19-02-2010, 08:12 PM
American football is arguably as big or even bigger in all financial aspects and they manage to control the game in the same way we in Europe control Rugby. Lots of Refs on pitch and a TV judge in big plays.
Of course there is the other distinct possibility that football, like F1 motor racing, has now become such a profitable entertainment franchise by Sky and other broadcasters that the sports fairness aspect of it has been suicided in favour of "talking points" and other match controversies as a platform for generating ever more advertising, gambling revenue and supermarket beer sales.
Of course there is the other distinct possibility that football, like F1 motor racing, has now become such a profitable entertainment franchise by Sky and other broadcasters that the sports fairness aspect of it has been suicided in favour of "talking points" and other match controversies as a platform for generating ever more advertising, gambling revenue and supermarket beer sales.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14