I went to a rugby school, a game I have never really grown to love, or even understand, despite playing fly-half for several years. It is basically a violent ball game where only the referee knows all the rules. Football (as in soccer, my US cousins) was always my thing, though the only games I could get were scratch competitions with the local village boys, which is how I learned to play right midfield and lead with a left jab.
Yet I feel distinctly underwhelmed by the thought of a new season of Premier League Football. Now days the clubs are just businesses, the teams are just brands and the players just highly paid personnel. Transfers? You might as well ask me to get excited by Nike UK hiring a new Business Director. And you get the distinct impression that these perpetrators of ‘the greatest league in the world’ despise their fans. Players sneer at (or occasionally beat or sexually abuse) the ‘little people’ if they should happen to bump into them in some posh eatery or nightclub, and the clubs themselves put inflated prices on everything from crappy merchandise to the thin fare they usually serve up as entertainment on a – sorry I was going to say Saturday afternoon, but is now more likely to be a Thursday night at 8pm, 200+ miles from the away team’s town.
Well you know what? Stuff them. I’m going to boycott the Premier League this year and go and cheer on the brave boys of Gateshead or West Allotment. Non-league footy is where you see local lads playing for no other reason than the glory of their club and the several fans (plus pets) that have turned out on a snowy February afternoon to see them. And you top tier clubs?... You can stick your Premier League – as the rude boys I used play the beautiful game with might say – up your arse.
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