With the world cup around the corner...and lots of poor people living in shanty towns around the next corner up....and having just read up about the new Nike Magista football boots retailing at £260....I just realised something. I hate football and the mass hysteria. the whole hyperbole conflicts with my principles. What a load of tosh.....For me the only major development in the game has been the speed factor..how it has increased. Oh and the fact that the footballs are fit for ballerinas to have a kick about with. How the hell did we witness great moments in football pre 90's? Did any of them players wear such footwear? They could apply all the skills we see nowadays plus many more. hearing **** like..'wow these boots are like a part of my foot' etc etc...made me f**king cringe....and then I thought...so many ignorants will go and buy them and justify the companies that sell them. Whilst the poor kid in the shanty town hopes to catch a game at a neighbours house....wishing to get some laces for his worn out shoes no doubt.....as the world watches the circus that has come to Brazil for a few weeks...when it f**ks off that poor kid will still be looking for a pair of laces. 2.5 billion is what FIFA is set to make from this circus....but that kid wont see a penny of it I bet. In the mean time lets all watch that tosser David Beckham walking around in the Amazon with his designer gear on....pretending he gets it all... Just f**k off football. p.s this doesn't mean im not following Spurs! The main reason for this article is.....what else pisses people off about this game and the false mask it creates for the sheeple.
To be honest you've summed it up for me. No need to add another reason - in a word commercialism. It leads to their not being a level playing field and so anything Chelsea or City win is meaningless to me - the shock would be if they didn't win. And that is no longer sport. Would feel the same if it was Spurs winning everything (well maybe not exactly the same, but it still wouldn't feel right). And in the past, footballers would be real heroes - how can you idolise primping primadonnas like Ronaldo, Hazard, Suarez, Ozil, Vertonghen (to avoid bias). Much easier when it was a Dave Mackay, Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Greaves, Tom Finney, even proper players like Pat Rice, Ian Hutchinson, Peter Osgood or Alan Gilzean - they were like us, just better at football.
1. The financial disconnect between players and supporters. My old man in the 60s said that even then the players were paid well and the "do you know who I am" attitude existed, but they still went to the same pubs/clubs as the supporters etc. Now there is a huge financial void between the wages of the two, and players behave akin to the Bourbon kings of old in France. 2. Too many games in a season ANY modern Spurs player who whines about that will at the minimum get the 1981-82 season stuffed in their talking orifices by me. 3. The corporate greed/corruption over the grass roots. FIFA. UEFA. Say no more.
Nowadays I treat football like a slut asks to be treated.....take from it what you want...then go home.
One of the hopes was that 2014 being in the homeland of the "beautiful game" would have a real empowering effect on Brasil as a country. But all the news I've seen over the previous months on civilian protests about the money being spent on it, how they're seeing little of it etc kills that.
one who enjoys the game but tells herself what you just told me. People come in degrees. People will say football and all its trappings and illusions are good...but im trying to expose the underlying truth. don't want to de rail the thread however.......so back to the things that annoy us about football and its pull.
"I think it was the same hope in Africa.....nothing gets resolved unless sheeple become people" I would rather have the skilled kid on the beach or in the favela back alley aspiring to be the new Pele, than the UK moron aspiring to piles of cash and a plastic spouse sprayed with Agent Orange. So in that respect, despite my cynicism the "beautiful game" still lives on.
In the late 60's early 70's, I lived in Chelsea for a while. If you went into either a The Chelsea Drug Store or The Markham Arms almost any night of the week, you'd find Osgood, Alan Hudson & Charlie Cooke propping the bar up and necking copious quantities of beer! They became just like any of the regulars after a while - nobody took much notice of them.
Football has spread from it's core base and become a soulless fiscal beast . Winning for many has been stifled for the money backed teams, a game run by accountants who are happy even with no success to feed from the gravy train. Unfortunately (for the accountants) a team like Spurs fan base will gradually erode as the Young guns will seek joy and pleasure that achievement brings. I feel even with the magical never-ending saga of the stadium will bring little reward as our club has new foundations of prudence over glory. Insipid atmospheres , grounds full of fat bald old men and ugly women it's like the last days of Rome. A king's ransom to watch , doesn't seem worth it. A fool's paradise. The pigs are at the trough .
There will be good football on show these coming weeks. But when you get the inevitable cliched "what a great advert for the game" spouted out, we know exactly which "adverts" really matter nowadays.
tried blissful ignorance.....it got on my nerves after 5 minutes. just thought id try to open up 'the other side'
That's why I am constantly taking the piss. It's my way of coping with the damage that is being done to the beautiful game, and, perchance, I may cause others to smile a while amid the sea of tears.
My optimism has been heightened by drawing Ecuador and Greece in the work world cup sweepstake. Bye-bye £5
