| Topic: | Banking and Footballers - the link - ripped from BBC | |
| Posted by: | Peter Chadburn | |
| Date/Time: | 29/06/10 10:59:00 |
| England's outstanding badness in World Cup 2010 must be a symptom of something bigger: the fact that we've got the most expensive, highest leveraged club system - and that none of our players play outside it - must have contributed to the weakening of commitment to the national colours, the evisceration of upcoming talent, the creation of an unmanageable team of frightened individuals, each of whom will now be dictating a valedictory ghost-written column to their chosen tabloid newspaper before getting on with life as a millionaire. Like failed bankers they will pay no penalty for failure other than public opprobium and, as everybody in high finance knows, you can live with that as long as you own a Lamborghini. Basically, we've just seen the Lehman Brothers of football and it was not pretty. |