02 Aug 2014 22:33:52
The rumour of Jamaal leaving should sound a warning to us all and also the implications of the Southampton player exodus which tells you all you need to know about football in this country!

The rules of UK economics dictate you are allowed monopolies of 6 before they screw everyone!
Banks, Lawyers, Accountants, Energy, Telecoms & Drinks Companies + Football Clubs.

George Orwell's "1984" HAPPENED IN “1992” FOR FOOTBALL, WHEN BIG BROTHER (PREMIER LEAGUE) TOOK CONTROL.

The top 6 in football buy up all the talent to sustain their monopoly and rig the market by loaning out with restrictive playing clauses or selling on with % or buy out clauses.

Class English defenders in short supply, so Shaw, Caulker, Dier, Chambers, Lascelles, etc. get purchased by the top 6 to make up the numbers dictated by the Euro rules, FFP, monopoly and sponsors

The FA lost control. World and Euro bodies are corrupt and have no interest in solving the problem.

English football is founded on community and a competitive pyramid league.

Football has been hijacked by BANKSTERS who have shown their true colours to Southampton by asset stripping a team and manager that threaten the monopoly of 6.

If as fans we really care then put money only into your club, not Sky/BT Sport, cancel your subscriptions and use club player and the free internet to watch football if you cannot attend matches.

Give your elected politicians hell to legislate and tax the football monopoly into change to redistribute revenues for the benefit of every club in the land!

The elite monopoly clubs will argue like banks in order to protect their artificially created brand (monopoly) that we will lose all the talent abroad!

SO WHAT? The true fans will still follow their teams, player’s wages will drop to the reality of their talent and we will get back to a League which enables clubs like Forest, Villa Ipswich and every club in the League the opportunity to progress to the top for the benefit of local communities.

The global TV community will support any successful football product whether it is MUFC or Accrington Stanley if it is given the opportunity and ALLOWED to be successful!

Sponsorship follows success. Success is not the exclusive domain of those who have seized control to dictate the measure success by rigging the football market.

Why the rant?

The renaissance of NFFC is the next victim as the new hot bed of up and coming English talent.

Lascelles is likely to be cherry picked to protect the top 6 monopoly.

Even if we get the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Kuwait behind the club we still need fair competition, able to identify with our club and not just to be admitted into an exclusive league which dictates membership of teams and fans?

This season is a watershed as to the haves ‘and has not’s in football given the new money injected into the elite monopoly.

Jamaal staying or going will give a clear indication as to where we as a club and where the expectations for the all the clubs in the Football League lay?

Forest has a proud history of innovation in football. Hopefully it is time again to break the mould?

Support our owners but do not expect or demand them to take on the football/media mafia alone?

Jamaal if he wants to progress as a talent should stay. However, every football fan outside the monopoly should start to take back control of our great game and vote for whom they pay their TV direct debits and for who allegedly represents the interest of us all in government!

Time to make a stand?

COYR’s

Discuss?

1.) 03 Aug 2014
Sometimes we get so carried away by the thought of big sponsorship deals, tv rights and the possibility of joining the esteemed elite that we forget about the real heart and soul of both club and community. I'm of an age to have been truly privileged to witness those glory days and to be mindful of how they came about-not just us but the likes of the Sheep (I know, I know), QPR, Villa, Norwich etc-it was as level as a playing field could get. I found this post really struck a chord, opened my tired old eyes, made me ruminate upon better days. You know what, I'm going to join Roy Cropper in the library. Well said that man!

2.) 03 Aug 2014
I also remember the great days and achievements of the legend Brian Clough.

But times are always changing and like everything, if you can't beat them then join them (if you can)?

3.) 03 Aug 2014
Well written people at the top should read that but of course I know that will not happen but let's hope the reds just say no to the leeches of the prem

4.) 03 Aug 2014
Redinexile you make a v powerful statement. 100% agree and your insight is instinctive. Bigger is not always better and people say we have to go with yhe times like sheep. Money and the ppwer that comes with it theses days has truly spoiled football for the common man

5.) 03 Aug 2014
Whilst we are entitled to our opinion and I respect those that take time to write a post like the above it's simply not true. The Southampton players wanted to leave to play in the Champ League and earn more money, you can't just simply ignore these facts because you want you conspiracy theory to be correct. All large successful organisations try to protect themselves and prolong their success. DO NOT GET ME WRONG I can't stand the power the Prem league have over the toothless FA but you cannot blame a club for trying to stay at the top. The reality is players want to earn more which is their right and compete with the best and who are we to say that they shouldn't. It is a job the fact we would like that job is irrelevant. If I played for say Wigan and Arsenal offer mean five times the money plus the chance to play champ league and I'm a Forest fan why would I care about moving. I'm not saying all this is a good thing but it is the reality of the world, of capitalism and not some underhand big brother nonsense.

6.) 03 Aug 2014
Its easy to quote or refer to a philosophy but harder to find a solution.

There is something else out there on the lines of "what you seek you will find" I'm more for this type of approach because the status quo ought to mean bugger all.

7.) 03 Aug 2014
Also the glorious past was so corrupt, yes we won two European cups but in terms of players leaving and staying if a club/manager wanted a player they invariably made it happen with a few extra payments going to the selling club manager so please don't paint the past as some fair playing field because it was far from it. When we bought Trevor Francis for a million were we not doing exactly the same at that time as we had the money and success to be able to do it.

8.) 03 Aug 2014
03 Aug 2014 16:38:54
spot on post panglos. so we need to back our team up no matter wot and not try and run it from the passenger seat some might say were entitled to our opinion and yes u r but sometimes them opinions become viruses and hurt the club or player for no reason ( for eg court case ) and we've got enough virus with the foot and mouth down the a 52 so on saturday let's get that team buzzing. NO MATTER WOT .

9.) 03 Aug 2014
Football has always been the same corruption is only hinted at never proven. The likes of Liverpool bought Nigel Clough not to play him but to prevent him being part of the opposition. God our saviour ole big head wasn't perfect, we missed the chance to build on our fortunes and move to a super stadium due to his arrogance. Who knows where we would have been if we took up this sponsorship. But football is a business and like all businesses don't expect a level playing field.

10.) 03 Aug 2014
03 Aug 2014 20:31:16
its all corrupt we just have to get on with it and support with ya heart bet with ya head

11.) 03 Aug 2014
Panglos
Every olayer wants to play Champions League.
However, the Southampton exodus would not happen if the top 6 monopoly did not control most of the money.
This enables them to protect their interests, which is to stop a club with outstanding mainly local grown talent threatening the status quo!

Players have always moved to bigger clubs but the financial differential now means these clubs can buy anyone from any club outside the elite just to warm the bench and scupper competition.

Southampton have received nearly £100m in fees but they cannot compete this season even if they re-invest this money and more?

Rumours of Forest getting £500m over 10 years even if it is true does not even guarantee them a seat in the Premier League!

There is statutory legislation against unfair competition which English football in particular clearly breaches and yet our politicians ignore taking action.

The irony is that most people care more about their local community football and identity than politics and yet they do take their elected representatives to task about changing this great injustice and burden on their finances in funding this elitist circus!