5 minute boycott planned across Football League this saturday
WILL GIDSTONE | 25.10.2011 22:49 | Culture | Globalisation | Social Struggles
Football fans across the country are joining together this saturday 29th October under the banner of The 72 Unite to protest against plans to overhaul the youth academy system to the benefit of the richer clubs.
Another case of the rich getting richer
The 72 Unite is made up of representatives of clubs from across the football league who have come together at short notice to fight off new legislation which heavily weights the rules concerning youth academies in the favour of the elite clubs.
The new rules in question place even more power in the hands of bigger clubs allowing them to steal promising young players for next to nothing, taking away a valuable income source of smaller clubs.
The group have released a communique (posted below) in which they outline plans for a 5 minute boycott by ALL fans of ALL football matches in the football league that kick off at 3PM this saturday to raise attention to the issue.
the communique in full:
----------------------------------We 'the 72 unite', made up of fans from the Football League are angered by, and at a loss to explain, the news today that the proposed legislative changes to the existing academy systems have been voted in favour of.
In the current financial climate with the divide between rich and poor widening on a daily basis, Modern Football continues to be an exaggerated version of the overall global picture. THE RICH CONTINUE TO GET RICHER, WHILE THE POOR SUFFER.
Lower league football is dying, starved by Premier League greed and excess. Attendances are down, and clubs will soon cease to exist, unable to balance the books to survive let-alone compete with the elite.
The lifeblood of Football League clubs are their successful academy systems, some of which have supported and sustained clubs for many years, producing local, homegrown talent representative of the area and fanbase. Today’s ruling cuts this essential lifeblood at the arteries and will signal the death knoll, the final nail in the coffin for the survival of Professional Football outside the Premier League.
In response we are calling for action from EVERY FAN at EVERY MATCH on Saturday 29th October 2011 to UNITE, rise-up and fight for the very existence of their clubs. It’s NOW OR NEVER we must let the Premier League and FA know we will not be trampled on.
EVERY FAN, EVERY GAME – BOYCOTT FIRST FIVE MINUTES TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THIS AND SHOW THE STRENGTH OF OPPOSITION TO PROPOSALS
The 72 Unite is made up of representatives of clubs from across the football league who have come together at short notice to fight off new legislation which heavily weights the rules concerning youth academies in the favour of the elite clubs.
The new rules in question place even more power in the hands of bigger clubs allowing them to steal promising young players for next to nothing, taking away a valuable income source of smaller clubs.
The group have released a communique (posted below) in which they outline plans for a 5 minute boycott by ALL fans of ALL football matches in the football league that kick off at 3PM this saturday to raise attention to the issue.
the communique in full:
----------------------------------We 'the 72 unite', made up of fans from the Football League are angered by, and at a loss to explain, the news today that the proposed legislative changes to the existing academy systems have been voted in favour of.
In the current financial climate with the divide between rich and poor widening on a daily basis, Modern Football continues to be an exaggerated version of the overall global picture. THE RICH CONTINUE TO GET RICHER, WHILE THE POOR SUFFER.
Lower league football is dying, starved by Premier League greed and excess. Attendances are down, and clubs will soon cease to exist, unable to balance the books to survive let-alone compete with the elite.
The lifeblood of Football League clubs are their successful academy systems, some of which have supported and sustained clubs for many years, producing local, homegrown talent representative of the area and fanbase. Today’s ruling cuts this essential lifeblood at the arteries and will signal the death knoll, the final nail in the coffin for the survival of Professional Football outside the Premier League.
In response we are calling for action from EVERY FAN at EVERY MATCH on Saturday 29th October 2011 to UNITE, rise-up and fight for the very existence of their clubs. It’s NOW OR NEVER we must let the Premier League and FA know we will not be trampled on.
EVERY FAN, EVERY GAME – BOYCOTT FIRST FIVE MINUTES TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THIS AND SHOW THE STRENGTH OF OPPOSITION TO PROPOSALS
WILL GIDSTONE
Homepage:
http://www.the72unite.co.uk
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Protest video update
25.10.2011 22:53
WILL GIDSTONE
save the working class Game !!!
26.10.2011 08:17
The theme to the Champions Lodge competition is the bleeding Royal Coronation Anthem first played at the Coronation of Arch freemason free loader from the Rosicrucian Hannover parasite royal family. WTF has that got to do with "Working Class Game" ?
The title of the track is Zadok the Priest,
Zadok annoints the head of Masonic hero King Solomon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon's_Temple
WTF does some Russian billionaire oir Arab Oil Sheik feel he needs to pump millions of his ill gotten gains into a football team ? what's innit for them ?
Save The working Class game on Fascespook (they luv it)
Includes free singing lessons for middle class wankers who spend half the game twitching about with their i phones .. teach hooray henry to sing football songs ..
Champions Lodge !!
BOYCOTT FIRST FIVE MINUTES
26.10.2011 12:31
As for the training system, who cares ? The clubs will do what is needed to produce good players or they will lose games. That's how markets work.
Empty gestures make people look stupid
whooops...
26.10.2011 16:32
what an utterly sloppy response based on a complete misunderstanding of ANY of the main salient points.
WILL GIDSTONE
Sorry
26.10.2011 16:46
Empty gestures make people look stupid
Five minutes
26.10.2011 17:41
What does the average premier league footballer earn in five minutes (on or off the field)?
What round of Euro 2012 will see the last five minutes of Cappello's contract?
How much football had Glazer, Henry, Sheik Mansoor, Venky's etc ever watched before they moved in on the Premier League
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