EDDIE As a supporter of a team currently 89th out of 92 in the English Football League, I felt your writers (2 September) failed to answer ine quesuor masses or part or an essentany nearn. working class culture Temselves Spanish football, inside forward, Duncan Mackenzie's 'inpages of the popular press In fact it is picked such names from the tootballing elite and bemoaneo ine tallure or our tean managers to use such non-conformers in their sides ot. ine international choosing him, it is a bit thick for a socialist paper to pass off Stan Bowles carrying on with nude (female) models in the pages o the Mirror (and elsewhere while leaving a wife and three kids at home as peccadilloes' (whatever they are)
Having stressed the domination of football by big business -Years Brentord rector of ad Labiur Ma crisis rentore director Jack Dunnett tried to sell the club lock stock and barrel to Queens Park Rangers for 5105.000 gestions as to how the players and sup porters could take control into their own hands.
Lincoln City recently ran a whereby the supporters bought a player in order to boost involvement with the team This cunning version of worker participa tion' helped Lincoln to top the Fourth Divi sion last season. If "participation' is pos sible why not schemes tor workers contro of football? In May exambie one Doint contused "democratisation'.
It seems to me that the essential first step in giving football back to tne player and the fans tnemselves InTO sporting use •and authorities as a social sary the money could be levies on local business. By which are after working class, greater opportunities would be given to local youth and the factory teams of the much to eliminate the star system, ridicu lous transfer fees assembly: By making the clubs the property of the that community, produced through its commor for effort, perhaps it would also help to overcome football's role as an opiate of the masses by eliminating ween active player and passive spectator football, opiate of that they set The article also suffered fron Stan Bowles creative - that dominate the back that the article . After all, whatever the reasons selectors • for example, a ten and Labou - the anticie otereo no suc schemi AR in crance TO players did threaten to strike al for chut chowed ine boten would be to turn the clubs centres oper local Tinanced service If neces raised through making the all predominantly resemble local early doing and professional status and whatever distinctions bet TEAL Brenttorel capitalis These, of course, are just suggestions weaknesses of RAI approach is to be congratulated on considering which is, after all, a significant element of the culture of the working class - NIGEL sonstration, Sur