Too much of a good thing

I wrote more than ten years ago outlining the potential danger of the football authority selling its soul to television. With a very popular product they should have kept it in short supply.The schedule is programmed to suit the television companies and the armchair supporters, rather than the real fans.

While the true supporter has struggled financially more and more to follow his beloved team, he has seen greedy players and managers paid what can only be described as immoral salaries. Players are no longer role models and have become more infantile as the years have passed.

The Premiership has followed a natural course and has become a league where probably only five clubs are capable of winning a major trophy. The remainder are reduced to a type of football known as "in your face football" simply to survive. Thus the Premiership is slowly becoming another Championship. In short, they dread being relegated simply because they cannot do without television's money.

When it dawns on them what is happening, the mercenaries will depart to another make believe land of milk and honey, and television will drop football like a hot potato. By that time most of the fans will have been bored to death by incessant television coverage.

More clubs will have to do what Wolves have done this year and come back into the real world, learning to be good housekeepers and self-sufficient. The day of reckoning is bound to come.

The international scene could have been our saviour but has not helped with our "big fish" showing that they can only swim in a small pool. Still, what do we expect when a Scotsman selects our national manager?

The Premiership and television's money have done nothing to improve our national team. In fact it is probably worse now that in 1990.

A Johnson, Ampleforth Drive, Stafford.