Why Are Footballers Obsessed With Conspiracy Theories?

From Matthew Le Tissier claiming atrocities are hoaxes to Rickie Lambert believing that he can compliment water into tasting better and Iker Casillas denying the moon landings, there has been a sudden recent rise in the number of conspiratorial footballers.

In this video, HITC Sevens takes a look at why footballers appear to be so obsessed with conspiracy theories, what has caused the recent rise in craziness, and – regrettably – the existence of Joey Barton.

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Dur in the 1990s and 2000s the British government and security forces showed a select few footballers the truth behind the universe how the world Works who really controls things and what it all means it was an elaborate social experiment to see how the likes of Paul meren and Jimmy bolard would react to

Being presented with such startling Revelations the results were more shocking than any of the MI6 agents and cabinet ministers involved in the trial cab believe Leroy leita had a panic attack Rory dap broke down in floods of tears and Lee Catal soiled himself though observers noted that it wasn’t

Entirely clear whether that was related to the experiment itself the most unusual response of all came from Ricardo Bast though who after all of the truths of the universe were revealed to him simply stated I know of course they couldn’t allow the selected participants to Simply go back out into the wider

World and steep back onto a football pitch with their new found knowledge and information you know in case they uncovered the secrets of the universe to anyone else obviously not that would be mental instead they wiped all of the players memories of the entire event using a device similar to the neuralyzer

From Men In Black and that they assumed would be that the Premier League and Football League continued unimpeded the participating players appear to have been unaffected and Ricardo vaste was exiled firstly to Turkey and then to China He Knew Too Much how wrong they were though as it transpired there is something unique

About the water in Southampton or perhaps it is just that South Coast Breeze that resulted in some Southampton players being less impacted by the memory loss and that is where we now find ourselves in a sick bit and twisted world gone wrong with nefarious forces circling all around around us and

Entirely dependent on Truth tellers like Matthew latier and Ricky Lambert to save us from certain Doom I’m joking of course none of that is true but if I’d have told you it a few years ago and also told you that mat latier one of the most universally liked footballers of

The Premier League era and then a permanent fixture on Sky Sports his Gillette soccer Saturday would claim that the vucha massacre in Ukraine was a false flag event carried out by actors and compare wearing face mask to the Holocaust would you really have found the first one any more ridiculous and

Yet here we are and I should stress despite my guest that it’s not just Southampton players former Wales International David cell Spain Legend ekas and admittedly another former Saints player dejan Len have all also got in on the ACT curell reckons that Barack Obama is gay he trafficks

Children Michelle Obama was born male and is is planning to become America’s first transgender president Casas isn’t entirely convinced that the moonlandings were real and Dean Len came out in the pandemic no not like that his Disney boycott suggests that he might not be too fond of the LGBT community either

But he came out as being antivaccine and began promoting post by David Ike one of the world’s best known conspiracy theorists who is famous or inFAMOUS for claiming that he is the son of a godhead whatever that means that the human mind is ulated by a spacecraft and

Interdimensional portal on the moon and that members of the British royal family are actually shapes shifting lizards hey they’re not wrong about everything if you sling enough mud at the wall you’re bound to get something right I incidentally you guessed it was also a former footballer who played in goal for

Harford United in the third and fourth tear of English football before injury forced him into retirement at the age of 21 so just what on Earth is going on then why are footballers so susceptible to conspiracy theories why does Southampton Legends managed to make Kanye West appear to be almost

Reasonable and why is Britain ruled by a genetically modified human archon hybrid race of reptilian shape shifters known as the Babylonian Brotherhood who manipulate events to keep humans in fear so that the arkans can feed off the resulting negative energy all good questions I’m sure you’d agree so in

Today’s video we’re going to take a stab at answering them all mainly the first one if I am being entirely honest with you the lizard people might get less attention but I will do my best so sit back relax and join me on a journey to

Complete and utter Insanity as we take a look at conspiracy theories ranging from thinking that you can talk water into tasting nicer to the idea that having a post office within 15 minutes of your front door is equivalent of full-blown stalinism and both both how and why professional footballers have become quite so

Conspiratorial footballers live quite unusual lives at the elite level at least most have been within a club or Academy setting since childhood and will remain within that setting until their mid to late 30s and the inula nature of players lives and dressing rooms inevitably has several knock on effects

For a start footballers have a lot of free time on their hands typically players train for about 2 to 4 hours a day or at most 6 hours if a manager or coach chooses to put on a double session usually that will only happen midweek between Tuesday and Thursday when there

Is no midweek game meaning players still have time to recover before a match day that might not sound like a lot but given the speed and intensity of the game the sheer number of matches in a season now and how thick and fast they come during certain periods of the

Football schedule anything more would do more harm than good and clubs should know that given the number of sports scientists that they employ when things get really busy in terms of fixtures players spend even less time on the training ground it is typical to have

The day off after a game for rest and Recovery bearing in mind that it’s not uncommon for teams to play two games in a week and players who are carrying any little niggles injuries or showing any signs of burnout are likely to skip sessions factoring the match days

Themselves in which players do very little training other than gentle warm-ups but often have an awful lot of travel and you have a situation where players might have about 16 hours a week or less on the training ground so what do footballers do when they’re not training well naturally it varies from

Player to player and those with families and young children might be more preoccupied during their off time but it is well established that a lot of players spend an awful lot of time online on devices like laptops tablets and most notably their mobile phones much of it spent on social media this

Isn’t me entering my old man yells at Cloud era my screen time is a disgrace and I shamefully know what it means to ratio someone but the link between social media use and increased familiarity and engagement with conspiracy theories is well established and I think a very credible one at this

Stage 15 or 20 years ago if you thought that birds didn’t really exist but were in fact just drones created by a one world government in order to spy on you or that chemicals in tap water were turning frogs gay you would be put in some kind of Asylum and treated like an

Outcast now you can join Facebook groups with 100,000 other like-minded people telling you that you’re a genius there are entire Twitter communities built around the birds are surveillance Tech Theory and podcasts which reach Millions which will cater to and indeed validate your wildest ideas while adding new

Layers of insanity to them with every single episode the amount of spare time that footballers have while traveling or just resting often spent in front of a screen might seem trivial then but I think that it is probably the single most important reason why players have become increasingly exposed to

Conspiracy theories the biggest Spike for example in football as either promoting or at least engaging in increasingly conspiratorial thinking came during the pandemic and particularly during various lockdown periods in which no football was played never before of so many footballers had so much free time without any football

To even watch let alone playing themselves in which they were sat alone with their thoughts and their phones Doom scrolling on Twitter and getting lost down various YouTube rabbit holes hey look we’ve all been there some of you might even have got lost down a rabbit hole of watching videos about the

History of the offside law this is by no means unique to footballers and anyone who was fured or otherwise suddenly found themselves with a lot of free time and very little to do during covid was also at increased risk of becoming consumed by these sorts of things retired players likewise if they haven’t

Transitioned into any other form of full-time work have an enormous amount of time on their hands much of which may be spent on Facebook which as we all know is exclusively The Preserve of old people these days again in this respect at least this is no different to

Retirees from any other Industries I would imagine that every person watching this video who still has a Facebook account which they periodically check at least in England to laugh at someone from their Village moaning about a new Housing Development or the trees being too green has at least one middle-aged

Or elderly friend on there who went absolutely off the rails during Co I have one an old family friend who is a very kind caring and seemingly reasonable person in real life or was at least but who has been radicalized by their Facebook algorithm into thinking that Co didn’t exist not that its

Severity was exaggerated or that it was created in a lab but that it flat out didn’t exist the term that this community often use is a plandemic that Bill Gates and Sam Smith yes as in the billionaire founder of Microsoft and the singer are the two most dangerous people

In the world working in cahoots with one another and that and I must admit I haven’t read up fully on this one so maybe it’s true though it seems a little far-fetched to me Oprah Winfrey was behind the 2023 Hawaii wildfires after receiving private approval from Joe

Biden and the wh which they believe secretly stands for the world Holocaust organization Matt Laticia isn’t the kind caring and seemingly reasonable in real life family friend that I’m referring to here I have never met the man though it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he was

All of the above but back on the topic of football here is almost the perfect example of the profile of EX player that I’m describing before covid-19 latier rarely commented publicly at least on anything other than football and sports and if he had any strong views on

Anything else he kept them firmly to himself in case you think that I’m exaggerating after the 2017 general election in the United Kingdom in which the labor party under Jeremy Corbin unexpectedly grew their vote by almost 10% but still lost by 262 to 3177 seats to the conservatives

Overall in a hung Parliament Laticia tweeted and I quote my understanding of politics is so bad does this mean he’s our prime minister now for the most part whenever latier tweeted about politics if you could even even call it that it was quite literally just to tell other

People quote don’t mix Sports and politics as late as September 2019 months before the outbreak of covid-19 in the UK Laticia tweeted quote I’d rather go to fratton park than do a tweet about politics end quote for any viewers who may be less familiar with English football fratton Park is the hom

Ground of Portsmouth and Portsmouth are the bitter Rivals of Southampton where latier as a legend having spent his entire professional career even at the start of the pandemic latier appeared to be his usual self and didn’t seem to have adopted any shall we just say slightly more left filled views in April

2020 a few weeks into the first and the strictest UK covid-19 lockdown Laticia tweeted quote things you notice in lockdown one Grass Grows quick two my wife cleans a lot three three jogging has become something to look forward to end quote a week later he commented so three more weeks of lockdown that’s

Three more weeks without hairdressers nail salons beauty salons this is going to get ugly end quote this was the kind of jovial lockdown era tweeting that you saw a lot of at the time particularly and I mean this in an endearing way from men around leticia’s age it was during

The following month May 2020 the latiz posting took a distinct turn and at a truly extraordinary Pace on May 4th Leticia shared an article from the times which argued that full lockdowns May no longer be a proportionate response to the scale of the crisis posed by covid-19 whether you

Agree with that or not it was fairly light and legitimate lockdown skepticism and letissia personally captured the article when sharing a screenshot of it quote worth a read and for the avoidance of Doubt no I’m not making light of the virus and I have huge sympathy to anyone

Who’s lost a loved one to covid-19 end quote by May 14th a mere 10 days later he was tweeting full fact to ask if Anthony fouchy had given Bill Gates immunity against lawsuits relating to covid-19 vaccines in America and by the following month he’d started dipping his toes Into Climate denial sharing tweets

Questioning whether the climate scientists were scaremongering with their models much as he felt their epidemiologists and pandemic modelers were doing I mean blim me letis certainly never accelerated that quickly during his playing days before the month was done letissier even launched his own investigation into when McDonald’s were

Going to bring back sausage and Egg McMuffins actually I’m not sure if that one was a conspiracy or he just really likes McMuffins this is what we might call A ‘s transitional era where you could never quite be sure if he was just asking his followers questions like a

Friendly Uncle which is how he used Twitter prior to that point or whether he was questioning the existence of sausage and of eggs or suggesting that Bill Gates was using McMuffins as a bioweapon which is by and large how he’s used Twitter from that point on this is the problem with conspiracy theories

They can tell wacky but often very simple stories which feed into a broader worldview and while it is very easy to fall deeper and deeper into them for a variety of reasons ranging from fear or embarrassment to simple confirmation bias it can be much more difficult to

Find a way out and so since his rapid descent into the world of conspiracies latier has only grown more and more out there in terms of the ideas that he posits shares and either appears or outrate states that he believes within 6 months of his initial sharing of a very

Very mad lockdown skeptical piece Leticia compared the wearing of face mask to the Holocaust in a tweet that he later took down in 2021 Leticia suggested that the cardiac arrest that Christian Erikson suffered at Euro 2020 in a game between Finland and Denmark was caused by the covid-19

Vaccine despite the fact that Erikson wasn’t even vaccinated in 2022 latier wrote this with a finger pointing to a twet that he had quoted from a Twitter user named Unity Newsnet which suggested that the Bucher massacre in Ukraine was a HX that last incident was probably the most damning

Reputationally for latier who later deleted it and apologized but was dropped by Southampton from his role as a club Ambassador as a result it is easy to laugh at some of these things because well some of them are genuinely funny but it is quite sad that letissia who is

Arguably South Hampton’s greatest player of all time has let a hobby that he developed during Co most notably while golf clubs were shut and I’m not joking when I say that I think that their closure likely had a significant radicalizing effect on him and quite possibly others I mean it literally

Prompted him to describe a conservative government as Communists but that he has let that Sully his reputation at a club where he was so beloved and nicknamed L God I think is quite sad I also don’t think despite having some very unhinged and potentially dangerous views that

Latier is necessarily a bad person or at least what I would deem to be a bad person if that term isn’t too nebulous and subjective what I mean by that is that I think leticia’s conspiracism comes from a good and deeply held if daff and potentially dangerous place

Basically I think that he believes everything that he says and he genuinely believes believes that by enlightening other people to these things that he thinks he has discovered he is helping them and spreading the truth that is distinctly different to another former footballer albeit a much less talented

One who has previously flirted with conspiracism before flying completely off the rails in recent weeks Joey Barton has always been a bit of a character and when I say character what I mean is and when I say a bit of what I really mean is an ABS absolutely Monumental one twice

Convicted of violent crimes and Thrice charged with violent conduct by the Football Association Barton had a glittering career Thrice winning promotion for the championship and only once getting his ass handed to him by Scott Brown in the old firm Derby but he is probably best known for stubbing a

Lit cigar out in youth team player Jason tandy’s eye at Manchester City which Tandy cited as having ended his prospects of making it as a professional beating Usman daro within an inch of his life and for downplaying the role that his brother played in the racially motivated murder of 18-year-old Anthony

Walker with an ISX in 2005 describing it as a scrap and lamenting the fact that his brother lost 17 years of his life I know I know he sounds like such a lovely guy but you’re not going to believe this it turns out that Barton of all people has some quite reactionary and

Problematic views when it comes to female football pundits I know I know surprising to be clear when I say reactionary and problematic I don’t just mean that he doesn’t think some of them are very good or even that he doesn’t think that women should be allowed to comment or analyze men’s football which

Would be fairly extreme in of itself I mean he has started labeling the all as serial killers on Twitter and branded anyone who doesn’t think that female football pundits are by default serial killer as woke and far left that’s not necessarily conspiratorial though Barton is certainly conspired to ruin any

Lingering managerial Ambitions that he may still have had that weren’t already destroyed by sacking at Bristol Rovers but Barton is no stranger to the world of conspiracies in 2018 he described having quote incredible conversations about JFK conspiracies with a colleague at Fleetwood town and once again in the

Pandemic presumably with a lot of free time on his hands Barton showed a now Infamous video of a business owner in Liverpool refusing to close a softplay center during lockdown citing article 61 of the Magna Cara a security clause which was written into the charter to

Give the Council of Barons the right to rebel against King John were he to break any of its other rights the Magna car was created during the 13th century over 800 years ago and not only are only four of its 63 Clauses still valid today article 61 never even made it into

Statute law during the 1200s let alone in the 2020s nonetheless somehow it became a staple of conspiracy theorist during the pandemic seemingly Barton included that may well have been because Barton is an idiot I would urge you all not to underestimate the extent to which

That is the case but that’s not the only reason for the former Burnley man’s most recent pivot Barton has recently launched a podcast which has received quite a striking lack of interest and followers given the extraordinary extent to which he has publicly humiliated himself in order to promote it he is

Clearly desperate for attention and now the whole management thing has gone down the drain clearly with not many television opportunities having been offered to him they are all occupied by uh um just let me check my notes oh yes yeah serial killers I suppose Barton has turned to the most reliable Revenue

Stream of all in the crumbling Empire that is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that’s right grifting make no mistake that’s what Barton is doing I have no doubt that he is genuinely a bigot but even he doesn’t believe half of the things that

He’s saying in a desperate bid for attention which is evidenced by just how inauthentic they are Barton keeps importing talking points in culture wars from the American author James a Lindsay who he has retweeted on multiple occasions Lindsay is renowned for spreading right-wing conspiracy theories including cultural Marxism which is an

Anti-semitic conspiracy theory which plays upon the same tropes deployed by the Nazis who called it cultural bolshevism and a whole series of LGBT grooming conspiracies which are most likely responsible for Barton’s recent Switcheroo to just randomly attacking trans people which is the most common grift of them all Barton would no doubt

Deny that he is a grifter just as he has denied any suggestion that he might be far right both dens would be somewhat undermined by the fact that the podcast which he is desperately trying and seemingly failing to promote appears to be co-hosted with a woman called Pearl

Davis who often goes by the name just pearly things online Davis previously embraced the nicknam the female Andrew Tate I know after gaining some notoriety within the so-called red pill Community online but like Barton evidently doesn’t believe or even necessarily understand almost anything that she says also like

Barton she just isn’t very good at grifting despite having almost 2 million subscribers on YouTube owing to her initial infamy Davis’s most recent video has fewer than 6,000 views at the time of this recording the one before that fewer than 20,000 and her hourong discussion with Barton just

35,000 for context I once got 70,000 views so double that amount on a video about why so many corners hit the first man and over 300,000 views for a half hour documentary about West bromich albian and that was without calling any female football pundits serial killers or soiling myself on Pier’s Morgan and

Censored in a desperate bid for attention it ain’t much but quite literally un likee Barton and Davis it is honest work as for the charge of being far right well there are some people perhaps legitimately who feel that is banded about too easily these days Davis however posted a since

Deleted video on Twitter in June 2023 called why can’t we talk about the Jews which featured iconic lines such as I’m not saying that Hitler was a good guy and now there’s all these conspiracy theories and the more they talk I think maybe they are right in dedication to

Her friend Nick Fuentes a Neo-Nazi Holocaust denier who davist denies as a racist despite Fuentes self-identifying as a racist In fairness these people tend not to be a fan of self ID so at least on some things they are vaguely consistent and then in between Barton and latier you have a character like

Ricky Lambert who I don’t think is grifting and probably stands to gain very little from his interest in even wackier and more incoherent conspiracies than either of those other two like the idea that complimenting water makes it cleaner and taste nicer while slagging it off will make it dirty and taste

Horrible but is nonetheless mixing with some extremely unsavory characters and promoting ideas which are well also rather unsavory Lambert has used his social media to call for doctor and nurse nurses who administered the covid-19 vaccine to be arrested and to share posts claiming that the vaccine contains cancer virus not only is that

Obviously not true cancer isn’t even a virus Lambert’s conspiracism also has a significantly North American bent most likely due to his relationship with Infamous Canadian racist and conspiracy theorist Chris Sky who joined him last year at a rally in Liverpool having become a bit of a laughing stock in

Canada Sky seemingly has his eyes set on the United Kingdom and his relationship with Lambert illustrates yet another problem that footballers face in regard to conspiracies footballers tend to have high profiles owing to the sports popularity and their success on the pitch and that makes them ideal targets

For conspiracy theorists who can then use them as propaganda tools and as recruiting agents for their griffs and ideas admittedly they haven’t quite recruited an a-lister from the world of football just yet they are lagging someway behind Scientology when it comes to getting bigname celebrities on board

No offense to Ricky Lambert but he is not quite Tom Cruz but it is likely another factor in footballer vulnerabilities we also ought not Overlook the fact that football in of itself internally can be extremely conspiratorial managers like to engender a spirit of us against the world creating a distinct ingroup and carat

Shores of everyone else’s the enemy the often ludicrous idea therefore that referees authorities and various other figures are all out to get you which is almost always bogus has become increasingly prevalent to the point where it sometimes seems as though managers have begun to believe their own

Lies I covered that aspect of football’s conspiracism in much more detail in a video exploring football’s cult-like Tendencies should any of you be interested there is however also a lot of very Justified suspicion of supposed authority figures in football Elite level footballers become highly paid celebrities at a very young age often

With little formal education having had to focus on football from an early age and typically from Modest or humble beginnings with little knowledge of the world they are stepping into as their profile and earnings increase they are surrounded by vultures whether it be agents the media and screwy financial

Advisers or their own clubs before long young players are likely to have been screwed over by someone if not multiple people or institutions that they had previously placed trust in we know that mistrust in Authority something which can be very healthy when channeled in the right way can also be a key

Ingredient in people falling down less healthy conspiratorial rabbit holes facts are in the fads that run R within dressing rooms and the fact that within the four walls of a training ground players often tend to be talking about and taking interest in the same things and it doesn’t take much for

Conspiracism to set in of course in some instances it will be fairly harmless but as we’ve already established there will be some for whom it becomes all consuming the desire to improve and the willingness to do almost anything to try and gain any kind of an edge often leads

Players to weird and wonderful dietary nutritional and ex size related fats they tend to be fleeting thrown out as soon as a new fat is introduced but they can also undermine confidence in the advice of Team doctors and qualified physiotherapists in a way that has been problematic even just from a fitness and

Health perspective for players at some clubs effectively though it also acts as a gateway to other forms of pseudo science the psychology of footballers and Elite level athletes more broadly also has an inherent vulnerability to exceptionalism it is very useful in football to have a certain level of supreme arrogance managers and sports

Psychologists understand this very well if you can make an average Championship player feel like a top Premier League player they are unlikely to actually become a top Premier League player but that belief May well turn them even if only temporarily into a very good Championship player players themselves

Talk very openly about this in Netflix recent World Cup documentary Killian mbappe alluded to the fact that even if he isn’t as good as Messi or Ronaldo were he has to believe that he is otherwise he definitely won’t ever be as good as them it’s a bit like what gen Z

Girls called manifesting or so I’m told I don’t have Tik Tok that Supreme arrogance whilst very useful in football though can be very dangerous outside of it it’s one of the reasons why Elite level athletes routinely manag to go bankrupt either during their careers or not long after retiring they have either

Been convinced by people around them constantly telling them that they’re special better than everyone else and waiting for them hand on foot or by themselves for sporting purposes that they are actually special of course they may well be special when it comes to crossing a ball or dribbling past five

Players but that doesn’t necessarily translate or indeed possibly even have any correlation with their ability to succeed as a fashion designer restaurer or the vast array of other businesses that players assume that they can enter and success will inevitably follow due to the sheer force of their own

Brilliance it’s a similar story I think at least that we sometimes see played out in the so-called Marketplace of ideas if you believe that you’re somehow special or better than everyone else and you have some hairbrained idea or come across some mad conspiracy theory that fits neatly into your preconceived

Worldview it’s very easy to believe that you must be right and everyone else is wrong and very difficult for people who you believe to be inferior to you to convince you that you might be wrong or have taken things just a little bit too

Far to be clear and I want to draw a clear distinction here I’m not saying that footballers are stupid that is a very pervasive idea and a very easy explanation for why some of them might be more vulnerable to believing silly things but at least an otally having

Spoken at length with a lot of footballers from a variety of backgrounds that’s not my own experience don’t get me wrong there have been some I won’t mention any names there but by and large most of the players that I’ve talked to have been relatively thoughtful rational and considered I

Don’t even think there is necessarily and I very much doubt the necessary research has been done here any clear evidence that footballers are any more conspiratorial than the General Public at large if you don’t exist within the circles where these kinds of views are commonly held or at least discussed it

Can be very easy to fall into the Trap of thinking that they are extremely Fringe in reality loads of people believe a whole variety of what you might consider to be very out there ideas over one in 10 people in the UK think that the US government were

Involved in the 911 terrorist attacks and that figure Rises to more than four out of every 10 people in turkey and 35% in Mexico over one in 10 Brits also believe that the harmful side effects of the covid vaccines have been deliberately kept secret from the public

And that is among the lowest figures anywhere in the world it is over 50% in some countries at almost one in 10 believe that a secret group of Satan worshipping petophiles have taken control of parts of the US government and mainstream Us Media better known as The qanon Conspiracy Theory rising to

177% in the United States and bizarrely over 30% in India Nigeria and South Africa it’s also important to draw a clear distinction around what we mean by conspiracy theories the magic of most conspiracy theories is their Simplicity but also the fact that as Naomi Klein covered extensively in her most recent

Book doppelganger the problems that conspiracy theorists identify and latch on to are often very real and legitimate grievances otherwise they wouldn’t be effective it is the explanations and solutions that they posit which tend to be file at best and deeply dangerous at worst anti-Semitism and specifically the

Idea that Jewish wealth and power is the source of social injustice if not all of society’s ills for example which is among the world’s oldest and most pervasive conspiracy theories was often referred to in the late 1800s as the socialism of fools because it often struck Upon A lot of the same grievances

Is when it came to inequality and exploitation as socialist thinkers and ideas it just erroneously blamed them all on Jews similarly it’s much simpler and more comforting to believe that Bill Gates clous Schwab anony fouchy George Soros and Joe Biden are the sole source of 99% of all of the world’s ills and

That if we could just get rid of five or six people everything would be sunshine and rainbows it is a lot less comfortable satisfying and easy to explain to people that the economic social and political systems that dictate all of our lives are the cause of most perceived ills the

Fact that the labor party and conservative party in the United Kingdom or the Democrats and the Republicans in the United States have historically pursued very similar foreign policy goals for instance has less to do with the individuals who happen to lead those parties at any given time or any shadowy

Puppet Masters controlling them behind the scenes and more to do for the most part with the way in which those four parties are set up the political incentives which govern them and the military and media industrial complexes which exert control over them you could argue that they are in of themselves

Shadowy Puppet Masters but often they’re perfectly transparent in their aims it’s not that there aren’t powerful people and organizations in the world that wish or at least are willing to do you harm then they’re just not nearly as mysterious or fanciful as a lot of conspiracy theorists would have you

Believe we have spent the last few years in the United Kingdom though much of the world has been in a similar Boe with the governor of the bank of England several billionaire or multi-millionaire business owners and politicians basically stating that they want job insecurity and greater precarity

Realterm pay cuts and even a recession in order to control inflation that’s not a secret con conspiracy it has been very transparently communicated yet it is much more real impactful and likelier to do you harm than a whole host of cooked up crazies dreamt up by crackpots without any evidence for YouTube

Channels this might seem like a bit of a tangent but whilst most people like Simple Solutions and explanations it is human nature Sports people often have a particular need or desire for control and certainty within their lives preventing them from having to think too hard about things or be overcome with any

Doubt and instead creating a more palatable or satisfying illusion which allows them to concentrate more single-mindedly on their careers that of course is one of the great ironies of some of the wildest conspiracy theorists skepticism is very healthy and it is through skepticism that wrongs are writed coverups are exposed and great

Scientific discoveries can be made if no one questioned the official Narrative of supposed Authority figures it would still be accepted that smoking is good for you the Earth is the center of the universe or to borrow an example from the world of football Liverpool fans were responsible for the Hillsboro

Disaster there are as with Hillsboro real conspiracies and it is good and proper that people should scrutinize all kinds of things and if they don’t add up posit well evidence and researched alternative theories that isn’t what a great many conspiracy theorists actually do though many of the best known

Conspiracy theorists are some of the least skeptical people imaginable they formulate a narrative or world view often a very narrow one and then make everything else adjust to it neatly often with zero interest in evidence research or scientific method far from being skeptical then they are among the most sure of themselves and

Unjustifiably arrogant people on earth I digress slightly but that’s just a pet peeve of mine as for the tldr then I don’t think that we can say with any certainty that footballers are more conspiratorial than the general public were just more likely to know about it when they are but it wouldn’t surprise

Me if that were the case even if only a little due to various factors such as the amount of spare time that they have often traveling and spent online and on social media which is only heightened in retirement the inul nature and mentality that exists within dressing rooms the is

Trust in authority figures that being a footballer often justifiably in genders along with bogus fads that lend Credence to various forms of pseudo science and the usefulness of supreme arrogance among athletes within Sports which can prove to be a little bit less useful and sometimes rather dangerous in any other

Field where they might not necessarily be as skilled or capable as they are in the sport that they most likely have both a natural gift for and have spent a lifetime hyp specializing to perform well at or you know maybe that’s just what they want you to think is football

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