Why go to watch a crap football team lose?
Created | Updated Oct 2, 2002
Before reading on it is imperative to know that I live in Malta, and that I am Maltese...ok..
Malta is playing Euro championship qualifiers at home to Israel and France next week...I am of course going to both games...sometimes I have to ask myself why though...I am wondering if between the 2 games we manage to score one goal, and additionally if we can keep the total goals against down to single figures!
However there is something special about local football that big team
supporters etc cant appreciate. The world of football is being taken
away from the supporter...last night seeing that I could only watch
non-pay tv, I couldnt watch a single game of football...I'm sorry but
that is unacceptable(for want of a better word)...it's degrading to the 'peoples game' and the people who support these teams. So there is a certain satisfaction to paying a meagre entrance fee and going to watch my local teams...something that Juventus, Manutd, and Real Madrid could never give me.
I think that as supporters of football, who feel passionately about sport, for better or worse, we must stop the money machine. Or is it too late already?
Malta is playing Euro championship qualifiers at home to Israel and France next week...I am of course going to both games...sometimes I have to ask myself why though...I am wondering if between the 2 games we manage to score one goal, and additionally if we can keep the total goals against down to single figures!
However there is something special about local football that big team
supporters etc cant appreciate. The world of football is being taken
away from the supporter...last night seeing that I could only watch
non-pay tv, I couldnt watch a single game of football...I'm sorry but
that is unacceptable(for want of a better word)...it's degrading to the 'peoples game' and the people who support these teams. So there is a certain satisfaction to paying a meagre entrance fee and going to watch my local teams...something that Juventus, Manutd, and Real Madrid could never give me.
I think that as supporters of football, who feel passionately about sport, for better or worse, we must stop the money machine. Or is it too late already?
