Football Clubs Are Getting Kid Gloves Treatment...

....and, much as I love the game and wouldn't like any club to fold, its beginning to rub a bit thin. Just how much can a club be in the financial s**t, Pompey were about as far gone as it seems possible to be, but, once again, after all the tales of excess and the consequent defaulting on just about everything possible-another club is saved and rises from the ashes. If they get promoted this season, what has their punishment been? Nothing.

I don't care for this "oh, the poor fans" bulls**t either. Other companies and businesses, where the rules do seem to apply on lending, borrowing, and meeting your financial commitments go under, swiftly and savagely, people think, rightly, of the lot of the employees and their families, also the sub contractors and all the other people and organisations that will suffer, but rarely is there the sort of sympathy and feedback for them that you get in football and the "poor fans", they, for the most part, are not losing their homes, their jobs.

Leeds, Liverpool, Portsmouth-all saved. As usual, just as matters seem most dire, most severe, just as it all looks as if the club is, really is this time, going to go under-lo and behold, they are saved. Its brinkmanship of a Rooney nature, and you can be sure that, the next time we hear that a club is about to go, and that all rescue bids have failed, then salvation is actually just around the corner.

Meanwhile, the small town business that employs 35 people can go under and f**k off forever, usually for a tiny fraction of the debt involved with examples such as Portsmouth. And no-one cares. The dickhead with his tattos and the bell, it seems, is far more a precious commodity, along with his team that did as it liked and lived to tell the tale.

Posted By: Martin Peters, Oct 24, 11:25:16