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World Cups Should Be Played More Often. Because It’s Not Just About Football

Adam Lovejoy writes: I’ll tell you something people: World Cups should have more teams playing in them and happen more often. How about 64 national teams playing, instead of the current 32, and the competition lasting 8 glorious weeks instead of the current measly 4 weeks? Or getting 128 teams to battle it out for 12 glorious weeks or more? And why can’t we have the World Cup played every two years or even every year? I’m not a football fan myself, although I like to watch an occasional match between top clubs, to confirm my strong belief that the beautiful game has reached a dead end. I personally think that professional football lost it as a competitive game and a concept when it was taken over by the money men. It’s all about money, isn’t it? And when any sport becomes driven by... 

What On Earth Happened To Good Old Inequality?

Dan Majestic writes: What on earth happened to good old inequality? How come everyone’s considered equal, even if they don’t make any effort to show any respect for others? And there’s more on the same subject: how come people, who haven’t done anything worthwhile all their lives, get all the preferential treatment? There you see them, skipping school, smoking and drinking and sleeping around at an early age when they should have been still, well, not smoking and drinking and sleeping around, and still they get all the sympathy and treated as equals. And if they never have a proper job in their lives and produce kids in their dozens, knowing that they wouldn’t be looking after them anyway and still they’re seen as equal to people who have a job and provide... 

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