When one team sells a player,e.g.Bale £85million,then buys another with the money that isn't money being spent it is players going round the merry go round.It's like you going into the garage and saying you will buy their car for ten grand and they say they will give you seven part ex.It's not seventeen grand that has been spent,it's three.
I really can't be bothered with football nowadays. No soul, no identity, no spirit. Commercialised bullshit and over priced. It certainly ain't the punters game anymore. Hope it all goes pear shaped and implodes.
By the way your username, the infamous and wildly extravagant turn by one of the best players in the world. He was my favourite. I can remember as a kid in the early 70's Shredded Wheat used to show you how to do his turn and other fancy tricks on the back of the packet.
I agree with you getting disillusioned myself especially with my club but I still dream starting with Ireland V sweden on Friday.But all is not lost there is still some integrity left in sport as shown below,Dublin v Kerry All-Ireland semi-final last Sunday 81,000 sell-out for a amateur sport! please log in to view this image http://www.independent.ie/sport/mcm...gain-in-thriller-against-dublin-29543182.html
If my memory serves me correctly he first performed the turn against Sweden in an international game,or at least that was when the media picked up on it.I was a student working in a Co-op canning factory in the summer of '74.As a fork lift driver I was able to catch all the World Cup games.That Holland team was something special,scored most of their goals from way outside the box.Total football,total enjoyment.
Yup 74 and 78. The best footballing team I have ever seen and ever will. Neeskens, Repp, Cruyff all of them could play in any position. Total Football. When you watch ant-footballing teams like Celtic it makes you yarn for when footballers were talented and had a pride about themselves.
Well yes, when the government claims credit for the Olympics putting £10bn into the economy, what they really mean is they took £12bn out of the economy in the form of taxes, wasted £2bn in bureaucracy, then pumped the remaining £10bn back into the economy (or should I say the privileged companies who won contracts), oh and about £100m or so was made from tourists.
It was fantastic,my nerves were shattered.Hurling final this Sunday so I take it you'll be on Cork,where did you watch it?
I watched it with some of my Dublin friends in a local bar - they were a little bit nervous Will watch the cork game in the same bar i think.
Thought you might have said The Crown or somewhere similiar,just like the old days. ps Those pubs are probably all gone now.
The Crown is still there but is now also a hotel. I walked the length of the Edgware road the other week actually and it's interesting to see that a lot of the old pubs are still there but the style has changed dramatically! Mind the galty and Ashtons have been knocked down and the national is now an evangelical church
It's going to have to stop over the next few years, litigation aside, FIFA and UEFA are implementing Financial Fair Play over the coming seasons. It is pretty soulless now... it's almost become too much 'box office' with an 'arranged' fixture list for the English Premier League. Laughable almost, but when it's the football club you've followed all your life, it's not good to watch.
