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Bradford Gamble Failure

BBC SPORT | Football | Teams | Bradford City | Bradford future rests on Carbone.

Bradford City could potentially fold as a result of the club gambling their future on the exhorbitant wages of one player.

Although Carbone is at part to blame, the real idiots are the people who agreed to pay him the money (UKP40,000 a week, even Manchester United think twice about paying that much). They gambled on the fact that this player could keep them in the Premiership and lost. Now, the revenue isn't there and they can't afford to pay him.

Let's hope that the club survive and the board learn an important lesson and pass that lesson onto everyone else.

I have to admit a real conflict of interest here. A large part of footballs money troubles have been because the other clubs have been trying to keep up with Manchester United. It seems only United, Arsenal and a few other big clubs are ever going to win the league now, and that isn't very good for the game. Sort of devalues the winning of it really, if you know that other teams can't compete with you. Look how much money Fulham had to spend to get to mid table position. Ten years ago, Fulham were Blackburn and they were able to win it. I really doubt that now.