Finland's Ovi

Football for the rich only?

Great! Just really great! I don’t know about you guys, but I’m sitting here in Mexico and am pissed off like I haven’t been in a long time. They won’t show the football games on public TV! Now they expect me to go pay some private satellite shit to be able to view THE WORLD CUP!

I know FIFA is private as all fuking bullshit today, but don’t you think that fuking 1000 EUROS!!! TEN THOUSAND PESOS to get into the stadion in Germany plus Thousand euros at least to fly there and back isn’t enough spending to be able to whatch the owrld cup?

I am really sorry if I sound pissed off but I just can’t believe this bullshit! You know how much people earn over here in Mexico? any Idea? Anyways.. those happy ones with tv, will be very dissapointed if they think they are “WORTH” watching the world cup if they don’t pay some fuking satelite private bullshit!

FIFA: YOU SUCK BIG TIME! Isn’t it enough having over 50 THOUSAND people in each game in the stadium.. maybe hundred thousand that EACH pay THOUSAND EUROS? Math’s say that you are earning in each game at least 50,000,000 FIFTY MILLION EUROS! And still can’t afford to allow a public online stream or do SOMETHING?

Okok.. I know… poor rich guys.. haven’t got enough cars yet… need private airplanes and Yachts! Ok ok.. Sorry for my stupidity, I am just an egoist. How can I even dream of FREE public football! I am aware I could go out now and search for some bar to watch the game… badly only I will need to order food to watch the game but sadly I am just not in any mood anymore.. and that pisses me even more off!

Hurray Football!

Why does everybody rate Brazil so much? Why do commentators bite their upper lip and need a cold shower when presenting one of their matches? Why do so many so-called ‘neutrals’ support this footballing nation? They are just like any other nation, except that they have a reputation.

Did you watch their game against Croatia last night? Did you see that cross Roberto Carlos made that went straight across his own box and to an opposition player who almost scored? Is this the sexy football that everybody raves about? Give me a break, Brazil are a team like Real Madrid; a team full of talent but it doesn’t always gel the way you would expect.

Croatia should have won last night and they should feel proud of their combined efforts. Brazil have usually beaten some teams before the game kicks off, so let’s all try to remember that they are just another team…a team that makes monumental cock-ups.

Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam tournament that pays the men’s champion more than the women’s winner and the All England Club are being criticised for this decision.

“It just doesn’t seem right to us that the lady players could play in three events and could take away significantly more than the men’s champion who battles away through these best-of-five matches,” All England Club chairman Tim Phillips said. “We don’t see it as an equal rights issue.”

The WTA Tour, which has lobbied for equal pay for years, expressed disappointment that Wimbledon “continues to promote inequality in pay across the board between men and women.” The men’s winner will receive $1.170 million and the women’s champion $1.117 million, a difference of $53,000.

If that translated into the office space, how long would it be before men complained they were working five hours a day, while the women are paid the same for three?

Is this an Olympic medal or a cd?

I think it looks like a RW-CD, so they can format it and rewrite it with a new …trophy!

These winter Olympics look more and more like a big cold …joke!

Sports officials in Taiwan made it clear yesterday that the 2008 Olympic torch relay cannot come to the island unless the torch first passes through a third nation.
Beijing will host the next Summer Games and it has got approval from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to start negotiating the route for the torch, bringing China closer to involving political rival Taiwan. During a presentation to IOC members in Turin, Italy Thursday, Beijing organizing committee chief Liu Qi said the proposed torch route covers 28 foreign cities and 70 in China.

There’s nothing like seeing sport bring two nations closer…and this is nothing like it.