Brings into question a broader issue to me and raises the question........
What is the National sport in the UK today?
I raise this having been thinking about a few issues both national and local.
1) Bearing in mind that most of the players in The Premier League are from abroad and paid grossly inflated salaries........
2) England's football team has been like a second tier outfit in international terms for years!
2) Accrington will not have a local amateur league for the first time since it was formed.........Only about 4 teams showed any interest....When I played in local football in the early seventies I can remember five divisions of 16 teams! Now our local playing fields are rarely used for football! The pitches were in use so much when I played that we played on a 'Brown Diamond' with bits of grass near the corner flags! The only brown bits I see on our local pitches now are from the back ends of dogs!
3) We couldn't even work out how to enter a team in football at the Olympic Games!
4) Outside of the Premier League, gates at League matches are generally much lower then fifty years ago.
5) Could it be that cycling and running have surpassed football as the main sports in which people take part in the UK? Then there is fishing long known as the highest participation sport in the country!
6) Clubs higher up the system don't seem to value the FA Cup and the League Cup, (or whatever they call it these days).
........Hmmmm.........I am sure that many of you will totally disagree with me of course..........but perhaps now that Morecambe FC have a 'sugar daddy' too, (from abroad!'), then all will be well in the world of football?
As ever.........just playing 'Devil's Advocate'.
