This article is by no means seeking to under value the wonderful response across society that defeated the Super League in just two days. The consensus to bring down the out of touch other worldly narcissists was a joy to behold. Society has probably not seen anything like this before and all for a sport I love but in all honesty it is about watching women and men kick a sphere of air about for ninety minutes.
Andy Goldstein sums up this effort and why we should all be so proud.
HOWEVER, How is Wednesday 21st April 2021 different from Saturday 17th April 2021? Where is football in England right now?
How has the so called ‘beautiful game’ changed with the defeat of the ‘Super League’ ?
We must not somehow be conned in to believing that the roses have been re planted and that the warm sun of the day and the dew of the night will return us to Eden. We were never in Eden or anything that resembled it. It just feels like that as we have won a battle. A battle amongst many we have left to fight.
Let us turn to a stalwart of the game in ex Liverpool and England international John Barnes who sums up the corporate malevolence in the game as well as anyone has in recent times.
John’s point is very clear. We have not stopped the corporate billionaires from running football. We have merely stopped them from removing competition. Where we go from here is the most relevant point. Do we leave it as it was or do we set upon a long term strategy to return the teams… to their fans and prize them out of the sweaty hands of foreign… wealth?
It is not just football. It is society as a whole.
As these clips should remind us, the billionaire corporations have no interest in us unless we make them cash. Both are a must watch and defeat the hypocrisy we are served up daily.
Now is the time to take on everyone who merely want the status quo. Now is the time to democratise football and not only football, but society… more generally and return it to where it belongs. The public.
If we can slay an idea in 48 hours imagine what we could do in a month or a year or a decade. It is up to us to slay the monsters that treat us as nothing more than pocket money.
Jason Cridland
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