Sums it all up. I hadn't realised Paul has left, I'm a few weeks behind on the pod cast.Sid wrote: ↑2 years ago The apathy is palpable. Interest in football is declining for a lot of the reasons mentioned here (boring, too expensive, too disconnected from the fan). Paul who does the NQAT / Rantcast pod with Ed has just left after 10 years or so.
The aftermath of ESL was a chance for the gov to bring in some guidance / governance that could have steered it back on track. But there's no real interest from them IMO. Football is a free market and they're just going to let it run wild and free regardless of the consequences - the main consequence being football eating itself as people turn off.
It's not just the Prem, my city team are being held to random by their owner Allam, whose refused to invest in the squad for years after the council prevented him from relocating the club 40 mins drive outside of hull. Even my local village team were liquidated 2 years ago due financial mismanagement. Their owner also wanted to relocate them, and when it was stopped, he ran them into the ground.
The whole of the football pyramid is fucked
I could sense listening to him that past few weeks , really since Ronaldo signed, he couldn't be arsed with it anymore, and was only watching pl games purely for discussion on the pod.