Fair play

I know little about football. I like to watch a nice game and listen to a smart comment from a professional or even an amateur that understands better than me what happens out there on the field . However, for the past several years I found myself quite often under the impulse of pressing the MUTE key on the remote control. Even ignorant in what concerns training techniques or strategic games, I can easily spot cheap theater peformed by so called professionals of the above mentioned sport. And when a commentator praises such behavior just because it is on-trend to support a certain team... well that is just lame. Just as lame as criticising a trainer that can prove his value with titles, because he answers with arrogance to insipid, silly questions in press conferences. But there is something even worse than this and that is ignorant fans, the violent, misbehaved and rude, the kind that probably have never felt the joy of a well deserved victory because they were too busy spitting on the supporters of the other team. I hardly read sport newspapers anymore because they get me bored, the bussiness has reached such dimenssion that it is difficult to find veritable information in the middle of that grotesque show on paper. Coming back to ignorant fans, the latest example came from the bosnian fans that not only started to sing about Messi when Cristiano Ronaldo reached the building of the airport, but they have also pointed lasers to his eyes while he was on the field. First, this was a game between two national teams, there was no need to bring to the table the artificial conflict between Real Madrid/Cristiano and Barcelona/Messi that is nothing but a cheap engineering of the lousy mass-media factory. Second, many press organs are desperate to sell their products, do not fall into the trap, devouring the crap that lazy journalist that are too comfortamble to learn to write real, well documented stories are throwing towards all of us from their miserable offices. I have seen Cristiano playing live for the national team and just for the record, he was the first to come for the warm up, he took it seriously and was the last to leave the field. But that you will probably not read anywhere, instead you will read that he is not a humble person. I have no clue, but I am guessing that one that gets a generous pay cheque for being hard-working, efficient and productive might want to spoil himself at the end of a month with some extravagant thing that does not go further than the common sense imagination. So, to end this, I hope for fair play on the arenas, among the supporters and even in the media that could give these two guys a break and check how volleyball, gimnastics and other sports are doing.