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| Coining it in: Wayne Rooney is paid £500,000 per day and is laughing all the way to the bank. James Campbell reveals an uncanny similarity between professional footballers and their bosses, and politicians. The solution: don't support professional football and in the political arena, don't vote. |
Whether
it’s voting or supporting, the solution is in our hands
Guest
blogger JAMES CAMPBELL offers a solution to football supporters who are fed up
being ripped off. He explains how direct action against the ills of football
can also be applied to politics.
I
WAS talking to a Newcastle United fan the other day and he was bemoaning the
fact that money had ruined football. In
general terms he thought it was obscene that the likes of Wayne Rooney was
getting paid £300,000 a week and that Mike Ashley was using Newcastle United to
make money for himself and had no interest in the footballing success of the
club beyond that.
I
asked what he was doing about it. He didn’t have a clue what I was on
about. So I asked if he held a season
ticket at Newcastle or a Sky Sports subscription to watch football. Yes to both.
So
I said OK, cancel both, don’t go to another game, buy another shirt or any
other merchandise until things change.
Encourage others to do the same.
The response: “Ye cannot dee that, ye’ve gotta support ya team man.”
I
asked if he’d protested in any way. He said they often chanted anti Ashley
slogans at games and once turned their back on the field before a game….so he
pays the man he hates his hard cash to shout abuse at him.
So
I explained that he was as responsible for the ruin of the game as Rooney,
Ashley and all of the others fleecing it.
He looked utterly scoobied.
So
in really simple terms I went on. What
do you think would happen if everyone just refused to renew their tickets and
cancelled their Sky Sports?
Blank
look…..
