A quick one this morning. It’s early and cold and I’m off to play golf.
Adebayor is back for tomorrow’s game against West Ham but Eboue is still out. He could be back for the Carling Cup game against Everton though. Alan Pardew says he has no grudge with Arsene Wenger and tries, but fails, to suggest it was all reported badly and it wasn’t him being a cunt at all. Good of him. He makes disparaging comments about us then says he has no grudge. Tellingly he says he had a good relationship with AW but since his comments has not seen him since. I wouldn’t hold your breath, Alan.
We’ll go and play our normal game on Sunday according to the manager who has ruled out any change of style. You can’t complain about the type of football we play, just the end product isn’t always a match but then it’s not an exact science.
He has also hit out at the frankly ludicrous proposal by FIFA and the ‘international players union’ (whoever the fuck they are) that six members of a side must be eligible to play for the club’s national association. The boss says:
It is not to protect the national identity, it is to protect the national teams, their competitions, and their incomes. What can you say to a guy who pays money to watch your team? ‘This player’s first touch is not good, yes, we know but he is English. What can I do?
And he’s right. Fans want to watch the best players not players who are in the team simply because they’re English. I’d imagine it’s entirely unworkable in Europe and it’s great that he didn’t shy away from the real motivation. For some time the highest quality football has been club football in Euope. Whereas previously the international game was the pinnacle that’s no longer the case. FIFA want to try and change that not by making the international game better but by making club football worse.
They already make a fortune on the World Cup but we have to remember that this is an organisation that now looks first to maximise revenue and profits and their interest in the game of football as a sport is secondary at best. Quite honestly FIFA should be a non-profit group with all revenue poured back into the grass roots of the game. Instead it’s a coven of fat cat led by that cunt Blatter.
There isn’t much that would turn me off the game entirely but if this ever came to pass I don’t think I’d bother with football any more.
With much of the focus on Nicklas Bendtner at Birmingham let’s not overlook another of our strikers on loan. While the Dane has scored 7 goals since the start of the season young Irishman Anthony Stokes scored 6 last month alone for Falkirk and won the Scottish Premier League’s young player of the month award. Fair play to him.
Michel Platini says Thierry Henry was wrong not to join Barcelona, saying:
Thierry Henry is a truly great player and is on the verge of overtaking me as a goalscorer for France. However, he hasn’t achieved the same category of other great stars. Why? Because he lacks playing in a great team and winning titles with his club like he has done with France, where he has been European and world champion.
I cannot quite express in words how much I detest Michel Platini. He was a truly brilliant player but he is now a irksome little football politician determined to make his mark on the game in retirement too. He’s likely to be the next President of UEFA which will not be a good thing.
Ex-pros constantly bemoan the lack of loyalty in the game but when a player decides to stay with a club that he loves, that has given him the platform to become the player he is then he’s accused of lacking ambition or similar. To Platini I say ‘Get fucked you fucking curly ponce and leave football alone. Your World Cup every two years idea was right up there with the worst in history such as someone deciding it would be a good idea for Hoddle and Waddle to record a song together. I realise you’re doing your best to ensure that all physical contact is eliminated from the game but I tell you this – if I ever see you I am going to take a run and sliding tackle you so far up in the air I’ll put you in orbit and when Thierry breaks your goalscoring record for France I hope he whips off his shirt to reveal a picture of you on his vest underneath with a dog licking your balls and the caption ‘Le Cunt’.”
That’s what I say. Right, I’m off before something else gets on my nerves. Till tomorrow.
