Football Season 2011/12, and Euro 2012 thread

[Patrick Bateman]

99% of football fans are cretins. Look at how the Premier League 'brand' is sold overseas. Why the hell would a Chinese peasant support Manchester United? What relevance does it have to his life? False consciousness.

[Drico One]

As they probably stitched together the United kit in a sweatshop for a bowl of rice a day, it's hard to be too critical of them.

Drico.

[Fugitive1979]

Why? Did their fans object to the financial doping they were indulging in when they were buying trophies?

If some did, then, yes, I have sympathy with them. Most went along for the ride - just as they do at all other clubs.

Drico.

Doncaster Rovers, having been forced to the very edge of existence in the 90's because of the actions of a corrupt and criminal chairman, gives me some sympathy.

If they (the fans) knew and went along with it without raising objections, then they deserve their fate, but somehow I doubt they did.


StevePSB

We didn't have a clue. The EBT scandal only came to light after Rangers went into administration.

It's not 'buying trophies', though. Eleven men still put in an honest shift on the pitch to win those honours. No matches were fixed, or referees bribed. The only 'cheat' was Sir David Murray, in that he used the scheme to avoid taxes, and to benefit financially himself (£6m).

What gets me is those who say that Rangers are dead, and have no history now. That is not true. Rangers Football Club (Est. 1872) is still alive and well, albeit in Division Three now. All that has been liquidated is the company 'Rangers Football Club PLC 1899'.

It's not the first time it has happened, and it won't be the last. After all, the current SPL champions are Pacific Shelf 595 Ltd (Est. 1994). Not many people realise that; And some of those that do, tend to ignore it, to suit themselves. Still the same club, and still the same history, though.

[Patrick Bateman]

[Undertaker]

It's fingers in the till time. Rangers didn't buy trophies. They had the most money to spend but didn't go out and pay 20 million on players. They have always had Champions League Football, plus a 50,000 stadium. In the past decade, they have always sold their assets as well.

It's a shambles. They weren't a bankrolled club on the scale of some Premiership teams. I'm surprised more clubs in Scotland dont go under though. The leagues are dead. England amateur divisions get some higher gates that the Scottish third.

Aren't they going to a 14 team premier division? They need to so something. Ten and twelve team divisions are dull.

[Drico One]

When a club buys players with money it doesn't have, it is engaging in financial doping. Most clubs are at it in one form or another, with the English Premier League doing a good impression of Florence Griffith-Joyner. At least the international game is largely beyond the clutches of corrupt self-aggrandising kleptocrats.



Oh.

Drico.

[Patrick Bateman]

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/wo ... 36330.html

[Undertaker]

LOL

[Patrick Bateman]

He sounds like one of raggatwin's students.