No, the EFL hits this milestone this summer. I’m pretty sure plenty on here will want to rage against the machine that it has become.
Equally, I am sure that many publications will produce detailed and interesting historical and opinionated articles to mark the event.
I posted the first link in the VVD thread and will post that next.
Here is the opener of the story from (no paywall) Guardian.
This stuff is aimed to be read over your morning coffee or on the train to work. I’m sure it will get derailed as some debate why “The Working Class” can’t get into a game for 6 quid anymore, why it took so long for footballers to out themselves or why so few Asians play the game in the UK.
For me, it’s interesting history when you find more stuff stick it in here
I’ve tried to post the full story but it is too long and full of hyperlinks.
Apart from the players and agents becoming wealthy beyond reason, I am not sure what benefit there has been. Its not like the England team became shit hot.
The problem with modern football is that it’s lost its edge. The young and working class can’t afford to go anymore so it’s full of 40/50+ yr old middle classes, eating their prawn sandwiches. They get boxes bought for them by their companies. Even the stewards are Tarquins doing a gap year. I can’t get a ticket half the time because of the proseco drinking brigade. What we need is a limit…75% of tickets for under 25s or working class and 25% for the over 50s. And mandatory fighting.
reality is that there isn’t much I can add to any of this. Old school football is dead but as a young guy I guess I’m glad I managed to experience a half-decent taste of it in the lower leagues. I do miss those days. There’s something purer about paying £11 quid for a shitty paper ticket in a shitty away ground when you know that fans of both clubs have a real commitment to their team - and that the clubs are a true part of the local community, rather than a massive global business.
That is bullshit Mr T I earn a lot more than 30K but am still working class because I am bloody working for a living to keep my family in the comfort that they desire.
And I cant get a ticket because they dont tend to keep a ready stock available for overseas visiting fans which really pisses us off.
Many people earn over £30,000, if I earned over £100,000 a year I wouldn’t automatically be middle class, where I live is comfortably middle class but that doesn’t make me so.
I think you aspire to be something that is not there.
The main thing I’m saying is simply that its very difficult for modern football to ‘preserve’ or ‘guard against’ the loss of a proper down-to-Earth working-class (however you define it) fanbase.
Only thing you could maybe do is lower the ticket prices but no club will ever do that unilaterally. So pfft. Here we are.
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