Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Football is Entertainment

You can't buy a simple Mars bar anymore at Arsenal, you can only buy a £3.80 pot of Maltezsers -- the sort you would purchase on a trip to the theatre. It's a clear message that Premiership football is being marketed as entertainment to the upwardly mobile, rather than what it should be: meat pies and painful watching for the masses.

And talking of painful watching, Oxford United's Chairman seems desperate to shank his investment into deep water. A lack of action on the managerial front sees the fanbase evaporating at a fatal rate. No fans = no money. No money = administration and/or no chance of escaping the BSP. Administration means end of the club in the short-term. No escaping the BSP means end of the club in the long-term. And not a single £3.80 box of Maltezsers in sight.