BWFC wrote:CASS wrote:Well well..........I used to watch Bolton as a lad,my uncle lived in "Keaw yed City"
Haha, 'Keaw Yed' aka Westhoughton that's where I'm from!
Sounds good, I'll have to drag one of my mates along when there's no Bolton match and see it all in person. So who's the 'scummers' then, Lancaster City?!
West'owfen, eh? Had a really drunken day in the Clifton Ale House, Blackpool (a cellar that served Boddingtons) with a load of my mates on one table and a load of 'owfeners one Good Friday many years ago, good lads the lot.
Mate a lot of us have been getting increasingly cheesed off with 'top end' football for many years now.
With me (Spurs fan) it started with the Champs League and the 'guaranteed' multi-millions of TV income it funnelled into a handful of clubs each year.
That created the cartel we've seen for the past few years and the gravy train that now makes owning a club very attractive to billionaire businessmen, when previously you really needed at least a passing interest in a particular team to invest loads of 'speculative' money which you'd probably never see again.
Recently they have known that if you can get your club into the CL then you get your rewards, financially, very quickly and very regularly.
The latest developments are merely the natural progression of all that as they now look to exploit world markets for their 'brands' (because that's how they think of them).
A lot of people have been put off football altogether, others - like you - are starting (we hope more and more) to take a closer look at what we call 'real football, football you can touch' - where your support actually means something and (usually) is appreciated by players who you can chat with and club officials who often know your name.
Welcome aboard.
Is the glass half full or half empty? Mmmm? hard to say - but it does look like there's room for more beer!
) 
