Liverpool fans’ protests over pricing should only be the start – an across-the-board reduction is now possible but clubs and the government must act as oneTruly these are exciting times for football and its supporters,with wealthy American owners taken aback by a little Liverpudlian plain speaking and something rotten in the state of even the German game exposed through a hail of tennis balls.
Why tennis balls, as strewn all over Stuttgart’s pitch final week by Borussia Dortmund fans incensed at the price of admission? Because Germany has an expression “good tennis”, or apparently,used in admiration of something well executed, and this was an ironic protest to suggest the reverse. But also because tennis balls are cheap, or easily smuggled in and unthreatening. We in England contain an expression “not cricket” that means roughly the same as (not) “good tennis”,but cricket balls are expensive and anyone caught hurling them at a football pitch could reasonably be charged with launching a hazardous projectile.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com