English football and footballers

Football is like a religion and marmite- either love it or hate it!!! The problem with modern football is money, too much money has started to ruin the beautiful game. When the English Premier League was created in February 1992 they sold the live TV rights to sky and since then Sky and ESPN have shown all the premier league games and none have ever been shown on terrestrial TV, because of this TV money teams have been able to spend more on players and their wages, improving training grounds, football stadiums and there academies, all good in principle but and this is a major but chairmen and owners have gone over the top on spending and we have seen clubs (Leeds, Portsmouth) go bust/ majorly backwards over chasing the dream and it failing! Chelsea and Manchester City have mega rich owners who can back the clubs without batting too much of an eye lid, but what will happen when these mega rich owners have had enough and pull out? who knows. Some clubs are properly run and work within there means, which the fans are happy with. When a club gets relegated from the premier league they receive parachute payments which is a good idea to help them out in the next few seasons but when the payments have ran out and the team have not got back in the premier league they struggle with the reduced cash flow and so they have to sell their best players and find it harder to get promoted back to the premier league, but when they get promoted back up they get a massive pay day (£90 million) so you get championship teams pushing and pushing for this massive pay day!!!!

English football also suffers from the amount of foreign players coming in, they are cheaper to buy, can be paid less. This gives young English players less of a chance to succeed in the premier league unless they are one in a million player (Rooney, Wilshere, Walcott). Foreign players have bought a new dynamic and skills to the premier league and made all of the fans sit up and go wow, but they have bought problems too, hard to understand, moan about the weather, get big headed, think they are bigger than the club itself. I do think the balance of English to foreign players is balancing back to more English, this can be down to better English players coming through the youth system, club managers/ owners getting fed up with media/ fan pressure in buying less foreign players and the smaller premier league clubs not spending so much on transfer fees.

Due to the amount of money the footballers are paid per week is making them become millionaires over night and detached form everyday life which some fans are jealous of and don't like but its the way these things go. Fair play to player who donate money to charity and help out in the local community.