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So obviously this is popping up in the Pogba thread.
We often say it about a lot of people in a lot of careers but especially football fans with players.
It always feels like we’re trying to live vicariously through them and exploit their talents so we can feel better, appealing to the romantic side of the game/life and thus when players don’t do what we think they can do they get called wasters
I don’t think it is though.
Most footballers start from feck all. Some of the very best have come from some absolute poverty and desperation in childhood and let’s face it, the majority of them wouldn’t be achieving much academically so they get to use their talent instead.
The chances of having any career in professional football are tiny. To then have any success even tinier. Someone like Pogba who’s won it all or near enough at least getting the ‘what a waste’ treatment because we expected more in his late 20’s/30’s seems a bit silly to me cause he’s won everything and made a life off the back of it.
See it often said with players where injury ruins things and that makes a bit more sense to me but it still all feels like it’s a waste to us whereas any professional footballer has already achieved what would be a dream to most of them (most because not all of them actually like football or want to be footballers, they’re just extremely talented at it).
They don’t owe us anything. They barely know we exist. Are they really thinking what a waste in the same way we are?
So who’s wasting things, them or us with our own lives?
We often say it about a lot of people in a lot of careers but especially football fans with players.
It always feels like we’re trying to live vicariously through them and exploit their talents so we can feel better, appealing to the romantic side of the game/life and thus when players don’t do what we think they can do they get called wasters
I don’t think it is though.
Most footballers start from feck all. Some of the very best have come from some absolute poverty and desperation in childhood and let’s face it, the majority of them wouldn’t be achieving much academically so they get to use their talent instead.
The chances of having any career in professional football are tiny. To then have any success even tinier. Someone like Pogba who’s won it all or near enough at least getting the ‘what a waste’ treatment because we expected more in his late 20’s/30’s seems a bit silly to me cause he’s won everything and made a life off the back of it.
See it often said with players where injury ruins things and that makes a bit more sense to me but it still all feels like it’s a waste to us whereas any professional footballer has already achieved what would be a dream to most of them (most because not all of them actually like football or want to be footballers, they’re just extremely talented at it).
They don’t owe us anything. They barely know we exist. Are they really thinking what a waste in the same way we are?
So who’s wasting things, them or us with our own lives?