Chelsea: Rant and Rave Spectacular!
Posted by Seb in Chelsea | 16 September 2007
As I was watching the famous Chelsea try to untangle the thorny and often volatile web that is Blackburn Rovers, I couldn't help but wonder what the reaction would be like if we failed to win. Surely not, I hear you say. Chelsea, back to back Premier League champions Chelsea, failing to win a *shudder* second game running
Now, some of you may read this and think im being just a tad melodramatic. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day, so too a Premier League campaign isn't ended within the first six games. However, and other so called 'big four' fans can vouch for me on this one, whenever the going gets an incy wincy bit tough, some people decide they've had enough, pack up their things and declare a state of emergency. Jose out, Lampard dropped, Carvalho haircut (well, a few years ago at least), it just gets more and more ridiculous. People aren't prepared to be patient and stick it out any more, at least with top clubs.
What happened to the days of never giving up for the club no matter what, of the away trips in which thousands travelled across the country, defying bans and virtually everything else that stood in their way of watching the Chels play? Well, we all know the answer to that question. A combination of rules and events which swept through the English game like a stormy tidal wave has changed the way we think and talk about football forever. The conversion to all-seater stadia, Sky transforming English atmosphere and it's fans into an international joke. I mean, please, I don't know about anyone else, but seeing a bunch of overweight, face painted, jester hat and replica shirt wearing (with I 8 Germany or something on the back) geezers singing the tune to 'Ring of Fire' isn't exactly my idealistic atmosphere. The Sky generation of football fans as well, who are the fans of discussion in my case, who think that nothing was worth bothering about pre-1992 and that football only got good once it was being whored out to every jack and sally who knocked on the FA's door. I'm not very old myself but at least I appreciate what football really was.
Sky and the media have helped football in a way, with it becoming more accessible to families and children, although the anti-standing brigade will have you know children never attended football when terracing was in place. People who want to sit now have the opportunity to do so. However, even the accessibility has been plagued by suit wearing corporates who are only there because it's the "trendy" thing to do nowadays. Much like lunch, you now go to a big 4 football match instead of a top London restaurant.
Phew, glad to have that off my chest. To wrap up my poorly argued and explained points...
Beautiful game, my arse.
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So Jose out then! What do you think to that?
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