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My team Coventry city FC are sponsored by an Irish betting company, as are a lot of UK Championship and some premier league teams. I hate that and won't be buyi

My team Coventry city FC are sponsored by an Irish betting company, as are a lot of UK Championship and some premier league teams. I hate that and won't be buying replica shirt...

smcl 4y ago
> My team Coventry city FC … I wanted to jokingly quote this and say something silly like “My sincerest condolences” - but I realised I haven’t paid attention to the English leagues in a while. Just checked now and it looks like Coventry have sort of recovered and are back on track! After some pretty woeful times that’s very good to see, I have a soft spot for them as I had a friend at uni who was a supporter :-)
- olivermarks 4y ago
  I think the Championship (the one below the premier league) is a lot more fun and local. The problem with european professional football is that it is rapidly losing its identity. The oligarch owned teams have players from all over he world and the location of the home stadiums are increasingly meaningless. Coventry City came close to promotion to the prem last season but I actually dread to think if they would survive a first season despite the huge money involved and how the team's local identity might change...
  - smcl 4y ago
    Man you're preaching to the choir there :) My team - Aberdeen - were once a formidable force in European football, but due to the big leagues swimming in money there is absolutely no chance of that being repeated for us. Only way would be if for some reason some mystery rich guys took interest in Scottish football, but we're extremely wary of that, and rightly so IMO. Dundee, Hearts, Gretna have experienced the thrills of big money flowing in, and the sudden heartache of it suddenly disappearing. Even Celtic and Rangers are struggling - Rangers reached the Europa League final this year but only by repeating the reckless spending that got them into financial trouble a few years back. At least by being a large-ish team on the English pyramid there's a remote chance you'll have the resources and capability to compete at the very top level at some point, so there's hope for you yet! And there's no shame in ping-ponging up and down between the Premiership and the Championship a few times - just look at Norwich :) Main thing is that Coventry have turned a corner.
    - olivermarks 4y ago
      Fulham (who I saw City beat 1-3 at Craven Cottage in April) and Norwich make a lot of money being promoted and relegated (parachute payments etc) it's a weird glich in the footie matrix..

My team Coventry city FC are sponsored by an Irish betting company, as are a lot of UK Championship and some premier league teams. I hate that and won't be buying replica shirt...

smcl 4y ago

> My team Coventry city FC … I wanted to jokingly quote this and say something silly like “My sincerest condolences” - but I realised I haven’t paid attention to the English leagues in a while. Just checked now and it looks like Coventry have sort of recovered and are back on track! After some pretty woeful times that’s very good to see, I have a soft spot for them as I had a friend at uni who was a supporter :-)

olivermarks 4y ago
I think the Championship (the one below the premier league) is a lot more fun and local. The problem with european professional football is that it is rapidly losing its identity. The oligarch owned teams have players from all over he world and the location of the home stadiums are increasingly meaningless. Coventry City came close to promotion to the prem last season but I actually dread to think if they would survive a first season despite the huge money involved and how the team's local identity might change...
- smcl 4y ago
  Man you're preaching to the choir there :) My team - Aberdeen - were once a formidable force in European football, but due to the big leagues swimming in money there is absolutely no chance of that being repeated for us. Only way would be if for some reason some mystery rich guys took interest in Scottish football, but we're extremely wary of that, and rightly so IMO. Dundee, Hearts, Gretna have experienced the thrills of big money flowing in, and the sudden heartache of it suddenly disappearing. Even Celtic and Rangers are struggling - Rangers reached the Europa League final this year but only by repeating the reckless spending that got them into financial trouble a few years back. At least by being a large-ish team on the English pyramid there's a remote chance you'll have the resources and capability to compete at the very top level at some point, so there's hope for you yet! And there's no shame in ping-ponging up and down between the Premiership and the Championship a few times - just look at Norwich :) Main thing is that Coventry have turned a corner.
  - olivermarks 4y ago
    Fulham (who I saw City beat 1-3 at Craven Cottage in April) and Norwich make a lot of money being promoted and relegated (parachute payments etc) it's a weird glich in the footie matrix..