‘Sport’ Archives
New England Sponsors
After the debacle with Nationwide and their decision not to continue as sponsors of the England Football team, it's good to see that the Football Association has managed to attract several new sponsors:
They KNOW it’s all over.
WHERE HAVE THE HEROES GONE? Collectively, we are the rheumy-eyed liver-spotted old duffer who gazes wistfully into his pink gin and sighs to his companion, " Yes. Those were they days. You know, I used to cut quite a dashing figure then. By god, I was one for the ladies. Couldn't keep them away........" The companion nods sagely but feels sorry for the tired old man who has nothing but his memories to sustain him. An old man whose future is now in the past. The threadbare collar on [...]
Inglaterra to win?
"I make you da offer you can understand" John Terry gave the game away after the full-time whistle was blown when he and his team-mates were putting together their staged "let's form a team circle" stunt. They were celebrating a 1-0 defeat of the Slovenians who are from a tiny country with a population 2 million and a first division of ten teams, formed as recently as 1991. Did you notice Terry (who seems to have forgotten that he has been relieved of the England captaincy) [...]
RIP English football.
Capello and Friend We football fans need heroes, we need supermen to represent us and to show the world what we're made of. We believe that we are the chosen ones. So where are our English heroes? Where are the latter-day longbowmen of England? What happened to them? Have they become too lazy and spoiled? Have they had it too easy? They have to be found before it's too late. I have loved football all my life and many of my early memories are of playing not on well-drained and [...]
World Cup depresssion
"The (round) Jabulani ball" The way that the World Cup is shaping up for England does not look too good. You know, the West Ham goalie with a ball-catching problem, a centre-forward who does not score goals, ITV presenter Adrian Chiles who has the air of a garage mechanic who's waiting for the Samaritans to call back and thick football pundits who are in permanent cliché mode: "It's a big ask" ; "Watching Brazil play is just like watching Brazil play"; "Only just offside"; " It's [...]
Soccer Sex
Down the line Successful men have high sex drives. It is not clear whether the it is the high sex drive that makes them successful or vice versa. John Terry is currently being vilified for reasons which are already well documented but he is neither the first nor the last successful young man to be caught with his tackle in the wrong penalty area. The list is very long. The current England captain , Rio Ferdinand and his friends Frank Lampard and Kieron Dyer starred in a famous sex movie [...]
Bit of a Khan
Last night in Newcastle, Amir Khan took just 76 seconds to demolish No 1 contender Dmitriy Salita. Although Khan was very impressive, what seems to have been bothering him lately is the apparent British lack of recognition of his greatness as a sportsman. He claimed that racism has prevented him from becoming a "superstar" in Britain. "If I were a white English fighter maybe I'd have been a superstar." As a "personality" he has very little going for him. Frank Bruno, [...]
Naughty pirates
DANGER-POLITICIANS NEGOTIATING Who said this? "Piracy and the taking of hostages is unacceptable in any circumstances. We call on those people who have taken the British citizens hostage to release them as soon as possible. They should abide by international law." Those Somali pirates must be really crapping themselves now that Gordon Brown has told them that they should "abide by international law". Gordon, you muppet - these are pirates and NOT abiding by the law is not-only implicit [...]
Wednesday September 30th 2009
So the Sun will not be supporting the Labour Party. No real problems there, except the usual one. Why should an Australian like Rupert Murdoch have any say in which newspaper supports which Party. The Sun is read largely by the drooling classes who are very susceptible but regrettably, there is very little that can be done. The Sun’s sister paper , the News of the World, no doubt is poised with some salacious Labour politician scandal ready-to-go. The Sun will not just be [...]
Tuesday September 29th 2009
Interesting statistic which doesn’t appear to be receiving the publicity that it deserves: In the United States, a house is foreclosed or repossessed every 7.5 seconds. As usual, the politicians are taking care of business at the macro-level, while the grass-roots are burning. It is an excellent idea for Gordon Brown to take-on the other two Party leaders in televised debates. Any future Conservative or Liberal vote should be a “pro” Conservative or Liberal vote and not an [...]
Monday September 28th 2009
Excellent headline grabbing by that jug-eared gargoyle Andrew Marr. He is without doubt a supreme journalist but his questioning of Gordon Brown yesterday was inexcusable. Suggesting that Brown needs prescription drugs to get through the day, followed by Brown’s admission that he has trouble with his eyesight was a direction that no journalist should steer. There is a real danger that if the Tory Press goes down the ” Brown’s a sick man and therefore unfit for office” route, there [...]
Saturday September 26th 2009
The American Fed has issued the following statement: “To provide support to mortgage lending and housing markets, and to improve overall conditions in private credit markets, the Federal Reserve will purchase a total of $1.25 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities and up to $200 billion of agency debt.” Now we can watch the demise of the once-mighty American Dollar. Fund Managers and Investors will now start dumping dollars like confetti. A TRILLION is a million millions [...]
Friday September 25th 2009
Friday September 25th 2009 The mole who leaked the MPs’ expenses information to the Daily Telegraph has revealed what motivated him to do so - apart that is, from the £110,000 fee that he was paid. It now appears that his primary motivation was not money but the fact that serving soldiers were “moonlighting” at the House of Commons. They were working in the Security department and protecting the Civil Servants who were dealing with confidential matters - one of which was [...]
Wednesday September 23rd 2009
Apparently, there is a small but statistically significant rise in patient deaths when junior doctors start work in August. Perhaps the same survey should be done with slightly different parameters: Before pubs open and after closing time. A friend sent me a cartoon yesterday which, for the first time, explained the constant Midde East conflict . Jewish man looking up at the sky saying, “Now, let me get this straight God. The Arabs get the oil and you want us to cut the end off [...]
Monday September 7th 2009-Friday September 18th 2009
Friday September 18th 2009 There has been some concern that Romell Broom may have suffered mental anguish when two Ohio State officials failed to find a vein in order to deliver a fatal injection. According to Broom’s lawyer, Broom had suffered both “mental and physical injuries” and apparently became distressed and appeared to cry. Broom was convicted of raping and then killing a 14 year-old girl. We’re too fat, we drink too much alcohol, we’re unfit, we ingest female [...]
Hillsborough 1989-2009
Brian Reade of the Dail Mirror has created a tribute to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster and it was distributed with the paper on 15th April 2009 - the 20th anniversary of one of the darkest days. I had several attempts at reading Brian's very moving piece. Every time I tried to have a run at it, the tears seemed to get in the way but I persevered - not as a Liverpool or Nottingham Forest fan and not because I was there but because I love football. All who love football share an [...]
The name’s Bond – Bernie Bond.
Gordon Brown has invoked the British wartime spirit to cope with the current economic downturn. He probably thinks that that we are all quite looking forward to shivering in our Andersen shelter as we pump the old Primus stove and await our turn with the teabag. Is that what he means? Or are we being gently steered towards seeing him as the new Churchill? "We must not just plan for tomorrow. Our task over the next twelve months is to build tomorrow today". Is that what he was [...]
