Yesterday I was intending to link to
this article by Richard Williams in the Guardian, summing up much of what is wrong with the over-blown status of our under-performing Premier League performers. There is a trend, started in France, of reigning in the attitude displayed by the aristocracy of the modern game, starting with the banning of headphones when on club business:
"But in England as much as in France, those headphones are a signal of the increasing distance between the players and the people who, through match tickets and satellite TV subscriptions, pay their grotesquely inflated salaries."Having looked at the article online, I was drawn to the imbecilic comments made by the readers, in FAVOUR of the players. Nothing unusual there, but it did indicate that Rupert Murdoch's faithful have bought into the programme hook line and sinker.
They have seen the adverts, and our new icons are beyond fault, because the adverts say so, and the game itself is a mere sideshow to the dream being sold.
I wanted to write an enormous tract using phrases like "false conciousness" and "Stockholm Syndrome", but I lack the time.
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