Cups and cutlery on ebay?

Das Football comes to you a day early this week, I thought I might as well get it out early in case the dark clouds of financial ruin fall on the world of football before Saturday.

With the economies around the globe falling flatter than a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty appeal everything’s gone a little dark this week.

Firstly West Ham were in trouble as the Icelandic bank run by the owner of the Hammers was nationalised.

This sparked fears of a clearout bigger than the ones those popular furniture companies like to do every bank holiday Monday.

And it might not just be the players, what with their sponsors XL going bust, the Carlos Tevez affair and now this, the Newcastle of the South might not just be selling off Gianfranco Zola’s inherited playing squad but also the club silverware; and that includes cutlery from the canteen.

Within twenty four hours Lord Triesman then spoke of the extreme dangers faced by the games top flight stating a massive three billion pounds of debt is owned by our top clubs.

Of that, two thirds has apparently been run up by the “big four”.

Considering Accrington Stanley went out of business for a sixty five pound gas bill in the sixties, what the football elite get away with these days is pretty ludicrous.

Fears are that if one big club went out a business a domino effect could be created.

But what’s the solution?

With Government’s around the world trying their best to throw enough money into the system to help breath some life into it we’ll just have to all sit tight and wait.

Let’s hope enough mud sticks and a big club doesn’t collapse or all hell will break loose.

Imagine a post apocalyptic footballing doomsday where only cockroaches, Sepp Blatter and Robbie Savage survive.

But if the game was to crash, would things return to the good old days where players were paid reasonable wages and the fans were valued?

I doubt it…you can’t really see Theo Walcott retiring to run a pub in fifteen years can you? I don’t think he’ll have aged enough to even get served in one by then.

SB