I am very disillusioned with football right now. On the verge of just giving up watching it. Don't actually care about the Leeds result tonight. (I was typing this before the second half started, but we've had our 3rd power cut of the day so I couldn't finish the post, so now it looks like it's just sour grapes from me cos Leeds lost. lol)
I'm fed up with UEFA for holding a EUROPEAN final in ASIA. Why would you do that?
I'm fed up with Arsenal and Thos Cook Sport who are selling tickets and oversubscribing their flight on purpose, forcing fans to buy tickets that they may not be able to use.
I'm fed up with the standard and unfairness in refereeing at all levels. Sure most of the rules are open to interpretation, but they should be interpreted evenly and equally for both sides within a game. If a player from one side is sent off for what is only really a tangle of legs, then surely a player who elbows someone in the face should go too? Hey ho, as some of you say, the big clubs get all the decisions.
I have read Norwood's tweets after Monday's game and I hope they catch the thugs who assaulted players on the pitch on Monday and ban those thugs for life.
I'm quite sad that you guys on this thread all rushed to say you hoped Tranmere won. Why? Why should the big clubs have it all their way? They too have local folks who put money into the club, just like FGR. Dale Vince is no Russian oligarch, he's a local man who had nothing and worked to get where he is. I remember chatting to him in the school playground 20 years ago when we were collecting our children. He just happens to be richer that FGRs last owner. No-one seemed to complain when Trevor Horsley was the main owner. Why shouldn't there be new kids on the block?
I was going to write about South Shields V Warrington recently, South Shields biggest game ever in their bid for promotion to National League North, but then I realised that you all prefer the status quo and wouldn't welcome a match report from there.
Yeh I think I am fed up with football all round. Time for a rest methinks.
Signing out for a while. Let's face it, big club, little club, it's all just business and capitalism. They all just want our money and couldn't really give a **** about the fans, or indeed the football. It's just money.
Commiserations
@Patrick66 I know you have a lot more to moan about than me.
I guess you can call me Mrs Angry today.
I'm gonna try and help you understand modern football.
I know what you are experiencing.
In my time as a supporter, I have my 'big club' go bust, go through really bad times, saved from administration and help pass buckets around at matches, meetings and supporters functions, travelling around the country, supporting my team on a cold Tuesday night, before finding out the game had been postponed, everything that has happened to us diehards, has happened to other clubs diehards.
The modern game is about money, and success on the pitch.
Jurgen Klopp has not yet won a trophy in England, but he is classed as one of the best coaches around!
UEFA, picks places such as Azerbaijan, because it is paid to. It uses the excuse to promote the world game by going to new countries, such as the world cup in 50degrees heat, because the bribery and collusion at that level is rife!
Unfortunately, at supporter level, you have to have faith in your support, I am not blind to what some chairman and those who use the game to make a profit or try to rip off supporters, that is the capitalists, who see an opportunity and abuse those who are gullible, because we are, regardless, we will spend a lot of our hard earned money to see our heroes, week in, week out, again unfortunately, because of the demand on the bigger clubs, there are those that can't afford ticket prices and miss out on experiencing the atmosphere of big matches.
Again, Liverpool, who have one of the biggest fan bases in the world, had a policy of denying local supporters, young and old, opportunity to see the reds in action. The ticketing system, was open to everyone outside the Merseyside postcode area, but if wanted a season ticket, you had to wait for years, a supporter from Ireland, Sweden, and so on could get one the next season. Until a couple of years ago, this was implemented vigorously, because of money spent by those outside the Merseyside area. A local would not spend as much on match day.
That is why Everton are regarded as the people's club.
My club is just over two miles away from both Merseyside clubs, we are the minnows in football terms, we are again building our supporter base, because of the great job our present manager is doing, in our first year in the national league, on a cold Tuesday night, we only had just over two thousand in Prenton Park, the club is doing all sorts to trying to bring the youngsters in and making great strides by making the match day experience more pleasurable for all supporters, lowering season ticket prices especially for youngsters, those less likely to afford football tickets and encouraging schools, youth clubs, to come and get involved, the ' In the community' schemes for disabled and unfortunate.
We have supporters on the board, we have inclusive meetings and support within the club and supporters association.
We are back to where we belong, competing at a professional level, I don't believe we have the financial clout to get back into the championship, but we will have a bloody good go. I'm really enjoying our incredible rise in fortune, because it could come crashing down again! You never know!
I have witnessed the best in football and too much of the bad times, all the worry of not seeing my local club, win, lose and draw, that is what football is about. You never know, what happens next!
I'm really lucky to be a supporter of my club, I know it deep down, I'm one of a few, who has been fortunate to be a part of my club, both on the pitch and more off it!
I am indeed fortunate to be in a position to be at Wembley, three seasons running, watching my heroes, if you were me, wouldn't you be happy for me!
Football is about us fans, we are there for most of our lives, our dreams are built into our DNA, sometimes it's horrible, sometimes it's great. Sometimes like a 0-0 bore draw! But we bounce back, and next Saturday we will smash em! Regardless of who we play. That is why the FA cup is brilliant!
Going to new places, New grounds, New people, those like us, true footie fans, who love the game despite the premiership, UEFA, FIFA and the FA especially, we can do something at our clubs, those at the top have forgotten the rest of football, the Sunday, Saturday afternoon amateurs. The local leagues, who have less teams in them every season, less leagues, less playing areas, less of everything that used to help young players into the game. Only schools have that availability. Until you take into account of the money that has been taken away by government because of political dogma.
The game in this country, could find itself in really big trouble if the t.v. companies decide to withdraw the huge amounts of money paid to the premiership. I have a feeling it will happen, maybe in ten years or so. So the big clubs need to get their act together, because if they don't, then, I fear, the big players will walk away!
So, do come back, I enjoy your posts, and football needs its idiots like us!
Yours in football.
K.