Football is becoming crazy, and we are setting up conditions in which over-hyped prima donnas (even when talented, as Tevez is) destroy themselves and others around them while burning an amount of money that they do not, in any objective sense, actually earn. This in turn feeds from an over-priced system of television rights and season tickets, and it is turning a people’s sport into something that is as much soap opera as it is football.
Here in the home state of the AFL code, I couldn't agree more. Having watched various personality splashes over the years -- think elite footballers mixing with drug barons, others playing in murky territory with young ladies, and so on -- I wonder why anybody watches football for the game these days.
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