Today we should have woken up in excitement and anticipation with the imminent start of the World Cup but sadly in all honestly we really couldn't care less.
Today is a sad day for football, the day that football sold its soul, the day that FIFA, the corrupt cash machine stuck two fingers up to football and fans across the World.
We're not naive to realise buying the World Cup is something new as its been going on for years, but this World Cup is the most blatant piece of corruption for all to see, FIFA's hypocrisy is laid bare with all their faux social justice campaigns being put aside for money to fill their coffers and line their pockets and that goes for all the sponsors, football associations, managers, players, media outlets, pundits and so-called ambassadors.
The World Cup in Russia should never have been allowed to happen either because of their record on hooliganism and Racism, same with Qatar with their human rights issues, don't get us wrong though we are far from being PC and social justice warriors at Proper Football but what we are like many others are sick and tired of our game being hijacked by causes outside of football and this latest tournament smacks of hypocrisy of the highest level, the fact it's been moved to the winter is another big factor, our issue isn't with the Qataris even though we don't agree with some of their ideals this is about FIFA taking the blatant p*ss out of us all and this comes on top of all the other issues with modern day football where many of us fans are treated like customers and given no second thought by the big TV companies and money makers.
Will we watch it?
Some of us will some of us won't but none of us will feel the buzz and excitement that comes around every 4 years.
FIFA needs to be dismantled and a new organisation needs to replace it.
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