Football

Mate where have you been for the last 100 yrs. admittedly it has been rampant since '91 but my point is that none of this is new. Get used to it.

I think it's because I grew up watching Northwich Victoria, where you actually knew some of the players and could talk to the manager/owner. The club has since been run into the ground, had a historic stadium demolished and a new one repossessed, while I moved away and my attention moved to bigger clubs where this sort of thing is just as rife.

Since the team from my hometown, Chester FC, reformed as a fan-owned club, and after living in Germany and experiencing football and what it means there, I've come to realise that it can be better.

And for your information many plastics are just people who know where to draw the line with football. I see it as show business and entertainment. If you want to give it all that heart breaking stuff about how much your club means to you then again, good luck

Balls to that. What's the point in watching football or supporting a team at all if it's just business and entertainment? You may as well watch an ice hockey franchise somewhere. For some supporters it's still about passion, tradition, family ties, and where you're from. And I'd rather see that as the future of football rather than some kind of nostalgia. Why do you think more and more people are looking to the Bundesliga model in terms of both club ownership, ticket pricing and stadium design?