Since we are in a world of increased activism and a petition on each problem, it is not surprising that certain football fans change the way they interact with their clubs, often with a feeling of law.
At one point, the owners were rarely part of the thought of an average supporter. But the mentality has moved to the point where they consider that those who direct clubs exist simply to be castigated and criticized – or to empty all the contents of their wallet until the next fool arrives and does the same thing.
There have been campaigns against the Glazers of Manchester United and an anti-Daniel Levy manifesto of Tottenham subscribers, sometimes not without merit.
Now there are steps that protest against Todd Boehly in Chelsea, who has put billions in his club and is therefore accused of having spent too much! I think I saw everything now.
I see the role of the Fandom with interest because I am a fan myself. Just because I made a lot of money once, does not deny a humble education in which football was a dominant presence.
My father was in the books of Crystal Palace in the 1950s. I grew up a hundred meters from Selhurst Park and I went with my father, being mixed at the back of the Holmesdale terrace at the front if there was a wave of crowds.
Fans of Chelsea protested last month against the owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake
Boehly paid more than 1 billion pounds to sign players for the club
I feel that an unwanted inclination has developed in the balance between what fans expect and would like their clubs and what they now perceive as their right
Fans are undoubtedly the energy and the vital element of football. Their emotion fuels the industry by stimulating the commitment and interest that brings diffusers to the table.
However, I feel that an unwanted inclination has developed in balance between what fans expect and would like their clubs and what they now perceive as their law.
The dialogue and consultation with the supporters are important – I used to involve palace fans in the vote for which we will wear each season and I also tried to maintain prices at a fair level – but these supporters should also recognize that the owners make decisions concerning their club using all the facts at their disposal.
The fans’ point of view is not made by the prism of complete information, despite the detectives among them who examine each financial transaction or accounts.
It was generally based mainly on the last results of their team and has now been extended to an opinion on everything; The style of the team, the sympathy of the owners, the price of a match ticket – while demanding to look at the best players that money can buy in the greatest comfort.
Somewhere along the line, the wait has become that the only people who should pay for this are owners and broadcasters.
Before a recent Chelsea match against Southampton, there was a supporters against the co -owner Todd Boehly for an apparent grievance litany, to the choir of “We Want Our Chelsea Back”.
The irony that the same fans a few weeks before sang “we brought back our Chelsea” should not be missed. The list of accusations extends from financial mismanagement and tear of the club’s heart to Boehly being the third armed man on grassy lawn. But it’s really because they don’t win games.
The irony that the same fans a few weeks earned sang “ We brought back our Chelsea ” should not be missed
Boehly can be accused of many things, but not investing in the Chelsea game team is not one of them
Boehly can be accused of many things, but not investing in the Chelsea game team is not one of them. It’s no longer enough, it feels.
Fans will make their feelings known out loudly on a whole diversity of problems extending to what owners do in their professional life outside of football. It seems that everything is on the table to get started.
The supporters’ protests are not new. I was once in the Wolves meeting room when outside people shouted abuse and launched things because they did not like how things were under the owner Sir Jack Hayward and the director general Jez Moxey, and nobody was no longer engaged in his club than Jack.
But, overall, these rare explosions of disorders were spontaneous, caused by fans fed up on the field and try to blame someone.
It’s different now. Rather than having individual dissident voices, it is the era of demonstrations organized with a capital P; Organized, structured and robust.
I do not see why someone else should care if Boehly decides to pay 106 million pounds sterning for Enzo Fernandez – he does it with his investment money – but for any reason, the supporters of Chelsea think that his former speed is a sign that he does not deliver the club.
Fans will argue that they will end up paying expensive recruitment thanks to ticket prices, goods and subscriptions. There may be something, but my point of view is that if you buy a shirt, you wear it. And if you consider the poor value of the shirt, you do not buy it and the market forces finally determine the prices.
The balance between the needs of a football club and the expectation of its market is now a curious dilemma. We are in a society where everyone has a view.
Rather than having individual dissident votes, it is the era of demonstrations organized with a capital P
In the end, Boehly will ignore noise, and fans have an influence rather than power
I heard people suggest that the debt of 140 million pounds from Chelsea is a massive problem. I find it absurd even to start a conversation on this subject. If your house is worth 2.5 billion sterling pounds and you have a mortgage of 140 million pounds sterling, no one would be worried.
In the end, Boehly will ignore the noise. Fans have an influence rather than power. It is a myth that directors of bag directors of bags in reaction to what they hear in the stadium. Fans very rarely cry that a manager is licensed when someone upstairs does not already think about it.
I also hate the idea of ​​a review led by fans leading to a regulator appointed by the government for our national sport. The Premier League is an unprecedented global sporting success which requires a little finesse and the pyramid a little more just distribution.
To call for the reform of roots and branches because of a report based on what fans want rather than what the game needs is beyond ridicule, and marking my words will be an act of self-control if the regulators appointed by the government are authorized to shovel their non-defective bureaucratic nonsense on our national sport, as these types of people have done in other industries.
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Football has evolved since the game of a pure man who works. Clubs are now in the field of sports entertainment. The owners must make them commercially viable in a world of high cost. This changed the dynamic thumb by thumb, courtyard by court.
We are also in a digital era when fans have their own media platforms which are generally the most successful when they throw dissatisfaction – as evidenced by AFTV (managed by Arsenal supporters) and someone like Mark Goldbridge who has indexed to the biggest club in the world, Manchester United.
Sometimes this content has an interesting perspective, at other times, it barks to the moon.
When I was the owner, I used to involve Crystal Palace fans in the vote for which kit we wore every season and I also tried to keep prices at a fair level
Fans are happy to accept the conventional wisdom that players and managers need time, hence their relative patience with Ruben Amorim in Manchester United. But not with the owners
Boehly recently said that he thought that the NFL had better growth potential than Netflix because it had created its own infinite program.
It will not be distracted to try to continue his greater vision for Chelsea, but I fear that a generation of perennial demonstrators and slightly deceived is there to stay.
Fans are happy to accept the conventional wisdom that players and managers need time, hence their relative patience with Ruben Amorim to United.
But the owners are considered differently. We expect that they are instantly right without excuses for errors. In the end, you could say that you get the owners you deserve.
