Game 39: Arsene Wenger, Roy Keane, Kevin Keegan and now Gordon Brown agree!
Posted by Martin in Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger | 8 February 2008
Whilst Gordon Brown has said that the Premier League should listen to fans before moving ahead and introducing the overseas games, he seems to be in favour of the change.
However, I'm surprised that he thinks the cash earned from the extra match might be ploughed back into the game, thereby keeping the price of tickets down and appeasing the fans. How likely is that? Seems to be a naive view!
We all know football is big business and because of this, teams are just as eager to look for new revenue streams, in the same way as any other business. So to give the money back to the fans, seems as likely as Derby taking the title this season!
The whole idea, just hasn't been thought through. I’d like to know is, will season ticket holders get access to game 39? At what point in the season will the away, away game be played? How will it be decided which team you play for the third time? etc etc.
O.k so we haven’t heard any real detail, but by the sounds of it neither has Fergie, who's been angered by the fact that managers and players haven’t been consulted.
Anyway, if you're against the idea then sign the Football Supports' Federation petition "No to Game 39".
Comments
I became an Arsenal fan while living in South Africa in 1971. I was attacted to the English game and the way football was played there – with guts, passion and skill. The traditions and historical facts about English football are the best in the world. I made my first pilgrimage to Highbury in 1974 – it's now in my blood.
Leave the English football league where it belongs – in England. Don't destroy what all the players and teams of the past have built up over the last century and more.
The commercialisation of football has taken me a long time to get used to – I know it is supply on demand, shares and all that stuff but don't forget, football will always be the simple game played by ever changing teams and players, watched (in the majority) by ordinary folk (the real fans) who enjoy the basic stucture of the English league system.
This internationalisation of the Premier league smacks of money, money and more money. I, for one, am starting to get fed-up with all this "progress". What next? The FA Cup final to be held in China because they have built a 200 000 seater stadium?
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