I find it a bit strange how accepted the financial inequality in the game is, or even how little it's talked about. For me personally, it's got to the point where the sport is a bit of a sickening farce, and difficult to enjoy because a) it's virtually impossible for any teams to disrupt the status quo, and b) I can't see this ever changing, because there seems to be no no determination to try - or even much of an appetite for change in the first place.
Why aren't there more protests from fans about the financial inequality? Some people say it's because football is a business and there's nothing you can do, but it's not (or at least it shouldn't be) - it's a sport first and foremost, with regulating bodies, and it's a pretty brick business because no-one makes any profit! All the increased revenue of the top teams goes into the huge wages of the best players, who by and large seem like undeserving and ungrateful dingdongheads (Raheem Sterling anyone?)
I'd love to see someone have the balls to even suggest, let alone push through, a redistibutive system along the lines of:
- More equal sharing of gate receipts between home and away teams
- Completely equal distribution of TV money (perhaps with a certain amount set aside as bonuses for clubs who move up a certain number of places, to reward clubs that achieve above their means)
- Limits on replica shirt prices
- Graded 'tax' on sponsorship money (or even anything above a certain cutoff point all having to go the club's foundation, not the club itself)
Until then we'll continue with something like this (from 2013-2014):
Where no team outside of the top 3 or 5 have a chance of winning the league, and no team from outside the top 5 or 6 has a chance of playing in the Champions League.
fudging *yawn*.
Except 99% of people don't seem to care, and instead continue to pour their money into the game whilst pouring themselves into pubs and online forums to moan about how brick their team is.
Why aren't there more protests from fans about the financial inequality? Some people say it's because football is a business and there's nothing you can do, but it's not (or at least it shouldn't be) - it's a sport first and foremost, with regulating bodies, and it's a pretty brick business because no-one makes any profit! All the increased revenue of the top teams goes into the huge wages of the best players, who by and large seem like undeserving and ungrateful dingdongheads (Raheem Sterling anyone?)
I'd love to see someone have the balls to even suggest, let alone push through, a redistibutive system along the lines of:
- More equal sharing of gate receipts between home and away teams
- Completely equal distribution of TV money (perhaps with a certain amount set aside as bonuses for clubs who move up a certain number of places, to reward clubs that achieve above their means)
- Limits on replica shirt prices
- Graded 'tax' on sponsorship money (or even anything above a certain cutoff point all having to go the club's foundation, not the club itself)
Until then we'll continue with something like this (from 2013-2014):
Where no team outside of the top 3 or 5 have a chance of winning the league, and no team from outside the top 5 or 6 has a chance of playing in the Champions League.
fudging *yawn*.
Except 99% of people don't seem to care, and instead continue to pour their money into the game whilst pouring themselves into pubs and online forums to moan about how brick their team is.
