Football

Category: Rant

On the news today one of the stories was that the Newcastle boss had been fired because the club had lost some match or other. I don’t know the full story because I don’t follow football, and I will come onto that in a minute.
My initial thoughts on this are that it is unfair. I do not think that the manager should be sacked just because the club lost a match or two. OK, so the manager trains the players and works with them to make them better, so that they can win the match. But other than make substitutions on the pitch, all the manager does is to sit in a chair and watch the match, plus the usual team talk at half time. Just because the club lost a match doesn’t make it the managers fault. It is mainly about the players on the pitch, and how they performed on the day. There are all sorts of different variables that could have made them perform badly or worse, and so they lost the match. It could be that the other team are at a higher standard than the first team, and so they won on ability. If anyone should be fired or sacked in my opinion it would be the goalie. I mean, at the end of the day it is his job to stop the ball going in the net, so the other team can’t win. If anyone has failed the team or let them down, it would be the goalie. It just isn’t fair. It would be a much better decision to get rid of some of the crappy players that don’t score goals, and then get rid of the manager. Although he trains the team, he can’t be responsible for every player’s actions on the pitch at one particular time, and he simply can’t control what happens in the match. If his team wins or looses is down to a) chance and b) the player’s performance, which can be influenced by all sorts of things.
The BBC also ran a report on the manager’s record. Apparently, Newcastle have played 56 matches I seem to remember, but lost 22 or some number with a 2 at the beginning. This doesn’t seem too bad to me. It means the team won 34. 34 out of 56 is 62%, which I suppose could be better. They also mentioned the large bill that he ha run up. Apparently the bloke spent 9 million on some player, and some huge sum of figure on Michael Owen, who is out with injury. The BBC said that he had run up a total of £50 million pounds. This is really what gets my blood all boiled up.

£50 million pounds. Lets just put that into perspective. £50 million ponds. £50 million pounds. 50 MILLION POUNDS. That is one hell of a lot of money. The man, from what I can tell, spent this colossal sum of money on two players. TWO PLAYERS. Michael Owen has only made a couple of appearances because he is injured, and the foreign bloke hasn’t done much better either. Wasted money or what? This, however, is not my point. I am not having a go at Newcastle, their players or the manger. They have done nothing wrong and I am not slagging them off. I can’t. I don’t understand football, and I don’t follow it, so I can’t form an opinion on them if I don’t know what I am talking about.

My point is that the 50 MILLION POUNDS that was used to buy two footballer players could have been put to better use. There are countless millions of people sitting in cardboard boxes around the world, people starving, dying, living in germs, disease, poverty and crap conditions, and generally living a miserable life. That money would have made so much difference to them. I am sure that £50 million pounds would have brightened peoples faces at MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, let alone the people on the other side of the world, who have suddenly got decent homes and lives to live through now. What leaves me speechless – that is such a stupid saying. I am not speechless. I could rant for ages. – is that footballers get paid upwards of a million a week. There are countless things that annoy me about this.

1. They get paid a million a week. What do they need this amount of money for?
2. They are never ever going to spend all of that money.
3. They are not doing anything special or particularly worthwhile. They aren’t saving lives, performing medical miracles or even doing anything for the community. They just kick a ball at the net.
4. No one is worth a million a week.
5. People around the world are dying. They could use the money.
6. So could charities to help the people around the world.
7. If they do give away money to charity, they do it for more publicity, not for the people who are dying,
8. They are selfish, smelly, beep beep, beeping beepers e.t.c

I do not follow football because I don agree with it. Players shouldn’t be paid, traded and sacked for millions of pounds. It is plain wrong. In fact it is more than wrong. It is immoral, preposterous, ludicrous, stupid, absurd, silly, outrageous, and, quoting from my English essay on English icons, verging on the edge of a cliff called ridiculous. It is not the manager’s fault solely if the club loose a game, and he shouldn’t be sacked if the club do loose a match.

If all the footballers, clubs, managers, fans e.t.c gave all their millions to charities and organisations like MAKE POVERRTY HISTORY, I am sure that everyone in the world could have a house, food, clean water, a decent education, and everything else that we take for granted in our lovely world. Instead, players are paid millions every week, clubs trade and sell players for millions and mangers get fired because a club lost a game. What a very sad state of affairs surround us.