Long-distance fans: you are partly responsible
I HAD to smile when I read about our so called big six football teams wanting to join a European super league.
No doubt the many in Huddersfield, who are season ticket holders at these clubs, will be disgusted at their teams’ proposals, whilst never thinking that they are at the heart of why these clubs think they can do what they want.
TV footage of football in the 60s/70s shows Old Trafford and Anfield full of local youngsters, populating the lower parts of the terraces. In those days it was a pittance for a lad and dad to get into these stadiums, but now a season ticket at these clubs is the equivalent of a golf membership at Fixby or Woodsome Hall.
Each year the season ticket prices go up, and each year another local family have to give up their tickets, and each year someone from a town like Huddersfield is ready to take their place.
I hope the Huddersfield people who are season ticket holders at these clubs aren’t on their ‘soap boxes’ about this proposal because you are partly responsible for creating these arrogant juggernaut clubs, who in the past, have been merely ‘rubbing rags’ for Huddersfield Town.
We need an overhaul
ORDINARY news has been paused somewhat due to the sad news of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. However, the rumblings of the Greensill debacle continue to grow apace despite the Government hoping to bury bad news within the continued royal reporting.
These dual roles enjoyed by
Prime Ministers, ministers, MPs and civil servants need to be regulated and registered. Who knows how many contracts have been lavishly handed out willy-nilly, unknown to the unsuspecting public?
At last week’s PMQs, Keir Starmer had Boris Johnson on the ropes with his questioning over David
Cameron and Greensill. Johnson stuttered and spluttered his evasion. This led to the Speaker telling the PM to answer the question.
There are indeed many questions to be answered, but what is needed is an urgent inquiry and an immediate overhaul of this rotten system – otherwise we run the risk of becoming a ridiculous banana republic!