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Haakon S. wrote: Professional football is not harmfull. If it inspres people to play, it is even healthy
National Health Service figures show that almost twice as much is spent on sports injuries than is spent on everything that is attributed to drinking and smoking -- even the spurious rubbish about passive smoking, and what have you (European figures: 7,000 deaths and 30,000 disabilities caused by playing sports per year -- source[^]).
Exercise is good for you, sport is where you get hurt, and where you waste taxpayers' money.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: National Health Service figures show that almost twice as much is spent on sports injuries than is spent on everything that is attributed to drinking and smoking
I'm sorely temtped to troll FB, "these dangerous activities are too available and to cheap, costing the NHS - ban sport now!".
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I wrote a satirical something about it a while ago. When I get the chance, I'll clean it up and stick it on my site.
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Well played, I'd say 
You don't get anything for free 
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Haakon S. wrote: Professional football is not harmfull.
Isn't it? Young [mostly] boys look up to these turnips as an example of manhood. The footballers earn way too much for what they actually do and* have a massive sense of entitlement - they* behave very arrogantly on and off the pitch. It's commonplace to see these paragons absolutely hammered, having fights and, in a few high profile cases, committing acts of rape. I don't know about you, but I'd consider idolising such people harmful.
*mentally insert the word "often" here
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Especially when the F.A. recently appeared to be willing to let a convicted rapist resume his role as a role model for young impressionable males.
I was glad to see every club who considered it back down under public outcry.
I'm all for rehabilitation, but he could get that stacking shelves, or painting lines on the road.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I don't know about you, but I'd consider idolising such people harmful.
Many young boys are dreaming of becoming professional players, and try so by playing football. Which is a good thing. What is your alternative? Computer games? The coach potatoes of our time are also a load on our health service, it is a fact that many sit themselves to death.
Certainly, I do recognise that there are many negative sides of professional sports. But all in all, if you look at the big picture it is positive.
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Haakon S. wrote: Many young boys are dreaming of becoming professional players
How many of them actually make it? Taking a look at this[^] we can work out a rough guesstimate of 20 clubs * ~35 in the squad: 700 players. Multiply that by 4 divisions (anything else and they might as well be doing something more lucrative) we're roughly talking about 2800 (lets say 3000) professional players, that's 0.005% of the population - bad odds. Where I went to school lots of kids who had no hope of ever getting signed for any professional team concentrated on football rather than something useful.
Haakon S. wrote: <layer>and try so by playing football. Which is a good thing
I'm not against sport: I'm against the amounts footballer are paid, and he way they are held up as heroic. If people want to kick a ball about & have fun, good on 'em, I just don't see why they have to be paid more in half an hour than a doctor is in a year.
Haakon S. wrote: What is your alternative? Computer games?
Whoa. False dichotomy much? Practically anything useful to the world would be better than a career in football (except financially). Especially given the way the football world gives false hope to so many.
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Haakon S. wrote: something that is unhealthy, namely alcohol?
assumes facts not in evidence. One example
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It's the media that's to blame really ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I agree although it's not just football where the least intelligent rise to the top (especially in the UK) 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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It's no reason to hate the players. Hate us. We are the ones giving them that salary.
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It has f all to do with some of us. I won't even go in a pub if it has sports channel playing, let alone watch it at home.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ahh, but my title was "Another reason to hate the footba'" not "Another reason to hate the footba'ers".
It's also got 0% to do with me - never attended a match, never watched it on telly, never bought the merchandise. I assume by "we" you mean the fans?
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Keith Barrow wrote: Ahh, but my title was "Another reason to hate the footba'"
I thought you fell asleep typing. 
Actually, it still holds. It's no reason to hate football. It's "our" fault. And yes, by "we" I mean those that are spending the money on the games, the merchandise, the TV, etc.
I don't know the ticket price for what you call footba but basketball season is strong in the US right now and even cheap seats are $40. With 5 kids, no way am I going to pay that kind of money even though I enjoy the sport.
Perhaps you can find a way to take programming to a professional level where we can have fans and then we can make insane amounts of money too. 
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Keith Barrow wrote: they don't defend us from our enemies.
:ahem: Lookup Pat Tillman.
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Out of approx. 23,000,000 sportsmen worldwide, one signs up to do something selfless and worthwhile.
I see your point.
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Who?
[Edit]
Did as you said - wrong type of football. I'm talking about Association Football, I haven't a clue what goes on with American Football.
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At least it made me happy by telling me I make more than average in my country 
F*** that Ronaldo guy though...
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Just came across this video[^] (Feb 2012), where the Geologist says that the Colorado river has gouged out 800 cubic miles of rock, over several million years. Really feel minusculeminuscule in front of this.
Pardon me if this is a Leslie.
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Then the Rock became Metal and it was invincible. 
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Then Rock met Paper and went home in shame...
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But Paper would soon be slain by a pair of Metal scissors.
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