The
worst thing that ever happened to football was the abolition of the maximum
wage.
Football is now, like any other branch of the fashion industry, an
example of what homosexual men think that heterosexual women will like. Each
England player’s new strip is bespoke – measured for, and then run up by, a
Savile Row tailor. Each new member of the squad now goes through this, as a
sort of initiation. What a touching act of solidarity in the current economic
climate.
I sometimes wonder why the really big clubs still
bother with football. They are so rich that they could name a “squad” of simple
beneficiaries of some sort of trust fund. The fashion, the glamour, the gossip,
the drugs, the drink, the sex, the lot could then just carry on as before, with
no need for training sessions or what have you. Who would be able to tell the
difference?
The pricing of the working classes out of
football, its legendarily bad treatment of its staff, and its use as a sort of
circus of performing chavs as there might be performing seals or the performing
monkeys like which they are now even trussed up, cannot be tolerated forever.
Or, indeed, for very much longer at all. The last hope is mutualisation,
perhaps with a heavy dose of municipal involvement where grounds were
concerned.
If there still is any hope. There may very well be none.
If there still is any hope. There may very well be none.
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