I watch,play and live soccer. That pretty much sums up my obsession with this sport. My favorite club is called Manchester United FC, and they are playing in a league called the English Premiere League, or EPL for short.
While the league and its clubs have changed a lot since their inception in the 1900s, some changes have been more marked than others, and that is money. Billionaire owners, massive player transfer deals, and extraordinary agent fees are just some of the revelations in football that is caused by desires to make quick bucks. In other lesser leagues (mostly those in poorer countries) there is even corruption of players and even match officials, showing that there is no barrier in football for money. The question is how mixing fast cash and football actually effects the sport as a whole? While the good has been obvious; clubs that used to be punching bags can now afford world class players after being bankrolled by someone rich, the bad part is equally tangible, as I mentioned above with all the unethical means of using money to achieve quick success.
While I tend to lean towards money being a bad thing in football, I think there is a lot of ground to be covered in this topic.
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