Post by a more piratey game on Jan 19, 2020 12:39:30 GMT
I read the following, about Heather Watson who is dating a Yeovil Town footballer this morning, and it got me wondering what it is about football that creates this - beyond the fact that it is full of egomaniacs (like a lot of businesses) and has the pressure of weekly unpredictable public performances
As professional athletes, they have each learned more about each other’s working lives, and Watson was struck by how much harder tennis players work than footballers.
''They don’t train nearly as much as we do,” she said. “It’s a good life. And I’ve learned that there’s a lot of politics in football, really complicated. You just think of it as a team against a team, want to win, but there’s lot of different things. And their season’s just as long as ours.”
Rovers is a small and relatively simple club. But DC, who had a lengthy period of relative success and was popular, has offered to write a book about 'the politics' which were 'unbelievable'. GC hinted at similar. Long-time club insiders have been moved out, which is pretty normal with regime change in any business
Is there anything distinctive to football that makes it worse than other businesses?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/19/heather-watson-australian-open-tennis-courtney-duffus
As professional athletes, they have each learned more about each other’s working lives, and Watson was struck by how much harder tennis players work than footballers.
''They don’t train nearly as much as we do,” she said. “It’s a good life. And I’ve learned that there’s a lot of politics in football, really complicated. You just think of it as a team against a team, want to win, but there’s lot of different things. And their season’s just as long as ours.”
Rovers is a small and relatively simple club. But DC, who had a lengthy period of relative success and was popular, has offered to write a book about 'the politics' which were 'unbelievable'. GC hinted at similar. Long-time club insiders have been moved out, which is pretty normal with regime change in any business
Is there anything distinctive to football that makes it worse than other businesses?
www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/19/heather-watson-australian-open-tennis-courtney-duffus
