Morals in football. Anyone seen em?
So Ronaldo is a ’slave’ and there’s a thread in here about the money provided for Keane that says basically “say what you like about the Germans, but they made the trains run on time”
(Some people think Hicks has coughed up the money for Keane and Torres so he can’t be that bad: http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=225240.0)
At what point do we the fan in the street say “Enough is enough”. It seems to me that for every SOS campaign there’s the opposite which says, “Actually never mind the morals feel the quality”. We all know many fans who remain silent on the take over and don’t really care and wouldn’t boycott a game if you paid them the SKY fee to the club per annum.
We all know that there’s been something rotten in the state of Football (esp the Premier League) since the day SKY bought it out and threw out any sense of decency. But this close season seems to have stunk more than ever.
1. Ronaldo is paid £100,000 a week and the very head of football says he’s a slave.
2. Joey Barton is released early from jail to see his manager fully back him and point out he was a good lad when he was at the club.
3. Hicks and Gilette, having loaded our club with millions of pounds of debt are now being almost forgiven by some who think they’ve stumped up the cost of Robbie Keane. (Good but overpriced btw.) when actually he’s paid for by the sale of others.
4. Real Madrid is accused of tapping up and unsettling Ronaldo, Sir Alex ‘whiter than a daz sheet in a nunnery’ Ferguson is livid. Never mind the hypocrisy, feel the price of Berbatov. Or Stam. Or Ferdinand. Or shall I go on?
It makes Chelsea’s sacking of Mutu for drugs abuse seem oh so applaudable. Except if Mutu was Drogba, would they have done it?
Would Barton have the loving father figure of Kev if he was a shit player?
Would Ronaldo matter a spit to either Real, Sepp or Alex if he was Wes Brown?
We often argue about the manner in which Liverpool play, what style would we put up with for a win. Well that’s no longer the point, its what would we lower ourselves to, to get a win? Let the club be taken over by two charlatans, sing their praises at the ground then wake up with a hangover realising we’ve not been seduced by the Texan lovely Jerry Hall, but fucked over badly by the Texan ugly George Bush Snr.
At least we’ve not sunk as low as something as crazy as our club hiring out Goodison for corporates.. Oh wait..
We the fans put up and justify many things in the name of winning and football, but this close season has made the bitter taste in my mouth even more sour.