Streetlamp posts here often have stickers as have electricity distribution boxes and cigarette vending machines. Many are of various football clubs and they are often really ugly in content, wording, and art. Mainly because they are not in support of the creator’s own club but against the “enemy”, their favourite club to hate.

However, I saw one sticker which I wholeheartedly support because it expresses my disdain for football, national and even more so international football.

“Against modern football!”

I have nothing but scorn for modern football – the amount of money that is involved is immoral, the functionaries are corrupt (probably not all but it has been shown again and again). My last straw was the awarding of the FIFA world cup to Saudi Arabia (Qatar in 2022 was already disgusting: the handing the games to the emirate for lots of money, the questionable selection procedure (which might or might not have involved bribery), the building of new stadiums which was accompanied by what can be described as modern day slavery and totally unacceptable conditions for the workers, the ecologically undefensible air conditioning of whole stadiums – I could go on). When we lived in Saudi we used to make fun of Saudi Arabia’s attempt to get the Olympics into the country, an attempt which was abandoned when they heard that they would have to allow female athletes and female spectators. I don’t know how FIFA will resolve the audience issue – I don’t care. I have stopped watching the sport. My husband still watches, I usually leave him to it but I have nothing but contempt for this sport now.

Now that was a rant and a half.

FOWC with Fandango: Disdain

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