From a working man’s game to a business industry – How football has changed?
Let’s go down to the ground and support our local team, cheer for the home town boys as they represent the city against the local rivals. Let’s just take our mind off of tedious duties that plague one’s daily life. Let’s just meet
some of our friends and discuss a game of football while having a drink. Football’s origins in general are disputed. The British claim that the game came into being on their Island but history shows that football really emerged in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/China-c8926. However there is no
disputing the fact that football emerged as a working man’s game.
Just take a look at the sport in its simplest terms, it is affordable to play as only two teams and a football is needed. It is fast paced and filled with emotion, something that appeals to the common man, the working man. A man
who toils throughout the week at his shipyard and then relaxes on the weekend by watching football, by standing in the enclosures and screaming at the players that he supports, by celebrating their success with his son and by going to work on Monday morning
and indulging in a little bit of banter with his http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Friends-football-club-c39381 at work.
This was football was like before it turned into an industry. When the English Premier League was launched in 1992 in England, pundits hailed it as the next big thing in football. Crowds grew in excitement but what followed afterwards
destroyed the beautiful game. The ticket prices started rising as did the transfer fees and the salaries. Now we have got footballers like Yaya Toure earning 185,000 pounds a week, Englishmen like http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 minting 250,000 pounds a week. By the end of the
month these people would have more money than a working man makes in four years.
At a modern English Premier League game, there is a whole set of pre-match and post-match entertainment stunts to keep the crowd interested, as if football needs any such stunts. The mascot runs out and a song is played. People
are asked by the announcer to look at the big screen in the stadium where advertisements are run and songs are played to create an ambiance of passion inside stands. The modern rules in England do not allow fans to stand; you have to show your emotions respectfully
whilst sitting on a chair. A form of crowd control? Pretty much!
Taking a look at the ticket prices it becomes evident that the game is now complete cut off from its roots. A season ticket at Manchester United, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749’s most supported club costs around about 750 pounds. Last season, the UEFA
Champions League tickets were going for approximately 350 pounds per ticket. What kind of a working man can afford those kinds of prices? Long gone are the days when football was a working man’s game.
It is now a business. A ruthless process where money’s value has superseded the humanistic aspect of the game. No longer can every father and son go to their local ground and cheer for their team because they have been systematically
alienated from their football club; if this is what football has become then it is nothing short of a business industry.
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