I wasn't even going to grace it with a response tbh. Given he completely shirked the point about the economics being wrong. I don't think I tried to get on a high horse about the morals of the game, it was just a comment about entertainment and life in general, but given the cunt made assumptions on the basis of me being overly moralistic..
First of all, I don't "pour all my resources" into the game. I don't even go to the game anymore, after being a regular attendee up until about 10 years ago. I get offered free tickets all the time, which I turn my nose up at and the only time I do go is to give my kids a taste of the atmosphere at a friendly in the Summer, even that has been a rarity these days, my lad now goes to watch Runcorn Linnets play every week for free, and loves every minute of it. I don't buy football tops or kits anymore, if the kids want kits, they buy it with money they get for their Birthday's or Christmas or from their savings - their choice, and I do advise them it's largely a waste of money. We used to buy them kits every year.
I watch the game I adore, I follow my team but I've always maintained I don't agree with the ethics or the financial aspect anymore. I don't agree with us spending ridiculous amounts of money on players and have always been fairly vocal about that and wanted us to be shrewd and not whore ourselves as a club. You can argue that even at the lower end of the transfer spectrum, we're still operating on a grand scale - fine, the line should be drawn where players aren't earning tens of thousands of pounds a week and clubs aren't generating and spending hundreds of millions on players, even more aggravating has been our predicament of literally wasting that money rather than investing in rising talent and keeping the money within the game across the board, to the lower sides in the divisions. Of course I love watching our foreign signings play, that's part of the draw of the sport these days, but it shouldn't been seen as a symbol of someone justifying the economics.
For the record aswell, as a regular gig goer, I have stopped paying the extortianate amounts for anything other than a pub/academy sized gig these days. There's no justification in financing already well earned professionals by paying £60 for tickets at a venue where you're then likely to pay £4-£5 for a drink. I'll listen to the music, I'll buy the CD's of the smaller artists trying to establish themselves, but when you see greed on a scale of multi-millionaire rock stars selling multi format albums so collectors will by every copy, that's where it stops becoming the regular working mans game.
You can dissect the morals to your hearts content and no doubt pick at how selective my stance and choices may be, but brandishing the whole financial implications of the sport and entertainment industries as ludicrous and lacking in basic morals is a fair start. And if my money then goes elsewhere, into the industries that I choose and that may make a better moral difference, then who the fuck are you to preach to me, when your only fallback is to tell me to stop pumping my money into the game, an assumption that already falls flat on it's arse.
