Football News: International Football

Is international football dying on its feet? It seems to me that it is, I don't usually even bother watching it any more. It used to be something different from club football. It used to be all about the best players in the world playing for pride, a break from the money orientated club game. But Blatter and his cronies have turned FIFA into a money making machine, with greed and profit driving everything done, and brown envelopes the grease that helps the wheels turn.

It is no longer anything other than an annoying interlude in the league season, just as you start to get into the club game, the international break rears its ugly, and usually intensely boring head. The whole thing just bores me to tears, whereas club football still mainly excites and entertains me.

While you have Blatter willing to sell to anyone who pays him the most in backhanders, even if they then use slave labour to build their stadiums killing hundreds of workers in the process, there is just little pleasure to be derived from watching teams trying to qualify for the tournaments.

International football has become tainted. It just feels dirty and wrong, and not in a good way either. While Blatter, Platini and all the others of their ilk run the game, it is in danger of going down the road of cycling, and becoming untrustworthy.

Even the best sport in the world, which I happen to think football is, will not survive long if punters feel they can't trust the results they see. While FIFA and UEFA currently work hard to brush all the dirt under the carpet, it is not going to be long before the mound is visible to even the least observant punter.

Written by Tris Burke November 15 2014 14:58:50