AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SUPPORTERS OF HIBERNIAN FOOTBALL CLUB CONCERNING THE UTTERLY ATROCIOUS ALLOCATION OF TICKETS FOR THE SCOTTISH CUP FINAL DECIDED BY THE BOARD OF HIBERNIAN FOOTBALL CLUB

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The popular mass working class supported game of football that I knew as a young lad in the 1960’s and early 1970’s has changed out of all recognition in the past twenty years. Basically the football authorities especially south of the border but also here have made a Faustian Pact with the devil, i.e. the large television companies have flooded the game with colossal obscene indeed sums of money and football has now lost any soul it ever had, its whole ethos as an autonomous social entertainment rooted in the norms, culture and recreational activities of a traditional large mass working class has almost entirely gone. Football has become a large commercial business franchise where as Kenny Daglish complained the other day over the scheduling and timing of football matches,’ the actual football supporter is the very last person that the football authorities concern themselves with! We would only add that this pernicious attitude is replicated more and more now a days in the board rooms of football clubs run predominantly by business men, financial accountants and fronted by so called public relations experts well schooled in the facile chicaneries of corporate double talk.

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