World Cup Boycott

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Jsybarry said:
An interesting view by someone who was interviewed on BBC Global News (the only channel in English I could get in the hotel in Tunisia) who said that football needs someone to do a footballing equivalent of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket and they made the point that with some of the billionaire owners that have come into the game why shouldn't someone do that.
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I'd rather that didn't happen. The problem with the current set-up is money and the way it corrupts - and the common factor between the current set-up and billionaires is money, and the way it corrupts...

I may just be too old fashioned, but I would rather a return to the days when playing for your country was viewed as an honour, not an extra source of income, and club came before country...
 
Bolton's Boots said:
I'd rather that didn't happen. The problem with the current set-up is money and the way it corrupts - and the common factor between the current set-up and billionaires is money, and the way it corrupts...

I may just be too old fashioned, but I would rather a return to the days when playing for your country was viewed as an honour, not an extra source of income, and club came before country...
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Couldn't agree more and it's a shame to feel we have to preface comments wanting s return to what were undoubtedly better days in terms of standing of the international game with the line "maybe I am old fashioned" I dont think it is at all.

It was great to see the unbridled joy of Wayne Rooney when he scored the third in Glasgow. His reaction was one of a fan as much as a player! Along with a reasonably cohesive game plsn that's pretty much all I ask from England...
 
Bolton's Boots said:
I'd rather that didn't happen. The problem with the current set-up is money and the way it corrupts - and the common factor between the current set-up and billionaires is money, and the way it corrupts...

I may just be too old fashioned, but I would rather a return to the days when playing for your country was viewed as an honour, not an extra source of income, and club came before country...
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Very wise words BB (but interesting idea jsybarry)
 
Dan Starkey said:
Sorry BB - I thought that was OFH I was replying to - it wasn't meant as a dig about the other night <doh>
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No need to apologise - you support England, I support Scotland. Although I would say that Rooney's joy at scoring was no more unbridled than Robertson's - and had Strachan played to Anya's strengths, had he scored his joy would have been equally obvious... :)
 
Bolton's Boots said:
I'd rather that didn't happen. The problem with the current set-up is money and the way it corrupts - and the common factor between the current set-up and billionaires is money, and the way it corrupts...

I may just be too old fashioned, but I would rather a return to the days when playing for your country was viewed as an honour, not an extra source of income, and club came before country...
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BB - I can't speak for the Scotland Team but I do know that the England Team Players do, theoretically, play for nothing. For at least the last 20 years if not longer the England Players are paid a match fee, this varies as to the result, this fee is then donated by all of the players in the squad to Charity (The Footballers Foundation). Even at the 2014 World Cup they contributed all of their Match Fees to the Foundation. It's a shame England didn't progress further the Foundation would have been better off. <applause>
 
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