If you think society's sick........

[evoman3957]

........why do people refuse to look at the obvious......the brain dead sport for the brain dead masses.........but we mustn't ever critize good old footy must we......god forbid.

Chelsea’s Premier League title bid has been hit by a new Diego Costa row on the back of the striker ­becoming the latest Premier League star to receive a huge offer from China that would make him one of the highest-paid players in the world.

Telegraph Sport understands head coach Antonio Conte has dropped Costa for Saturday’s Premier League trip to Leicester City in which leaders Chelsea are looking to bounce back from the defeat against Tottenham Hotspur that ended their 13-game winning run.

Costa did not train with the rest of the squad for the past three days after a bust up over an injury with a club fitness coach, which developed into a heated row with Conte. Sources claim Conte shouted 'go to China' and Costa did not travel to Leicester.

Chelsea are also aware that he has received a staggering offer from China, with at least one club telling the Spain international that they are willing to pay him £30 million-a-year net to lure him from Stamford Bridge.

That would put Costa on £576,923 a week, not far behind the world’s highest-paid player Carlos Tevez, who signed for Shanghai Shenhua on around £615,000 a week.

[cee-dee]

Chelsea won without him anyway.

Doncha think the game started to seriously go wrong when a certain TV company tried to corner the market in football coverage? Or was it waaaaayyyyy back when the first millon pound transfer went ahead?

Didn't the "sport" go out of it when megga money walked in?

[evoman3957]

That and the fact that it's become part of the indoctrination into manhood in this country.  In Africa you've got to be hung up by your nipples, for several hours, then cut down; to go out and kill a Lion with a bow and arrow.  In this country, you've got to love " Footy " drink enough beer to make you rat faced.......have a curry and vomit over every paving stone in the high street.  Vomiting over a policeman's uniform, gets extra brownie points.

[mikes*corvettes]

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@evoman3957 wrote:

drink enough beer to make you rat faced.......have a curry and vomit over every paving stone in the high street.  Vomiting over a policeman's uniform, gets extra brownie points.

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That's not just confined to football, what you're describing there is a Saturday night out for most of the youth of today, male and female.

Just part of the decadent society we live in.

[evoman3957]

The more people are given, the more they expect.  The irony is, that the people complaining the most about the hole we're all in; are the ones standing in the bottom, holding the shovels.

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@cee-dee wrote:

Chelsea won without him anyway.

Doncha think the game started to seriously go wrong when a certain TV company tried to corner the market in football coverage? Or was it waaaaayyyyy back when the first millon pound transfer went ahead?

Didn't the "sport" go out of it when megga money walked in?

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No I don't think it went seriously wrong when Sky and latterly BT paid for 'exclusive' TV rights.

Anyone who has been a football fan, (someone who actually goes regularly to games), for any length of time recognises the vast improvements that have been made.

There has been a massive improvement in stadium facilities, a huge increase in families attending, alongside a general increase in crowds, a big drop in hooliganism/racism/homophobic behaviour and some of the best players in the world now play across the leagues.

Football in this country is NOT just the Premier League, although listening to armchair critics you would think that was the case!  

BSkyB first won the contract to show live football in 1992, since then the attendances at Premier League clubs have increased by about 50% and closer to 70% in the lower leagues.  Whilst the vast majority of the TV money is paid directly to the Premier League there are also payments to the lower leagues as well as the large sums paid by the Premier League to the lower league clubs by way of parachute payments and 'development' payments, which have enabled them to improve their teams and facilities.

Football clubs at all levels also play a big part in their local communities, the vast majority run community schemes raising money and providing facilities for all sorts of causes.  Sports men and women in general and football players in particular are also extremely generous not just in cash terms but in the time they spend helping good causes.

Over 70 million tickets to sporting events are sold each year in the U.K., more than 4o million of those are to watch football matches - so not only is football the biggest spectator sport in the U.K. but is bigger than all other sports put together!

Considering the millions who do go to matches there are remarkably few crowd problems - in most cases these days opposing fans travel on the same trains and buses, mix in the same pubs and bars and can actually discuss the game after the match in a civilised manner.

I really wonder how many of those criticising football and those who go to matches have actually been to a game in the last 10 years.

[lambsy_uk]

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@evoman3957 wrote:

........why do people refuse to look at the obvious......the brain dead sport for the brain dead masses.........but we mustn't ever critize good old footy must we......god forbid.

Chelsea’s Premier League title bid has been hit by a new Diego Costa row on the back of the striker ­becoming the latest Premier League star to receive a huge offer from China that would make him one of the highest-paid players in the world.

Telegraph Sport understands head coach Antonio Conte has dropped Costa for Saturday’s Premier League trip to Leicester City in which leaders Chelsea are looking to bounce back from the defeat against Tottenham Hotspur that ended their 13-game winning run.

Costa did not train with the rest of the squad for the past three days after a bust up over an injury with a club fitness coach, which developed into a heated row with Conte. Sources claim Conte shouted 'go to China' and Costa did not travel to Leicester.

Chelsea are also aware that he has received a staggering offer from China, with at least one club telling the Spain international that they are willing to pay him £30 million-a-year net to lure him from Stamford Bridge.

That would put Costa on £576,923 a week, not far behind the world’s highest-paid player Carlos Tevez, who signed for Shanghai Shenhua on around £615,000 a week.

That and the fact that it's become part of the indoctrination into manhood in this country.  In Africa you've got to be hung up by your nipples, for several hours, then cut down; to go out and kill a Lion with a bow and arrow.  In this country, you've got to love " Footy " drink enough beer to make you rat faced.......have a curry and vomit over every paving stone in the high street.  Vomiting over a policeman's uniform, gets extra brownie points.

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Why so angry? Does a few lucky people earning a lot of money really get to you?

[evoman3957]

No, it's the fact that we're all supposed to make sacrifices to save this pathetic society; while the 7% that hold 90% of the worlds wealth are busy feathering their own nests and saving themselves.........that's what " gets to me ".

[lambsy_uk]

Society's ills cannot be cured by 7% of the population; as long as they pay their taxes they are entitled to feather their nests. How are they supposed to save anyone other than themselves?

[right-then-petal]

7% And 90%= 97% where the other 3% just wundering like

[evoman3957]

A " Sir " Phillip Green fan are we,

[evoman3957]

They're not percentages from the same thing, the 7% is population & the 90% is percentage of the wealth..........so they wouldn't make 100% would they

[evoman3957]

OOoops.........I gave him one £ too many, it should be Sir Phi£ip Green.

[lambsy_uk]

What's the point in mentioning one suspected rogue as if it proves something!

[upthecreekyetagain]

Equilibrium has been restored - the deal has fallen through 🙂

[evoman3957]

No difference than mentioning more than one, could or would prove the opposite............ie. Fred Goodwin & half the upper management of Rolls Royce.........to name just a few.......all feathering their own nests.....nothing wrong with that ?  Isn't that what you said ?

[evoman3957]

Good, he'll have to stay in poor old blighty and slum it on £150,000 a week.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Trying hard to understand any comparison between "business men" and footballers - one can have dramatic effects on hundreds if not thousands of workers, (both for good and bad), the other is a contracted entertainer. 

[evoman3957]

Both overpaid and overrated and taking money, either directly or indirectly, from " joe bloggs "..........( no offence joe bloggs ).....to fund their lifestyles ( feather their nests.....so to speak ).

[upthecreekyetagain]

Footballers may be paid sums beyond most of our wildest dreams but "Joe Bloggs" has the choice as to whether or not they contribute to that income.  In economic terms footballers are net contributors to the economy.

Business people at that sort of pay level however can 'cost' both those working for them and the nation as a whole by the way they behave.