When the Roman Empire was weakening one way of getting the attention of the masses was to offer free gladiatorial fights where bread would be distributed for months on end...
In todays world for the first time in living memory workers have been allowed to watch football whilst at work.
Millions have stopped working to watch a game which is based not on skills or fair competition but which club will provide the most money to the sponsors of the world cup, the Coca Colas and Addidas of the world.
Its an irony not lost on history that many of the world cups have been won by hosting national teams.
Now the word national team has gone out of the window due to globalisation. The teams are made up of players from all over the world just like the management of any major corporation.
The idolatry of modern footballers, their wives, their sisters etc is so sickening that it beggars belief that someone can earn 100,000 in a week whilst most people cannot afford affordable accomodation.
The Roman Empire of today, that of the multinational corporation are hanging on a string if they believe their system will be saved if the ram footbal down everyones throat.
vngelis