Where Politics And Video Games Collide

"We have the players and the best league in the world. The way the game is played here is so different though.

Watching the Premier League is like Formula One - it’s that quick - and then you go to an international game and it’s like a game of chess."

Watching a Premier League match is practically like watching an international game, the majority of the star players and big signings for clubs are foreign players.

"Other countries seem to bring on world class players, countries like Brazil and Argentina where, often, it’s football or nothing - in contrast, we live in a country where we have choices, and perhaps the will to do it and the need to escape from situations you’re in are not so clear."

Maybe I'm not getting his message correctly, but this seems to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I am taking it that he is referring to poverty and other problems when he talks about "the need to escape from situations". What he is saying is that it is preferable to live in poverty or in a dangerous neighbourhood and to have football as your only avenue of distraction, than it is to live in a country where you have choices and do not have these same problems...

Call me crazy, but if I had a choice between being the greatest footballer in the world but living in an poor and crime ridden area, or being terrible at football but living in a nice area, not being in poverty, and playing video games, then pass me the controller.

It's funny how for some people, all of their problems or the ills of the world are so easily pinned on one thing, with no proof whatsoever except for an opinion.