Yeah, loyalty is silly, innit?
Stevie G 4533Love? Fine...kids have this deep affection for their home team. But you must have heard of...
If I give you 100 000 pounds, right now, would you become a United or Chelsea-fan if those were the conditions?
I mean, you would be bloody stupid to say no *that* kind of money, wouldn't you?
What you seem to forget is that this loyalty hasn't appeared out of nowhere. It's the result of at least two things: History (Gerrard has been at the club for a number of years already) and the player himself (he's talked about is undying love for Liverpool a number of times during those same years). Oh, and he kisses the Liverbird when he scores. Sometimes.
If a player keeps on talking about loyalty over and over again, and tells the fans how much he loves the club - and the fans return that love, *of course* there is going to exist a sort of bond between the player and the fans. And surely you can understand that, after all this, it would feel kinda strange if that same player took his hat and left - because some other club promised him mo' money and mo' success?
Childish sense of ethics my butt. It is those who blindly and uncritically obey, and defend, the "laws" of the market forces who are the new village idiots.
