The business of football

Today was just another ordinary Thursday, Europa league as exciting as ever but the match between Liverpool and Anzhi Makhachkala saw Samuel Eto'o play, the worlds highest paid football player and highlighted a very well known and often criticised issue... Money in football.

Iv'e always loved football but it does deeply concern me that in an increasingly materialistic world, wages and prices of players are rocketing to unimaginable amounts of money. It surely cannot be a good thing that these athletes are paid ridiculous sums that are far superior to those wages of much more important roles (e.g. Nurses, policemen, fireman, etc).

Having a role model and aspirations is one thing but it can't be a good example for kids of the next generation to be idolising these millionaires with extortionately big houses, cars and lifestyles. We'd all like to be better off in the world but allowing football to genuinely become a business instead of  sport is, in my opinion, ludicrous. It ruins it for the people who care the most, the fans, with rising ticket prices many already find it difficult to support their club and you can see this right down the echelons of football. My local cub is in the blue square premier, with a good atmosphere and decent quality of football it is a great experience for die hard fans or the family. However, prices there have risen to £15 for adults concession and admission an appalling price to pay for a relatively small club.

We need a cap on wages and a cap on player prices across football, I fear we are losing the sport that I know I couldn't live without, actions must be taken to try and stem the money obsession bringing many more benefits as well as saving money... Think of the homegrown talent we could produce with a consensus on English players instead of hugely pricey players from around the world, the best league in the world would only get better as well as our national team. I believe this is a very real crisis and something that we must all pull together to save the beautiful game!