Death of a Game, Birth of a Monster..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tkwqhXTc4

How sad is that..

Football as we knew it died a long time ago Money changed it and chasing the dream became the way to go. Clubs moved to souless bowls because the goverment forced changes upon clubs after Hillsborough - the Football League etc then kept moving the goalposts. Clubs went into millions of pounds worth of debt to comply despite struggling to fill grounds anyway. To combat that they started charging silly prices for the sake of a covered seat and then started paying average players thousands of pounds a week just to hang onto the coattails of the bigger clubs. A number of big clubs are on the brink of going to the wall but still nobody learns, many keep chucking money after money into a bottomless pit and now we have Rangers and Portsmouth staring down the barrell with another couple starting to form a queue.

Fans are happy to queu up for Wembley tickets and enjoy the glory, where are they when there is a fight on their hands? Watching TV football because they don't care enough.

Football and fans both changed but they went in different directions as the gulf widened. The diehards count for nothing these days, your just a customer to these rich folk.

Football is now a business. Businesses rebrand and progress all the time,many fans wanted the club run like a business - the purchasers want it their own way like any businessman does. Who loses out in the ling run? The customer formerly known as the diehard.

What is the alternatives? Is it really red or the bluebird is dead?