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I published a blog the other day called The Only Way is Ethics and Tom, our Academy Manager emailed me back questioning the Pep Guardiola ethics about trying to do the right thing within his football club, but perhaps working for an ultimate boss who is less that ethical.

Here is the dilemma.

Try living your life without wearing a piece of clothing that wasn’t stitched in a sweat shop.

Try existing without the electrical products that we use every day because you can’t buy a product that was made ethically (not one that you definitely know every component was).

Stop using plastic.

Don’t drink coffee.

FFS don’t buy a car let alone use one.

If you think about these things on a grand scale we’re killing, raping and damaging people and our environment every single day with every single step. I don’t think there is any argument about that.

So, what do we do?

Do we give up and give in and just accept the fact that there is a finite shelf life and should make the best of today because somebody somewhere is going to die tomorrow?

I don’t think so, I think that all we can do is be drops in the ocean and try our best to do our best and in fact that will be good enough.

I understand that sometimes you have to rob Peter to pay Paul and to do the right thing with one person you have to do the wrong thing somewhere else (usually inadvertently).

I think when we know we should do the right thing, and when we don’t know, we should try and find out whether we’re doing the right thing or not.

We still have to live our lives and we can’t spend it examining every single full stop and comma, so let’s start with the big stuff.

Let’s start with treating each other with respect, being honest, not stealing and not making every single thing we do about getting as much as we can at the expense of anybody else.

I still want to believe that Pep is a good person, and I do. I like the fact that he stands up for his principles and builds a team in his environment.

He might look back and question who he worked for and who his bosses were, but I guess sometimes it’s necessary to be inside the tent peeing out.

Blog post number: 1619