21 Saturday Sep 2013
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As Chelsea and Fulham are about to kick off, I’m interested how many players will be sorting rainbow laces in their boots. Stonewall are advocating acceptance and tolerance for footballers who are gay.
It should be something that isn’t necessary but is it really tolerance amongst the players or from the fans?
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/media/current_releases/9260.asp
03 Sunday Mar 2013
Posted in Politics, Social History
As clubs at the lower end of the football tier league, another Arab consortium is making an audacious bid of 1.5 billion for Arsenal. This amount of money would wipe out the debt of most countries, but no, it will be used to buy a football team.
Football began as entertainment / rivalries for the working classes, hence 3pm kick off, to allow people time to change after working Saturday morning. Nowadays the football world has the finances of a small country; players earning money that is completely disproportionate to the rest of working society.
How can individuals amount so much money, that bankrolling a football club doesn’t even make a dent in their wealth. There is something seriously wrong in the world.
26 Saturday Jan 2013
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It is rumoured that as he lay on the ball soon to be millionaire Morgan taunted Hazard by saying that he was considerably richer than him!
I got it wrong – it wasn’t class war on the football pitch, it was a fucking rich gobby youth, who brags about his wealthy lifestyle, thinking he can get away with whatever he wants.
Fucking kick him again.
04 Friday Jan 2013
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I watched the you tube video of AC Milan walking off the pitch due to racial chanting, but some idiot in the comments writes this:
If they pay good money to see Italian football, they have the right to see Italians on the pitch. I don’t see any reason to give support to blacks, Arabs or Eastern Europeans when you don’t feel any connection with them or even can’t pronounce their names. I don’t watch football at all for that reason. It became too expensive too see some foreign mercenaries play while your own countrymen play in lower divisions because it’s much cheaper too kick five blacks out of a tree somewhere in Ghana
06 Wednesday Jun 2012
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edl, euro 2012, football, jubilee, racism, st george's cross, union flag, union jack
The Jubilee is over, the flags are now redundant but they will be replaced as Euro 2012 is nearly upon us. St George’s Flags in abundance, pledging our loyalty to a team that has alwys failed to deliver. Take away the football aspect, and the plethera of the red cross on a white backgroung strikes fear in many people. The EDL tried to counter the Republic demo but failed (see Ian Bone’s Blog).
Although the Union Flag (it’s only the Union Jack when on a ship) doesn’t appear to hold the same racist statement that it did in the late 70’s it has conveniently been replaced by the George Cross. The flag means nothing but support for my country I hear you cry, but there has always been an undercurrent of racism within football just waiting to have a voice. Whenever the streets and cars become emblazened in the red and white flags it appears to give a mandate to the EDL – who are very nice people, simply passionate about their country!
Whilst the Jubilee and all it’s flags looked ‘so quiant’ to many, the same can’t be said about a sea of England Flags. You may not agree that it all smacks of jingoism, a time yearning back to the crusades, but next time the EDL march (or remain static in a kettle) just look at what flag they wave.
13 Monday Feb 2012
We all lambaste rich businessmen who don’t pay their fair share in taxes or treat staff below them with contempt – but do you expect any different. Capitalist companies by definition destroy anything that is weaker therefore to lead one of them your nature has to be that akin to that. Murdoch selling his Sun reporters down the river.
However after the shenanigans with football players, is it all the money that makes them a wanker or is it again just the nature of the nature of the beast – where footballers in the 60’s as bad or was it less publised. Tevaz may be coming back to Man City after he threw his toys out the pram, Luis Suarez is just a nasty piece of work – cheat (Ghana) violent (Ajax) and now racist (Liverpool), John Terry say no more, Andy Carroll the list goes on and on. Is it money or is it nature. At least with football if players got paid only if they played and an additional amount if they won, may keep their feet on the ground. It may stop young girls having ambitions of being footballers wives.
Are these people attracted into their chosen profession because it suits their nature or does money change their outlook on life.
Most footballers are not icons and should not be revered by the youth of today.
07 Tuesday Feb 2012
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As the Spurs fans sang ‘are you John Terry in disguise’ to Suarez on his return, does this mean John Terry’s name is now synonymous with racism, even if he is found not guilty? Have the FA jumped the gun by stripping a potential innocent man (ask Rio that question) of the captains armband? Whatever the answer to those questions Capello has blatantly shown his disdain for out FA. They may be usually spineless but this is their appeasement moment, will Capello stop at just The one interview or can he undermine the FA even more. Is JT just a pawn in the FA master plan to sack Capello?
If England did have any chance of winning Euro 2012 then team unity must be now at an all time low; the captains armband will become a poisoned chalice with the person taking it is not the mangers choice. The FA need to get rid of Capello now as he may forfeit any payoff for that interview. The FA then need to make a strong decision, they were too frightened to appoint Brian Clough but they now need to appoint Harry Redknapp, regardless of him not being able to write a team sheet. Even if he gets sent down, he’ll have plenty of time to study tactics.
25 Tuesday Oct 2011
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This appears to be the ‘get out of jail free’ card that all footballers can play when accused of any wrong doing. Carlos Tevaz refused to come of the bench for Man City is simply a misundersatnding, Mario Balotelli and Andy Carroll are apparently misunderstood, and now John Terry allegedly giving Anton Ferdinand racial abuse has been explained as, a simple misunderstanding. He is reported as saying:
I would never say such a thing – and I’m saddened that people would think so………I congratulated him on their win. He has not accused me of any wrongful remark. It was clear it was all a misunderstanding at the time.
What isn’t about footballers, or should I clarify, footballers with money, who think that no matter what they do is acceptable because they are rich. The greed of the premiership and it’s players cannot continue for much longer without having far reaching consequences across football.
15 Saturday Oct 2011
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Yes Wales were unlucky to go through to the Rugby world cup final, and people will return from watching egg chasing to watching the football. Every 4 years the Rugby World cup comes around and a nation becomes gripped by a sport that the majority of us despised as kids at school. A game built around brute force and testosterone, played by valiant men, but the truth of the matter is that any rugby player I have ever met is a misogynistic arrogant fucker. A thuggish game played by gentlemen, I believe the quote goes, so it’s no surprise that it is popular in male public schools; come to think of it most public school people I have ever met have been misogynistic arrogant fuckers. What a strange coincidence!
Jason E Cooper 