Who's the player who turned Barca down for Liverpool for £400,000 a week ?, and hey Presto Klopp said no thanks ! so he is up crap creek now. All players should get 10k a week and let their sponsors give them what they like after that., so if they mess up what will they do then.
Agree with OP, I have an apathy too towards football, combined with our current situation and how it has been for the last few years hasn't helped. I used to travel to many England games home and away for years, now I'm in Oz that's not possible, but if I was back home I really wouldn't bother. I watch a bit of the A league over here, and although the standard is dreadful, at least it feels innocent, not huge amounts of cash and teams that generally try their hearts out.. It's a shame Australia didn't get the world cup instead of Qatar (oh hang on I'm sure that wasn't a financial thing (benefit).... Hmmm You can see for yourselves what the world cup did for the USA all them years ago. Anyway for my Apathy to lift it has to start with us climbing the table and lift the big gloomy cloud... . I agree with Nacho when he states emotionally I've lost almost all connection to it i now look at the scores on a Sunday morning and when we lose it almost like , oh well , rather than be gutted for a week.. I think it's called being numb to it.
It's not just SAFC that have put me off, I just feel that football at the highest level is less interesting than it used to be. A good game is still a real pleasure to watch, but I don't watch half as much as I used to. Lots of people complain about the money in the game. It's not that that bothers me, just that its all collected in a handful of clubs and it's those clubs that dominate European football. I'd much rather see more clubs from more countries in the Champions League rather than just the usual suspects year after year. If you think money has ruined the game in this country though, its worse elsewhere. I went to see Slavia Sofia play Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitska back in March and there were only 300 people in a 50,000 seater stadium. Talking to a CSKA Sofia fan later on, he said that attendances had tumbled because of all of the corruption in the Bulgarian game (that and the fact that Slavia were being forced to play at the national stadium rather than their own ground because of a lack of floodlights). At least we're not in that state. Yet.
This place is absolutely ready for a world cup. Madness that it doesn't look like it's happening any time soon.
Definitely get more pleasure and a good dose of pride from watching my lad play on a cold wet Saturday morning than I currently get from watching SAFC This might have something to do with it: please log in to view this image
