DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
You're honestly asking if it’s more rational to make a sport about how much you spend or to promote a greater level of fair competition? I think you are showing up your arguments here.
I am asking you which is more likely to get results between these two options.
1) trying to end rich owners funding their teams to success, which has been happening since the late 1800s - in other words, trying to reform a system that has been running without interruption in England since the founding of professional football.
Or
2) asking for new owners that aren't useless deadweights at Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Forget your emotional 'it's not fair' - it's never been fair, and isn't going to start now. I am asking which is more rational to strive for - which is more achievable?
Almost all sports that rely on investment, curb and control for the uncompetitive force of excessive funding attaining unfair advantage. But you advocate for it!
I don't advocate for it. But while it is in place in football, which it has been for 100+ years, I advocate us playing by the same rules, not artificially straitjacketing ourselves to make Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy more money when they sell. There is nothing noble in what we are doing - Levy and Lewis don't spend like the others because they want to keep their money, not out of a high-minded conviction of fairness in the game.
inadvertently you support Emirates Marketing Project, Chelsea, Saudi Sportswashing Machine. Where are your ethics!? Where is your loyalty!?
See above. I don't support them, but you can't wish them away through fairytale thinking. They exist, and will always exist - they existed when Arsenal were the Bank of England club in the 1930s, when James Gibson bankrolled United in the 1930s, when Eric Sawyer spent obscene amounts bringing England's best players to newly promoted, barely solvent Liverpool in the 1960s, kickstarting their success.
This is football in England. You can't cry and stamp your feet about it, you have to adapt to it until the day we become like Germany and ban club owners outright.- i.e, never.
Until then, we need to play by the rules everyone else is playing by. And we are not - instead we are handicapping ourselves with a pointless deadweight tax exile criminal, and his equally useless henchman.