Well the FA Cup final is just over a week away and Runcorn2wembley appears to have run out of help from the organisations, clubs and the FA.
After receiving great support from fans and the non-league and small league clubs since the start and along the way, it's sad to keep hitting a brick wall when trying to get help from the big clubs, The FA, councils and police.
Football, and in particular the FA Cup, is meant to be about the fans, but money is now the only factor in professional football in this country.
After travelling over 3,000 miles to every corner of the country and meeting so many true fans of the game at places like Runcorn, Guiseley, Kendal and Nuneaton, how pathetic that clubs like Chelsea and Aston Villa either ignore emails and phone calls, or dismiss a charity campaign without even looking at the history of it.
Runcorn2wembley is in memory of our dad who died when Rob and I were still in primary school. As an amateur footballer with clubs like Marine, Runcorn and Skelmersdale, our dad played for the love of the game, not for the money it could give him.
I know he would be disgusted at how the game has developed since he played in the 1960s.
The 'investment' at clubs like Man City and Tottenham can make fans happy with the relative success it achieves, but at what cost? Who pays for the disgusting wages of £100k a week for people who don't care about the club they play for, like the fans do?
That's right - the fans pay for it in ticket costs and the various refreshments etc available at matches.
In the Premiership money is bringing the game to the brink of disaster. Just look at Portsmouth with debts of £138m and the real threat of the club folding.
This shows money is the only thing that matters to the people who run these clubs and campaigns like Runcorn2wembley will find it harder and harder to find support.
Which brings me on to the main point of this post, to ask for a final push for Runcorn2wembley to reach the target of £5,000 for Cancer Research. We need just over £750 to reach it.
Any donations will make such a huge difference to the help Cancer Research can give to finding solutions to the many cancer deaths every year.
I'll update next week and hope to have good news on the donation front.
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A very poignant blog, which does as much to question why we love the 'Beautiful Game' as it does to justify it.
ReplyDeleteSuch stories do little to help disprove so many widely held beliefs about the big clubs in the Premier League.
When Sir Tom Finney can spare £20 out of his own pocket; a man who has done more for the honesty, purity and integrity of the game, it really does put the apathety of the 'big clubs' into context.
Presumably they'd let the phone ring out if he tried to call as well? Arseholes.