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Bobby Zamora has been slammed for daring to admit he's not crazy about football but TEAMtalk's Jon Holmes doesn't feel players have to be fans.
They say the bond between supporters and those they pay to see play has never been weaker. Financially speaking, at the higher levels of the English pyramid, there's no argument - one glance at the vehicles in any training-ground car park is enough to confirm that.
However, take money out of the equation and most fans wearing their replica club shirts won't feel too different from those who wear the jerseys professionally. There will always be the odd mercenary, but at the basic level it all boils down to a love of the game. Right?
Not necessarily.
"I'm not a massive football fan, really. Quite a lot more players than let on are the same," Bobby Zamora told the Daily Mail over the weekend.
"I don't watch games on an evening or anything like that."
Sacrilege! Blasphemy! Outrage! Football seems beset by serious problems at the moment, but some would have you believe that Zamora's heretical stance should be added to the list - especially if his claim that there are other heathens lurking amid the professional ranks, plotting schism and strife by way of their very indifference towards whatever live offerings are on the telly this week.
"If your heart's not in it, Bobby, get out of the game!" bellowed Tony Cascarino in his Times column, pointing towards the infernal flames of hell like a fired-up 17th-century preacher.....
http://www.teamtalk.com/queens-park-...ugh-for-Zamora
I don't think anyone posted the Daily Mail link when it came out did they? Didn't even know about it until they mentioned it on the Open All Rs Podcast yesterday night.
More links about this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...Cascarino.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddball...-like-football
http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/lon...2029-32166167/
They say the bond between supporters and those they pay to see play has never been weaker. Financially speaking, at the higher levels of the English pyramid, there's no argument - one glance at the vehicles in any training-ground car park is enough to confirm that.
However, take money out of the equation and most fans wearing their replica club shirts won't feel too different from those who wear the jerseys professionally. There will always be the odd mercenary, but at the basic level it all boils down to a love of the game. Right?
Not necessarily.
"I'm not a massive football fan, really. Quite a lot more players than let on are the same," Bobby Zamora told the Daily Mail over the weekend.
"I don't watch games on an evening or anything like that."
Sacrilege! Blasphemy! Outrage! Football seems beset by serious problems at the moment, but some would have you believe that Zamora's heretical stance should be added to the list - especially if his claim that there are other heathens lurking amid the professional ranks, plotting schism and strife by way of their very indifference towards whatever live offerings are on the telly this week.
"If your heart's not in it, Bobby, get out of the game!" bellowed Tony Cascarino in his Times column, pointing towards the infernal flames of hell like a fired-up 17th-century preacher.....
http://www.teamtalk.com/queens-park-...ugh-for-Zamora
I don't think anyone posted the Daily Mail link when it came out did they? Didn't even know about it until they mentioned it on the Open All Rs Podcast yesterday night.
More links about this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...Cascarino.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddball...-like-football
http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/lon...2029-32166167/