No word in modern football is more misused than "ambition"

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The Wayne Rooney drama illustrates two things. One, that much of what has happened to Rooney is a replay of his past, the other that the modern world of football is a curious kind of business where players, managers, administrators and even owners have all developed their own distinctive agendas. Their demands for money are always clothed in a spurious sense of higher morality.

The only ones who have not written a new script for themselves are the fans. They still cling to their old faith and can only feel a sense of intense frustration that their loyalty is used, or rather misused, for such mercenary aims.