Day Twenty One - we have had sex and drugs, so now rock and roll?

Day Twenty One

If you have been following the last three days, you will know that we have covered sex, then yesterday drugs and so today should be rock and roll.  With that in mind I did consider for a few minutes of writing about George Martin and his influence on rock and roll through the fine work he did with The Beatles and others, however I rejected that idea.

I am now three weeks in to this challenge with just one week to go.  Thank you if you are still there and reading this.  It is late again and I am feeling a bit low about the death of George Martin.  If you know anything at all about the music of The Beatles, then you will understand why.  Just listen to the string arrangement on Yesterday.

 

Which makes me think that a post or two on death is well overdue.  I never think that ‘he’ should be overlooked when one is undertaking a project like this (pun not intended).

But today I shall pick up where I left off yesterday on sport.  The sports topic and even the mention of drugs in the link on Facebook did not act as clickbait for readers, but no matter.  I have a few things to say.

Football – that is to say, soccer

I used to watch football, I never really played very much though.  The nearest big (1^st division, no premiership in those days) team was Chelsea in the West End of London.  In the 1970s they were the glamour boys of football, the ones that the leggy models, movie and rock stars went to watch.   It was also Chelsea that my dad took me to see in when I was a kid in the 1960s.  I did not choose Chelsea, rather they were just the natural team to support, my local club.  I do not see how someone who is from the south can support a northern team, but there we go.

I no longer watch football and for sure had to just give up on Chelsea.  The behaviour of the club, its officials, its managers and player are unacceptable to me. Many of the fans are sadly a disgrace.  I say sadly because there are decent people, but to be honest, if they had any real ethics and dignity they would also walk away and turn their back on the club until it kicked out its rogue fans and started insisting on acceptable behaviour from the clubs officials and players.  The events of Paris were the final straw and I canceled my subscription to the club, for I had been a paid up member.

The man at the top sets the tone for an entire organisation and sadly Mr. Abramovich does not set high standards of behaviour.  In my opinion that then trickles down through the whole organisation, so that they abuse other teams, mistreat their own staff and are just generally unpleasant.  Other clubs are far from perfect, but I was not a fan of other clubs, I was a fan of that club and in the end I was ashamed and embarrassed to wear their shirt or tell people I supported them.   In fact I started to want to see them lose and trust me, they seem to have managed to pull that off in the last season as well.

I know some sports fans will not understand my actions, they say that I cannot be a true fan or true supporter, that it goes deeper.  I disagree entirely.  If the actions of a group, club, organisation, company or society of which you are part do not coincide with your own moral and ethical framework, then I think you have a moral duty to distance yourself and tell them why.   You will not therefore be surprised that when I cancelled to my membership and sent back my card I told them exactly why I could no longer support them.  I did not get a reply and but I do keep a lookout for dodgy towels and cups of tea. (wink).