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Champions League - they're having a laugh!
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Not just us, but Villa, Spurs, Portsmouth and any other team hoping to crack the Sky 4. The prize money and money earned from television etc has now given these clubs even more of an advantage than in recent seasons. Take Liverpool for instance. They "earned" £20million last year from Europe and have spent it on a top class striker. Who are we going to spend our £500,000 on? Just getting past the group stages of the Champions League is now worth the equivalent of a rights issue. Even the likes of Talk Sport are talking about a team to finish "Best of the Rest" because they know no team has a realistic chance of cracking the Sky 4. It irks me when Peter Kenyon has the gall to tell other clubs to put their house in order.
What can we do about it? For a start I am urging every neutral fan not to watch the Champions League on Television. Hit the ratings. Let the missus watch the romantic movie on Film 4 or whatever the BBC has to offer. Read a book. Watch re-runs of Rotterdam. Whatever you do don't watch the Champions League. Ratings go down and the advertisers think twice about paying extortionate sums to get a prime slot. Don't forget they have already dropped one of the group stages through poor ratings, there used to be two group stages, then the knock-out stage.
Also, don't buy a paper the next day either, some of the drivel the sports writers serve up couldn't be more obsequious. Make the money grabbers realise that by getting richer and getting the best players they have made the Premier League less competitive and less of a spectacle. The fight back against the greedy fat cats called the Sky 4 starts here!
Keith Piper, Posted 01/08/2008 at 10:36:30
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1) I dont have sky sports so Champions League (and us in the Eufa) is pretty much the only footy I get to watch.
2) If we qualified for the Champions League group stages would you still boycott the matches due to making a stand against the crazy money clubs in the competition would make?
3) Everton fans boycotting the Champions League games is hardly even going to make a dent in the millions of viewers they get every game.
and most importantly...
4) Giving the missus the remote control is a very very very dangerous game!!! It is a common male urge to guard the remote control with dear life. So much so that many of us will actually take the remote control with us at half time of a footy match, else the missus will change channel to ’The Hills’, ’Laguna Beach’, ’Hogan/Brook knows best’, ’Living Lohan’, ’Total Calum Best’, ’Totaly Kerry Katona’ etc etc... cause you know as soon as your back from having a slash she’ll say "well its half time" not understanding how integral to watching footy the half time analysis is to our overall enjoyment of the game... even if it just so we can sit there and disagree with everything Hansen et al come out with.
You have been warned!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I BEG OF YOU!
Keep taking the tablets mate! Just remember you're subscribing to their future transfer fund.
are you a script writer for Jimmy Tarbrush?
What was wrong with playing 2 legs in a tie and if you drew another "big team" in an early round you just got on with it and played them? What was wrong with an even distribution of competition cash?
It?s all about making the "big boys" more and more powerful so they pull further and further away till in the end the formation of a super league benefits everybody. The main 4 in each league will want yet more cash and the prestige of being in the super league and all the other teams will be glad to see the back of them so the league is competitive again. We need to get back to the main aim of football being about winning not about how much money you get for winning.
I find you comments barbaric.
Sorry.
I think this is a good idea, but I just don’t see it taking off really.
Have you been hiding in my house!?!?
Unless there is a radical change in the near future then I think the game will be up for us and clubs like Villa, City etc as we cannot hope to compete on such an uneven playing field.
I’m waiting for ’Total Davie Moyes’ though on MTVR... A series following our Davie through his usual pre-season strife’s at the club regarding transfer funds etc.
Tune into the game when they’re about to go out. Enjoy the moment!
We need these clubs to go out of the competition as early as possible
There are supporters of clubs in all the main European leagues who are not going to play in this competition who must feel as we do. Let’s find out.
My missus loves celebrity tittle tattle and I get it both barrels mate - I feel your pain!
a) A girlfriend who dislikes football
or
b) A girlfriend who supports Newcastle United
I think we’ll all agree I made the right choice ;)
have you heard of the internet?
It’s a new development that might just catch on!
Do the fans of these clubs have their own websites?
I think his missus must have broken him, the poor soul! "
That would have been the strap-on that she used on him :0)
Andy - right decision made mate!
Watch the Mancs or the shite ? I’d sooner watch fucken Holby city
But won?t it be 2 doves? They went in two by two didn?t they?
Once bitten....
Fair play to you mate, at least the shite you watch isnt red
IMHO the basic problem seems to stem from the basic injustice of the western economic system based on interest which ultimately and often imperceptibly and sooner than we realise assumes its inherently usurious nature.
There is more and more a recognition that the traditional banking institution has failed as a responsible self-regulatory component of general economic stability.Hence in our parts of the world and in the UK too moves are being made to launch Ethical Banking based on the Islamic Economic System wherein interest is shunned as inherently evil. HSBC for example now has a department offering such services.
Only yesterday on Radio France a renowned French economics expert was making a plea that banking practices be reviewed and regulated because of the shambles and indebtedness it is causing all round.
So long as The People continue to condone interest based banking,inequity and social injustice will prevail the world over. We need to start saying no,enough is enough.
Let's face it Everton FC borrows to finance new players and Davey+that nearwaste Pip?s odious salaries, then makes European Championship to mainly service these debts. In one word debt + interest means more debt. A vicious circle of effective slavery to the bankers.
The ?Shari?ah? or Ethical Banking as the West calls it despite the zionist media?s mostly villyfying Islam in contrast shuns interest (which BTW turns money into a commodity it certainly is not and only just a means of exchange) as per Prophetic teachings of The Prophets of Islam Mohammed and Jesus as well I might add.
Further the gold parity of money having been eliminated has caused too much power being thrown in the hands of the few banking barons.For more info kindly make Google searches on Aaron Russo and Sen. Ron Paul.
For someone like me of MiddleEastern extraction the imperial urgency of looking at new models does not come from a subjective perspective but is quite a real concern for we ourselves have been at the brunt end of interest based indebtedness post colonialism.
It's only now the majestic beauty of the legacy to the whole of humankind of The Prophetic Econonomic model surfaces upon us.Still the responsibility lies on all our shoulders to make ot prevail on the inherently evil.
Say Payback terms were based on on percentages of actual gate receipts tv ads etc, in other words the bank becomes a partner in the profitability of Everton and a reasonable share profit recycles into the bank launching new club investments and more paybacks.
IMHO Davey should have applied the same model as the previous years with buying only one big name and getting lower division as well as getting the youngsters involved earlier. Who Knows with some adventurousness on his part a la WengArs we might become the ones to be looked up to in the Premier League once again.
PS. Can you imagine the impact of removing your cash from the banking circuit as a mass protest to save the club from these morons?
I plead for the indulgence of all my fellow Evertonian Scouses and everyone of the Evertonian blue persuasion for this rather long expose but I guess it may hopefully bring a different perspective to the issue. Once again sorry I may have bored you. COYB.
And in that wider context we as a group are sadly hugely unrepresented. Over to Bill... again :)


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