I don't really care about football

[elisi]

But this is beautiful:

It Was All a Dream
by Raheem Sterling

So can I trust you? Can I tell you my story, and will you really listen? If you read certain papers, maybe you already think you know me. Maybe you think you know my story, and what I care about. But do you really?

Read it. Trust me.

Comments

[beer_good_foamy]

Great writing, thanks for posting that.

Reminds me of this article by Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku:

I've Got Some Things To Say

My father had been a pro footballer, but he was at the end of his career and the money was all gone. The first thing to go was the cable TV. No more football. No more Match of the Day. No signal.

Then I’d come home at night and the lights would be shut off. No electricity for two, three weeks at a time.

Then I’d want to take a bath, and there would be no hot water. My mum would heat up a kettle on the stove, and I’d stand in the shower splashing the warm water on top of my head with a cup.

There were even times when my mum had to “borrow” bread from the bakery down the street. The bakers knew me and my little brother, so they’d let her take a loaf of bread on Monday and pay them back on Friday.

I knew we were struggling. But when she was mixing in water with the milk, I realized it was over, you know what I mean? This was our life.

[elisi]

You never know what others have gone through... Will definitely read the whole thing later.

[nostalgia]

i liked that

[elisi]

He writes very well.

[sea_thoughts]

I didn't know much about him other than the Scum was conducting some kind of racist campaign against him so I was automatically on his side anyway.

I hope anyone who believed those lies reads this.

[elisi]

Yeah, I didn't know the background story and didn't feel like looking it up. It's always too predictable.

Hope he can rise above the haters.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

That was a nice read, thank you!
I don't care for football either. I have been singing this one song for days now which is a very nice hymn and basically goes "I'm really not interested in football"

The first verse is about people thinking he is not a real man and no doctor can help him, the other verses have been updated to the current WM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwp9rtqImc0