Sport on brink of financial collapse: Fears clubs and competitions could fold within weeks. Telegraph online.

Exactly this, would welcome those days back when your football appetite was satisfied with Match if the Day and Shoot, with a blast of punditry from Saint and Greavsie.....đź‘Ť
Yep.
We used to go out for a few beers before the game, a night out after the game - often with a take away - 30 years on there is no way I could afford that. I don't know how people can afford to take their kids to football.

Back in the day going to the football was a bonding experience - Every game a new adventure (especially away games).
 
Which game are you going to this weekend?

There's a few teams around the area and some will have open turnstiles on Saturday afternoon. They are all in need of the local support you're talking about.

Or is it watching the Boro on TV again?
Do we know for certain yet whether fans will still be able to go to non league STEP 3 and below next weekend?
 
Yep.
We used to go out for a few beers before the game, a night out after the game - often with a take away - 30 years on there is no way I could afford that. I don't know how people can afford to take their kids to football.

Back in the day going to the football was a bonding experience - Every game a new adventure (especially away games).
Kids don't go... Do you see any kids there just by themselves? I would guess very few. Really depressing
 
Yep.
We used to go out for a few beers before the game, a night out after the game - often with a take away - 30 years on there is no way I could afford that. I don't know how people can afford to take their kids to football.

Back in the day going to the football was a bonding experience - Every game a new adventure (especially away games).

Non league football, well below national League anyways, is what you crave mate. Get onboard.
 
Non league football, well below national League anyways, is what you crave mate. Get onboard.
I hear you! Unfortunately I live in West Yorks and would find it difficult to bond with a team down here - If I was on Teesside, Stockton would be my go to team. I have considered getting in to Rugby League - Featherstone Rovers (Fev!) or Wakefield Trinity are close by!
 
Academy teams, more foreign players?
There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that any top level sporting business really cares... Again, look at rugby for another example.
Nah, there has to be a channel, foreign lower league teams, no doubt will also be feeling the pinch, you can’t just simply cut out the middle man that is lower league football, there has to be a route for talented footballers, as very few would make premier league academy status.
 
Sounds like you`re a bit too close to Leeds to bond with anything other than pond life.
I had a mate who was into Rugby League - he supported Castleford and came from Ponty.
Mention Featherstone and he would take your pint out your hand!:rolleyes:(n)
Always had a soft spot for the old Hull FC - a proper working class rugby league team. Kingy Rovers were always "the post b*****ds from up road"!
 
Sounds like you`re a bit too close to Leeds to bond with anything other than pond life.
I had a mate who was into Rugby League - he supported Castleford and came from Ponty.
Mention Featherstone and he would take your pint out your hand!:rolleyes:(n)
Always had a soft spot for the old Hull FC - a proper working class rugby league team. Kingy Rovers were always "the post b*****ds from up road"!
Aye - Cass-Vegas is close by! I've never been to see RL but it does look great on the TV. Ultimately though, I think it might be like going to see Speedway - you just never quite get into it ... Boro is a hard habit to break!
 
I hear you! Unfortunately I live in West Yorks and would find it difficult to bond with a team down here - If I was on Teesside, Stockton would be my go to team. I have considered getting in to Rugby League - Featherstone Rovers (Fev!) or Wakefield Trinity are close by!

I go along to Tad Albion. Great fun watching it, get a real mix of styles, a semi decent old fashioned brawl from time to time and mainly players playing for the enjoyment. Last season saw/heard a goalkeeper use the “c” word 20 times in less than a minute as an injury time penalty was missed by his team mate. Had to be separated from the manager.
 
As we all know it's an industry now which has given maybe the wider audience a false sense that their kid could get a job within that industry. Football always been a world labelled as a glamour industry -- those who are lucky enough to be part of it can have their cake and eat it but for many it's still a fairground ride that lasts for a short period before you have to face reality and step into the real world. I really don't buy this idea that the government needs to bail everyone out-- if it goes down the toilet then so be it, but the game will still exist but probably not in the same form that it is now-- which maybe a good thing.
 
I hear you! Unfortunately I live in West Yorks and would find it difficult to bond with a team down here - If I was on Teesside, Stockton would be my go to team. I have considered getting in to Rugby League - Featherstone Rovers (Fev!) or Wakefield Trinity are close by!

I'm sure there'll be a half decent side around you somewhere. Bonding at football doesn't happen straight away. You pop along and if you enjoy it you go back. Sooner or later you're chatting to the regulars and it goes from there.
 
Nah, there has to be a channel, foreign lower league teams, no doubt will also be feeling the pinch, you can’t just simply cut out the middle man that is lower league football, there has to be a route for talented footballers, as very few would make premier league academy status.
Where's the evidence to suggest they are dredging the said channel?
You're right in that there needs to be . production line.. But apart from academies etc .....I don't see the brass
 
Just read the following..
League 1 & 2 clubs are struggling to afford to pay for COVID Testing - they have to find the money themselves.
It is costing around ÂŁ10k per week for testing.

72 clubs are losing roughly ÂŁ72m per month and there could be multiple clubs in administration by Christmas - without fans or without a bail out.
 
This is essentially a natural reset.... it's got out of control with money .... particularly the EPL

If every club 'went bust' - which i highly doubt... a new structure would emerge

Football survived both world wars, I think it will survive coronavirus
 
They are estimating up to 20 clubs could be in administration by Christmas - think about what that means - who they might owe money to locally that will not get paid etc. That is just for the Football League. We are not talking about Premier League and it may not even by the Championship clubs that are spending far more than they earn but clubs in the bottom two tiers previously going concerns - but without fans in their grounds how on earth can they survive?
 
Tell me this then, how many other activities have united the town and area for an open top bus tour bringing everyone out onto the streets? How many other funerals can you think of on Teesside like that of the still much-missed Alastair Brownlee that had the streets lined with people?
Football is a massive unifer still. And a key part of our identity here on Teesside. It really matters.

Don't disagree with any of that. Still won't turn the town and area into a 'desert' if it stops though.
 
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