50 or 60 clubs' could go bust

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Interesting article on BBC.
Huddersfield chairman is saying a lot of clubs could be in trouble next year.
Can't see it happening myself.
But would it be such a disaster for english football if it did?
BBC Link
 
Interesting article on BBC.
Huddersfield chairman is saying a lot of clubs could be in trouble next year.
Can't see it happening myself.
But would it be such a disaster for english football if it did?
BBC Link

I think some people are falling into the trap of thinking football would be loads better if none of it was on telly and the players weren’t paid so much, so that it would be great if covid-19 led to the entire collapse of the professional game.

Can’t we have something in the middle!
 
I suppose if you are in exile, it doesn't matter so much.

There would still be forums of some description to post crap.

Long live the Boro!
 
Not a surprise, seems the culture for a lot of championship and league 1 clubs to go for promotion or bust, not a sustainable way to run a club and it leads to issues like this.
 
This is why Damian Collins MP has proposed the radical shake up of football that I put to this site on Friday.
To lose that many clubs would be quite devastating to communities up and down the country. Anyone old enough to remember 1986 knows only too well how close we came to the end. Which would have meant no Bruce Rioch, no Mogga, Slaven, ZDS final, Robbo, Gibson, cup finals, Juninho, Viduka, Europe. None of it. None of THIS.
 
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Interesting article on BBC.
Huddersfield chairman is saying a lot of clubs could be in trouble next year.
Can't see it happening myself.
But would it be such a disaster for english football if it did?
BBC Link

It would be an absolute disaster.

Are you thinking it might only be smaller clubs so it’s no big deal?

As long as Liverpool, Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea etc are still on Sky then that’s alright.

I can’t believe a fan of a club like Boro would ask that question. It’s clubs like Boro that would be at risk.

Do fans of smaller clubs count for less?

More of you ask me. It’s easy supporting these fantasy clubs where you consider not making the top 4 a “disaster”. Most of their fans have never been to their stadiums ffs!
 
Not a surprise, seems the culture for a lot of championship and league 1 clubs to go for promotion or bust, not a sustainable way to run a club and it leads to issues like this.
I think you'll find it's Covid19 that's led to issues like this!
 
I think you'll find it's Covid19 that's led to issues like this!

Clubs have been clearly so badly run that a few months without income from ticket sales have them on the brink, yes its covid that is causing this issue but the point remains that a fair amount of these clubs arent being ran properly
 
It would be an absolute disaster.

Are you thinking it might only be smaller clubs so it’s no big deal?

As long as Liverpool, Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea etc are still on Sky then that’s alright.

I can’t believe a fan of a club like Boro would ask that question. It’s clubs like Boro that would be at risk.

Do fans of smaller clubs count for less?

More of you ask me. It’s easy supporting these fantasy clubs where you consider not making the top 4 a “disaster”. Most of their fans have never been to their stadiums ffs!
The way they're trying to start the PL come what may, is showing the PL is the all important league, when in reality it's only important to the fans of those clubs, a lot so called smaller clubs have fans just as passionate
The rot started when the majority of the cash went to the clubs who have 90% of the wealth & times like this is when the smaller clubs now need the cash
Forget about playing these silly games, hand out the prize money to the clubs that need it
Without the smaller clubs football in a few years time football will cease to exist to how we know it
 
It would be an absolute disaster.

Are you thinking it might only be smaller clubs so it’s no big deal?

As long as Liverpool, Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea etc are still on Sky then that’s alright.

I can’t believe a fan of a club like Boro would ask that question. It’s clubs like Boro that would be at risk.

Do fans of smaller clubs count for less?

More of you ask me. It’s easy supporting these fantasy clubs where you consider not making the top 4 a “disaster”. Most of their fans have never been to their stadiums ffs!

Not really Linny.
I was thinking the whole lot collapses and we start again.
May be it could stop the biggest clubs buying trophies every season.
If everyone starts from zero it may give the smaller clubs a chance to develop players and then keep them.
Unlikely I know but there you go.
That's where I was going with my question.
 
Sky, the Premier League, and a lot of armchair fans couldn't care less if the whole EFL went down the plug hole as long as they still have Liverpool, Man C & U, The ****, Spuds, Chelsea and a few others to keep the cash cow mooing for a full season.
True & what a spectacle we would end up with, when we have one league to watch with the same boring teams winning the same cups etc
They would sex it up calling it the 'Super league', although it maybe the only league
 
True & what a spectacle we would end up with, when we have one league to watch with the same boring teams winning the same cups etc
They would sex it up calling it the 'Super league', although it maybe the only league
I think they will be a lot of TV men rubbing their hands and wondering who to invite into the European Super League, because this isn't only going to happen in Britain, it will happen all over Europe.

Don't for one minute think these people are worried about the Boro, Sunderland, Doncaster's or Luton's of this world, if 60 clubs go bust in this country, there will be more food at the tough for the greedy clubs who want it all.

If we are thinking like this, don't you think they are.
 
Hudds' chairman isn't wrong, it's going to be tough. The game has been throwing money around like it's going out of fashion though, and there's plenty in the coffers still. Be interesting to see what the FA does.
The FA will need to act fast and throw bucket loads of cash at clubs to stop the TV men taking further control.
 
True & what a spectacle we would end up with, when we have one league to watch with the same boring teams winning the same cups etc
They would sex it up calling it the 'Super league', although it maybe the only league

Yep, much like the Scottish leagues.

The only time I am interested in the Premier League is when Boro are playing in it.
 
Tory governments are heavily criticised and rightly so for making the rich richer and the poor poorer and widening the gap between rich and poor. English football, dominated by the wealthy Premier League, is a microcosm of that only with the differences between rich and poor clubs much greater but they go unchecked and unchallenged. Small clubs like Bury can go to hell as long as United and Citeh just a few miles away can pay their players £200,000 a week. It stinks.
 
I think FIFA have been remarkably quiet on this.

A nonprofit company with a 2.7 billion dollar cash reserve could make a real difference to clubs at a community level, not just in the UK but across the world.

I've never been clear on what FIFA needs such a bulging bank balance, but if they've been saving for a rainy day, this is it.

I'm not talking about PL or even second tier clubs; below that, however, 10000 grants of 200k each could save a load of clubs across the world.

What better could FIFA spend it on?
 
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