Goodison gets Uefa makeover

The supporters have all the power in football. Unfortunately, we're all too disorganised to do anything about this. I'm not talking about individual pressure groups organised locally, I mean a national supporters federation that has the influence to call fan boycotts, marches on Wembley, direct action on the all day jolly up to pick 6 balls out of a bowl and other ways that enable the MILLIONS of fans who disagree with the way the game is run to assert themselves on what is, essentially and vitally, our game.

All fans of all clubs put up with atrocious conditions and terrible treatment by the authorities for decades. The TV moguls don’t really care what fills the airwaves as long as it draws in the audiences in huge numbers and if necessary, if the grounds did for some reason start to resemble those of the late 80s and early 90s, they would probably just use CGI to create an appropriate atmosphere for the viewer.

But it is interesting to read the demands made by Uefa and its hangers-on just to stage what is the equivalent of a 5th Round FA Cup tie.

These clubs and their mates at Uefa are parasites that feed off the rest of us for players, points and potential new fans (and thus income) so why do we play by their disgusting rules?

And yes, I was one of those who thought the big RM banner and "Sin Miedo" hanging off the side of the Main Stand in August was way too frigging soon.

Football, born of the graft of the working man, is likewise now a plaything of the wealthy.

This is about it for me after 40 years of being a football fanatic, the passion has waned. No longer the beautiful game. Think I'll take up some other interest.

I have been following English football since I was a wee boy after Dave Mckay went to Spurs, listening to the wireless, swapping programmes, buying anything I could get my hands on pertaining to the old First Division, because it was the best, most exciting honest league in the world. Everton adopted me after watching extra time in the 1968 FA Cup Final because that’s all we could get up here at that time>

I am totally sick, scunnered [a good old Scottish word] watching what passes for English football nowadays – the cheating, diving, doing anything to get the opposition sent off, and the out-and-out favouritism shown to certain players, clubs and managers, they are actually killing the golden goose with their shocking behaviour. COYB

As much as I agree with your point in general I must point out the rather exaggerated point that season ticket holders were "shifted from their seats to watch a big game from behind pillars". The STHs were given 5 days to buy up the best seats before they went on general sale.

I got mine when they went on the first day of general sale and sat in the 3rd row of the Upper Bullens right on the half way line, not a pillar in sight.

As for a national group of fans trying to change things check out the Twenty's Plenty petition which is looking to protect away fans from the money grabbing culture you have described...