So greed and all the rest to one side...
As a fan, there's already too much football. I can watch football from around the world almost every day of the week, and there's games I don't watch as my girlfriend isn't going to tolerate me sticking any more on outside of City stuff. I can watch City twice a week, the premier league 3 or 4 times a weekend + my SC. I don't keep up with TV shows I'd like to see or other sports I enjoy, and football already encroaches into other hobbies or social events or leisure. It's just football as content.
Agreed 100% It was 2014 when I realised I was losing my life to football. As well as home matches, I had multiple platforms to watch global matches, & found there's always a game being screened somewhere on the planet.
One time when the family went down south to visit the in-laws, I took the week off work to get some DIY done & enjoy a bit of peace & quiet in the house.
I hardly shifted my arse off the settee for the week, through watching or recording every match possible. It's from then I decided to keep it City only, & 10 years later I've mostly stuck to it.
I get the domestic timetable & the CL, but all these international breaks & other pointless competitions is just UEFA & FIFA trying to rinse as much money as possible out of the game, & damn the players' health.
I respect the players saying they're playing too much, but this is in their hands. If they withdrew from Internationals & all the other daft comps like the Nations' League, World Club Cup etc, & left them to the EDS, Championsip & Football League players, you'd see how quickly UEFA & FIFA sat up & took notice.
They need our stars, more than our stars need to get rinsed. Affirmative action is the only way we can stop this fuckin madness.
We've had Tom Lockyer, Christian Eriksen & our own Marc Vivien Foé literally die on the pitch, not to mention Aguero's near miss. These players are the clubs' assets, & as such they should protect them accordingly.
I recall David Bentley being persecuted for dropping out of the England squad after saying he was too tired. If players don't take care of themselves, they can't rely on the football authorities to do the job for them.
Enough is enough!
