The State Of Liverpool FC - And the consequences for Football,

The trials and tribulations of Britain's most successful club has been the cause of much ridicule and hilarity amongst our enemies in the media and amongst lesser clubs supporters.

However - should those fans be laughing across their floor as they are at the moment.

If the shenanigans at play at this time can come about at a institution such as LFC, then surely it is only a matter of time before a club without the enormous fanbase of LFC, gets sucked in by the lure of big money from abroad.

Realistically, there are four clubs; in the premiership, who have massive support across the country, and probably two or three of them have substantial global support, as seen recently with LFC being Hong Kong for the Asia Trophy - nigh on 40,000 Reds were at both games involving them - games that involving any two of the big four get global audiences of between 500million and a billion.

At the same time though, there are clubs; in the premiership who need the big four to compete. The better they do in Europe, the likelihood of further contracts being given out to the fat cats in charge.

This is a vicious circle as clubs' who cannot afford to spend stupid money on players will do, inevitably leading to a Leeds scenario where too much money has been spent and the fortunes of said club take a dramatic and in the case of Leeds, an almost unreversable situation.

I predict that within five years, 10 years max, you will see at least one major club within the top flight of English Football go to the wall. And it will need to take something like that to wake everyone up.

And the fans will be the loser, AGAIN.


Rob :)