Money In Sport

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Is money ruining our beautiful game? Football (soccer to those across the pond) is seemingly becoming a one horsed race in England with Chelsea FC and the millions (well billions) of pounds behind it in the form of Russian oil tycoon Roman Abramovich already ten points clear in the Premiership.

Is this the end for competition? Does anyone have any similar stories from their sports and countries? IS there light at the end of the tunnel. Is money the dominant factor in who succeeds and who fails????
 
Listen, every professional league has a team that thinks that they can buy their way to the finals of whatever the name of the tournament is called. Sometimes it works (New York Yankess, baseball) sometimes it doesn't (New York Rangers, hockey) but there are literally countless examples of a team with a big budget. What I think is ruining sports are the greedy players themselves asking for astronomically ridiculous paychecks (this is in every sport) not to mention the mass comercialization of every single sport. American Football's Super Bowl is watched by people more to see the half-time show and the new TV ads than the game itself, Stadiums of every sport are now named after large corporations and hockey (of which i know most about) used to sport completely white sideboards and ice up to the early 90's, now every inch is taken up by corporate logos (including Waste Management!!! when the trash companies adverties you know something has gone too far). How else has money ruined sports? Taking Hockey as an example again you get teams in Phoenix (the dessert), Florida (the swamps) and Nashville (the hillbillies) because they are bigger markets (sadly) than Canadian cities. Thus greedy players, commercialization of a GAME (yes it still should be about having fun) and displacement and shuffling of teams and players for the sake of bigger bucks is what is ruining sports.
 
Sure, Roman Ibramovic is ruining the English game, but as soon as the tax man or the police catches him... It'll be curtains for Chelsea. I look forward to that day.
 
Abramovich won't be caught by the tax man, because his entire income is legal as far as British tax laws are concerned, mate. He stole it all from Russians, a proud English tradition dating back hundreds of years.
 
The sad thing is that the players' huge wages come straight out of the supporters' pockets. It now costs me £25 to see my lowly QPR each week. [!--emo&:(--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/sad.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'sad.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
This is very sad, because it's happening all around the world, but this is certainly our way of life's fault because most of us live in a Capitalism and those are the fruits Capitalism give.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-thegodthatish+Nov 28 2005, 11:59 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(thegodthatish @ Nov 28 2005, 11:59 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Is money ruining our beautiful game? Football (soccer to those across the pond) is seemingly becoming a one horsed race in England with Chelsea FC and the millions (well billions) of pounds behind it in the form of Russian oil tycoon Roman Abramovich already ten points clear in the Premiership.

Is this the end for competition? Does anyone have any similar stories from their sports and countries? IS there light at the end of the tunnel. Is money the dominant factor in who succeeds and who fails????
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You support Manchester United, correct? The same as me. I think this argument about "Chelsea buying the league" is a bit rich coming from any red like us. We have started the trend of overpriced players and enormous transfer fees (Ferdinand £30m, Rooney £28m etc etc) so I don't think we can start crying and claim that Chelsea have brought about the decline of football. (Sir) Alex Ferguson started the decline and now he has no answer to Chelsea's power.
 
I have a season ticket for Northampton Town. Thank god, i'd hate having to shell out each week, one payment is good for me. I do however travel to every away game too, costs me a bomb.

As for the money ruining football, well its certainly ruining the Premiership, but thats been crap for years. Lower league football is a lot more exciting.
 
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