Tuesday 24 February 2015

Kickabout

I am laughing almost uncontrollably at the possibility of a World Cup Final the day before Christmas Eve.

Qatar was a protectorate of the British Empire until as recently as 1972. Today, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund (effectively, the Qatari Royal Family) owns Harrods.

I hope that a big banner is hanging across its famous frontage, reading "We Are The Masters Now".

On football in general, well, we told you so.

Public school-educated City boys who can afford Premier League season tickets, and to be on jollies to Paris in the middle of a normal working week, are, of course, dead common.

As are retired Police Officers on the boards of international human rights charities. Who, again, can afford Premier League season tickets, and to be on jollies to Paris in the middle of a normal working week.

If football were a working-class interest, then it would receive as much media coverage as darts. It would certainly not be the only thing for which the primetime television schedules were routinely torn up.

Going to the theatre has always been cheaper than going to football matches, and going to libraries has always been free.

The football boys were always richer than we were. Think back to the kind of nights out that they were able to afford twice or three times every week, and to how they were arrayed for them.

None of that has changed, or ever will.

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