by njgull » 31 Oct 2022, 18:19
happytorq wrote: 31 Oct 2022, 16:35
We're all mercenaries to a degree. I'd absolutely leave my company (which I really like) if somebody said "hey, here's 3x the money". I'd be an idiot not to when it could set me up for a far easier life later on. I never understand why we get so precious about footballers moving for money
We want to think the players on the sports teams we support are as much in love with the team as we are. And they're just not. And are never going to be. For us, sports is a distraction from life. For the players, it is their life. They're going to do what's best for their lives, just as we do in our own lives. Emotion is just not going to play the part we'd like to think it does.
If Torquay go down this year the supporters will be devastated and that pain will never go away. Meanwhile, the players will post a short message on Twitter about how disappointed they are and a few days later they'll sign up with some new team and never give Torquay another thought. That's life. It doesn't mean they don't care. It just means they're never going to care in the same way the supporters do. It's just a completely different perspective.
When it comes down to it, we're all rooting for laundry. Players come and go, we root for whoever is wearing yellow shirts at any given moment.
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We're all mercenaries to a degree. I'd absolutely leave my company (which I really like) if somebody said "hey, here's 3x the money". I'd be an idiot not to when it could set me up for a far easier life later on. I never understand why we get so precious about footballers moving for money
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We want to think the players on the sports teams we support are as much in love with the team as we are. And they're just not. And are never going to be. For us, sports is a distraction from life. For the players, it is their life. They're going to do what's best for their lives, just as we do in our own lives. Emotion is just not going to play the part we'd like to think it does.
If Torquay go down this year the supporters will be devastated and that pain will never go away. Meanwhile, the players will post a short message on Twitter about how disappointed they are and a few days later they'll sign up with some new team and never give Torquay another thought. That's life. It doesn't mean they don't care. It just means they're never going to care in the same way the supporters do. It's just a completely different perspective.
When it comes down to it, we're all rooting for laundry. Players come and go, we root for whoever is wearing yellow shirts at any given moment.
