BRADFORD'S Bouncing Backwards!

Key word was ‘directly’.

Let’s just agree to disagree.

 

@bantamlad92 I agree with parts of what you're saying. I think Bradford is shithole and even as an ethnic minority myself i think multiculturalism has played it's part. I can also see why that may prevent large establishments from wanting to invest here.

I will however come back to an earlier post. Investing in the city of Bradford is not the same as investing in Bradford City football club. What is it about multiculturalism that would prevent an investor from buying Bradford City fc?

The only thing I can think of is the lack of interest most ethnic minorities have in Bradford City and therefore less potential.

From reading your posts, i don't believe that's what it is. You've justified yourself on several occasions without mentioning it once when you could have done so in a just short sentence and phrases such as multiculturism being a taboo topic tells me you're reasoning is slightly more sinister. However, if you want to claim that multiculturalism might affect investment in Bradford Citydue to concern over potential customer base rather than the reasons you've given ill take that as a valid reason and move on.

 

I think a more valid argument is to point towards public perception in general and whether that has prevented the level of investment in Bradford's sporting teams that has been afforded to other towns/cities. I don't know but it surely doesn't help. The lack of a community or publicly funded stadium or facilities is an easy issue to point to, in a city which population exceeds half a million. We are not talking about Scunthorpe/Oldham etc here.

From a small sample size I can say that most of my friends who were able to left Bradford the first chance they had. Most were ardent City fans and now support from afar, the lack of opportunities and decline in the city was obvious 20 years ago when they were finishing University. Potentially they were fans at heart who could have been involved in their community at large, including the football team. It's that brain drain which really hurts down the line.

It's not a race based argument, more of a socio-economic one, much of it to do with how Bradford is seen by the world at large and what can be done to arrest the slide. I'm speaking as someone who works in BD9 and has done for more than 15 years so I am fully aware of the situation in terms of white middle class flight etc.

 

@Tolly856 - You're missing my point completely.

I'll put my point in layman's terms for you;

- Excessive Multiculturalism has significantly played a part in Bradford becoming a dump (we both agree to an extent)

- Bradford being a dump detracts potential investment into the Football Club (this is where we are in some disagreement). As @Fools Gold also states, the state of our City makes the football club a lot less attractive/appealing. This is what I am suggesting, and this is where you are in disagreement.

I say this because if you want to grow the football club you need to consider many, many elements such as 1) Where could we build Official Merchandise shops? 2) Is the City's economical state on an upward or downward trajectory? 3) Can we raise ticket prices above these ridiculous figures and expect to maintain a similar level of fan base? 4) Following on from 3, can the people of Bradford afford to support a football club which we would like to grow, or do we go for a more affluent and prosperous area of the UK? These are just a small element of factors which are pivotal to an investment in the football club and is exactly why the state of the City of Bradford has so much to do with investment into Bradford City FC.

Many of the negative responses from the above questions are as a result of multiculturalism.

Disagree as you please, but the only thing that's 'weird' is you and Bantam Rhino trying to eek out something 'sinister' in when there really isn't anything.

 

Where can we build an official merchandise shop, can we raise season ticket prices even though the majority of our customers are white British, what is the economy of the city like? In other words, nothing to do with multiculturalism negatively impacting the decline of our sport teams.

Bye.

 

I think so. Let's just say that I came on here to find out if there was any logic in your argument yet. Not found any. So, like Tolly, I say 'Bye'.

 

Do you genuinely think there isn't one point of logic in any of his posts in the above thread?

 

It’s a typical case of throw the race card in , everyone else is wrong your all racist , am not interested no longer , good bye

 

Unfortunately, any point of view that doesn't comply with the state-sponsored motion of multiculturalism and diversity is considered as 'racist' to those who have bought in to that motion.