It was a great week for the puckish charms of football and its ability to confound hubris
Football still, it turns out, has the power to fight back. Money is a lot of things but it isn’t quite everything, not yet.
Although before we get carried away, it should be acknowledged that it really is a lot of things, most things even, almost everything. The leagues of Italy and France are a walkover yet again. Spain and Germany will probably have very familiar champions. So distorted has the modern view become that not only are Ajax, grandees of the Dutch game, transformed into plucky giant-killers, but somehow Manchester United can be cast as improbable outsiders. It was a great week for the puckish charms of football and its ability to confound hubris but nobody should kid themselves: it’s losing the war against greed.
Written by Jonathan Wilson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/mar/07/psg-demise-a-lesson-in-the-corrupting-effect-of-money-and-arrogance-champions-league-football under the title “PSG demise a lesson in the corrupting effect of money and arrogance | Jonathan Wilson”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
