Portugal Team showed us how to play football with brains below their belts. Football is a game of magic and wizardry. It is intricate, so unprdictable unlike cricket when the outcome can be controlled by one man's effort. Should I be saying, Football 'was' unpredictable?
The worldcup is not being a leveller. The once-in-four year ball dribbling Jamboree is more like the 'Village Cattle Fair'. Cattle are strutted before potential buyers and sold out. It is a stage where 'stars' are identified and sold. The cattle being the football players and the buyers, filthy rich European Clubs.
The match between England and Ecuador was a case in point. What if Ecuador has won the match against England. I wonder how many English Premier League Clubs would have recruited a Ecuador Player for the next season?
The FIFA referees are biased towards the 'football fan' nations. Imagine if Ghana and Ecuador where to feature in this Worldcup final? Germany would not have got the spectator revenues they get today. Milk the cash cows and create entries for new comers. FIFA has made sure African fans will now book tickets for the first round matches for Worldcup 2010. It is a game of economics which is becoming predictable.
Nothing can take out the beauty of this game. It just shows the you can achieve with your feets, forget brains.
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FIFA referees looked biased to my untrained self too.
"It is a game of economics which is becoming predictable"
Hope it doesn't go the Cricket way.
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