What's happening in English Football with Manchester City and their 114 charges is huge.
Most discourse is centered around punishments, but even though I support Arsenal, current title rivals of the charged club, the more interesting question for me is if these financial rules should continue to exist in the first place, because of the consequences they result in.
Like any set of regulations that deal with more than basic property tights violations like fraud and aggression, they end up making it difficult for smaller entities, football clubs in this context, to compete.
Besides, because of financial regulations, more money is prevented from entering the system, which means wages, salaries, facilities and investments don't grow as much.
They create a cartelizing effect where the bigger ones keep getting bigger in terms of finances.
All this reflects on the pitch as well.
I've also thought about a bigger and even more interesting question of a given league's monopoly within a sport.
The entire industry of sports is dominated by a monopolistic mindset.
New enterpreneurs across industries often succeed, usurp the old guard and take the industry to new heights by changing the way the game is played. Currently, there's no room for something like that in any popular sport. There are no competing leagues with different rules, so the sport tends to become drab, boring and overly obsessed with rules and regulations.
Clubs or players in existent leagues decide against exiting because most sports are monopolized in each country due to the obsession of fans and spectators to maintain existing monopolies.
Sports fans are generally hell-bent on demanding a level playing field and the means to achieve this end is considered to be even more rules and stricter oversight and punishment. They have a tendency to get angry at big money owners because according to them, they ruin the essence of the game they love so much.
Sports would be more exciting if it's about pushing the limits rather than imposing them.
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