Soccer

Exactly. And you have to understand the mentality of American sports
ownership where they have closed Major Leagues without promotion or
relegation. It doesn't matter to the owners (most of them anyway) if the
club is successful as long as they act as cash cows to fleece the fans.

There was quite a lot of talk in Major League Baseball lately where they
have a 'luxury tax' and revenue sharing so that the bigger clubs have to pay
the smaller ones when they are successful. You have a team like the New York
Yankees whose late boss (generally loathed by opposing fans) did actually
care about winning and put his money where his mouth was paying out hundreds
of millions of dollars to the little clubs whose owners stashed it straight
in to bank accounts in the Cayman Islands whilst investing bugger all in the
teams.

That's what we are now I'm afraid. While the owners would like success -
they're not going to part with a penny to pay for it. As long as they keep
raking in the money they will be happy.

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From: "Colin Rowlands" <crowlands@rim.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:41 PM
To: <lfc@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [lfc] Re: Where the backup striker for Nando?

>> Maybe the main reason I'm sceptical towards Roy. If we're skint and
>> we're not
>> going to develop youths, what are we basing our future success on? Our
>> history
>> alone? Our greatness as a club? Or are we just hoping someone will
> bail
>> us out?
>>
>
> You are making a flawed assumption that we are doing anything about
> future success, the club is about covering the next interest payment,
> little more than a large scale version of the person who has run up a
> creditcard bill and just about manages to make the minimum payments.
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