Football about to implode?

With the news today about Rangers and Portsmouth, and the well documented recent troubles at Darlo and Kettering, I can't help thinking that the game is in serious trouble, much worse than we thought.

Several clubs have had troubles in recent times; Leeds spending money they didn't have (well, they gambled on making the CL) and fell through the leagues when it went mammaries up. Leicester, Rovrum, Luton, Bournemouth, Southend, and many others have been, or been close to, administration, many of them more than once.

QPR recently sacked their manager, as they "can't afford" to go down.  Hull had players on huge contracts when they got relegated, with no clauses for the eventuality of relegation, and it nearly bankrupted them.  Newcastle had similar problems when they went down.

More and more clubs are overspending chasing the dream.  Then when iit goes mammaries up, the fans suffer, along with local businesses.

The case against Rangers could be a landmark.  They owe close to £50m in "dodged taxes" relating to payments made to players in the 90's, into offshore accounts.  They can't be the only club that has done this, therefore if HMRC win, it could open the floodgates and many more clubs could be in serious financial trouble.

There's plenty, plenty enough money in football to go around. The problems are it's monstrously top-heavy and there's too much outside money thrown at it. The only way it will survive long term is if there are strong, stringent, and tightly-monitored rules put in place that mean clubs can only spend what they generate. This stops clubs going for broke and means they can't get into trouble when a rich backer pulls the plug/dies/runs them into the ground.

Is football any more likely to implode than it was, say, 5 years ago?

Quoted from Abdul19

Is football any more likely to implode than it was, say, 5 years ago?

IMO yes.

Here is a list of Admins, CVA's etc http://footballmanagement.wordpress.com/no-of-clubs/

and for info the article it came from http://footballmanagement.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/that-elusive-number-of-insolvent-football-clubs/

Quoted from immariner

There's plenty, plenty enough money in football to go around. The problems are it's monstrously top-heavy and there's too much outside money thrown at it. The only way it will survive long term is if there are strong, stringent, and tightly-monitored rules put in place that mean clubs can only spend what they generate. This stops clubs going for broke and means they can't get into trouble when a rich backer pulls the plug/dies/runs them into the ground.

It's called the diarrhoea effect. The more money is poured into the game - TV and foreign hobby owners the more sh*t comes out from it - mainly in form of the diveballers who play in the premiership and their agents.

Quoted from Abdul19

Is football any more likely to implode than it was, say, 5 years ago?

Dunno but my relationship just has, and booked Blackpool Travelodge for Fleetwood away. Oh well, not the best looker.
ps- shares going Blackpool south, LMFAO

Football is bollocksed but while sky and scudamore are running the game it won't go away. They'll simply lift the carpet, brush all the problems undercut and just throw more non existent money at it.

Too many people believe everything sky,experts etc say. The best league, biggest clubs, highest earners, biggest crowds etc. In reality some of those are true but they have also led to the game struggling. Attendances aren't going up. Throughout all the leagues pretty much every stadium has empty seats and I'd hazard a guess that 95% of professional clubs in this country are in a financial mess.

Football in England is now like Americas economy, the too one percent take a massive chunk of the money while the rest feed off scraps. Will it change? Probably not. Small clubs will continue to go out of business and clubs like Portsmouth who have taken the urine too many times and continue to do so will be bailed out to save the premier league and football league the embarrassment.

We are miles behind in youth development and we don't really compete at international level, quarter finals is not good enough for a country like England and all it's so called amazing players and teams. This year we've so far struggled in Europe really.

Do I care? No, I care about gtfc as do we all. We can't change the game, the crooks the clowns the blinkered vision of those in charge need to, but they won't! They think everything is rosey...

At the end of the day the F.A only care about the top 10 in the Premiership and until a couple of them are in serious financial difficulty not alot is going to happen.

Rangers are taking the urine aren't they?

Sign Daniel Cousin a few days ago (on however many thousand pounds per week) then the next thing they are applying for administration because they owe HMRC over £50 million in tax. How the hell has their debt to HMRC been allowed to get to that level when they spend £8million chasing Honest Harry for £30k.