It’s amazing how it takes specific detail for the fingers to be clearly pointed but in reality it should not need to be pointed out how absolutely bent football has become, best evidenced by the sheer existence in their current guise of clubs like Chelsea and City.
Without much scrutiny by our FA or UEFA they were able turn themselves into something they never were in over a hundred years of existence inside only months. The sight of Robhino bewildered at an airport was ignored due to the hype of Robhino being at a Manchester Airport !
Neither Chelsea nor Shity have been good for Football in this country. What they have done is greedy at best, criminal at worse.
In the Russian’s case it’s beyond reason to praise anything that’s gone on. Each and every contract signed or trophy won came at the expense of the poor and hungry of Russia. Fact. Virtually nothing they have “won” should have been allowed. But politics being politics, Too many people look the other way due to self interest. Especially so when the fat boys of the press get a lot of hospitality options so they don’t say the wrong things, I think Matthew Syed was about the only brave voice at one stage.
And after a decade of that shit at the Bridge we are all moved on to the next soap opera that is from the blessed influence and moral standard of the delightful rulers of the UAE. While they cant be bothered to sign the bill of human rights, they will be pleased to buy you a Ya Ya Toure or two.
While they cant cease flogging rape VICTIMS, they will pay to ensure a way to flog the bullshit about how righteous their club is run via Amazon ( low tax ) prime. “Pep” should hang his fucking head in shame. A yellow ribbon for Catalonia yet he’s paid by someone who won’t let a single citizen vote ever. Absolutely disgusting hypocrisy.
And I will simply never understand how City fans sing “blue moon” with such joy when their owners actively repress democracy to such an extent that if they were to sing Blue Moon in the Emirate they might well be banged up.
Democratic freedom is the one right people of the west historically fought for, and died for, and it should always be treasured above anything else, but nope. Not when it comes to football. Everyone looks the other way.
Fancy a bit of flogging or stoning or some restriction on media outlets, freedom of religion not your bag ? Fancy making gay people disappear ? Touch of Sharia Law not too much bother for you ? UAE is the place for you. They will Pump you full of dreams to make you forget the grimy details. And one day your hooked on the shit they pumped you with so bad you will never think to question the whys and how’s. Football. It’s only a game !
As for the breakaway league. Let them all get on with it. It would be lovely to never play in the same competitions as Woolwich and I’d be delighted to never have to see Shity or Cheatski or PSG ever come to Tottenham ever again. It’s we who are too good for them, not the other way around.
