Hypocrisy in football

[Prestwich_Blue]

With all the bleating this week about the immorality and obscenity of the Kaka saga, there is a great article in today's Observer:
LINK

Here's some highlights:

Man of the week: Dave Whelan - says Man City are "ruining the heart and soul of football" by inflating prices and artificially skewing the market. "Money has gone through the window because some Arabian fellas or oil-rich sheikh has come in and said, 'Pay £90m for that player.' It is totally barmy and we all know that. The game will suffer in the end." · 2003: Whelan's JJB Sports fined £6.7m by the OFT over claims they exploited fans by using inflated price-fixing of replica shirts to artificially skew the market. "This ruling," said Whelan, "makes me wonder what's happened to justice in this land."

Arsène Wenger says he'd never let Arsenal be financially exploited by club or player financial demands. "We're in negotiations [for Andrei Arshavin] - but we have our principles."

2008: Arsenal accounts reveal it took £10m (£5m wages, plus a private £5m one-off fee) to keep Thierry Henry for one more season. ("I stayed for love," said Thierry in 2006, before the accounts were made public. "I simply could not face leaving the fans. I've never played in Spain and now I never will. This is where my heart is. And my decision to stay or leave was never going to be based on economic considerations. People want to give you a label as a footballer where it's all about money, money, money - they should stop talking about that. It's not. It's about emotion, respect, loyalty - and real love.")

14 November 2008, Norwich chairman Roger Munby at the club AGM: "A very warm welcome to Glenn Roeder - welcome, Glenn, to your first AGM... Glenn, be under no misapprehension whatsoever that everyone at Norwich City is with you every inch of the way. Most here are long enough in the football tooth to realise that, having missed promotion back to the Premiership first time round, it is a long and hard road to re-equip, rebuild and remotivate a squad. We're right behind you."

 

[clp1000]

Fines latest
£411: La Liga fines for Deportivo, Albacete and Málaga for "sustained racist taunting and abuse of black players".

£435: La Liga fine for Getafe after fans use monkey chants and "gross racist taunts".

£530: La Liga fine for Atlético Madrid after fans threw snowballs on the pitch.

This sums up eveything !!!

 

[CITYROBBO]

With all the bleating this week about the immorality and obscenity of the Kaka saga, there is a great article in today's Observer:
LINK

Here's some highlights:

Man of the week: Dave Whelan - says Man City are "ruining the heart and soul of football" by inflating prices and artificially skewing the market. "Money has gone through the window because some Arabian fellas or oil-rich sheikh has come in and said, 'Pay £90m for that player.' It is totally barmy and we all know that. The game will suffer in the end." · 2003: Whelan's JJB Sports fined £6.7m by the OFT over claims they exploited fans by using inflated price-fixing of replica shirts to artificially skew the market. "This ruling," said Whelan, "makes me wonder what's happened to justice in this land."

Arsène Wenger says he'd never let Arsenal be financially exploited by club or player financial demands. "We're in negotiations [for Andrei Arshavin] - but we have our principles."

2008: Arsenal accounts reveal it took £10m (£5m wages, plus a private £5m one-off fee) to keep Thierry Henry for one more season. ("I stayed for love," said Thierry in 2006, before the accounts were made public. "I simply could not face leaving the fans. I've never played in Spain and now I never will. This is where my heart is. And my decision to stay or leave was never going to be based on economic considerations. People want to give you a label as a footballer where it's all about money, money, money - they should stop talking about that. It's not. It's about emotion, respect, loyalty - and real love.")

14 November 2008, Norwich chairman Roger Munby at the club AGM: "A very warm welcome to Glenn Roeder - welcome, Glenn, to your first AGM... Glenn, be under no misapprehension whatsoever that everyone at Norwich City is with you every inch of the way. Most here are long enough in the football tooth to realise that, having missed promotion back to the Premiership first time round, it is a long and hard road to re-equip, rebuild and remotivate a squad. We're right behind you."

My mates an Arsenal fan going on about us ruining football i'm going to e-mail the thierry henry now

 

[milo]

Green eyed monsters...The funking lot of them...