FootballFilter

Is it me or are football kits getting shitter and shitter? As with many of my posts, I am looking back to days of old – take an old Chelsea kit for example (sorry a certain bias is coming through):

And look at whats coming ….

I don’t like this space age direction – you can make it as sweat free fancy as you want but keep it cool and simple. They look like they are competing in the Running Man.

Same goes for Liverpool , for example, adidas keep churning out the same old stuff these days. The old stuff just seems so much better…

And here’s their away kit (home kit not released yet it seems) – I see very little difference from last season’s..

I think more teams need to follow Arsenal’s suit and look back to old styles for inspiration.

So in the last few days Wayne Bridge has become the highest paid left back in the world having moved to Manchester City for 12 million.  He in now on 100,000 a week.  

Jermaine Pennant is supposedly off to AC Milan, I will believe this when I see it.  But the compilation of these two ludicrous goings on makes me want to express profanity – what the fuck is going on?  The world is in the shit at the moment, my mates are getting sacked willy nilly or can’t get jobs at all and then Wayne Bridge gets dumped with 100,000 a week, based on approximately 7 games a season and an unhealthy satisfaction with sitting on the bench waiting for Ashley Cole to get injured.

i don’t know why but this reminds me of Seth Johnson:

37 grand, jesus christ.....

Picture taken from Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/SethJohnson02.JPG

Anyone remember this fella?   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Johnson

Obviously there is a possibility this might not be true, but while at Leeds, Mr Johnson was in the process of negotiating his contract and was banking on around 13,000 quid.  Chairman Peter Ridsdale then swanned in and apparently offered his agent 30,000 which he was shocked at for obvious reasons.  Ridsdale misinterpreted this “aghast” so he then offered him 37,000 instead! That was in 2000, 8 years on and things are just getting obscene.  Jesus H Christ is all I can say.

In times like this you would think that the footballing industry would collapse; but personally I don’t think it will.  The cost of TV rights keep getting bigger and as fans we are still stupidly stumping up ridic prices for games or the sky packages.  In a time like this football is an escape.  Even if the amount of tickets bought g goes down, the TV money will keep the industry going.  Especially if the TV companies are smart enough to start offering us good online TV packages like the National Baseball League where you can watch a ludicrous amount of games even at the same time.  The only thing that may calm down could well be new signings.  You never know the whole recession might even incentivise a whole new trading process similar to the NFL or NBA.  But then again it may not cause the players and the agents get ridiculous signing on fees!  Everyone just wants a dirty cut!  Ok rant over – if anyone does actually read this, I would love to hear what you think, I am sick of hearing the Guardian writers banal opinions, your thoughts would be breath of fresh air……