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The use of "Professional" in Football


Goalie66
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We all hear it used many times. A Professional performance...A Professional foul...a good pro. As it is a professional game, played by professionals I profess I get confused by the interpretaion of the word. After all on the one hand the implication is what is expected on the other a cynical and intentional tackle. So what does everbody else think "Professional" means to them?

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The dictionary suggests somebody qualified to carry out a trade. "The professions" tend to mean law, accounting, medicine and the priesthood, which are therefore considered "professions" and not trades. Confusing indeed.

 

In football it carries little or no meaning apart from 'serious application to the job in hand', which therefore suggests a comparison with those who 'hasn't got a professional attitude'.

 

Altogether a lot of ballox.

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