A certain football club spent £500,000 in 2002, mind you they had severe financial issues. A year later, the same said club, in 2003, spent £121.15 million.
It’s been an arms race and a slippery slope ever since.
Team owners do not care about their fans. And very few are actually passionate about whatever sport theyre in. Vast majority of team owners are just rich ppl who want to impress other rich ppl by owning a team. These teams are just 3 billion dollar Picasso’s on their wall to them
I think for our nations Arts deserves its own department away from sports. Arts is one of our biggest offerings, perhaps making it a priority wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Norway said that they are not going to play in World Cup in Qatar even if they qualified (they didn’t). Denmark left it until the last minute to confirm their participation in the World Cup 2022Germany forced their players to make political statements before the match in FIFA WC 2022 even though some players didn’t want to do it.
BBC literally disrupted the coverage of one of the best opening ceremonies of the World Cup in Qatar just for virtue signaling.
but for World Cup 2026, the whole media is silent other than a few token articles here and there and Norway and Germany aren’t protesting anything when there’s so much to protest about 🤡
Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)
Just silence.
James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell