The Sickness & Greed in Football
So, it was a record-breaking transfer window in the world of English football (that's soccer to my American readers) this year in more ways than one. Premier League clubs spent a record £630m this summer as a result of the injection of £5.5 billion spent on tv rights. Tottenham received a jaw-dropping £85m from Real Madrid for 24 year old Gareth Bale who will be paid an incredible £300,000 a week. His transfer fee was a world record. The £630m laid out by English top-flight clubs was a 29% increase on the equivalent figure of £490m in 2012, and £130m more than the previous record set in 2008. The Premier League might have spent more than any other, but Europe's nouveau riche in France, and the 'old moneyed' in Italy, also made headlines. All in all the 20 premiership teams spent £630,000,000. Am I alone in feeling repulsed at that figure? Am I the only one wondering what good that amount of money could in a world where children starve to death every d...