Less, folks. Way less. The reaction of the English football world against Richarlison for last Sunday’s bid (28) in the Premier League was disproportionate. I’ll explain for those who haven’t seen it. Tottenham beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 – after an excellent assist from the Brazilian to Harry Kane, including. Toward the end of the game, Richarlison caught a pass and, before touching, made three ducks. Opposing player Brennan Johnson retaliated. He bumped into him, made a hard foul and got a yellow card.
After the match, Tottenham’s coach, Italian Antonio Conte, defended the striker. But by and large, Richarlison was massacred. Jamie Carragher, a former Liverpool player and now a commentator for England’s main sports channel, called the behavior “idiotic” and called the Brazilian “annoying.” “Sad”, “cheap”, “classless”, “disrespectful” and “unacceptable” were some terms used for the thing called “showboating”, something like exhibitionism.
Richarlison did not speak. Could the attitude have been avoided? Yup. But is Richarlison bad-tempered? No way. With all due respect to the opponent, for being such an unusual and unexpected move for a league like the Premier League, it was actually fun to watch. Leave Richarlison alone. Had he been an English player, particularly darlings like Phil Foden or Jack Grealish, the reaction of the press and the public would have been very different.
Vacation trip or World Cup album?
The Qatar World Cup sticker album started to be sold here in the United Kingdom, and, as in Brazil, the price generated controversy. Guess how much it can cost to complete the album in the land of the Queen? On average, an impressive 870 pounds, equivalent to R$5,300. The calculus is by Paul Harper, a mathematician at Cardiff University.
The album has 670 stickers (including Richarlison), but because of the repeats, if someone wants to buy them all, Harper estimates that the odds are they’ll need to buy 4,832 of them. The pack of five stickers costs 90 cents, or 18 cents each, hence the total of almost 900 pounds.
Inflation impacted the price, and the package here costs 12.5% more compared to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. As with each package that you buy, the probability of finding new stickers gets much smaller, Harper predicts that to find the last 19 it would be necessary to purchase 483 packages, 50% of the total. That is, when it looks like it’s almost over, it’s only halfway through.
If we transport the same formula to Brazil, with a pack of five figurines costing R$4, or 80 cents each, the total value to complete the album would be R$3,865. Of course, trying to buy all the stickers seems like an unrealistic situation. Everyone ends up trading with friends or acquaintances, which greatly reduces spending. But you can’t just consider the minimum value of just over R$ 500, since no one is so lucky as to never get a repeated sticker.
And in times of high cost of living, spending so much money on something, shall we say, superfluous, scares people around here, no matter how fun it is. With £870 you can pay for a family’s groceries for a couple of months, or take a leisurely trip. Undoubtedly, many people prefer to spend on food or on vacation.
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