"Jose Mourinho, the 'Special One' is ousted from Chelsea", scream the papers! Believe me folks, I am still not able to digest the fact that an outstanding man of talent would be thrown out due to a petty verbal skirmish(so say the papers!). It's disheartening to note that 'The beautiful game' is fast becoming a superficial make up box. Directors buy players for their brand value, and worry little about the balance of the team. It is slowly becoming an open secret that few clubs really aim at providing the best football to the spectators. The football of today reflects a mafia feel to the public with the clubs being bought by the rich and the famous. It's business as usual for them, though. The pretext of providing great football is obliterated by mere branding share and percentage and green equity.
The world knows the talent of the man, Mourinho. He pulled Chelsea from the rugs and took them to towering heights. Though, the championship league cup eluded them, they emerged victorious in a lot of other instances. No wonder that Sir Alex Ferguson saw a boisterous equal emerging. Mourinho was more of a mentor, a teacher, and an inspiration in himself. This vessel of talent was beleaguered and lost due to mere differences. Is it not high time that people who know the game, spoke about it and controlled it? The world has many Mourinho's and an equal share of Abrahamovich's and the latter's proportion does dilute the game to a high extent. Do these people really know about the sport? Being rich means powerful. but, in no way does this guarantee possession of knowledge. This would be the prime element that a lot lack. There are indeed striking similarities between the business of the game and the business of an organization. But blindly applying business centric thoughts to a game might destroy the being of the game. And this is what is precisely happening, even closer home. BCCI and the IHF are 2 famous examples. Can you people propose an idea to remove this element of business in the sporting society? How efficiently or effectively can a structure be built to encourage all, and, to weed out discrimination and bias?
