highflyer
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- Jan 21, 2016
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I probably won't boo, it's not really what I do.
But if I do, and by god I'll be tempted, I'll not be booing specifically at Potter. Or Bruno. Or even Chelsea.
I'll be booing in frustration at the whole sordid mess that is top level football. And underneath that, at the whole sordid system that football is now just one part of. A system that treats everything, no matter how important, or dear, it is to us as individuals, as a way to suck yet more money upwards, to people who are already too rich for their own good. A system where economic inequality has led to inequality of power so profound that there live amongst us a group of people that can do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that they are protected by their wealth and privilege.
I am watching a successful team, which itself has been built on the back of extreme wealth (because there's no other way to do it) being asset stripped by those with even greater wealth. I am watching the media praising Newcastle and giving airtime to joyous fans to celebrate success while studiously ignoring the background story of murder and oppression that has enabled that success. I am watching excited preparations for the football we want to watch to be stopped for six weeks so that corporate sponsors and pampered media darlings can fatten their bank accounts on the back of a tournament, won through corruption and built on suffering and death.
And actually yeah. I might boo a bit.
But if I do, and by god I'll be tempted, I'll not be booing specifically at Potter. Or Bruno. Or even Chelsea.
I'll be booing in frustration at the whole sordid mess that is top level football. And underneath that, at the whole sordid system that football is now just one part of. A system that treats everything, no matter how important, or dear, it is to us as individuals, as a way to suck yet more money upwards, to people who are already too rich for their own good. A system where economic inequality has led to inequality of power so profound that there live amongst us a group of people that can do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that they are protected by their wealth and privilege.
I am watching a successful team, which itself has been built on the back of extreme wealth (because there's no other way to do it) being asset stripped by those with even greater wealth. I am watching the media praising Newcastle and giving airtime to joyous fans to celebrate success while studiously ignoring the background story of murder and oppression that has enabled that success. I am watching excited preparations for the football we want to watch to be stopped for six weeks so that corporate sponsors and pampered media darlings can fatten their bank accounts on the back of a tournament, won through corruption and built on suffering and death.
And actually yeah. I might boo a bit.