FSF campaign against Prem overseas

[pauld]

The Football Supporters Federation have launched a campaign against Gam£ (sic) 39. More info at:
http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/news0095no-to-game-39.html

They've also got a poll of whether fans are in favour or not if you want to get some quick-hit retro Adver poll style endorphins:
http://www.fsf.org.uk/site-pages/poll.html

Have to say the more I think about it, the more I don't mind Premiership sides going overseas to play, as long as they're then not allowed back in to the UK. Cut the whole damn lot adrift and let them set up a Global Franchise League of Greed and leave the rest of us to get on with seeing if we can repair the damage they've already done to English football. Erm, not that it makes my blood boil or anything

[Summerof69]

A national on-line petition has just gone up on the Football Supporters’
Federation website at:

http://www.fsf.org.uk/petitions/no-to-game-39/index.php

This is the first of many initiatives which the FSF will either initiate
and/or support. There’s another on-line petition at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/Rocky7/petition.html

Please sign up.

[genf_stfc]

Have to say the more I think about it, the more I don't mind Premiership sides going overseas to play, as long as they're then not allowed back in to the UK. Cut the whole damn lot adrift and let them set up a Global Franchise League of Greed and leave the rest of us to get on with seeing if we can repair the damage they've already done to English football. Erm, not that it makes my blood boil or anything

I'm with you on this one - fuck 'em, doesn't matter a shit to me.  I'd be perfectly happy winning the chanmpionship, getting a nice cup then having another go next year without promotion being an issue.  Let the Arabs go and watch Blackburn v. VIlla if they want.

I also think that an England team from the League wouldn't do any worse than the one we have now and the games would be a lot more entertaining with a team of have a go cloggers without the media circus.

[reeves4england]

I haven't missed a Reading game for 4 years home or away, Game 39 forgets about the loyal fans who spend thousands of pounds a year following their side

4 years watching Reading? Loyal? Do one  :x

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Have to say the more I think about it, the more I don't mind Premiership sides going overseas to play, as long as they're then not allowed back in to the UK. Cut the whole damn lot adrift and let them set up a Global Franchise League of Greed and leave the rest of us to get on with seeing if we can repair the damage they've already done to English football. Erm, not that it makes my blood boil or anything

A-fucking-men my brother.

That....what can I call him?....I am struggling here....the only word I think of which will do in this instance (sorry ladies) CUNT, Daniel Levy was spouting on this morning on SPN. It was along the lines of, "Oooh, we have so many fans around the World and we really need to start thinking of them".

Oh do fuck off you greedy cunt. How fucking dumb do you think people are?

Cunt.

[Reg Smeeton]

I'm all for this stuff....after all we gave the world the game, and had  an empire on which the sun never set, time to combine the two....its our manifest destiny.

 Blackburn v Bolton in Bahrain got to be a winner.

[pauld]

How fucking dumb do you think people are?

I don't think you want to know the answer to that.

[swindon-chap]

I quite like the idea
Would be cool to see Man Utd - Arsenal in China!
Gives clubs a much bigger fan base as well etc, don't see why it shouldn't happen tbh.

[Samdy Gray]

don't see why it shouldn't happen tbh.

Because the Premier League & their member clubs are money grabbing bastards.

[swindon-chap]

Hey, if we're in the Premier League in a few years we won't be complaining about the money!

[reeves4england]

Hey, if we're in the Premier League in a few years we won't be complaining about the money!

Nope, just complaining about the fact that we are going to get relegated because we've drawn Chelsea away in our final game, which is to be played in Dubai so I can't even see it

[axs]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7235912.stm

cheap popularity win for Mr Brown.

[Sussex]

Hey, if we're in the Premier League in a few years we won't be complaining about the money!

We will if we're having to pay for flights to Beijing.

[flammableBen]

However much I disagree with the average premier league club fan you bump into in the pub on a Sunday afternoon. You have to accept that there are genuine fans out there, and it's not the ones you bump into in the pub.

I'd be fucked off if I was one of the premier/championship yoyo teams (or first offs) that suddenly had a game they couldn't go too because of an expensive flight.

The whole thing is finance generating gone one step too far. There's been enough money grabbing antics from our newly(ish) created top flight as it is. But something about this shouts to me like it's a step over a line. Something that will put the top flight of English football another step from the week to week support that is watching your local team.

Maybe I'm emotionalising it a bit to myself. And compared to the other things which have happened since the premier league's been formed, like the massive change in tv money distribution, it's not that much of a big deal. But it does seem like it's one of those ideas that steps over a cliff edge, however much you wave your arms you're falling to a place I don't want football to go. Like putting a fat bird on a camel which is already carrying too much straw. And any other metaphors I can think of.

[Summerof69]

I quite like the idea
Would be cool to see Man Utd - Arsenal in China!
Gives clubs a much bigger fan base as well etc, don't see why it shouldn't happen tbh.

You should see some of the comments on the FSF petition, summed up by this :

As an Englishman living abroad who can watch ANY premier league game I want by clicking a button on my remote, I can categorically state that the premier league is already a worldwide phenomenon. This proposal is about MORE MONEY, nothing else!  

http://www.fsf.org.uk/petitions/no-to-game-39/signed.php?ID=&di=#namelist