It’s been like this for decades have you just forgotten the last 30 years?
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My mates a city fan , is trying to get his lad interested in the bluebirds but all he talks about is mo saleh and Liverpool
Most of his mates , at school , in Cardiff are man united or Liverpool fans
The only way we will ever break this cycle of local kids supporting the rich clubs is in effect to become one of them and establish city in the top flight for a decade and maybe win something
God I hope Leicester catch up Liverpool , one of the founding members of the greedy league , along with Everton , united , spurs and arsenal
It’s been like this for decades have you just forgotten the last 30 years?
Nothing to do with the PL. Weve more fans now than pre PL.
The Man U and Liverpool lot are just armchair followers.
Nothing beats live football supporting your club. There are more City fans in local schools as the Man U and Liverpool ones almost certainly never go to a game.
Well there have always been big clubs but since the formation of the premier league by those clubs who felt they were more important than anyone else , its got far worse
I was picked up by a taxi driver in Bridgend the other day , a massive city fan who was telling me his son in laws kid is training with Cardiff city
Despite this his son in law supports , well watches , Liverpool on the telly and has never been to see city despite his son playing for one of the junior sides
Yet thanks to the devil that is sky his son in law can put on his Liverpool top and watch them live on the telly , as he has done since he has been a kid
I hate Liverpool , united , arsenal , spurs and Everton and love it when they get beaten , they have ruined football
Caught a bit of Hawksby & Jacobs on TS earlier. They always talk sense but today they had a bloke on who was talking about the role VAR has in football and how it will develop over the next few seasons whereby supporters/viewers will hear the ref or a bloke in West London explaining the reason for the decision. They thought this was brilliant and 'just what the fans want'.
I seriously doubt they were being genuine, but Sky, BT, and all the media companies have been pushing for VAR for years. For them it adds another bit of 'excitement', another item to debate, play back, get the pundits' opinions. The problem is, every fan who actually goes to a game hates VAR. But that's 10,000, 20,000, or 60,000. There are probably millions worldwide watching on TV etc, and today, they're the real 'footie fans'. We're just extras making up the scenery..
Indeed but that's because we have been relatively successful , as in being a championship club
But we have had an fa cup final , Wembley play off appearances and two cracks at the top flight , not forgetting the Carling cup near miss with Liverpool
Yet still local kids and adults ignore us and support the greedy boys
In my view the money and media exposure of the premier league is to blame for this and also for the financial ruination of many clubs trying to get there , including us
Its a poisoned chalice
Absolutely
My facebook feed is full of videos Liverpool supporters celebrating or singing songs about players from armchair fans who will never, ever be there.
They do not have the match day experience and this is their way of expressing they are 'part of it' - load of bollox if you ask me
Oh and by the way Hawksby and Jacobs do not talk sense - they are extremely dismissive of anything outside of the top 6
Could one argue that the premier league has enhanced football by :
Making it a viewable and marketable product for many more fans via TV .
Brought in world class footballers and managers.
Pushed down the leagues more talented players because of the foreign imports .
Attendances increased in other leagues due to football becoming more fashionable .
Bought in and kept on board youngsters , who have so many other electronic interests and distractions .
Seen new fabulous stasis builds .
Pushed money into lower leagues .
Isn't the Championship now one of the most rewarding and talented leagues in Europe because of the desire to reach the Premiership?
Unfortunately this is how it is. I am currently in the school system.
My year is about 240 kids, give or take 50/50 boys and girls. Let’s say 60% of boys and 5% of girls are interested in football. That leaves 78 kids. Including me, there are 6 Cardiff fans. There are also 5/6 big club fans in my form... there are 9 forms.
It’s just the sad reality of modern day football, fans prefer to access their club in the comfort of their own home than at the stadium. Not me though, I’ve been brought up the right way.
It's the same in every country, in most if not all sports.
It's a bit of an odd human trait. With kids you can at times forgive it and hope that with age they learn there is more to football than sky TV and chatting to your fellow "fans" on Facebook. Unfortunately some never grow out of it.
But the plastics aren’t real fans are they sludge? The kids sitting at home watching Liverpool no nothing about what it means to actually go to a game, just a top maybe and a pizza while watching a club 200 miles or so away. It’s like living a lie.....I feel sorry for them
Of course it has something to do with the Premiership , the closer we get to it the bigger its appeal to the fans , which in turn results in higher attendances and revenues .
And there is more trickle down money than ever before , the play off final is reported as one of the richest tournaments in the world (alledgly worth 160 million )
Before the Premiership if you got relegated to division 2 you didn't get anything like the millions you do now .
If we dislike the Premiership so much, why do we support and crave winning and promotion .
Am I missing something?
https://www.football365.com/news/ama...n-new-frontier
You'll enjoy that sludge
Yes we all know a few, I got mates who pretend to follow spurs or Liverpool, never been there if course and lots of this type decided to go to France 2016 but never followed welsh club sides. We are def fighting back compared to the 80’s or 90’s when we only had 5000 crowds. If we could get up again and stay there for 5-10 years we’d wipe the disease of South Wales away a bit more.