Speak for yourself. Fans need to decide whether they want to be part of the circus.Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Speak for yourself. Fans need to decide whether they want to be part of the circus.
Agreed.
We kick off tomorrow and it's the first time in decades I can't be bothered - at all. There is no excitement or anticipation - at all. My enthusiasm has been declining season by season, and not just because of Wenger. Now it is drained and dry. A summer of watching these greedy pigs clawing their way to unprecedented disgrace without showing a hint of shame has helped me see very clearly. I already knew what was crawling under the rock, but lifting the rock has made the obscenity unavoidably real.
If they were any good I could almost tolerate it. But most of these fuckers are pubbers. They've become the poster children for everything that's wrong with this world. Those corporate scumbags are good, really, really good. To be able to get you to hate the thing you fanatically supported.
Watch Icarus on Netflix. And then extend it outwards for a full view of what passes as sport. They're all Russians now, despite the frantic PR.
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I’ll add Icarus to my watch list.
The money in football is obscene. But it’s Wenger and Arsenal that have really killed my interest for the game. If we were playing really well and doing something interesting on the pitch, I’d find a way to watch regardless of how silly things have gone with the money.
I think of other industries, like film, TV, music….they all make a ridiculous amount of money but it always comes back to the art and enjoying what’s produced. I pay attention to the commerce side of those industries but it’s not at the forefront of any debates or discussions I have about film or music. It doesn’t affect how I enjoy it. Why is it that people on here are saying the opposite about football? Would we care about how it’s all financed if it were actually enjoyable? I think Wenger and the club have played their role in pushing commerce to the front of the queue when thinking of what happens on the pitch. Financial doping, social wage structures…telling the fans that we can’t compete because we haven’t got the money….it has all played a part.
Our nations aren't run by governments, they are run by corporations.
Our sport isn't run by sportsmen, it is run by corporations.
Our ______ isn't run by ______, it is run by corporations.
It's not the money in itself, it's the fact the money has taken away another component of life and reduced it to a steaming pile of shit. The reason we aren't playing good football, and the reason why hardly any team that isn't stacked from goal to striker with world class talent isn't playing decent football is fear of losing the damn money. Success has become not losing, rather than winning. And this attitude kills sport stone dead. The same thing is happening in art. Financial formulae have replaced plot, character development. There are very few good films made each year when you consider it. Some artists won't compromise in terms of their art, but money and politics affects them in other ways. Try being a non-lefty director in Hollywood. This has always been a problem, but now the crisis is severe. Directors are going the way of Jose Mourinho. To get on the screen they need to tick certain boxes or forget it. Hollywood has driven the whole transgenderism nonsense. Without Hollywood it would never have gained an inch. Science is the same. No budget? No science. Want the budget, then you better get loaded up on conformity. And the conformity is not based on idealism. Far from it. It's a money thing. Again.
The Internet is about the only thing left. And they are coming for that too.
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And you could ask, what about books. True. Book burning is only in its infant stage (but developing fast). Which is why we have mobile phones. Books? Old hat. Soon to be extinct. It's a horrible, regressive world we're sleepwalking into, and football is a part of it. Wait and see. Soon there will be no fans at all. No seats in the stadiums. It'll all be virtual. Automatons in headsets cheering on their brand in approved language for fear of their feed being cut. Shout, "Ref, you cunt!", and it will be added to the crowd noise as, "Oh dear, I really don't agree with that decision by the ref, although I respect his/ her/ their/ its right to hold a different opinion." Coming to a nightmare near you. Wait. Watch. Like I said, bad things happen gradually for fear of them being recognised as bad.
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I think Liverpool should sell Coutinho and buy Diego Costa and Van Dijk.
Chelsea are desperate for players and why would they sell Matic to Utd for only 40 million and Conte is getting very frustrated and who knows what will happen with him.
Morata will need lots of time to settle.
Spuds are bound to sign Barkley surely.
Arsenal are pathetic as always.
Man City and Man Utd have done well so far this summer, although Lindelof looks a bit dodgy at the moment and will need time to get used to this league.
All too cynical, NQ. That level of cynicism will make it hard to find the art in anything.
Cynicism is the new optimism. You have to master doublethink to appreciate it fully. Are you telling me that everything isn't in the grip of sick bastards? I say it is and I say there's a mountain of evidence to support that claim. I also think it's easy enough to look back a decade, maybe two, and compare and contrast without considering the drip effect of each new corruption layered upon corruption. What do you see when you make that comparison?
It is, indeed, hard to find the art in anything modern. I'm sure there must be something, but it'll be inertia. The species has chosen this shit, it's the way we seem to want to be. It's not as if these vile scum have forced anything on us, we've asked for it and it has been delivered.
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I hope so
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You monster!
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