NFR:The Murky Side of the Beautiful Game: Life at the Bottom of English Football

[copthornemike]

A number of posts have discussed the apparent lack of ambition shown by FFC in the recent transfer window and also the effects of 'Financial Fair Play.' I came across an interesting article on the finances and challenges faced by a Div 2 club (Luton) who started their descent just as the Premiership started. It does put FFC's 'problems and challenges' into a sobering context.


'The Murky Side of the Beautiful Game: Life at the Bottom of English Football,' Newsweek, published 22 December, 2014

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/26/murky-side-beautiful-game-life-bottom-english-football-292387.html
 

[ron]

A number of posts have discussed the apparent lack of ambition shown by FFC in the recent transfer window and also the effects of 'Financial Fair Play.' I came across an interesting article on the finances and challenges faced by a Div 2 club (Luton) who started their descent just as the Premiership started. It does put FFC's 'problems and challenges' into a sobering context.


'The Murky Side of the Beautiful Game: Life at the Bottom of English Football,' Newsweek, published 22 December, 2014

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/26/murky-side-beautiful-game-life-bottom-english-football-292387.html
 

How bleak those images are......I remember seeing a tv film years ago about Brentford in the old 4th division. It chronicled a day in which they had to travel to Barrow for a midweek league game. An early start, sandwiches on the ramshackle coach, a 5-0 win away....and the celebration was a fish supper on the coach on the way home... and back in time to see the morning rush hour in West London... Glamorous eh?