Quote Originally Posted by the sniper View Post
Like we don't know...

Can you imagine any other sport where the head of a league/Championship would freely refer to its fans as "eejits" and say of competitors that it's 'their sport'. Can you even imagine the BTCC or BSB considering using such language? Now fair enough, we know our place, British rallying has seemingly fully embraced its position of irrelevance, that is until they need us nobodies to vouch for them and campaign for them to be able to do "their sport" whenever the authorities question why they're letting these blokes tear up their facilities while more socially conscious, environmentally friendly and more popular activities are excluded for their benefit.

Regardless, I have no problem with not spectating on MoD land.
Football, F1 & BTCC are spectator sports - paid for by the spectators, either live or thorough TV subscriptions. Of course the management of those sports aren't going to decry the spectators - they are their customers. National rallying is a participator sport, paid for by those who take part. Spectators don't enter into it and in many cases are a cost and drain on resources. If you want you get near to the action then sign up as a marshal - they're always in short supply.