Straight off the bat, this doesn't come from bitterness or sour grapes at the poor performance of the England team, at the 2014 World Cup! I really didn't expect much and for once, they didn't disappoint!
This rant comes from somewhere else.
Are you not sick and tired of hearing of the corruption that is eating at the heart of world football? The cancer that is killing the game.
It starts at the top with Sepp Blatter and the rest of the Executive Committee and permeats the whole body. Money is the cancer that is ruining 'the beautiful game'.
We football fans need to strike back. We need to do two things.
Firstly we need to lobby and push our national and local football organisations to resign from FIFA. If you are German or English or Dutch or Spanish or Brazilian or French (you get the picture!), do you think the World Cup would exist without our respective countries participating? Football is about people - players and fans - not about guys in suits with suitcases of cash! The World Cup is about playing football during the Northern Hemisphere Summer, not changing European schedules to accommodate a flawed bid. Qatar didn't suddenly get warmer, after it was awarded the World Cup host status!
The English Football Association website is www.thefa.com . The people that run the game in England, in this day and age, do not seem to have publicly available twitter accounts, so you will have to petition them through other means. For example, type Football Association into twitter search and masses of useful addresses pop-up. Including @FA for the English Football Association, @FAIreland, @FAWales etc.
Any nation that cares for the future of football should leave FIFA and join other leavers in forming a new governing body. Blatter and his cronies at FIFA cannot be reformed. They are unable to even 'independently' investigate themselves. The best you can say about them, is that they are incompetent, the truth though would seem to be a whole lot worse.
So first step, petition your national FA (and lower FA levels) to leave FIFA.
Second thing is to get footballers to re-connect with their communities - the people that pay their wages. Leaving aside the earnings that footballers make from endorsements and other off-field activities, the salaries that footballers receive from their clubs are outrageously high. So this message is for footballers (please pass it on).
Join the 1' in 12 club'. Donate 1 pay packet in 12 to a local charitable organisation, in the area where you play your football, or in your home town. When you do so, you can smile - if you have a decent contract with your agent, he or she will be donating as a consequence. Also, if you pay tax in the UK, the government will contribute a chunk if you use the gift aid scheme. I am not talking about Wayne Rooney or Jack Wilshire donating money to Sport Aid or Save the Children fund, - unless it will be spent locally - to alleviate hunger in Sudan or somewhere else. I am talking about spending money in the UK, about doing your bit for the people who support you both financially and fanatically!
Oh, and any team managers or coaches that want to join and contribute, you are welcome to do so!
Folks, don't just ignore this, football needs to re-connect and clean-up its act.
This rant comes from somewhere else.
Are you not sick and tired of hearing of the corruption that is eating at the heart of world football? The cancer that is killing the game.
It starts at the top with Sepp Blatter and the rest of the Executive Committee and permeats the whole body. Money is the cancer that is ruining 'the beautiful game'.
We football fans need to strike back. We need to do two things.
Firstly we need to lobby and push our national and local football organisations to resign from FIFA. If you are German or English or Dutch or Spanish or Brazilian or French (you get the picture!), do you think the World Cup would exist without our respective countries participating? Football is about people - players and fans - not about guys in suits with suitcases of cash! The World Cup is about playing football during the Northern Hemisphere Summer, not changing European schedules to accommodate a flawed bid. Qatar didn't suddenly get warmer, after it was awarded the World Cup host status!
The English Football Association website is www.thefa.com . The people that run the game in England, in this day and age, do not seem to have publicly available twitter accounts, so you will have to petition them through other means. For example, type Football Association into twitter search and masses of useful addresses pop-up. Including @FA for the English Football Association, @FAIreland, @FAWales etc.
Any nation that cares for the future of football should leave FIFA and join other leavers in forming a new governing body. Blatter and his cronies at FIFA cannot be reformed. They are unable to even 'independently' investigate themselves. The best you can say about them, is that they are incompetent, the truth though would seem to be a whole lot worse.
So first step, petition your national FA (and lower FA levels) to leave FIFA.
Second thing is to get footballers to re-connect with their communities - the people that pay their wages. Leaving aside the earnings that footballers make from endorsements and other off-field activities, the salaries that footballers receive from their clubs are outrageously high. So this message is for footballers (please pass it on).
Join the 1' in 12 club'. Donate 1 pay packet in 12 to a local charitable organisation, in the area where you play your football, or in your home town. When you do so, you can smile - if you have a decent contract with your agent, he or she will be donating as a consequence. Also, if you pay tax in the UK, the government will contribute a chunk if you use the gift aid scheme. I am not talking about Wayne Rooney or Jack Wilshire donating money to Sport Aid or Save the Children fund, - unless it will be spent locally - to alleviate hunger in Sudan or somewhere else. I am talking about spending money in the UK, about doing your bit for the people who support you both financially and fanatically!
Oh, and any team managers or coaches that want to join and contribute, you are welcome to do so!
Folks, don't just ignore this, football needs to re-connect and clean-up its act.
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