May I point you to this incredibly interesting article by BBC Sports Editor Mihir Bose on the Olympic shooting venue.
This man is a joke. Summed up better than I could by the second reader comment:
I have a lot to say on this matter. However, I must re-arrange the cutlery in the draw in the kitchen because someone has placed a spoon the wrong way around, so I shall have to return later, if I am not further distracted by paint drying, counting the leaves on a tree or measuring the widths of all my ties and finding the average width.
Not only is the article a complete non-story to 99% of license fee payers but it is factually inaccurate!
Keep it up Mihir. Cricket, Football and the Olympics are the only sports in the world right?
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Jeff Powell vs the greedy Premier League
This guy has so much anger inside him he makes me look still and steady.
Even as Ronaldo lurches between disgrace and glory in the space of 24 hours, a small army of lawyers abroad are working ever closer to the reform which will give back our national game to the humbler home-grown English player.
Humbler like Jermaine Pennant? Joey Barton?
The only thing disgraceful about Ronaldo's sending off against City was the refereeing. One yellow for a fair tackle and another for a harmless (although admittedly bizarre) handball.
News of this development, even though it should regenerate the England team as a future World Cup power, will throw the Premier League into frenzied protest.
1. I don't buy all this less foreign players will make us into a World Cup power bullshit. The last World Cup winners were Italy, where a massive number of foreigners play. In terms of talent coming through they are no better than England but they had a winning mentality and great coaching.
2. Journalists everywhere seem to be picking up on this and saying that the Premier League clubs will protest. I am seeing no evidence for this, only presumption. In this article alone we get:
frenzied protest
cause chaos
Furious
panic-stricken defence
consternation
blinkered insularity
indenial (sic)
I give you Jeff Powell: master of subtlety.
Jeff here is a Brazil nut if you fancy... wait a minute Jeff put down the hammer, put it down. OK now step back and use this nutcra... SMASH.
Oh man now I'm going to have to vacuum the living room again. And stop slavering all over my new sofa for God's sake man.
It will also cause chaos among the major clubs, challenging managers such as Arsene Wenger and Rafa Benitez to wean themselves off their dependence on French, Spanish or other foreign imports and start developing young English footballers.
Put a limit on Johnny Foreigner and even Arsene will have to bring on the English.
Burnley v Arsenal Carling Cup:
number of French players in Arsenal staring line-up = 1
number of British players = 6
Arsene knows you know.
I also must point out that 90% of Wenger's 'foreign' players will be eligible for a British passport by the time they get into the first XI anyway.
A decline in Premier League attendances this season - down by an average of almost 1,000 per game - comes as a reminder of the importance of England success to football’s popularity in this country.
WTF? Linking foreigners to lack of success by England team is tenuous at best, then we take another gigantic leap in logic and uncover the dastardly secret that foreigners are responsible for a lack of attendances by proxy? Anyone would think this was an article from the Daily Mail. Rivers of blood, send them back etc.
Fabio Capello’s team are still a work in progress which could use more skilled labour. Not that we want Ronaldo to go home, or even to Madrid, unless he keeps insisting until Sir Alex Ferguson gives in.
Yeah our recent results have been awful haven't they Jeff? Anyway keep Ronaldo cos he's really good but fuck the rest of those spic bastards.
If Enid Blyton were still writing her children’s books, be sure young Cristiano would be one of her Five Go To Old Trafford.
Awful writing there Rowley. Perhaps Blyton is his race relations mentor?
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