Not just unfair, racist: My (carefully considered) opinion would be the same if my skin was green!

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I don’t watch local soccer because the product/quality is crap (although Super Sport has done a lot for the TV product). I will much rather sit at home and watch premier league soccer, until the PSL can give me some incentives to watch or attend local PSL games. I watch rugby and cricket because the product and quality of our local teams are comparable to top international standards.
What is wrong with supporting Manchester United when they come to SA to play local teams, if you support them every weekend on television and spend money on merchandise? Why shouldn’t I support them just because they are playing local teams? Although, as a Liverpool supporter I would much rather see them lose…(I think it is safe to assume most people wearing and supporting Man U at the games in SA are real fans and not just “local soccer haters” and counter revolutionaries/racist or whatever the Pahad ilk would call them) Man U is an international brand and enjoys international support. The same thing happens in Thailand, China and America when Man U visits those countries.

I would also be a hypocrite if I did not admit that “traditional sporting culture” plays a role in it. But allow me to be a devil’s advocate. Why don’t the PSL and SAFA to more to promote soccer across the cultural spectrum. I personally would have rather played soccer at school if it was available, but had to settle on hockey. After all a lot of our politicians connect transformation/development with support/attendance at rugby games/cricket games. So what has SAFA done to promote soccer in for instance traditional Afrikaans schools or develop Schalk Burger soccer icons among the “rugby/cricket crazy whites”?

The bottom line is whites supporting Man U against Chiefs/Pirates has nothing to do with them wanting 2010 to fail.

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