Feeling exasperated with the Sky 6 and all the VAR, Premier League and FA corrupt unfairness, I decided to do a little research to substantiate my thought that we may as well throw the towel in.
After all, the same favoured teams win every year. The Premier League is not competitive. The same teams win the FA Cup every year as the rest of us put out weakened teams so we can prioritize Premier League safety. So, to prove my point I decided to analyze stats for the last 10 years versus the final 10 years before we had the Premier League.
The results were shocking. In the last 10 years of the corrupt Premier League Sky Big Six era, only four different clubs have won the Premier League trophy. In the same timeframe, only six different teams have won the oldest competition in world football: the FA Cup.
In contrast, when you go back to the good old days of Philip Carter, terracing and Bert Millichip, you find shockingly that, in the last decade of the old First Division… just exactly the same thing happened! There were four clubs that won the First Division Championship and six different clubs teams won the FA Cup!!!
Yeah, I was surprised too. Delving deeper there is a greater discrepancy in some respects. The last 10 years of the old First Division saw 13 clubs crack the top four versus 8 in the last decade. Likewise, the Mickey Mouse (League) Cup had 7 different winners versus 4.
But honestly, I was expecting to find 30-odd clubs had been in the top four in the later years of the old First Division, whereas in fact it was just a select group including some of the usual suspects repeatedly: Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Manchester United. The real difference is that the currently shamed duo of Everton and Nottingham Forest have been usurped by Chelsea and Manchester City.
So my attempt to excuse my negativity and hopelessness has been proven to be complete bullshit and in fact, regardless of how we feel, the actual record suggests things on balance are as they were in the Good Old Days of Bracewell, Ian Wilson and Bobby Mimms.
So, I guess that means… UTFT!