11-11-2006, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: football and soccer will the partnership succeed?
I think soccer is a great game -- played it and watched it very passionately until I realized that I simply would not put up with the aggression, racism, violence and vulgarity of soccer fans. They embody everything I hate about the UK and destroy the whole point and purpose of sporting competition. (That's why I particularly love it when fans of other teams come here and there is good-natured but passionate rivalry.)
My take is that the American football owners have failed to grasp the economics of sport. They think that the profitability of the NFL is down to their own cleverness when in fact it has to do with their ability to maintain a monopoly that would be thrown out by any court in Europe. They depend on the salary cap and the recruitment monopoly to keep the gap between income and wages. (Actually, this has worked out pretty well for the players as the whole league has prospered, so I'm not particularly arguing against it). Once you have true competition, teams who want to win more than they want to make money (Abramovitch, Real Madrid) will drive up the price of players and, in the long run, make it very difficult for teams in the league as a whole to make profits.
Bottom line: soccer is not a profitable industry for owners (even though it generates huge amounts of money) and this is not just because teams are badly run.
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