True enough.Originally Posted by gooners
Ask the player if he'll take the average working wage plus a GUARANTEE he'll win something EVERY YEAR. Which comes first? Which is foremost? Football's a job, and a lucrative one at that. Le Tissier retired a long time ago. Why do the players keep going on about medals and cups? Because they know that's what the FANS want - not them, they are after the money but all this BS talk of trophies makes them sound respectable. It's all about the money and the trophies are the icing on the cake, but don't ever confuse that icing for the cake itself. You could say their greed for the ideal arrangement knows no limit. Are they disloyal? Actually probably not - because you have to have some concept of loyalty in the first place to be knowingly disloyal. Seems to me it's a huge mistake to assume the players who come from one world want the same things as the fans, who come from the real world.
Anyway, the Olympics was highly useful in that it lifted quite a few big rocks. You can tell the impact it's had by reading that shit Oliver Holt and his mates. The credibility of football is declining as fast as the money is pouring in. It's very tolerant of some fans to feel such sympathy for the trophy hunting millionaire children but I'm not sure they need or even register the support.
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