Sport and MediaFirst rant of the year otherwise the football will be over soon.
This could run and run (no pun intended). Anyone familiar with the Premiership will know that Chelsea have had the title sewn up for months. This is according to everyone from your opioniated mate down the pub to the top pundits in TV studios, but mostly it is the media and by this I generally mean the 'papers' and 'journalists'.
But wait, suddenly they get investigated by the authorities for an illegal approach towards Arsenal player, Ashley Cole and then draw with Man City. All in the space of about two weeks! Now they are never gonna win diddly squat, Mourinho has the managerial skills of Graham Taylor, Robben is revealed to actually
be the age he looks and Abramovich's discovers that all that sticky black stuff he's been making money out of is really marmite. Sensation! Exaggeration! Back Page! Bold Headline! Real News A Bit Slow This Week!
I understand why they do this. If you're going to try and predict and weild your publishing power on the masses then at least be consistent.
Bad Day at Bridge: Chelsea stumble at home as Premier League opens inquiry into Ashley Cole affair the Guardian no less. Months before said journos were extolling the team and their march to the top. To suggest, as many publications have, that Chelsea will not be champions because of possible backroom irregularities happening within two weeks of a draw is a bit beyond the pale. Linking the two factors together and making it the headlines proves that there can never be a quiet week in which football teams play each other, some of whom win, some of whom lose while others draw, based on how many times they kick the ball into the opposing teams goal, or not.
Most players don't give a damn whether his club is being investigated. Would it affect his performance? Do you think he even gives a damn about the club, full stop? As long as he gets paid, laid and praised he will tootle along as normal. If aliens came down from Mars, they would laugh like overpaid sports columnists at the rubbish these hacks write. People who have never played football. Ironically how soon is it before it filters down to the street. Mate down the pub reckons they'll have to wait another year for the trophy, second-rate late night TV pundit saw this coming all along but wanted to wait until it happened before piping up.
Its because the only language these laptop-abusers know is that of then power of information and how to manipulate people with it, and again with such matters of manipulation, its hard to know whether its the perpetrators or the willing victims that displease me the most.
One day I'd like to pick up the paper and read something that is based on football, you know that game played on the pitch.
Also get that Righteous Paula Radcliffe out of my face, you parasites!
