Well this week it’s the turn of football.  I used to play it and mostly enjoyed the game, but around the early seventies things started to change and I gave up the sport when what began happening on the professional pitch spread to the game in the park, and I think it started with the referees.

I was brought up to respect other people and have a sense of fair play in all games, cheating wasn’t, and still isn’t, an option.  So when I was playing for a six-a-side team one afternoon and a member of the opposing team pulled my shirt I got a tad annoyed.  Then it happened again the following week and the ref did nothing about it, so I muted my dissatisfaction and still no action was taken.  I complained to my coach and he informed me that this is how the game was being played now – so I left the side and stopped playing.  And the game is even worse now.

There’s a right bunch of namby-pamby tarts prancing around on the pitch today, and they’re all overpaid, they practise diving in the penalty area and have a month off, with full pay, when they’ve got split ends!  Forget the shirt pulling, its gone way past that now.  Cheating on a huge scale to the point where it affects the teams positions in the league, even in the world cup!  The Maradona incident, caught on film, and knob-all was done about it, even when he admitted to the handball months later – absolutely disgraceful.  No wonder the kids think it’s okay to cheat nowadays.

Then crowd violence escalated and away day punch ups were organised by anyone who enjoyed four hours on the piss and a fight afterwards.  The last straw for me was when people started dying at a simple game of footie.  Bloody ridiculous.  Yip, it’s all got far to silly for my liking and I don’t care what anybody says, no human being is worth 20 mill on the transfer list.  I’d go to a game now if I could afford 45 quid to get in!  Actually no I wouldn’t, it a waste of money.  And there’s no doubt about it, there’s far to much money in the game now and it’s ruin the sport as a whole.

So what can be done to bring the game back into some sort reality and up the moral standard in the process?  Well, for starters there should be a block ban on players having the own agents, they’re not musicians or actors, except maybe the ones that wear hairbands!  I think they could get away with not getting sick pay too, I mean, how much can you spend in one week if your stuck at home with an ingrowing toenail?  Lastly, pay the players 500 quid a week, but give the whole team 50,000 grand each if they win, that will get the little jumped up sods running about a bit, and put a halt to time wasting over night!    

 Yeah, I hate football…  Enjoy your weekend, I’m off to watch three bouts of swan boxing!  Bipolar Bill (“,)

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