the indefatigable Mark said: >This kind of thing goes on all the time in business. If it is that 'wrong' >or pseudo illegal then the relevant regulatory bodies need to deal with it. >If it is illegal then the courts will deal with it. Until then individuals >are free to run their businesses in that way if they so choose. - this is exactly what the Inland Revenue are doing and what you are arguing is unfair...unless I've misunderstood or fallen asleep or something
He also said: >To bring this back to football I will us the 'professionalism' in football >argument. >I also remember vividly Paul Allen being cynically >tripped from behind in the FA Cup final by Willie Young. Young only got a >yellow card because it was 'just' a foul, albeit a 'professional foul'. Was >Young 'wrong' to do it? In a football sense, no - he probably won the FA >Cup for Arsenal. - point of fact the Hammers won this one, a Trevor Brooking header of all things, 1-0, so Young's skullduggery did not achieve anything other than the correct changes in the law in an attempt to keep up with the changes in the way the players of the game (and their apologists) deemed to be acceptable...remember that this is the sport in which the Corinthians refused to score from penalties because they felt it to be giving the attacking team an ungentlemanly advantage and so shot deliberately wide on principal whenever they were awarded one...whither, eh? I ask you, whither? The 2 things to remember when talking about "rights" and "wrongs" in football and attempting to extrapolate that into wider "real life" dealings is that a) football is less important than that - ie drawing a comparison between potential tax evasion and time-wasting tactics, is simply crass and b) the "rights" and "wrongs" is all relative innit...you and I as right-thinking Englishman know that Maradona cheated with his "hand of God" goal, but ask someone from Argentina, or Scotland for that matter... The game has rules to be followed. As does running a business. The good ship Leeds Utd and all associated with her could do to remember that both on and off the field. (PS - just for the record I don't care about how Maradona scored that goal, just as I don't care about Geoff Hurst's 2nd "goal" in 1966 or Michael Owen's training at the Rambert - swings and roundabouts, swings...) _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist Join The Leeds United Supporters Trust at www.lufctrust.org
