Soccer - Entertainment or Business?
Well the season just ended with Liverpool winning the FA Cup on penalties after a 3-3 draw with West Ham.
We may live interesting life but football sucks.
I know this is a nasty way of opening this blog but this is really what happened here, but after witnessing the conclusion to THE WORST SEASON EVER, it had to be said.
5 out of 6 major leagues in Europe have already been won by the same clubs that took the titles in the previous year. Chelsea, Lyon, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and PSV had retained their respective title with Juventus most likely will be retaining the Serie A this weekend.
And the deeper you scratch, the more unsavory the statistics become.
If you think that European football is not that bad, consider this. They are going on a downward spiral and money had robbed us, football fans of the beautiful game. Now teams like Chelsea and Real Madrid are building up an ultimate dreamteam. Football had become nothing more than a advertisement to get investment into their club and to made a profit for that own out of the lifesaving of us, football fans. Football had been stolen from from the fans by a deceitful, shadowy cartel of money-mongers and the most humilating things is that it's stolen right under our noses.
While we gazed with open mouths and wide eyes at the "circus freaks" parading in front of us, we didn't realise that they had an army of shifty little cronies walking amongst the crowd, picking our pockets.
Childish naivety is the only excuse we can offer; our brains were too fried from the free candyfloss and root beer to notice what was really going on around us.
Those circus acts, those freaks of finance, didn't really roll in to town to help us; they weren't really here to enrich our lives. We don't expected them to teach us the skill of their football, but rather to enjoy them playing but it had become too commercialised to do so. I pitied those englishmen going to watch their favourite teams religiously every week. Not sure what is their salary but i think that it's not that cheap to travel in Britian. Britian had one of the highest tax in the world, just to go watch the game. I believed they will be burning 1 day of salary.
This sleazy cloud of bloodsuckers has taken everything and given us nothing in return. They have truly bled European football dry.
The result is Condition Red. No, perhaps more frightening than that: Condition Beige.
Perhaps the World Cup will prove to be the first dew on a bright new dawn.
Sadly, I doubt it.
We may live interesting life but football sucks.
I know this is a nasty way of opening this blog but this is really what happened here, but after witnessing the conclusion to THE WORST SEASON EVER, it had to be said.
5 out of 6 major leagues in Europe have already been won by the same clubs that took the titles in the previous year. Chelsea, Lyon, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and PSV had retained their respective title with Juventus most likely will be retaining the Serie A this weekend.
And the deeper you scratch, the more unsavory the statistics become.
If you think that European football is not that bad, consider this. They are going on a downward spiral and money had robbed us, football fans of the beautiful game. Now teams like Chelsea and Real Madrid are building up an ultimate dreamteam. Football had become nothing more than a advertisement to get investment into their club and to made a profit for that own out of the lifesaving of us, football fans. Football had been stolen from from the fans by a deceitful, shadowy cartel of money-mongers and the most humilating things is that it's stolen right under our noses.
While we gazed with open mouths and wide eyes at the "circus freaks" parading in front of us, we didn't realise that they had an army of shifty little cronies walking amongst the crowd, picking our pockets.
Childish naivety is the only excuse we can offer; our brains were too fried from the free candyfloss and root beer to notice what was really going on around us.
Those circus acts, those freaks of finance, didn't really roll in to town to help us; they weren't really here to enrich our lives. We don't expected them to teach us the skill of their football, but rather to enjoy them playing but it had become too commercialised to do so. I pitied those englishmen going to watch their favourite teams religiously every week. Not sure what is their salary but i think that it's not that cheap to travel in Britian. Britian had one of the highest tax in the world, just to go watch the game. I believed they will be burning 1 day of salary.
This sleazy cloud of bloodsuckers has taken everything and given us nothing in return. They have truly bled European football dry.
The result is Condition Red. No, perhaps more frightening than that: Condition Beige.
Perhaps the World Cup will prove to be the first dew on a bright new dawn.
Sadly, I doubt it.
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