To really not care about football right now?

[Frangipanini]

Obviously I care about support staff losing their jobs but I really DO NOT give a stuff about FIFA or massive salaries of football stars who refused to do their bit during this crisis. I am sick of seeing the reinstatement of football as headline news.

Surely, if there is every going to be a time to reset this joke of an industry it is now.

If they start up matches again I hope all these people who threw their toys out of the pram about pay cuts when other staff were furloughed, are shunned and booed on the pitch for years.

@RunningNinja79 Leeds

What @PubsClubsMinistryOfSound said.

Though I'd say YABU to 'not care' about any multi-million £ industry not operating . So many jobs that rely on football have just stopped. Same as all entertainment industries. Do you feel the same lack of empathy of all the staff formerly employed in pubs , clubs , cafes , restaurants, festivals, theatres, art galleries, museums, tennis clubs, leisure centres, swimming baths , rugby clubs, social clubs, athletics clbs etc etc etc - of do you just have a 'thing'about football ?

I said in an earlier post that I don’t have sympathy for footballers. I meant the rich ones, only because I know that they won’t have any real financial hardship . I also meant that football is nothing without fans and of lots of people will endure hard times, then they won’t be able to go to the matches.
I think the cost of going to a match is diabolical, but that’s not the players fault. The clubs charge big money because they can. People will pay silly money to go to match, that’s if they can get tickets.
Footballers don’t become footballers for the money, they do it because they love the game and have been good enough to turn professional. It just so happens that they earn mega money at the top level.
You can’t just apply to be a footballer like you can with many other jobs, I’d imagine the chances of becoming a professional is pretty slim.
There is talk of playing behind closed doors, not sure how that will work however.

@JediJim I've read that the players will all isolate together at the ground or a hotel. After this, they will need to have their balls disinfected

@bigchris possibly

I’m no fan of football, but I recognise that it gives a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. We’re all different, all get happiness out of different stuff. As far as footballers making a fuss out of pay cuts, they’re not on their own. Lots of celebs have been behaving like arses; Gordon Ramsey blatantly breaking lockdown rules, Victoria Beckham using government funds to prop up her furloughed staff, Sam Smith weeping and wailing in his million pound home about lockdown. This list goes on. Should we ban\judge all industries where a minority of people have behaved badly?

Makes me wonder about how all the hotel staff who have to cater for them feel about that.

Has anyone seen the OP??

talksport.com/football/685890/footballers-good-deeds-during-coronavirus-pandemic-marcus-rashford-jose-mourinho-neymar/

Here's a list of what footballers have been doing for charity during this time. Would be interested to see what other high earners in society have been doing.

As Matt Hancock has taught us, footballers bear more responsibility than other similarly high earners for helping. It's their own fault for not being the sort of rich people who like to make substantial donations to the Conservative Party.

Good point PubsClubsMinistryofSound

and of course Saoirse7 - those are just the few that are known about.
I follow my Team on Facebook, and they are doing masses - from personally delivering food parcels (not just for the camera - I know of one player and his teenge sons who have doing this daily, throughout)..... to making thousands of 'befriending' phne calls, to opening up the Ground to the local HA, so clinics can be held there without the need to go to a hospital where people are scared to go because of COVID19 infections....etc etc etc. I'm also pretty confident that many will have made private donations. However , like most of us, we do that without feeling the need to publicise the fact.
The publicity is great when it publicises and endorses the cause / need / charity / way you can give, but I'm not sure why you think that is the only time people are helping.

In our house, we are all mad about football and cricket. None of them can play at the minute, and there is nothing on to watch!
If it was safe to restart football, it would give a huge amount of pleasure to all of us, as DD said, it would be great to watch something where the result was an unknown 😊
They are facing the prospect of losing an entire cricket season, which our whole summer revolves around normally. So I get that if you dont like sport, you're not bothered, but it would really help us out here!!

A few players have also come out and spoken about it being a daft idea. Has such potential to go wrong.
Think pencilling in the Champions League final for August also iffy but guess be behind closed doors and only one set of fans from England who potentially could go as the rest are more or less out. If things get played.

The football love by-passed me, but it does entertain and inspire a lot of people. I've got no issue with people playing closed-door, although it wouldn't be the same atmosphere for the players or TV audiences.

With the higher leagues, the top salaries distort the game and make genuine competition unviable between leagues, and it does largely become a case of who can afford the best club, meanwhile lower leagues struggle for money because they don't have the media income. Maybe fans should support their lower league clubs more and pay less attention to the Premiership.
Even within the Premiership, there's the cluster of clubs likely to be contenders for the cup, stable Premiership clubs that don't win much and those that bob up and down from the Championship every few years because they just don't have the financial power to stay up.

I'd be happy for player salaries to be adjusted so there was more balance and competition across the game.