United we stand,together we fall. (Football Association vs Sky)

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Product:	Football Association vs Sky
Date:	20/10/01 (53 review reads)
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Advantages: Players can afford it

Disadvantages: Everyone is picking the soon to be corpse

We not want to think about it,but we are heading for a players strike in the depths of the gray winter when we need it the most. All live English league games are going to be boycotted by the players in pursuit of a bigger cut of that TV revenue.

All players join the union paying seventy pounds a year membership. The top three percent go onto make big bucks and often become millionaires. But that ratio is dropping every year with more and more mercenary foreigners flooding the game on short-term contracts.
They are irrelevant as far as unions go and supporting young players who don’t make the grade are not what our imports are about.

The loss of transfer revenues to lower league clubs now the Bosman rulings here is colossal. In 1999 there were no third division players transferred to The Premiership with all the connotations of that lost revenue.
With out the Kevin Keegans and Kevin Phillips going straight to the top clubs for a million plus hardly any of the big money is filtering down.
The culture has got to change so the lower league clubs that are discovering our national team of the future get more revenues.

There are less than 200 English birth right player left in The Prem ho can play for England with over half the league being of foreign national descent. Soon it will be like the cricket team where we have to poach from other countries and dodgy English Grand Parents to make up the numbers.
Maybe Erricsson has a similar plan to fill that troubling left back problem that this mercenary situation has bought about.
Half of the cricket team was born outside of the UK, as our domestic talent prefers a three-year social degree at university than the chance to be a sports star.

Weather the strike is right or wrong, it does highlight the issue that the clubs and the FA are picking most of the TV money for doing little. The player’s union argument is that they spend the money they have on the player&
#8217;s welfare and football related projects.
90 off kids that have a trial and pay in to the union on day one never make the grade. The ones who pick up crippling injuries in the second eleven games are finished and deserve some help to get them another career. How many industries offer that these days.

It’s a clear dispute between the union looking to get more of that TV money bonanza that the Football associations are not going to give up easily. They want five percent of it to increase the player’s welfare and coaching education schemes.
The greedy FA just wants the money for their own get rich schemes to. Two days after Beck’s amazing free kick against Greece a whole crowd of FA top brass were eating and drinking away that TV money at a top restaurant of their choice.
No where to be seen were the England players and management. I think that’s what’s p***g of Gordon Taylor of the players union most. The union is also guilty of decadence as they spent a million or so on that Lowery painting.

There is an argument to say that the players who are a pawn in a devious get more money for the union heads, are being very selfish.
Why don’t they pay in more money, which they clearly can afford.
But its only three in a hundred that get near two grand a week and they tend to have insurance policies and investments and tend not to need the welfare bail outs and schemes.
They want to forego their rights to the bulk of the TV money so it can be filtered down to the lower league journeymen.

I don’t think the union has a chance against Rick Parry’s lawyers and the strike will be scared off. Either way, this should not be being played out in the open making the players look even dumber and more selfish. If there is a strike though it could tip the game over the abyss with the stuttering economy. Five years from now and football could be descimated.

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