Subject:  Worthnothin Cup, the Poncier League and the Champions (or top 3 finishers) League - a rant |
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Date Posted: 00:52:24 03/05/03 Wed
Lets be honest, there is more passion on a Sunday morning football pitch than on there. They are just a bunch of overpaid, whinging twats. What motivation do you have when you are on £25000 a week? Then they go on the telly and talk about the love of the game. It is not the real world.
None of it MEANS fuck all to any of you does it? You might as well support Jennifer Aniston or Robert De Niro because that is all it is. Film stars/PL footballers/TV stars... it's just sanitised bullshit multi media entertainment.
The teams that Dave grew up watching would have been Keegan, McDermott, Tommy Smith etc. In those days he could have gone to the game, paid on the gate, had a couple of beers and got the train home. Today he would have to be a member of LFC Supporters Club (appx £20), write off six weeks in advance, prey you get chosen in the ballot and then sit in a stand with a fucking McDonalds under it with a load of Irish and Japanese tourists, and paying another score for the privelige.
The day out will cost over £60. The game at the highest levels has become a fucking parody of itself. That is why when real passion is shown (the Birmingham derby for instance) the country is in uproar. Football as a working class release. It is about passion, local pride, saving face etc. It is about skill, tradition and generations of stories. Stories that almost become legend.
To use Liverpool as an example. Billy Liddle died recently. An old fella I know from work wept. Liddle-pool they were known when the forward was playing. The man spoke of how the guy played, how he conducted himself. Liddle died in poverty, but died a legend. Ask yourself if anyone will cry when Michael Owen dies in fifty years? The game has changed. He's a nice bloke, but is he made of the stuff of legends? Is anyone these days. He recently wrote a cheque to Kieron Dyer for more money than Billy Liddle earned in a career. Owen will earn that in a week. Overpaid and over-exposed.
Me? I'll still go to the Deva and watch (still overpaid - well some of them...) lesser heroes, but to me they somehow feel more real. They are not film stars, just blokes like me, earning a crust. Not an overpaid shitbag like Robbie Savage. Now NO FUCKER will cry for him, the Wrexham prick.
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