Money in sport
Buying instant success paying big money out, rediculous contracts and endorsments, over hyped and marketing individual sporting “stars,” etc.
All sports have their share of it, but for the most part, it proves the fact that there can be no substitute for experience!
Formula 1: Look at this year’s championship, Jensen Button flying ahead of the field. I read a pre season piece by Sir Jackie Stewart, about each driver. He said about Button, “He was making too much money before he had completed his training, he had lost his edge and hunger. He is an excellent driver, very fast, but unless he gets back to where he was two or three years ago, he will continue to struggle to reach his potential!”
Brawn takes over the Honda team, on a strict budget, Button takes a huge pay cut, shows his desire to succeed, now he is way ahead in the championship race!
Football: Newcastle Utd are relegated, whilst Hull City remain in the premiership.
Too good to go down?
It would seem not, average players on huge contracts and big money, that can move to other clubs, etc.
Man Utd (as Liverpool did before them) might have had the odd big money signing, but these are special players, their bread and butter has been home grown hungry young players, completing their training then winning a place in the first team and keeping it.
The old addage applies, “You can’t buy success.”
The sporting world would do well to look at the vested interests of an individual’s claims of sporting prowess, rather than dive in with both feet and pay big money for what are often simply average sporting qualities!
