The Role of Football in the Tales of Globalisation, Greed and Karma
The Role of Football in the Tales of Globalisation, Greed and Karma
Hicks and Gillett are the American owners staining Liverpool’s legacy, as the British Empire once tainted the heritage of its colonies.
By Darshan Joshi, writing from Sydney
The barbarian ways of the old world has its way of biting back. As they say, history repeats itself. Not an exact replica, in most cases; it allows us to draw our own parallels. As with the way the British Empire, and many other empires of old, attempted to conquer the world in their foreordained quest for world domination, Tom Hicks and George Gillett are the worst of the 21st century crop of colonisers. Different era, different setting, but the stage is still global, for football has grown in so many ways over the past few decades, not least financially. More specifically, English football has metamorphosed into what foreign billionaires will view as a stunning business opportunity.
The cries of Liverpool fans are that the owners don’t care for their legacy. They don’t care about tradition, history and heritage. They are there for the money, for the desire to satisfy their unrelenting passion for greed. Rewind nigh on four hundred years – the East India Company took charge of the subcontinent of India, a land brimming with all those age-old virtues of legacy, tradition, culture, history and heritage. For 339 years, every last drop of goodness was being utterly squeezed out of India – herbs, spices, tea, fabrics, silk, and cotton, amongst others, were all being ‘traded’ from the time of the East India Company itself, beyond the time of the British Raj, and until Mahatma Gandhi, as we all know, campaigned for and helped gain his country’s independence.
Is that not what is happening at Liverpool Football Club today, only cloaked in suits, ties and cufflinks?
(Source: philosofooty)
