In true blog fashion I shall be honest and say I have been a bit preoccupied this week. What with the new business being imminent, the children having broken up, the in-laws having arrived, and the book nearly completed it has been a hectic few days.
I am still on the button with the football however, and I cannot believe the woes of my former club down the road, Plymouth Argyle. So much has gone on there that is wrong. Although they are not the first, and won't be the last club, to go into administration, I find it hard to understand how the situation came to this eventuality.
Clubs need to have a serious think about the consequences of any possible relegation, as well as future wages earned, length of players contracts, the whole gambit. It can't be easy to keep a club afloat but something must have gone seriously wrong with the financial planning at Plymouth to end up in that state.
The roller-coaster of football, and of being a fan, will continue, but the financial roller-coaster that clubs are on will have to stop.
P.S Please no more petrol rises, and forget the interest rate rise too.
1 comment:
Well, there's an interesting article in The Guardian...made even more interesting by the comments following it!!
And maybe the writer should get his geography in order!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/24/in-praise-of-plymouth-argyle
However, it might not affect the vast population of football followers but for those Plymouth supporters it would be a terrible blow if the club
folded. For many fans, it is their life and has been for years. It's their Saturday afternoon escape, a weekly social event where they can forget their own worries and woes and meet up with friends and family. Take that away from them and it's hard to comprehend what they must be feeling.
Arch enemies they may be, to Torquay and Exeter fans, but we'll be united in our sympathy if the worst happens to Argyle!
After all, it could be us one day. Who knows?!
It's very sad but had someone down there been blessed with a better business head on their shoulders, it could have been avoided.
It's not just about a business folding; there's far more to it than that!
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