FOOTBALL RACE

Here came a prophet out of Nigeria, well approved in France--Fela; he crooned:
‘This uprising will bring out the beast in us’
There went forth a prophet from the US, TuPac Shakur; he rapped:
‘Still I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hatred, a disgrace to races
Take the evil outta the people they’ll be acting right
Both Black and White can ***** **ack tonight’

Who would have thought that negative elitist tendencies could slip into the field of skills!

Soccer as a game evolved from the native pastime of the Welch, Anglo-Saxon royalty. In its early crude form, kings engaged in kicking a human skull, which they chased one-way down hill. Indeed, the reveling chants of cheering English fans, today, is reminiscent of the vulgar version of its past English-vernacular of the Flintstone days. This is expressive of the passion that spills over in fountain-flow, from the originator to the spectator of the world’s greatest event.

Racism stems from the abusive use of Africans in plantations of the New World. Natives stolen or forcefully evacuated without cause by local chiefs were traded in exchange for alcohol, tobacco, mirrors metal bars, as well as more guns and gunpowder unto greater exploits.

Through what influences did plantation prejudices of the Yankees infest European Football that preoccupies the world twelve months in a season?

Europeans traders attracted the interest of their home governments. Consequent to the American Civil War, Abolition of Slave Trade and the Renaissance/Industrial Revolution, the Scramble For the Partitioning of Africa was the unavoidable incidence to the presumption that no one’s home!

No form of ‘Government’; no defined boundaries of ‘State’; no standing ‘Army’ was tantamount to no ‘people.’

The relegation to sub-human status was a gradual suggestion of time and self-aggrandizement. The combined effect of two lethal instruments of forgetfulness and delusion worked to blind the prospective imperial powers to the fact that the advance mechanisms of ‘checks and balances’ of the Yoruba Empire surpassed in efficacy and practice any concept of civilized structures and systems democracy had to offer!

The networking of Common Law usages, practices, customs and values, systematized bias and sentiments in synchronized indulgence. It was only a question of more time and contingency before the Arian race will force further the borders of superiority complex beyond the apex of human sentiments, to an anticlimax that leaves the more liberal nationals with a misplaced guilt complex. Ironically, Germany hosts the World Cup.

The rise of a more organized form of specialized prejudice in professional and career circles world-wide evinces a negative pattern of ‘globalization.’

An apparent indicator of this syndrome is the delineation of the main character from the foil: the good guys from the bad.

Arsenal, under Prof. Arsene Wenger, has painfully inculcated a culture of discipline for the English youth to emulate. Those who know say it’s not all about winning and the money, but image and the status represented. Britain remembers to respect its role as model to the rest of the world.

Spain, differently seems little bothered by the fact that the prolific Ronaldo’s spirit-of-football is wearied to grief for want of appreciation that runs skin-deep. Eto’o, the current two-time African Footballer of the Year threatened to walk out of the field of play in the same country despite the pleas of his team-mates—the current best in the world. No less than the consolation of his team coach brought succor. The football luminary and current two-time World Footballer of the Year, whose words failed to ease the hurt of Eto’o, was later affirmed to have said he would have followed, had Eto’o left.

Somebody seems to miss the whole point of the entire exercise.

Or could there exist a calculated attempt to rubbish the world’s highest paying attraction? TuPac counseled: negative the evil and the people’ll act right. Could the evil be that some persons are implementing kitchen discussions out in the field of play? Referees identifying with jerseys? Fans ganging up against players along sectarian sentiments?

A stitch in time could save a global money-spinner and lots of jobs. Think of the mind-boggling incidents of crime that are suspended world-wide for perpetrators to indulge in their favorite pastime. Many crimes are averted by outcomes of matches: at the very least, some lives are extended an extra ninety minutes—for the football race.