The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78560   Message #1416299
Posted By: alanabit
21-Feb-05 - 07:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ban Football [Soccer]
Subject: RE: BS: Ban Football [Soccer]
It is a tongue in cheek suggestion of course, with our original poster getting a lot off his chest. I am afraid though that the yob -which is the main cause of Giok's exasperation, is not so much a problem of football yobs but of just yobs. You can put any other adjective in front of the word "yob" and come up with a creature every bit as unpleasant as a football yob. We do not talk about "black yobs", "lesbian yobs", "gay yobs" or even "heterosexual yobs". Football is the most popular sport in the world, so it it attracts the most yobs.
An argument about the merits or demerits of the sport is pointless. As it happens I have played both. You can run into all the usual difficulties though when you try to argue that your own preferences are somehow superior.
As long as there is a market economy, the most conspicuous performers will be able to command the highest wages. I certainly resent them a lot less that the directors of failing companies, who sack the poorest employees and then put their own snouts deep into the trough.