Studs Up

An article on The Guardian has popped up that has given me some faith that the near-retarded men who run football are actually proactively trying to improve the sport, rather than the usual last minute band-aid solutions that never work.

Basically, the proposal is to enforce the policies of the Arsene Wenger School of Football Economics – basically, you can only spend from what you make. Makes sense, doesn’t it? All it took was a global economic crisis and a 100 million bid for Kaka for anyone to give it some serious thought.

Understandably, that’s only as far as transfers and salaries are concerned. If some bored billionaire wants to throw his cash at building Stoke a 100,000 seater stadium, he can. But hastily constructing a superstar dream team will remain just that, a dream.

It’s the right, and only, solution to maintain one of football’s most appealing factors to the average fan – the sense that they are witnessing something organic, born through intelligence, hard work and support in the team. The billionaires are ripping all of that away from the fans, and that’s a horrible future for the sport.

Whether FIFA, UEFA and whoever else actually manages to s**t now that they’re sitting on the pot, is another matter.