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the Australian倒是很高兴这有钱佬走了,说他对于运动没有respect
That Palmer is gone is no surprise. It should have happened earlier. That he shouts that he will leave screaming and suing is predictable, too.
Even from afar, it is possible to make these observations. Palmer did not like soccer. He made that point clearly enough himself. And his recent comments demonstrably show he does not respect it. Few people in sport have trashed their own brand as comprehensively and gleefully as Palmer.
Yes, he has sunk a lot of money into the franchise for no effect. But that was his decision and money is no problem to him. He boasts about his billions.
His childish attacks on Lowy continued yesterday: "Frank Lowy is an institution who now belongs in an institution." But wait, there's more. "He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him."
This is unworthy of anybody in a position of responsibility in any sport. As owner of the Gold Coast, he had a responsibility to grow the game, not constantly claw and tear at it. The crowd numbers at Gold Coast shrunk in sync with Palmer's standing.
Palmer may well have gripes against FFA and Lowy but to run them through the media is indefensible, given that Lowy said yesterday that Palmer has continually rejected attempts by the FFA boss to speak to the owner.
The decision to demand that the players wear the slogan "Freedom of Speech" on their shirts last weekend was as inflammatory as it was foolish. It was against a direct FFA ruling and hardly summed up the plight of a man who had not stopped talking about FFA's perceived shortcomings for the past two weeks.
Then for the club to claim it was in support of refugees was only to trivialise and abuse the sad and frightening lives of peoples displaced through war and other awful misfortune.
Palmer has hurt soccer when it was enjoying a resurgence. Has hurt the people, the players and fans who strived all their lives to get the sport a respect and dignity that the game deserves.
He has had his fun, goaded the industry until the harm he might do if left with the Gold Coast licence was unpredictable and too big a risk to tolerate any longer. Rather than take a sport that he says he loves but acts in a way that suggests he doesn't to court, he should give the money to charity and go off and dig another mine or three. |
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简单汤方 (2005-1-5) 飞儿 
发表于 2012-3-1 10:51
发表于 2012-3-1 15:03
吐了
