced the directors hands and brought the club home. These people who went above and beyond for there club were not c**ts.

I'm pretty sure there are fans at teams up and down the country who support there teams in the same way and yes would love a little bit of sucess thrown there way every now and again and maybe a wee cup run but surely that's what being a foootball supporter is all about?

I can see why people are fed up with football in the way it is now but why not go see a local team playing in the lower leagues or amateurs and discover what real football is all about again.

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