First Post

Good morning, good evening and good night, welcome to the first post. Hopefully, I'll be making general comments based on what's going on in the world, also specifically in my life and my friends' lives. Basically, I want to share my views of life with you, the world.
So I'm a former student, I live in England, I do love football, but I hope it isn't the main topic of most of my posts on this blog. It will get a mention, though. I mean, take today, September the 1st (well, it was when I first started to write, it's now 0.42 past 2nd Sept!) is the transfer deadline day for football. A novel invention by football's global idiot power consortium. "Let's make it harder for all the teams to compete, by boxing all of their transfers in to two one-month periods"... that's what they said. But it sure as hell sparks some fun to watch - Robinho, Real Madrid's starlet Robinho has signed for Manchester City - eternal hopefuls but always moaners, and then Dimitar Berbatov has finally gone to Manchester United! The end of one saga, but there will still be many more going on as the season goes by, especially approaching the next window in January. Well, at least Gareth Barry can rest in his Villa slippers for a few months and resist any more speculation about him going to Liverpool.
Football has always "survived" on the interest created by the media about transfers and results, but I put survived in the inverted commas, because it isn't surviving - it's well alive and mutilating in to a true world sport which makes clubs crave domination and success not only in their own countries, but also in other continents. Yet are football and the media (in Britain, at least) able to survive independently? Would The Sun sell half as many papers without it's leading tabloid stance on football rumour-mongering and widespread match coverage? I know that I buy the newspaper mainly to read their coverage of the sport, not for their in-depth and challenging editorials. Perhaps I'm not crediting other newspapers enough - let alone their readership - but I think the nation's interest in football as the national sport boosts the media and the popularity of football allows newspapers and TV channels such as Sky Sports News to boost their own popularity.
Well, as I get ready for another day at work tomorrow, I hope my addiction to Smallville doesn't stop me from getting to sleep..
Adios
PW