Why's it about the money?

Football, this country bloody loves it, when your team wins there is no better feeling and losing hurts more than anything. Money has destroyed the beautiful game. Let's take a look back and see the clubs who have been destroyed by debt:
- Leeds
- Charlton
- Southampton
- Crystal Palace
- Stockport
- Luton
- Bournemouth
- Chester
- Rotherham
- Wrexham
- Boston Utd.

These are the teams that actually entered administration recently, Portsmouth, Cardiff and Notts County are on the edge.

I am a Portsmouth fan and this season I have seen my club decimated by monetary woes. Turnover of an entire team and 4 owners in 6 months. Can't pay wages or bills, and at one point even the official website has to be shutdown due to lack of payments. Cardiff and Notts County have also been presented with winding up orders along with Pompey.

Chester recently were banned from the conference for similar problems. It has come to the point where money rules the game, football is more than a business it's almost a religion, we care more about our beloved football team than so many other things.

So if football is so important to us why is it controlled by money? Of course I am not naive I know money is how the world works and don't get me wrong money is important in football players and staff need paying. The problem seems to be every club tries to live above their means, Pompey shows this. We bought players such as Defoe and Crouch who demand high wages when our ticket income is the lowest in the league.

Yes, if a club has an owner like Abramovich or Randy Lerner it is possible to spend lot on players and wages, but shouldn't every team have the chance to challenge for the big prizes? Pompey only won the FA cup because of the money they sent on players. The point is that Scunthorpe should have as much a chance of winning trophies as Manchester United or Chelsea, but they can't because they do not have the financial backing.

It is time we revolutionised football so there is more fairness so players don't go to clubs just for money. Their should be a salary cap so smaller clubs are able to compete. In the NFL each team has a budget they they are allowed to spend on wages, so every club has the same ability to attract the best players. Every competition are dominateed by the teams with money, look at the FA cup Man City and Chelsea in the quarter finals (probably... sorry Stoke).

Teams can only compete in Europe with financial backing, for so many years the same 4 teams have reached the Champions League, because they get so much for competing in it theyw will every year. Yes maybe Man City will qualify this season but that's because they have multi-billionaire owners, which I thik proves my point.

I know now that Pompey will probably get relegated, and that't if we still exist within the next couple of weeks. Money has been our downfall along with so many other clubs, reform must come soon.