World Cup football … what a joke. I have never witnessed such a load of rubbish, produced by players who earn more in a couple of months than I will in my life time.
You can accept the crap on display when the players actually break sweat, but when they are more concerned about getting their fellow professionals sent off and how their hair looks on the stadium screen, than producing a spectacle worthy of the big stage and big salaries they are paid (notice I didn´t say earn), then for me you can get rid of the competition.
FIFA´s gin swilling dodderers should be hung drawn and quartered for ruining our beautiful game. It used to be a sport, where gentlemanly conduct was common place and sportsmanship came before anything else. Now the non-contact business that is rammed down our throats ever four years, leaves a very nasty taste in mine and I should think many other mouths.
Just as in England with the FA, FIFA is just a drain on resources that would be better spent on football at grass roots level, rather than feeding that fat faces of the rich and infamous. Michel Plattini, once one of the world´s most gifted footballers is now a top dog at FIFA, but even he seems to have been brainwashed by money and the inane ramblings of decrepit old men who seem to have lost the idea of what football is all about. I suspect that they are rarely “compus mentus” and hearing them on TV interviews, they only seem intent on helping the rich become richer and the poor going to the wall.
Compare my club with Manchester United. Only geographically 13 miles apart yet in the football world it may as well be a million miles. Rochdale AFC are solvent, but ManUre are over 500 million pounds in debt and that debt is growing daily. Why should United be paid several million without even kicking a ball, while “Dale” are given the paultry sum of just over £100,000 to survive. United use the money to service their debt, while the little clubs use it to stay solvent. Sour grapes you might think, no … just the stark reality of todays dog eat dog business gone mad. Players like Rooney receive in the region of £100,000 a week yet when it comes to the world stage he can´t kick a ball in the direction of a team mate, never mind the opposition goalposts. A wage cap and a ban on foriegn ownership would go a long way to alleviating some of the problems, which if not remedied, will be the death of football as we know it. You might think this is codswallop, but time will tell and I will be very reluctant to say I told you so, but it will happen just as sure as night follows day.
love it, just about sumes it up