I have finished with this bastard of the beautiful game. 60 years a Villa fan, this is not the sport I have been absorbed in all these years. I have spent a fortune following Villa home, away and in Europe but cannot be bothered to even be aware of the last game of this season when either of the super league monstrosity clubs will be anointed as Premier league winners. Once again a gilt edged opportunity has been allowed to slip through Villa's fingers and the chance to eat at the top table has been wasted by bad decisions at the top of the club and an accumulation of on field corruption and media driven agenda to preserve the status quo. Villa will never again reach the heights that I witnessed on 81 and 82. Those days are long gone. The game itself is unrecognisable from even recent years. Is a goal a goal? Is offside offside? Is a foul a foul or just some prima donna trying to con the official into sending off an opponent to improve their chances of 'winning' a sporting match that is no longer a sporting event. I will be on the golf course this weekend as the premier league completes another season of predictable nonsense. Check out the top 6 and ask yourself if that could not have been engraved last August. I will cock a deaf ear to any talk of football from now on. The world Cup farce will play out in Qatar and a new domestic season will begin in August but for the first time in 60 years I will be blissfully ignorant of which multi million pound footballer has just signed for which multi billionaire owned franchise for how many million pounds a week wages with a release clause in case it all goes pear shaped in 6 months. Sad for all football fans who are left with this monstrosity of a so called sport to follow but so glad to turn my back on it at last. I feel nothing but a massive relief to pass this burden on to someone else. Goodbye football. Hello golf.
