Saturday, September 13, 2008

What's good for the goose....

I’m still undecided on whether it’s a good or bad thing for Premiership clubs to be sold like cattle to the highest bidders. No, not high-class hookers (or gigolos), that’s the players. Most UK commentators are incensed by the presence of Russians, Icelanders, Americans and now Arabs, as owners of very old traditional English clubs. ‘It’s like watching fantasy football being played with real players and real money’, fumed one Brit hack. Why take your sport to a global audience if you did not want real interest in it? Where is the fine line between nationalism and globalization?

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