Where has the passion gone?

There seems to be a new craze sweeping the modern worlds football industry; Billionaire tycoons buying out English football clubs. The most recent club to become part of this fad, Manchester City. However can money really buy success? Take Queens Park Rangers for example, the former proclaimed ‘ richest football club in the world’. Although only taken over in the early stages of last season, a string of lack lusture performances and a fall to 10th in the Championship has made many Rangers fans question their title ambitions, not least the passion of the side. Manchester City seem to be following in the path of QPR scrapping a point away to hull is far below the expectations of the arab owners and indeed the City fans. The mentality of the uber-rich clubs seems to be very unconvincing, sure you can inject millions into a squad and offer weekly wages tripling that of what a fire fighter earns in a year, but where is the passion? As a QPR fan myself i look back with pride when we went away to west london rivals such as Brentford, battling hard to grab a point to instill fans with pride and passion. Now, what was once a fortress of bellowing Londoners urging their team on has become something reminiscent of the ‘highbury library’. There just simply isn’t much to cheer for, with most players earning enough to put big shiny alloys on their brand new jaguar, why should they care if the club finishes in the second half of the table? Too much money in the game has been a problem for at least 10 years, however with the recent influx of foreign ownership, no one seems to take pride in being a professional footballer. I would glady live off my current student budget for the rest of my life if it meant gracing the feild in the presence of the likes of Ronaldo and Torres. Footballers need to realise that many people’s livelyhoods rest on their team, and maybe just maybe they could spend a little bit more time on the training ground and a little less time thinking about what colour to paint their brand new Mercedes.