10-09-2014, 00:56
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2014, 00:56 by Ska'dForLife-WBA.)
(10-09-2014, 00:38)St Charles Owl Wrote: While I agree with the sentiment of FFP I cannot help wondering why its any bodies business if a billionaire chooses to prop up a football team with his own money??
Perhaps because it makes a mockery of the very principle of sporting competition? To use a satirical analogy, let's say that I'm a trillionaire with a geeky and utterly non-athletic son, and that I'm ashamed of this son's performance every year on school sports day. So this year, I fork out the necessary cash here and there, and when sports day rolls round, I walk through the school gates holding hands with my brand new son Usain Bolt.
He looks a bit daft in his blazer and tie, but I've got a suspiciously shiny birth certificate which say he's my son, and none of the school rules prohibit me from entering him in the races. So, it's nobody's business if I do so, yes? Or is it perhaps possible that I'm missing the whole point of the school sports day, and in the process, ruining it for everyone else?
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