Football Fantasy

If anyone reading this doesnt know by now that Liverpool have just won the European Cup then they are clearly not making an effort to read any news, or listen to passing conversation. If you live in the UK there is no way that you would not know this, with newspapers covering the story for the last few days by dedicating front pages and pull out specials entirely to Liverpool, you have no chance of avoiding it.

Watching the game in a local pub surrounded by english football fans, good looking english girls, a few pints of fosters and some food to make me think I can drink more, I felt no differerent at all. The feeling I'm talking about? Looking at a team of football players and knowing that they get paid ridiculous amounts of money to kick a plastic ball around a field of grass, while grown men scream, cry and get pounched in the face all because they want these other grown men to kick the ball into a net. Now I know some will say that the teams create millions of jobs by selling shirts, various souvenirs, maintaing the grounds, etc etc. Does that still justify a 20 year old getting paid £50 000 a week? I dont know many people that earn more than that in a year over here.

But however, I do realise that this is one of those pointless arguments, like trying to get your best friend to admit that DC comics are now better than Marvel, or that the radeon x800 is so much better than an fx5900, I realise this, but it is these arguments that really dont have an answer that I enjoy most. Stupid football game.

at least I dont call it soccer anymore :P