18-11-2014, 09:20 AM
Danny Jarman Wrote:While FIFA are obviously a corrupt organisation, I find the hubris from the UK press amusing.
I would like to see something done about the undeniably corrupt (and incompetent) FA too.
I agree. For me the FA and the premiership referees organization, PGMOL, are riddled by corruption and match fixing. The refereeing is a disgrace imo.
I suspect that the Media's attitude is based largely on the way the England 2018 team must've been told in advance they had won the bid and therefore arranged for the high and mighty, a royal prince, a prime minister (as I remember) and lots of other VIPs to attend the announcement ceremony - a sort of footballing Forlorn Hope. It wasn't that England lost the bid, but the way Blatter set them up for that fall, I think, that has resulted in the present attitude?
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