Brighton vs Birmingham - My day at the Amex

Well today was my second ever trip to the the Amex, and surprisingly my first ever Brighton game, as my first game was when the Amex hosted an England U17 match. 

I was witness to a rare Brighton home defeat, to what many would say is poor Birmingham side, it was a shock defeat. Brighton had plenty of chances in both halves. Birmingham's goal, which was an awesome strike by their captain Burke, was one of their only attacks of the whole game, and I believe their only shot too.

I've seen better performances from when I went occasionally in the Withdean days, Brighton just didn't look like scoring at all, it just wasn't their night.

Credit to Birmingham, who were sitting low in the table going away to the league leaders, if I was a Birmingham fan I be over the moon, a great win for them.

The travelling to the ground was okay, we considered the bus and the train as a possibility but in the end we just ended up driving, found a space about a 15 minute walk from the stadium. Prices seemed a bit high in the ground for food and drink, but expectant for a football stadium, we didn't buy any thing, we simply walked in and grabbed our seats, but I managed to catch some prices on our way out.

So yeah, not the day out I was hoping for, Brighton would've won any other day, we just happened to go on a day when Brighton lost, oh well.

I am hoping to go to 5 or 6 home games this season, but we'll see, football really does drain your wallet out, I don't know how some football fans can go to every game, they must be rich or in serious debt!

One good thing about today was the atmosphere, even when Brighton were playing poorly the crowd were still cheering them on, even when they conceded the goal the first thing most fans did was sing their hearts out. Brighton and Hove Albion FC have them selves some amazing fans, a great club all round, proud to be a fan and part of the blue and white army. 

Next time I will take some pictures, sorry for the lack of pictures for those of you who like that sort of thing!

 

Footballer's Wages

I think most football fans would agree that footballers get paid a stupendous amount of money for the job they do. Most premiership footballers get paid £40,000 a week at least, and the best premiership players and the best in Europe are on salaries of over £1,000,000 a month. Now, let's do a bit of maths, shall we?

Let's take Samuel Eto as an example, the world's most highly paid footballer, who plays for Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, a football club which most football fans wouldn't have even heard of a couple of years ago. He get's paid £1,500,000 a month, that's around £370,000 a week, £52,000 a day and around £2,000 per hour, and if you really go down, it's 60p a second. Now, each Russian team plays 30 league games a season, if you add cup games and if a team gets into Europe, Anzhi probably play around 38 games a season, let's round that up to 40, so 40 games a season. Eto probably won't play all 40, let's say he plays 35 of them. So that's £18,000,000 for 35 games, 35 games adds to 3150 minutes of football, given that he will be subbed off from time to time, let's say that he plays 3,000 minutes of football for Anzhi in 1 year. £18,000,000 divided by 3,000 is 6000. Sorry for dragging all this maths on, but that shows that Eto get's £6,000 for every minute he plays for Anzhi. Now that is absolutely delusional in my opinion.  

A fireman, or a policeman who risk their lives, get paid only enough to put food on the table and maybe give their family a good Christmas. That's if they aren't called into work on Christmas day. A fireman gets paid in a year what Eto does in half a day. Am I the only one who thinks that this is just ridiculous?

There is the argument though, that footballers deserve the money the get, as they provide "fantastic entertainment." Rubbish I say, because saving someone from a fire or going out at 4 in the morning to take a women in labour to hospital, or getting shot at by terrorists in Afghanistan, is far more important than providing entertainment for some football fans.

So, overall my opinion is that most footballers do not deserve the money they get, money has ruined football, there's no doubt about it. It's all about money now, if a club has money then they will be successful, if a club doesn't then they won't. 

Why I hate iPhones

Okay, so firstly, I'm not attacking iPhone users and apple fans in any way. This is just a little post about my views on iPhones.

Now firstly, I want to give you my MAIN reason for HATING iPhones. And that is simply the fact that people buy them.

Now, to each his own I guess, but I don't see why people spend £600 on an iPhone every 6 or 7 months, especially when you don't even need it. 

My phone is a Nokia 2680, which was released way back in 2008, worth, back then just £40. I wonder what it's worth now! But my crappy Nokia is fine for me, my thing with phones is that they are for calling and texting and maybe the odd game, if I need to call my mum, I would use my phone, if I need to text a friend, I would use my phone, if I wanted to play a quick game of snake, I would use my phone.

So why spend £600 on something which is meant to be for just ringing and texting people? I just don't see why people are falling into Apple's trap, they are stealing your money, releasing a new phone twice a year because they know that their silly buyers will spend loads of their hard earned money on a stupid phone, which is often not much different from the previous one they released!

Did you know that in recent times, Apple have had more money than the US... just goes to show how powerful they are getting, all because of YOU. (If you are an iPhone fan). 

So basically, whenever the next iPhone comes out. DON'T buy it, there are better things in life than a phone. Also, another thing to add, is when someone has bought a new iPhone they seem to unintentionally be a bit of show off. "Look at me with my new iPhone, I can afford it and you cant." Is basically how you feel when someone is using it in front of you. 

So yeah, stop falling into Apple's trap, iPhone buyers. You are very silly people to me!

Tattoos - Why do people have them?

Now, first of all, if you are reading this and you have a tattoo and you are a tattoo enthusiast, don't be offended, this is not an attack on you, it is simply an opinion.

But what I'm trying to say is simply WHY do people have tattoos?

In my opinion, they are a waste of money, time and effort.

I gag at the site when I see a "sleeve" on someone's arm. Or someone has decided to put a tat on their face, I just makes me think... why?

I don't mind it when people have like 1 tattoo, or maybe 2, which are small and are of someone's name, or something that is important to them, but when I see people who have more tattoo'd skin than untattoo'd skin, or have about 20 different tats all over their body, it just makes me think... why?

Also, when someone has a tattoo of like a skull or a devil, or something demonic, that simply just makes me think... why?

And why do people get a tattoo on their bums? Unless you go around without your trousers and boxers on, then I don't see the point in that really, even your lover would rarely see it, and you, for sure won't see it, unless you have eyes in the back of your head. I just makes me think.. why?

So my suggestion is, don't get a tattoo.

That's all I have to say really on the matter.