The Bitter Truth About Our Football
In order to overcome the oppression and backwardness in the face of the West, football was wanted to be used as a ground to compete on an 'equal footing'. Football was seen as the perfect platform to show that Turks had the same qualities and skills as foreigners.
When we look at the history of the clubs or teams that we support, unfortunately what we see is that they have been used as tools for politics, connected to cults, lent to bosses and all sorts of mafias have been fathered over the clubs. We can say that the attraction of the world of football and its structure as a game that affects the masses has a great influence on the fact that football in Turkey has become an area of special interest for dirty politics and the mafia. To say the last thing from the beginning, the social and historical adventure of Turkey and the historical adventure of football have run parallel to each other.
Football was seen as a means of challenge when it first started to settle in the country and this was coded into our social culture as a means of sending a message through football as a means of challenging the imperialists and foreigners who were seen as the superior power in those years. Fenerbahçe was the team that did this in the most beautiful way. The first example is the Harrington Cup.
Fenerbahçe played its first match against the occupation forces on Sunday, November 24, 1918. Fenerbahçe won 3-1 in this match against a French team, and for 5 years, Fenerbahçe ran from victory to victory against the English/French teams in the football fields of Istanbul. Fenerbahçe won the Harrington Cup with a 2-0 victory in the last match against the English team on June 29, 1923 at Taksim Stadium and became the "Morale Booster of the Captive City" of Istanbul.
The psychology at that time is quite clear. In order to overcome the oppression and backwardness in the face of the West, football was wanted to be used as a ground to compete on an 'equal footing'. Football was seen as the perfect platform to show that Turks had the same qualities and skills as foreigners.
On the other hand, I believe that our biggest difference with Western civilization is that in our social structure, in order to gas people, you first have to gas them. However psychological this may be, it reflects the undeniable sociology of the people of our country. This veil has not yet been lifted.
This is especially evident in the relationship between football and politics. The distorted relationship between dirty order politics and football has reached its peak recently. However, it has never thought of leaving it at its peak. This absurdity continues. Unfortunately, the pencil pushers who call themselves intellectuals are also complicit in this situation. Especially with the institutionalization of liberalism in our country and the further increase of wild capitalism, football has ceased to be football and has become the plaything of the rulers. It is already impossible for football to remain independent from this whole process.
Today's football federation is the plaything of the rulers and is intertwined with politics. Football now needs a septic tanker. The sewer has burst and dirt and bad odors are everywhere. No one is cleaner than the other. There are countless denunciations and rumors that there are sectarian and political criers running rampant, especially within the football teams. It is enough to look at the sports page of any newspaper to understand what I mean.
The July 3 operation process and ideologically the July 3 phenomenon is a clear proof of how much the ground of football in Turkey is intertwined with politics and how open and conducive football is to this. Aziz Yıldırım expressed this situation in the following words: "Gentlemen, what are you talking about, the country is going out of hand!" Yes, maybe the country did not go down the drain, but in football terms, it went off the pole. Because football, far from being an area to say "let's not get politics involved", has been buried in the center of dirty politics.
Now the history of all the clubs we support and support is unfortunately dirty. This dirty structure is not described in Peker's well-edited videos. That is why I say that in the environment we are in today, which team will be the champion is of little value. In this situation of my country, dirty football is causing more pain to normal people, normal spectators, normal fans than pleasure. Until football is cleaned up, until politicians, cultists and mafia thugs take their hands off football, this pain will continue to make us bleed.
It is better to be clean than dirty. It will be good for all of us.
With respect and love
