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What Place For Real Fans?
By John Christie
June 28 2009
We are now surrounded by a new football fan. The sky generation pay their subs and watch football from the comfort of their living room. Not for them the travelling, crushes, traffic jams or fighting to buy a warm can of lager at £3 a go.
This is not the future, it arrived years ago, and in this TV field of rich pickings the business world is in heaven, money be their god. Whilst the dollars flow all they will care about is how to extract it more quickly. Next we will have live stream controlled by each individual club. The profit margins are mind boggling for the elite clubs on the world stage.

New stadia may be built, but not for ordinary fans, they'll be built for the corporate market.

Only approx 10 000 extra seats will be available to Liverpool fans on a waiting list of 65000. Some 20,000 will be corporate places. You can see it now at Old Trafford and the Emirates. Full houses they may be, but very grey and very quiet, as real fans have been sacrificed on the high alter of greed.

The future seems a place devoid of traditional fans, the days of football being the working mans game is consigned into the dustbin of history.

Business men may have their greedy hands on footballs golden goose but how long before they kill it?

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What Place For Real Fans?
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