A little perspective. Just a little. Please.

I had uni today.

Yay.

Nothing much to report on that front, except for me actually getting what John Gerrand is going on about. That's a first, by the way. Me understanding what's going on in Accounting lectures.

Anyway, what I really wanted to do was to express my disenchantment with some people in the beautiful game.

Actually, this disenchantment has been going for sometime, but has recently been reignited by Adebayor's transfer to Manchester City.

Although I say good riddance, because, in my opinion, he was never that great anyway, it's the comments that he's made after the transfer which irk me.

It goes something like this. "Yeah, sure, I transferred because they offered me more money. But tell me, which Arsenal fan wouldn't change from their 10 pound job to a 30 pound job?"

Football players have been accused of lacking perspective. I agree wholeheartedly.

How is a fan, who is earning 10 pounds (per hour, per day, per week, I don't know what Adebayor's talking about, but yeah, whatever) changing to a job that pays 30 pounds comparable to him? I mean, we're not talking in terms of being paid peanuts here. If you triple 10 pounds, and get 30, if we're talking about per hour, that's massive.

Now, with Adebayor, we're talking someone who's earning tens of thousands of pounds per week, even when he's injured and not performing well, switching teams to earn tens of thousands of pounds more.

His excuse is that he comes from a poor city and a poor country. I don't know about you, but that doesn't make much sense to me. It's not like he's feeding his country. Instead of buying a house per month, he can now buy a house every fortnight. Congratulations.

His nonsensical remarks are almost on par with Sep Blatter comparing Cronaldo to a slave last season, due to the fact that Man Utd wouldn't sell him to Real Madrid. I don't get the argument there either. Both parties signed the contract, both knew the terms when signing. Besides, I wouldn't mind being a slave if I got paid that much. Slave. Blatter is an insult to people who actually live on a pittance.

Just while we're on the topic of inane comments, Valdano, some head honcho guy at Real Madrid, recently responded to criticism from the Spanish Government with regards to their insane spending by saying this: "Sure, people need money, but football also makes them happy." Ok, I like a good game of football. But this is just way out of any perspective, and smacks of clutching at straws to justify a quarter of a billion Euros (and counting) being spent on transfers, while the people of Spain deal with double-digit unemployment. Football doesn't feed the people on the streets.

Well, anyway, this past weeks been pretty torrid, so I guess it fits that I end it by venting my anger at something that most people probably don't care about, and rightly so. Here's hoping that next week will be better.

Word of the Day: Perspective (or lack thereof)