Are Billionaires Ruining Football?
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
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It's almost as if being wealthy doesn't automatically make you a genius at everything you try.
Just look at Trump 😂
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Changed days since Glasgow Celtic won the European Cup in 1967. Every single player in that squad lived within a 20 mile radius of Glasgow.
Celtic Nonces
"Are billionaires ruining..." Yes.
Spicer is a national treasure.
Absolutely yes 💯
Give him a 1hr Netflix comedy special!
So is Alasdair Beckett-King. 🤔
My husband used to be a huge fan of football. He really can’t do this any more. “Murder is a business model”.
Perspicacious observations Michael. Billioniares are ruining everything including football. A sad testament to human greed that none of them appear interested in using their wealth to help people in any way!
Don't be sorry about the swearing. A well-judged intensifier is worth its fucking weight in gold.
Fucking right.
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This line is gold ❤😆
I'm glad you brought up Wayne Rooney. Very good at finding those pockets of space.
In a granny's knickers...... and yes, I know you're referencing another Spicer vid
Money laundering in plain sight
Addicted to watching your videos now. You literally just cut to the raw shit. Delivered with humour it may be, but your gutting bluntness is so necessary in this world. A fantastic watch, you are, Michael.
Ummm ... it's a good comment, however no, he didn't literally do that. Check meaning of "literally" before using. 😉
@jimrobin Bruh. Searching back through the history of the universe but... nope... can't find the point in time where I asked your opinion.
@@jimrobin That would have been a very strange video indeed.
@@UMBR. I guess you're kinda stuck with it then, "bruh" - this being a public forum and all. 😉
Thanks for making this. Having grown up watching football from the terraces it makes me very sad that we've sold it so comparatively cheaply to people who couldn't care less about the game. The good news is it's pushed me into watching lower league local football which is still largely free of this kind of Sh*ttery.
I am begining to think that the rule in sweden that noone can own more than 49 percent of the club and the remaining 51 percent is actually owned by the members of the club. Yes our fotball is not good enough to get teams into the cl group stage, but it is ours.
The difference between Birmingham and wrexham is that wrexham is on disney plus and the two owners was smart enough to be nembers of the community(check out robs reaction to them singing happy birthday to him). Birmingham got a manager that clearly has not learned anything about beeing a manager despite playing for almost 10 years under alex Ferguson
Interesting I didn‘t know that besides Bundesliga another league would have the 50+1 rule
Absolutely correct. Not the only sport though, sadly. Golf, Formula 1, Tennis, to name but a few. They're all heading that way....
'And you'd be wrong you effing fool' this needs to be said more often to more people, incapable of, or determined not to, joining the dots
It truly, truly does. There’s too much stupidity out there and more people need a dose of reality slapped into them 😂
Football is the only industry in the world that has would-be owners clamoring over each other to buy a loss-making business.
One of the best commentaries I’ve watched in ages.
Imagine going to work when the police have charged you with 115 different offences and nobody is allowed to say anything negative about you. Meanwhile a couple of people with minor misdemeanours have been fined and docked wages.
"what it means to put on a Chelsea shirt" - Remember David Mellor, anyone?
Haha 😅
Yes, while on the subject of "getting spanked" ... 😅
I had tried my best not to
I do, he once questioned if my club was racist on the radio and he shares an exact name with a friend. So when our chairman went on the pitch at half time and denounced David Mellor over the PA system. The club's support responded with chants of : "David Mellor, is a wanker, is a wanker". My mate had to stand there and take 20,000 people calling him a wanker whilst the rest of his mates struggled to breathe because it was just that funny.
@grizcuz A tory Chelsea fan accusing another club of having racist fans? Haha
You had me at 'are billionaires ruining..'.
The nearest thing we have to democracy these days is where you spend your money.
Your money supports those you give it to and supports what they do with it.
Vote with your wallet.
So our votes are worth infintesimally less than billionaires. Sure gonna make an impact that way.
Did we watch the same video?
*Money* is ruining football, full stop !
Players demanding and getting paid each week sums of money that would make the average family secure for life if they got it just once.
Transfer fees that force clubs into the "unsustainable business model" area unless they have the backing of someone with a questionable background.
It being so vital to qualify for certain competitions in order to reap the TV money that players are expected to gain an advantage by blatantly cheating, claiming for non-existent infringements when a goal is scored against them, surrounding and shouting at the referee when a decision doesn't go their way, etc.
You have made your point beautifully and without the whistles and bells cos you don't need them. Why are telly not offering you a series. Love your work.
Yes, in a word.
billionaires ruin everything they go near, its what billionaires DO...!!!
That’s 4 words..
What about the UK, no you’re right Billionaires do f*** it up. Ratcliffe, Dyson etc all football fans they know their balls
"if we win the Carabao Cup next year... yeah". 😂
It's almost like billionaires don't actually care about ordinary people... but thankfully Donald Trump is completely different.
😂😂There are people that actually believe that. Incredible eh
Sarcasm I hope
I want to say 'Who would have thought it would end like this when Kevin Keegan and Henry Cooper were doing adverts for Brut aftershave??'. But really it's closer to the truth perhaps to say 'Look at what Colonel Tom Parker did to Elvis'.
Is football going to die on the toilet, addicted to drugs and unable to pass it's undigested junk food??,
Yeah, probably.
You have a suspicious mind.
@@Evemeister12 I can't help falling in love with your comment.
It's the reason I no longer watch Premier League football. If a billionaire buys your club, snaps up all the best players and you start winning trophies, how can you really get that excited. Its not like Brian Clough or Alex Ferguson taking over teams and taking years to build them into giants. But then I'm a baseball fan, and the amount of money in baseball dwarfs football in most countries,so what the hell do I know.
Fergie bought the best players and spent more than everyone else though.
I suggest you look into the history of football. The successful clubs have always had rich benefactor owners.
@@DarthQueefiousbut not Saudi Arabia rich
@@dougalmcguire7202as much as I dislike United, their success and money really came from success on the pitch and developing their brand as a result.
That is different to an oil club which becomes rich just because a billionaire decided they would buy them.
@@willellis1383 check how expensive fergies fa cup team was, and they bought big players continuously after that. Yes, they had a top glut of talent came through all at once, but they still spent the most every season.
Billionaires are ruining everything.
I really like the new direction you're taking the channel. But please do post your funny videos from time to time.
This video is funny, because it's true. The dichotomy is that the truth hurts, and getting hurt isn't particularly funny.
Sir Rim Shatcliffe
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Nice one
footballers don’t play for football clubs anymore
footballers now play for shareholding companies that own multiple clubs
*I DONT LIKE FOOTBALL* but I think it should be illegal for clubs to be owned by foreign billionaires, and I would suggest they SHOULD be owned by the fans...
Your ticket to go watch them play buys you another share in the club, every top you buy buys you another share in the club. when you want to cash out they are bought back by the club and re-awarded.
You would end up with very expensive and yet empty seats and garbage dumps full of unused tops. In Germany, by the way, football clubs must be owned with 50%+1 share by non profit sports clubs, so controlled by its members. (50+1 Rule). There are some exceptions but in general that leads to clubs that are not owned by billionaires
In America when a billionaire owner needs anew stadium they hold the city hostage under threat to move for tax payers to pay for most of it and ensure no property tax for like 20 years.
This series always makes me Happy
Going from strength to strength Mike.
Michael, thanks for this should be essential viewing for all Football fans the majority are blind where money is concerned fools and there money are easily parted!
And in every Spicer video I come to the conclusion that he don´t want to mention the elephant in the room:
Late Capitalism is slowly ruining everything we once enjoyed...TV, cinema, sports etc. etc.
Michael, you just keep on soaring!
What I find interesting about this is Actually there are multiple reasons why these billionaires appear to have bought into Football. For UAE it is green washing, For Saudi It is buying Tony Blair's favourite team to thank him for helping with their vision 2030 plan, For Todd Boelhy he's seen Brighton find obscure players, develop them more and sell sell them at huge profits etc. But what I think you missed is that Tom Brady's involvement at Birmingham is actually better compared to Lebron James at Liverpool than Wrexham. Jim Ratcliffe on the other hand is looking to copy City Group by adding Man United to his INEOS teams which already include Nice and Lausanne.
Football has become geo politics at an absurd level. Sarkozy told their colonies in Africa to vote for Qatar 2021 in exchange for France selling Qatar figher airplanes. It is beyond reason at this point and the train just keeps running.
Your videos are the perfect length. Not disposable like tiktok but long enough to make the point without being that new essay video trend. You are an ADHD persons dream.
VAR and money ruined football at that level
Billionaires are ruining everything
Loved this video Michael. When you mentioned departure gates it brings back of connecting flights at Dubai airport. The departure gates were miles apart!
loving these, great vid
I have heard this before, however not in such a comprehensive and yet not overly long, funny video, complete with a sketch!!! 🤠
I don't follow any televised sport, however I remember when it was about the beautiful game and not a constant fight for money, whether that's club owners, or players jockeying for sponsorship deals and building their brand! 🙄
There were generations of fans then and it was more about your family, community and town.
A lot of us have been brainwashed into thinking unless it's sponsored and dripping in money, it's no good:
Music, books, food, ourselves...
Corruption and greed killed football years ago 🙄
Sir Jim used to have a Chelsea season ticket. I'm not saying this because they played Chelsea last night, I'm saying it because it's true.
But he's a life long Man Utd fan.
Billionaires, and pseudo Billionaires will say whatever they think will bring them even more money, because they have no soul and no moral standing.
People need to stop viewing a billionaire owning a season ticket through the eyes of a working class football fan, and instead through the eyes of a billionaire.
He lives in London and Chelsea play on his doorstep and play a high level of football (often in the CL), so yeh, as a utd fan myself, if i was a billionaire i would have a season ticket on my doorstep too. Why not? what is the alternative? Watch it on a dodgy firestick at home?
Jim was born in Manchester, is clearly a football fan, was at the 99 treble final, and was first in line to buy Utd the second it entered the market.
it dosnt take Sherlock to join these dots and reach the conclusion that Jim is infact a utd fan.
A horrible human and a typical tax dodging Tory, yes. But a Utd fan. Lets have it right.
He probably used his Chelsea season ticket as a corporate package. Which also needs to be looked at. The amount of corporate boxes in new stadiums is also proper dodgy. And another way of shafting genuine fans.
@sarahbarrett1247 Yeah, premium football is going to be prices only for rich people, as long as shareholders keep demanding more profits.
So that's how you pronounce Rob Maceleneheney. Macklehenny.
every empire falls.
Didn't stop Palpatine from (somehow) returning, did it?
I have to say this is the best discussion on the state of Football in the Uk. Glad the Algorithm pointed me to u. Cheers m8
I love these videos - 100% you should be on TV
Oh, very good - especially the background music.
John Terry knows what it means to pull a Chelsea shirt on. He put one on after the Champions League Final in 2012 despite being banned for the game!
Since when has turning a past-time into a commercial enterprise brought about it's ruination, degradation and subjugation ? Besides every single time that is.
BCFC went from Eustace to Useless
*YES....!!!* before I have even watched the video I can confidently say YES - cos billionaires ruin everything they go near, its what billionaires DO...!!!
Surprisingly, I have to dispute that. Only with the degree of accuracy. Most billionaires are egocentrics who are unable to realise that they are not Gods. But one example of a different type is Warren Buffett. And there is MacKenzie Scott, who is intent on helping, not just buying sports teams for a hobby. (However, she isn't so kind as to risk poverty. She aims to give away half her fortune. I doubt that she will suffer with only having what would remain.)
@@JohnPreston888- I'll give you that - it is a generalisation - Id say 995 of them are " egocentrics who are unable to realise that they are not Gods" others are good people.
Im sure Tailor Swift is not getting up on a morning plotting how she can destroy the lives of poor people
@@JohnPreston888- my reply got deleted...
If somebody handed you 4 billion dollars, would you instantly become a twat? Money doesn't make people evil. There are plenty of wealthy people who are trying to make the world better. But it's not an easy problem. You have the money, you want the world to be better, how do you do that? Not simple at all, and the best answers are not flashy headline-grabbing acts of philanthropy so people don't see the good that is being done with the money of some of the world's wealthiest people.
@@ChrisHaupt*YOU ARE SO COMPLETELY WRONG* - in 2014 I was worth €6 million and even at that level of modest wealth it had started to change me
YES money makes you into a total tvvat - maybe a tiny % of people can handle it an not be changed by it - but that is 1 in 1000
I think i might be sleep deprived, but I honestly thought Flannels murdered people.
Great video, with some real live elephants in the room, who are worth talking about.
Some might say there is money influencing what happens on the pitch in European games; the money in referees' pockets made while refereeing games in some of those middle eastern countries where club owners drill for oil.
I support Spurs, I have done for more than 35 years. I am disappointed that we are not more successful, but I would not want the club to be owned by one of these states. Seeing the news that Qatar are looking to invest in Spurs and that we are considering accepting their investment has made me very nervous. How often do these investments stay as only an investment and not result in a buyout? It would break my heart if one of these states buys my club and it would end my support. I would like trophies, but not at the expense of the clubs soul.
Brilliant
Michael, did you hear the one about the football club chairman who raised ticket prices and phased out concessions for the Seniors in order to generate an extra £3m. Then quickly followed that by paying himself a £3m bonus?
Tom Boley didn’t even buy lots of superstars.
He paid through the nose for players; and gave them eight year contracts so as to avoid Fair Play rules on the overinflated transfer fees.
Definitely seems like a corrupt business on many levels, FIFA comes to mind. If I cared about football it would bother me a lot.
it's almost as if billionaires ruin..... everything
Spot on
UAE in cycling now too.
That's a real shame. Nothing escapes their greedy grasping hands
Everton is another example of billionaires being clueless about football
Michael Spicer and Jonathan Pie continue to keep me tethered to a bit of sanity & rationale that are steadily being depleted by the general state of affairs worldwide; I am thankful for such "voices in the wilderness." It is a bit of a shame that both are parody/comedic voices that tend to aim at skewering the harsher socioeconomic woes under which most of us suffer rather than report upon them while investigative media & reporters simply turn a blind eye. Ah well, at least we are entertained. 😐 Regardless, I salute them both, and I will keep on watching. Cheers!
Yes I’m also. Jonathan Pie subscriber 👍
THANK YOU. Again. And again.
This guy is on the right track...I hope he continues not for the greater good but he like so...
@Michael Spicer, well done for the video and I really like this approach for your channel! just one suggestion please fix your microphone volume as it's pretty low, apart from that keep on with content like that
The question is are billionaires ruining football...surely billionaires are ruining the world?!
The scandalmongers podcast recently discussed corruption at Manchester fc. You give a brilliant capsule critique of an entertainment business I knew little about. Ratcliffe's cycling team is a failure; yet a visible global advert for Ineos. Thx Mickael
Excellent
Sky and the Premier League ruined football in the early 90s.
Once again, some brilliant, quotable lines. I like the promise of that type of University Degree.
Well said.
Manchester City are ruining football since they were awarded 115 charges and they still want to win every trophy every year. Everton and Nottingham Forest are the 2 teams that are also avoiding relegation and to stay low key by the Premier League.
Superb.
Very good.
Only problem was that I had to look at Steven Bartlett and his ultra processed meal in a bottle drink for 5 seconds in the middle of it.
I’m not a sports fan and can’t get into football at all but sympathy goes out to real fans who see what’s happening to their teams. Perhaps they should go back to their roots - jumpers for goalposts…
How on Earth can Newcastle United fans live with themselves supporting the club under their current owners.
How can City fans live with themselves, PSG fans, Arsenal fans? All these mentioned clubs are supported by the middle east, stop talking about Newcastle as if they are the only club owned by a questionable regime.
@@dennisnielsen4289 I agree with you - how can all these clubs' supporters live with themselves.
Arsenal is owed by the Kroenkes, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C.
Nothing to do with SA.
Any chance of a room next door for Wayne's team talks?
"Money dictates everything..." And we don't need to look far, do we?
Brilliant Michael. Couldn't agree more. Football is a very useful diversionary tactic so while the fans are absorbed in some important game, there are sinister things going on behind the scenes. Aye, they need football....
You once played a museum curator in an episode of Mi High for the CBBC
You have made your point beautifully and w
Good lad Mickey
If they ever do a 4th season of Ted Lasso, I hope they have you on to do this kind of CZcams video in one of the episodes 😄
Now, if Tom Cruise was manager of Birmingham FC then.......
I couldn’t love this guy more
WOLVES MENTIONED 😂😂😂🐺🐺🐺 YES!
Ooooh, that dog bowl, though..
if we win the caraboa cup next season, probably yes.
The Inneos logo you showed is for another company, a fiber optics one... it's Ineos with just one N.
I'd like to buy a Michael Spicer dog bowl please.
It's funny I had only heard of Sir Jim Ratcliffe the other day as something to do with the first land rover.
Now he popping up all over youtube.
"just ask apple" 🤣🤣🤣
Mind you, the “star” footballers should also actually try playing football and do less acting on the field. pretending being injured, rolling in excruciating pain… until there is a card shown… and then just nothing happened… wasting time and making the game look like a b*tching contest between the most well paid players on the planet…
i believe that smaller budget teams play better football than the big ones because they go for it, they want to play and want to win with actual football and not winning an oscar for best suffering performance in 90 minutes.
Chelsea's £800m team drew at home to a soon-to-be-relegated 10-man Burnley, which has a squad worth about £73m. They needed a questionable penalty and Cole Palmer carrying them in order to draw.
World cup going to Saudi Arabia, money money money going to a corrupt FIFA
Yes