Money has again played it's part in the decline of football in this country
Manners and common decency between clubs, their managers and officials have gone out of the window, wages have sky rocketed, and the result is this army of ignorant, snarling, thuggish louts who now populate the game, and who unfortunately these people are rich beyond the comprehension of most of us.
Yes, Joey Barton is a thug, but so are many others who if they weren't on a football pitch would be in jail or running from the law. Aside from those players demonstrating thuggishness, there are rapists, murderers, abusers (physical and racial), con men and all other sorts of delightful characters. And that's aside from the cheats on the pitch !
Despite my dislike of Barton for this latest sorry episode, the player who I detest the most is John Terry who should never play for England again, and I hope above everything else he is found guilty and banged up for the Anton Ferdinand charge.
It's reckoned that Manchester City fined Carlos Tevez around £2m for witholding his services earlier in the season, but to him, it's a drop in the ocean which is my point about the money element.
Aside from the Premiership the rest of English football have to live within their means by the new laws coming in. Why does this not apply to them ?
