Manchester City winning the Champions League means soccer is dead. A sport that has been slowly dying from greed, glory hunters and bad ideas was officially put out of its misery by a team that once pinned their hopes on Sven Goran Eriksson. Oh, where have you gone Nicolas Anelka?
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The Champions League will soon reformat to an asinine, Swiss-style system no one wants or even asked for. Pathways for countries outside of England, Spain, Germany and Italy continue to be shut. Somehow the proposed super league lurks around like a zombie. Soccer, at least the sport known by real fans, is dead.
In its place is a corporation of money-hungry losers who would whore out their own mothers if it meant a paycheck. UEFA, FIFA and the world’s wealthiest clubs have shown contempt for existing fans believing they will always follow the game no matter what.
Now, they chase glory hunters in lands near and far in hopes of adding more money to their bank accounts. Of course, this group doesn’t actually care about the clubs. Their lives are just so void of meaning that the success of a soccer team is the best they can hope for.
Seriously, go to Indonesia, Morocco or any other developing country where teams are trying to mine new fans. All these folks care about is having something to brag about. It is also why they will literally support all the big teams. You will find people claiming to be both Real Madrid and Barcelona ultras with a straight face. Good luck with that.
The one thing real fans had was Manchester City’s failure to win the Champions League. It was the sole thing money couldn’t buy. Cash has fundamentally ruined nearly every other aspect of soccer except this. But now, even that has been purchased.
And with it, soccer is officially dead.
Sure, they will keep playing games and people will continue to watch it. There is no soul, though. The sport is nothing but a small group of people trying to extract money from others under the guise of winning.
What is laughable in all this is the fact that the same die-hard Manchester City supporters celebrating success in the Champions League were likely Manchester United fans a decade earlier. And they will support Newcastle or some other club ten years from now. Yet, expanding this group is all that matters for soccer’s powerbrokers.
More Classicos, more Manchester derbies and more of the same for soccer, although only much more contrived and, without question, worse.
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