Monday
27Mar2006
Why football needs a good kicking
Monday, March 27, 2006 at 1:59PM
What do you think of the FA Premiership: The world's greatest football league, or the world's greatest swindle?
It may well be both.
A couple of weekends ago, the Premiership saw a flurry of goals of the calibre that leads fans, up and down the land, to cry: "if a Brazilian had scored that." Shots from all over the pitch were flying into the nets, some defying not only the skill of the protagonists, but also our understanding of physics. It was a great weekend to be a football fan, and especially great for a Match of the Day watching freeloader like me.
I'm one of those people, "real football fans" hate, the fan who watches his football, exclusively, on the box. I have not attended a single match, watching my beloved Sunderland AFC, for almost 3-years. Of course at the moment Sunderland are in a record-breaking form, threatening to break that long-held record of Swindon Town, in garnering the fewest points in Premiership history. Its not often Sunderland enter the record books, so I really should be in attendance.
It may well be both.
A couple of weekends ago, the Premiership saw a flurry of goals of the calibre that leads fans, up and down the land, to cry: "if a Brazilian had scored that." Shots from all over the pitch were flying into the nets, some defying not only the skill of the protagonists, but also our understanding of physics. It was a great weekend to be a football fan, and especially great for a Match of the Day watching freeloader like me.
I'm one of those people, "real football fans" hate, the fan who watches his football, exclusively, on the box. I have not attended a single match, watching my beloved Sunderland AFC, for almost 3-years. Of course at the moment Sunderland are in a record-breaking form, threatening to break that long-held record of Swindon Town, in garnering the fewest points in Premiership history. Its not often Sunderland enter the record books, so I really should be in attendance.
Reader Comments (1)
[...] I have written about the attitudes of footballers before. Many are dislocated from reality and are utterly vulgar in their conspicuous consumption. Players like Rio Ferdinand (an obnoxious annoyance on par with acid indigestion) have enormous egos that supersede their contribution to the game. But again, this does not mean that players do not suffer from the pressures of modern football. [...]