[meandbrenarebaggies]

I think we all accept that the motives and attitudes of those Corinthian Victorian
gents who started league football are far removed from the ambitions and naked
greed of todays football overlords. I suppose I must sulkily admit that Premiership
football is a business not a sporting model enshrining the best examples of human
behaviour. I should not, therefore, expect too much from a sport that has been
stripped of a lot of its original moral intent. The problem is that when you have
tasted; in your youth and participating years; the sheer pleasure of playing to win
every time you have laced your boots, irrespective of the quality of opposition it
is hard to see that sport descend into a situation where the best, most talented,
exponents are routinely told to aim for a draw. O.K. it’s possible to survive for
another year by these methods but it mocks the single biggest reason for having
league football at all…a fair competition between 20 teams over 38 games. The
powers that be are missing a trick. The product they push is stale, formulaic, and
rapidly becoming boring and yet if they made the minimum effort to give all
teams an equal chance they would have a much better sport to sell. (Beefy; Yes
I would take a Win + 2 Losses against 3 Draws any day for emotional reasons not
logical ones)