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YidoBuckler said:Wouldn't it be great if nobody bought that red shirt.
YidoBuckler said:Wouldn't it be great if nobody bought that red shirt.
Blanchflower said:YidoBuckler said:Wouldn't it be great if nobody bought that red shirt.
I think the point is that they aren't bothered if the real Cardiff fans don't buy it - they are pinning their hopes on being able to sell more of them in the Far East
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1882 said:Blanchflower said:I think the point is that they aren't bothered if the real Cardiff fans don't buy it - they are pinning their hopes on being able to sell more of them in the Far East
...and therein lies both the problem, and the future of football.
Sad, sad days indeed!
1882 said:YidoBuckler said:Wouldn't it be great if nobody bought that red shirt.
I imagine a sea of Blue at their first home game next season...
I know people 'outside' football laugh at fans' deluded sense of 'tradition' and heritage...
but hoping for loyalty from the money-swayed mercenary players has long gone out of the window... as has assuming total unswerving support from fans who only thought Football started in 1992 and leave 10 minutes early if a win isn't guaranteed...
So if simply supporting the Shirt/Colours isn't sacred any more, then what is...?
fuck me football is in a bad way... I thought it was merely sick, but I fully expect the machine to be turned off any day now!!
...just put yourselves in Cardiff's position...
I think I need a bucket....
To be fair, I think that's quite an improvement over their old branding.Yididiah said:Can't be long till bollocks like this starts infecting football over here too:
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Well, they are franchises. Considering there's no promotion/relegation and that a "premier" league was a condition of getting the 1994 World Cup, I can hardly fault MLS for not encouraging small athletic clubs around the US to become stadium-filling professional teams.mad said:we were playing a franchise rather than i club :defoe:
*cough* Sherman *cough cough* scorched earth *cough*Eperons said:[...] it must've been helped along by a lack of urbanization in comparison to the industrial north.
Pretty, pretty sure Sherman's not terribly responsible for the plantocracy in the South that had a viable economic model (with hilariously low labour costs) that didn't require industrialization or manufacturing to stay in clover. And the South got their industrialization and manufacturing later, anyway, when they found other ways to have hilariously low labour costs and attract factories from the north. Though now those industrialists have found places in the world with even lower labour costs, and now they can provide products cheap enough for the Americans whose jobs they shipped abroad to afford.VirginiaSpur said:*cough* Sherman *cough cough* scorched earth *cough*
Éperons said:Well, they are franchises. Considering there's no promotion/relegation and that a "premier" league was a condition of getting the 1994 World Cup, I can hardly fault MLS for not encouraging small athletic clubs around the US to become stadium-filling professional teams.mad said:we were playing a franchise rather than i club :defoe:
Where MLS differs from the typical franchise model is that, unlike running a McDonald's, where an owner buys the right to use McDonald's name, etc., in his or her restaurant, the "owner-operators" in MLS don't actually own their teams. Rather, they are co-investors in the league as a whole. MLS actually owns all the teams. There are reasons why this makes sense--mostly to avoid a Cosmos situation again--but it's very weird to, I suppose, Americans and Brits. Imagine if the FA owned all the teams in the PL, or something, or if the PL owned all the teams in the PL (well, relegation would end!).
But I'd argue that there's nothing inherently wrong with the franchise model when it comes to professional sports. Sure, there are few intense local rivalries, but rivalries can grow even when supporters aren't neighbors. The complaint I see most often--teams pick up and move--is, on the one hand, merely how franchises hold leverage over local governments (a lesson Levy has learned), and, on the other, a reflection of demographic shifts in the US, which, let's all remember, is full of cities not even 200 years old. When the baseball leagues began, hardly anyone lived past the Mississippi River. Now the west is exploding with people, and Phoenix is one of the quickest growing cities in the US (if not the quickest). Seems not like a terrible idea for the people out there to have a chance to have their own teams, as well.
(Incidentally, this is also true in the South, which was practically ignored by baseball for a century. Who knows the details of the situation, but it must've been helped along by a lack of urbanization in comparison to the industrial north. But now that cities in the South are growing, they are attracting teams)