On Villa and the Premier League

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Villa being relegated is sad - a club that has won the European Cup, with some of the best and most politically active fans in the country. They will be a big loss to the league.

Stan Collymore has been pretty much bang on in everything he's said - pointing at Lescott's absurd Lambourghini tweet after the 6-0 hammering to Liverpool, Bacuna's hoverboard antics at B'Ham airport after the Saints defeat and Agbonlahor repeatedly being caught on the lash during the relegation battle. It all sums up the state of Villa's squad and the utter apathy to the club's plight displayed by so many members of the first team. There's also the issue of ownership - Lerner is yet another bizarre figure who realised after a couple of years, that owning a Premier League team isn't as financially rewarding as he had hoped - see Hicks, Gillet, Ashley, Shinawatra et al.

And the Lerner issue points to a deeper issue with all of this - the Premier League. Complaining about players not caring and their obscene indulgence leads to an obvious set of questions - just who is paying them so much money in the first place? Where does all this money come from? The league - 'The Premier League' TM or whatever - announces each new television deal with its balls out, pumping money into its clubs without a regard for any notion of morality or fairness. A bunch of adolescents with tens of thousands of pounds swimming round their accounts every week - little more needs to be said.

The Premier League is a pile of shit. It's full of shit, and pretty much everything that emerges from it resembles and smells like shit. I'd love to see a mass fucking walkout one day - imagine all ten games being played on a Saturday, and not even one spectator can be seen in the stands of any of the games. What a fucking day that would be.


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