Club Loyalty, Does it Exist?

The incident in the summer of Christiano Ronaldo literally telling Manchester United that he wants to go to Real Madrid has shown that the days of club loyalty are long gone. Gone are the days when players like Giggs and Scholes spent all their lives in one club and players like the baby faced assasin did not mind warming the bench than play for a rival. Today the only thing that talks is the money the club is ready to offer a player or playing time. Tevez is ready to leave as reports suggest cause he does not want to warm the benches anymore.

Gone are the days when players would commit their long term futures to the club and thus be identified with the club. Today a club offers a player more money and there he goes and even starts abusing his former club (I think a certain RVN would strike a cord ).

The same club/manager who shaped his career and made him a player he is,make him worth the money he is demanding, is conveniently forgotten as he moves away to a new club. The only loyalty that the players have is towards money.


So a question begs to be answered today: Is the vigour of club rivalries anything today, when you can find the same player playing for a rival club tomorrow?

How can a player forget the club which has made him the player he is . But can a player alone be blamed for this? In this materialistic world is there a scope of being loyal to a club.

I don't think so. When a players career is only a few years and it is in these years that he has to earn the money to carry him through his life is the player not right to think of his own well being and future. When a player is regular international he certainly does not like being the super sub for a club. Why? Simple out of sight, out of mind, HE could well loose his place in the international squad.

Let's not forget some of these players don't have any command of English to become commentators, nor do they have a degree to sustain them after their playing days and how many successful players become successful coaches? So what they do after their days are over. A few intelligent ones learn to live life in a better way, others... well go to the dumpster.

So let me ask this again. Is there any meaning of club loyalty today?

You hold me close

You hold me close
Our fingers intertwine
You whisper in my ear
“You’ll always be mine”
I hold you tight,
I hear your heart beat,
It causes me to tingle,
From my head to my feet.
I tell you “I love you”
and you ask me “how much?”
I say “I can’t explain,
Because I love you so much”
You hold me close,
Our fingers intertwine,
and you whisper in my ear,
“You’ll always be mine”"




Another piece which I thought I should share from an unknown poet

Grisham Rankings

My opinion of the best books of Grisham after The Associate stands at
1) The Client
2) The Firm
3) The Last Juror
4) The Chamber
5) The Time to Kill
6) The Appeal, The Innocent Man
7) The Associate, The Broker
8) The Partner
9) The Summons
10) King of Torts,The Rainmaker
11) The Runaway Jury, The Street Lawyer
12) The Testament
13) The Pelican Brief
14) The Brethren
15) A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, Bleachers, Playing for Pizza
I believe the Rank 15 books don't deserve to be read but all the others are a must read and all of them are mostly master class and in a very similar league

The Associate-A Review

I was strolling in the airport when I could not help but to get into a book store. My eyes fall on the latest book by Grisham and how can a Grisham fan resist that after The Innocent Man and The Appeal. I buy the book immedietely, read it through my flight and also the night. Now I am through with the book and what can I say . The master of law thrillers is back with another law thriller and all I can say is WOW!!! Grisham is certainly back to his "The Firm" days.
Now the story. Without revealing too much. It's about this young law school grad Kyle who hates big firm business where he feels no real "People" are ever handled and has promised himself that he would get to community service.But something in his past leads him to the door of the biggest law firm. A secret he wants to hide. A secret he wants no one including his dad to know. When a proffesional "Handler" Bennie threatnes Kyle with it, which could destroy his life, his career, everything; Kyle agrees to do the impossible -SPY to get details of a secret project which now is a case involving the Pentagon, the US Government, two big law firms, a technology and potentially others too. What does Kyle do? Does he get out of the mess or do thugs get info about the greatest project in military avaiation.
John Grisham like he usually does, has filled the story with a huge number of twists and turns very reminiscent of his older books. Lovely story telling and also a lot of details about how big law firms work. I only think he misses the plot in the end somewhere, else it would have been master class. A very quick narrative, with amazingly etched side characters especially that of Baxter. Grisham keeps us to the edge of our seats into an ending which could have been better. I would still give him a 4/5. Not his best but a good one still.