Also overall I’m pleased that top football bros are now Very Rich. I mean, imagine it was still paid like the old days, and in a few years time I see Rickie Lambert working as a junior assistant on the fish counter in Lidl, or he had to sell his Johnstones Paints Medal to pay for a hip operation or something. That would Break My Heart.
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Going back to the original POV… it was not about what i want…that boat sailed a feck long time ago, and there is nothing anyone can do about the game /turn back clock etc to make any difference… it will just get worse… the point being its getting/gotten to the point where I am struggling to retain any interest in it. The morallity of this excess is part of it, the lack of competition another and the vacuous fuckwit greedy twats who kiss the badge in a fake love the final straw… its all a load of cock. My question was whether this disillusionment was shared at all with the general Sotonians populace… for me the Naymar transfer does seem to express all that is wrong with football (not the world…). Yes there are other symptoms of the greed enabled by the excessive money in the game, but this really puts it all in perspective…
… i dont even get annoyed when we lose anymore… or elated when we win, in fact I feel pretty much meh about the whole thing…
Not sure it woudl be worth enough…
Daniel Craigs rumoured to be getting £80 million for the next Bond film and no one bats an eyelid.
Unbalanced distrubution of wealth isn’t exclusive to football and it’s certainly not exclusive to the modern age.
Probably because it is dwarfed by what some footballers earn Steve, but I don’t think it’s true to say that no one bats an eyelid. Whenever I see these ridiculous amounts of money mentioned my eyelids bat big time.
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But that is illustrating my point. I was deliberatly trying (yet not succeeeding) in avoiding bring in these ‘comparisons, because we know football is not the worst, and there are plenty other examples of excess masquarading as supply and demand rationale… but this is about what is happening football and football only… The football business wants fans tonmake these comparisions, to say, well its ‘excessive yeah, but look at actors, or the NHS waste etc, just a drop in the ocean…’’ because its a nice easy excuse that avoids having to address the issue… and keeps fans happily forking out for excessive ticket prices and TV subs… We get treated like mugs because we let them treat us like mugs…
#nolongerinlovewiththegame
Can’t argue with that Sogs, my eyes batted aswell. I just meant it doesn’t seem to become as contenscious.
I’d argue that Daniel Craig gets that per movie … ie. every couple of years…with a considerably longer career than a footballer which put him a different league to even the richest of footballers
… but it’s not a competition and its straying off topic a bit 
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I dont have a problem with people doing well for themselves. If they are good at kicking a ball around or acting or painting or whatever, fair play. However there does come a point when you think WTF? That point came before this ridiculous Neymar transfer. Trouble is you cant put the genie back in the bottle. I would love to see a change in the World’s priorities, but it isnt going to happen. Can it be moderated in some way? Wouldnt that be great? How though?
If you think about it in commodity terms we (the west) have gotten by far the best deal. The Arabs have sold us a load of oil for petrol etc, we have given them money for this. They have used this money to buy a football club in Manchester and one in Paris. Then they have given these clubs loads of money so we can watch and tax the best players in the world play over here - perhaps one friendly a year over there. They have given up their natural resource for us to over pay footballers to entertain us.
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He fucking will be on your £10 an hour digging holes, what about the poor lads pension?
Good on you Mr Craig.
Lots of Love
Mr Kodi
xxxxxx
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Or more tents, falcons and fast cars, always had class them desert people. That bloke of cannonball inspired me.
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I have thought about it for a while Baz. They sell us a useful product in exchange for some paper tokens we made up. They then use those paper tokens not to improve their society but instead to take part in our mental commercialism/consumerism. They are so keen to buy branded shit and out do the next guy, eventually, the oil will run out and they will end up goat farmers again.
They have invested heavily in industry and land in the last 10 years but they have also spunked money like Portsmouth with Harry in charge.
The near 450m in wages and fees on Neymar is just straight out of Qatar’s GDP. Neymar felt he was in the shadow of Messi, he wanted to be the main man. It’s obscene yes
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PSG aren’t really a brand in a global sense like Real or Utd. Neymar gives them a more global publicity
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… Kerchinggggggg!!
He has something like 40m Instagrams friends 
And that’s a measure of success or self-worth?
Glad to be that little bit older (OK a lot…) where such measures of popularity mean nothing.
Mind you, I actively go out of my way to avoid most forms of social media except here, for reasons only my psychiatrist can explain…wibble.
Basically…token gesture…5% with Gift AId and done anonymously would have been better.
Call me a cynic if you like.
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