Imagine there’s no World Cup, it isn’t hard to do.

By Eric Beard, writing from Boston

The month-long celebration of the beautiful game clearly has a massive impact on football as a whole, but could the game still thrive without the world’s biggest competition in sport every four years? Though not ideal, the hypocritical nature of FIFA’s governing body that is in charge of such events forces this question. FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday, “I really sense in some reactions a bit of the arrogance of the western world of Christian background. Some simply can’t bear it if others get a chance for a change.”

Well, to start, Blatter is in no position to undermine the Western world nor to make sweeping stereotypes associating a religion like Christianity with an arrogant mindset because he is, himself, a Christian born and raised in Switzerland. I would compare Sepp Blatter to U2’s Bono, who said last year in Tokyo, “my prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet.” Despite holding a righteous environmental stance, Bono’s lifestyle entirely contradicts his ideas as the U2 360º tour’s carbon footprint emitted about 65,000 tons of CO2, which is equivalent to leaving a 100 watt lightbulb turned on for about 160,000 years. The true disillusionment going on here is that, like Bono, Blatter feels entitled to judge and deem others as arrogant when his own arrogance and even ignorance is overwhelming.

(Source: philosofooty)