With football
under way again for the new season the media is giving coverage to the latest
news, scandals and massive money deals that underpin the circus. In many minds the question is asked, could
this be better regulated?
This means
international bodies in the world of today and we already have one, FIFA, which
has attracted a lot of the wrong kind of attention recently. If being able to bend the ball is a key skill
for a leading player, then bending of another kind has been the speciality of
the people at FIFA.
This
brief and readable post in "The Political Economy Of Football"
gives space to Gerard Clark's article in The Journal Of Civil Society which
puts the issue into a broader context. In the picture above of Everton FC in
1891-92, note the man with the top hat. It simply repeats an ancient truth for
the followers of football.
Follow the
money.
Fexit needed?
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