Whether West Ham United deserved a hefty fine or a points deduction is no longer the point. Whether Sheffield United deserved a £60m, £35m, £25m or £10m compensation package is irrelevant.
I wish I could talk about this for longer than I can because the climax of this situation has genuinely angered me. It’s gone beyond a footballing issue, and I suppose that even from the outset it was never actually about the beautiful game.
This has been a campaign driven and fuelled by gluttony and self-centred greed by Kevin McCabe and his horde of insatiable, incompetant ‘football’ players. I sat and watched, in manageable sittings, Comic Relief last night. At time of writing this article a staggering £57,809,938 has been raised for underprivileged, impoverished and suffering people across the world.
That is a campaign for justice.
I no longer care for the matters of this petulant case of “fairness in football” and watching that money get raised last night really hammered home to me the true injustices in the world. The fact that football players the country wide, can cruise around in expensive cars and lavish clothes is an injustice to the people who cannot afford to feed their own children. The fact that Kevin McCabe and his band of merry men think that they actually deserve anything on top of what they already own and are already worth is an injustice to the people who devote their lives to volunteer for charities so that less fortunate people can live a better life.
I’m not here to parade around on my proverbial high-horse lauding over myself, but simply to highlight the underlying root issue that I believe this case has simmered down to.
And, if it really is a case of “fairness in football” then KUMB.com have quite rightly pointed out the following:
Meanwhile, in the interests of “Fairness In Football” we look forward to hearing the announcement from Bramall Lane regarding the amount of compensation now to be paid to Barnsley striker Iain Hume who has still yet to play following the thuggish attack on him by Sheffield United employee Chris Morgan back in November.
Love to know what people think about this whole situation, I know the feelings are pretty mixed….
Sam
When I first heard the saga was eventually coming to an end with figures of £10M+ being bandied around, I thought, OK at least it’s over, and 10 Mil is not a huge amount in this footballing day and age. Now I am angry and football (sorry English football) is looking foolish. I resent the admission of guilt this brings, when clearly one man cannot influence a whole season’s results. Sheff U had it in their hands to avoid relegation, they blew it. We’ve rolled over too easily and now football has opened Pandora’s box with similar claims. For the good of football it shouldn’t happen, for the good of West Ham – it must.
German Hammer
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