There is a point here. The Olympics and the way it was covered by the BBC meant you got to see the people as well as the public face of the athletes. We saw them cry, bleed, feint and give their all for their sport. And these were often people who got little or no funding and had to work to support their sporting endevours. It does sharply focus the mind on just how spoilt footballers have been allowed to become and how cynical the sport is now. Footballers are overpaid (Clubs don't make a profit so there is no justification at all to say they deserve the wages they get) and their attitude, on the whole, is awful, like spoilt children with a massively overinflated sense of self importance.
There is something of a public backlash against football at the moment off the back of the Olympics. I'm sure it'll soon be forgotten, but the Premier League could do with remembering it's a sport primarily and focus on the goals and the entertainment rather than the money and lets have less of the Van Persie money whoring auction, less of the Suarez v Evra nonsense, less of the Joey Barton's, less of the rolling round on the floor and feigning injury and more effort, commitment and bring a bit of dignity back to the sport.
