Dita's Slot Meter wrote:
I fully respect your opinions, but I'd have to pull you up on this point.....How exactly has the Sky fantasy league been good for English football?
If encouraging seedy, ego driven foreign investors to swamp our sport is a good thing, then fair enough.....If bringing in barrel loads of sub-standard, mediocre players from abroad to the detriment of British youngsters is a good thing, then fair enough.
Football lost its soul the day it sold out to Sky....The lust for money and success is an unsightly one and only leads to any success that clubs gain to be tarnished.
Whilst a club like City or yourselves will welcome success, its sad that most people will simply point to the huge, vulgar investments as the reason for that success and not have the same 'acheivement' level attached to it that clubs had in the years before Sky....Look at Forest's success in the 70's and 80's as a prime example or Everton's just after.....Most success had to be earned and was rightly lauded - Nowadays, most success is bought.
Yeah, football in England before the Premier League was awesome wasn't it? It must have been so awesome at Goodison in 1993, when you had an average crowd of 20,400.
You want to say that Chelsea were West Ham-sized because when you were growing up they had similar sized gates, but you won't accept that practically every club has seen massive increases in their gates with the Premier League's inception, and they fans have also paid massive amounts of money for those tickets.
Liverpool and Everton really do want to paint all the success that they've had as pure footballing achievements, but FFS both clubs have benefitted massively from having Littlewoods pools billionaires owning the club. You just won't accept that your success was bought in a very similar manner to the success that Blackburn/Chelsea have had and Citeh may have.
You point to the success that Clough had at Forest, is that the same Brian Clough that had his Derby side relegated because of financial irregularities? Is that the same Brian Clough who everyone knows was one of the recipients of brown paper bags full of cash? Is that the same Brian Clough who quite regularly managed to spend record transfer fees bringing in players?
As a Rovers fan I wouldn't mind him going to Burnley as they'd have to put up with the style of play we have for the last 2 years.
Even you know that's not true, it might be a few years before it'll happen or a miracle (Change of tactics!) but we've got a future 
