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We can laugh but this really is another step on the ladder to Americanisation and global branding ............Money money money money money money money...... nothing else matters and the fans are not even an after thought.
The peoples game is no more. It's the the Multi Millionaire's game and us mugs carry on feeding it.
I feel little sympathy for Hull or Cardiff fans usually but this is bollocks not just for them but every club who's owners want to re-brand an otherwise non fashionable Permier club. QPR are lucky that they seem to have chairman who knows what the identity of the club means.
We can laugh but this really is another step on the ladder to Americanisation and global branding ............Money money money money money money money...... nothing else matters and the fans are not even an after thought.
The peoples game is no more. It's the the Multi Millionaire's game and us mugs carry on feeding it.
I feel little sympathy for Hull or Cardiff fans usually but this is bollocks not just for them but every club who's owners want to re-brand an otherwise non fashionable Permier club. QPR are lucky that they seem to have chairman who knows what the identity of the club means.
This was my initial reaction I have to admit, didn't find it hilarious - just rather sad and indicative of the way football's going..
We can laugh but this really is another step on the ladder to Americanisation and global branding ............Money money money money money money money...... nothing else matters and the fans are not even an after thought.
The peoples game is no more. It's the the Multi Millionaire's game and us mugs carry on feeding it.
I feel little sympathy for Hull or Cardiff fans usually but this is bollocks not just for them but every club who's owners want to re-brand an otherwise non fashionable Permier club. QPR are lucky that they seem to have chairman who knows what the identity of the club means.
I am not sure if it's 'Americanisation'. The thing that is striking is the lack of democracy, as that Cardiff fan pointed out in his rant against Vincent Tan. The cruder owners merely show up the lack of democracy more clearly.
The idea that their name is the only thing that’s stopped the Far East from falling in love with Hull City shows a wonderful refusal to accept the fact that Hull City have won fu ck all over the years and most overseas PL fans are glory-hunting divs with little imagination or sense of romance. Having said that, look at Cardiff — change to red, get a Dragon on the badge and all of a sudden, you can’t move for Cardiff shirts in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
The idea that their name is the only thing that’s stopped the Far East from falling in love with Hull City shows a wonderful refusal to accept the fact that Hull City have won fu ck all over the years and most overseas PL fans are glory-hunting divs with little imagination or sense of romance. Having said that, look at Cardiff — change to red, get a Dragon on the badge and all of a sudden, you can’t move for Cardiff shirts in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
Exactly why I despair when people sit there saying a 40k stadium would be great for us. Teams like Utd and 'Pool took decades of success to get where they are with foreign fans.
There is no democracy and in times such as these, the clubs owners could quite easily ask why should there be?
If you owned a sweetshop, would you pander to the customer who came every day and spent 50p every day on two packs of Polo's? AKA the average fan
Or would you pander to the customer who uses your website and more then quadruples your annual income with a huge order once a year every year? AKA the Televison Broadcasters.
It makes perfect business sense of course, but football when it started wasnt about a business industry.
Premiere League clubs can now theoretically function behind closed doors as long as the games are being shown globally and they get their big Premier League subsidies.
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