Message #427771

[Melbourne Cobbler]

The problem is that I believe there are different responsibilities to running a football club? The greatest of which is to be custodians of what is really an institution of historical importance? We have been fortunate enough to be from a town that has a football league club. If you are like me the club has been supported by my family for generations. My earliest shared experiences with my Dad as a child was watching Northampton Town, as were my fathers with his.
All of that history and emotion wrapped up in that claret shirt, memories and pleasures that will be with me for my entire life. Yet history has shown us that a number of owners have come in with little regard for any of that history? With self serving indulgence they have treated the club as anything from an ego trip, to a gravy train and investment opportunity and all points in between?
Egged on by many in the support base drunk on the prospect of self gratification they pump more and more money into the club, risking its very future and possibly denying future generations the opportunity to support the club and enjoy the experiences we have had? Was ours a unique story then perhaps it may be different, but it is spread across the lower leagues at virtually every club? Like a reflection of society itself, the mantra for many football club owners is spend now worry about it later and damn the consequences.
Those that are not spending are draining it dry with ridiculous salaries drawn from clubs that never make a profit, cars, property renovations and god knows what else whilst they seek worship from the directors box. The majority of these abhorrent individuals couldn’t direct p1ss into a bucket? Football has proved itself incapable of running itself in the best of times.
Now in the midst of the biggest crisis to unfold in generations the governing bodies have shown themselves to be once again weak and incapable of acting in the interests of the sport and institutions we all love. This is by giving these lunatics license to spend what they want, when they want endorsed by a fan base who state that if they are stupid enough to spend it than that’s their problem?
This is despite all of them to a club putting their hands out for the recent bale out? What an absolutely appalling and disgusting approach to take? The governing bodies and football generally speaking including the support base should hang their heads in shame? But my greatest anger is reserved for the many owners who have no doubt heaped pressure on the EFL to remove the restrictions and give them license back to continue on with their selfish and misguided ego trip into the unknown?
They should never be let anywhere near the position of responsibility they have found themselves in the first place. When is everyone going to wake up and do something. Change a roof tile on a 150 year old building and the government goes mad. Drive a club that has been supported by thousands and thousands for generations into oblivion unchecked then no problem, the worlds gone mad?