I know there is always that one person in relation to every single argument, that says the old way that something was, is still the better way. And I don’t want to be that guy here, but I believe I have to be. But don’t worry, I’ll be real and honest with you regarding this topic, unlike this guy:
Oh no, I hope he’s okay!
I’ve grown up watching football (soccer if you’re American), and it has always been something I have loved watching every weekend. And to this very day, I still watch it and pay attention to the scores every weekend and what has been happening. But over the past few years, a number of things for football have changed. One of them which I think is the main problem, is how the sport has turned into a non-contact sport.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not asking for peoples legs to be broke every single game and dangerous tackles to be flying in left and right. But what I am certainly not asking for is if a player is even in the slightest way touched, maybe by a hand on their shoulder or something of the sorts, that they fall to the ground and start the lessons they learned in acting class during the week to be believable. And the worst thing about this is, it happens every damn match. Every weekend you have it happening, and it puts me off more and more every time I see it happening. It’s cheating, it is that simple and they aren’t pushed for it most of the time. Which is a disgrace.
Another issue with football now would be all the money that is involved with the sport. Look at all the huge clubs in football now that get multi-millionaires purchasing them, and they go on a spending spree buying any player they want from some other league, put him on the most ridiculous wages of all time. This happening now with clubs, has almost made getting young new players from the clubs academy worthless. Why wait a few years and train the 18 year old to be good, when you can just buy an already good player for a couple of million? Sure, it’s the easy and lazy way out.
I mentioned players being on ridiculous wages briefly before, and I want to touch on it just a bit more. How a person like Wayne Rooney, who admittedly is a great footballer (having a bad spell at the moment, but in general is great) just a few weeks ago got a wage increase. He’s now on about 300,000 weekly, for just playing football…yep, that alone. Like I said he is a great footballer, but not one footballer in the world deserves to be on a six figure salary. In my opinion, he would be lucky to be a fraction of that salary if it was up to me (unfortunately not, huh?).
Why is football going this way? Well, one of the reasons is money. As proved, money does weird things to certain people (and things). It makes these footballers who are on absurd amounts of money a week, think that they are some of the most popular and needed people in the damn world.
If football keeps on going down this path, I can’t see a bright future for the sport.
Money does good for certain things, true.
But not everything.
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