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Playing the devil's advocate: Football has its roots in amateur and local associations with little or nothing to do with profit. In fact, only in the 1990s (w
by rvieira 6y ago
Playing the devil's advocate:
Football has its roots in amateur and local associations with little or nothing to do with profit.
In fact, only in the 1990s (with the explosion of cable TV and sports channels) did it started becoming a huge industry.
Corporations do not share the same pedigree, so they aren't "betraying" their roots.
- thewarrior 6y agoThat is just a matter of social convention. We could all agree that corporations should be socially run and football clubs should be private corporations. People are saying that football clubs are rooted in society in the very same country whose leader once said “There is no such thing as a society”. The world is what we make of it.
- rvieira 6y ago> Playing the devil's advocate I think my employer will only pay for one more comment :) I agree, but most things in life are social conventions. The problem is not identifying them, but changing them.