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Web Designer are like Footballers

Apr 26, 2006 · 2 minute read

I do quite a bit of musing on the subject of the community. Lots of other people do similar, just a few of the groups I know about:

Conferences are massive as well. With Carson going down a storm, @media looking to rock the summer again and some people spoke highly of SXSW, but then I wasn’t there (this year).

We all know each other. Think about it?

We are like footballers. We are the Premiership. We hang out in the trendy bars (conferences), we do everything we can to get mentioned in the papers (A-list blogs, A List Apart) and we get multi million pound book deals (DOM Scripting).

But theirs a difference. Youth players (students), the lower leagues (Z-list) and amateurs watch football every week. They read about it every day online and in the papers. Everyone knows who the best players are, whether they like football or not. Even then thats before you get to scouts from the big clubs getting along to youth and lower league games to find the next big thing, or the World Cup. Web design still seems spit between those in the know (probably you) and those not, for whatever reason.

So my question, if their is one, is – is football simply more mature? Do we need scouting systems? World Cups and better training facilities? Or alternatively have I taken this football analogy way too far?