Football - A Waste Of Money

Even as a football lover i feel its kind of crazy the direction football is heading  now, example world record transfer £80million for C ronaldo ? in this time of economic crises, that money would change lives in a whole community. It wont be surprising if coming generation of players start going for like £250million pounds. This is just one out of many even kaka but the question, is it really worth it cos i feel at this rate it would do more harm than good