Now, I know I keep banging on about how the pub is a community and all that – and no doubt you’re all getting a bit fed up of it, but it’s something which I fundamentally and passionately believe. The pub is, and always absolutely has been, a community (complete with its own village idiot in our case).
And this kind of thing is just destroying that sense of community. I mean, pubs are synonymous with football. Talking about it, dissecting it, complaining about it…watching it.
It’s always been the case that if you couldn’t get to the game then your local was the next best alternative. In fact for many people it’s always been the only alternative.
Watching football is a communal activity – and that bastard Murdoch is deliberately destroying it. He’s deliberately trying to make people stay home and watch it as individuals based on a neo conservative abhorrence of communities and society. It’s Thatcher’s vision of a societyless fragmented Britain
Murdoch and his ilk are people who don’t want people to come together, who don’t even see the point of it, who don’t understand it and therefore don’t like it, who just couldn’t care less about sending thousands of pubs out of business, and condemning people to live pod like solitary existences.
If I didn’t already hate him (and I did), this would certainly do it.
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