How the other half lives

With the wife away lonely Rooney went to the casino last night,

He only lost £500,000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crazy.

Quoted from grimsby pete

With the wife away lonely Rooney went to the casino last night,

He only lost £500,000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crazy.

This visit took place in the middle of March but the journo's have dragged it out as Prem stars wages are the current hot topic in the media, they dredge up all the subjects they can as the season winds down.

£500K is an obscene amount to gamble away but to be honest if you go down any casino from time to time you can see people blow a weeks and a half's basic salary in one visit.  

Quoted from HertsGTFC

This visit took place in the middle of March but the journo's have dragged it out as Prem stars wages are the current hot topic in the media, they dredge up all the subjects they can as the season winds down.

£500K is an obscene amount to gamble away but to be honest if you go down any casino from time to time you can see people blow a weeks and a half's basic salary in one visit.  

That's why I stuck to the 5 cent machines when I went to Vegas  

Quoted from golfer

I am not a racist,sexist or any ist but 66.7% of players in the premiership are foreign-FFS----I suppose you could call it another form of Overseas Aid

I am not racist but,,......always the first words of racists

Quoted from codcheeky

I am not racist but,,......always the first words of racists

It is the reason the  England team is crap though.

I bet when the England manager goes to watch a game he can only look at 2 or 3 players that are on the pitch in most games.

Re Grimsby Pete's comment above, so why does the manager go watch Man U v Liverpool, he knows the 3 players involved anyway, he would be better going to some of the lesser games even top of the championship.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

After the boycott, the next stage is fan organised games and fan owned clubs (there's a growing number of these). Ultimately if football returns to its roots and people are enjoying it and giving the money-game the cold shoulder, does it matter if Old Travesty is full of foreigners watching and playing, with foreign billionaires owning the whole shebang? Let em. They'll get bored sooner or later because it'll mean nothing and move on to something else.

In principle this is fine but unfortunately as a club becomes more successful it needs more investment. This in turn attracts the " money men " to the club and it only needs one to pay lip service to the club and fans to become a major player or owner of the club. He decides that to move forward the club has to " progress" and then the whole circus starts again.
Once the principle of the PL was established and sanctioned by the FA then it became like Pandoras'  Box and unfortunately it won't change unless the FA and FL do something radical to alter it.

Quoted from golfer

Tax the lot of them 99p in the pound Tax and put a wage cap and then see if they like playing football in their own countries

You think that a Swede, playing for a club owned by Americans, actually pays UK tax?

The top level of the English game is busting at the seams.  It is simply not sustainable in this form.

The product is becoming less and less interesting and the lifeblood of the game (i.e the working class fan) is either losing interest or becoming priced out, often both,

For all the extra revenue that will be created by the likes of Chelsea and Spurs moving to the new stadium it will soon become totally reliant on tourist fans to create income, eventually the popularity of the league will switch to somewhere else or something different altogether.  The product is simply not exciting enough to keep the tourist fans coming back.  

What will make the impending bursting of the bubble even more dramatic is the current bullying attitude of the Premier League, highlighted this week by basically threatening to stop the funding to the lower levels in response to Accrington chairman Andy Holt speaking out against the stupid levels of money at the top level.

The Football League is quite rapidly increasing gates, whereas the Premier League is in alarming period of stagnation.  At the minute the Football League clubs are frightened by the Premier League and feel they have to be grateful for the pitiful levels of money filtering down, however as more and more people abandon the likes of Spurs and Manchester United for Barnet and Oldham plus the pending burst bubble, they'll be much better placed to absorb the fallout.  Once the foreign TV rights are worthless, the Premier League clubs will desperately try to claw back their previous fans who are now enjoying a better experience at a League One side.  By this point the elite will be reliant on the Football League, perhaps we'll throw them a few quid here and there.  My only hope is that by this point the Premier League have achieved their ambition of cutting all ties to the Football League and are stuck with the same boring 24 team league, stupidly ignoring the fact that the relegation battle is more often than not the most exciting part of their dull season.

Quoted from diehardmariner

The top level of the English game is busting at the seams.  It is simply not sustainable in this form.

The product is becoming less and less interesting and the lifeblood of the game (i.e the working class fan) is either losing interest or becoming priced out, often both,

For all the extra revenue that will be created by the likes of Chelsea and Spurs moving to the new stadium it will soon become totally reliant on tourist fans to create income, eventually the popularity of the league will switch to somewhere else or something different altogether.  The product is simply not exciting enough to keep the tourist fans coming back.  

What will make the impending bursting of the bubble even more dramatic is the current bullying attitude of the Premier League, highlighted this week by basically threatening to stop the funding to the lower levels in response to Accrington chairman Andy Holt speaking out against the stupid levels of money at the top level.

The Football League is quite rapidly increasing gates, whereas the Premier League is in alarming period of stagnation.  At the minute the Football League clubs are frightened by the Premier League and feel they have to be grateful for the pitiful levels of money filtering down, however as more and more people abandon the likes of Spurs and Manchester United for Barnet and Oldham plus the pending burst bubble, they'll be much better placed to absorb the fallout.  Once the foreign TV rights are worthless, the Premier League clubs will desperately try to claw back their previous fans who are now enjoying a better experience at a League One side.  By this point the elite will be reliant on the Football League, perhaps we'll throw them a few quid here and there.  My only hope is that by this point the Premier League have achieved their ambition of cutting all ties to the Football League and are stuck with the same boring 24 team league, stupidly ignoring the fact that the relegation battle is more often than not the most exciting part of their dull season.

I agree with the sentiment expressed but dont really see the Premiership bubble bursting anytime soon. The overseas market is growing daily with plenty of room for further growth, the Premiership clubs value this much more than Frank the dustman who grew up supporting them.

I'd also add that League attendances increased last season but how much of than was down to Newcastle and Villa replacing Hull & Boro or Town replacing Dagenham??