Thursday, 19. November 2009, 20:23:00
Did the events in Paris last night surprise me? sadly not after the way the beautiful game has been heading for the gutter over the past few years with the antics of its overpaid employees and event like Henri's cheating to finally take it from the gutter to the sewer does not surprise me one iota.
Neither does the reaction of many so called fans on the radio phone ins today blaming the ref and FIFA and UEFA (What a World Cup qualifier has to do with UEFA heaven knows)but exonerating Henri,some even said he was being victimised,this is what life is like in X factor Britain today cheating is acceptable especially if it means you footy team wins the match and the concept of sportsmanship has long hurtled out of the window.
For the moment the lower level games I watch every Saturday are generally free of this appalling attitude and behaviour but unless something is done soon it will filter down and I can foresee a Saturday afternoon in my life that will not involve football,I dread that day coming
Sunday, 15. November 2009, 09:50:15
Now firstly may I point pout that the only reason I was watching X factor was that my daughter had it on and I was in the same room reading the paper,but anyhow i did listen to it and it confirmed to theories.Firstly the judges really do spout a load of bull telling these very average talents that there performances were amazing etc etc but more importantly whose bright idea was it to let these wannabes lose on the Queen back catalogue.Freddie Mercury was one of the great voices in rock history an amazing talent with a phenomenal range that other great singers could not match let alone the X factor contestants so why not let them lose on something a little less demanding.
And finally why did Brian and John get mixed up with this charade and actually praise people for their feeble attempts to do justice to the genius that was Freddie Mercury
Wednesday, 11. November 2009, 13:11:51
Anyone who takes a passing interest in my musings will know that the stars of the English Premier League are not my favourite people (despite my beloved Wolves being their at the moment) but the events of the last week give me chance not just to slag them off but also the half wits who are supposed to run our glorious game.
So where shall we start
Last Saturday Darren Bent of Sunderland performs a dive to win a penalty that would have got Tom Daley an Olympic silver medal at least
On Monday that is usurped by a gold medal winning dive by David N'gog of Liverpool
On Sunday Manchester Utd are their usual wingeing selves because they lost,Ferguson moans about the ref (nothing new there) and little Waynetta Rooney setting a fine example for his new son mouths ff to the camera insinuating that the ref was on Chesea's side.
So nothing new their but as the season started with calls for respect to the referee's and an end to cheating you would expect the poers that be of the FA and Premier League to take some action to end such behaviour,not a chance not a peep out of them and the message continue's to go out to all that you can say and do as you wish with no fear of punishment.
Thank heavens for the West Midlands League where my team AFC Wulfrunians gave a fine display of flowing football with little wingeing and no slagging of of all and sundry in an officials kit.
Oh and Wolves are now in the relegation zone
Thursday, 5. November 2009, 18:49:43
2 months since my last blog on here many apologies but life has been rather hectic,junior daughter has a new job in Southampton so will be leaving home in January, senior daughter now has 2 jobs and the house is awash with Body Shop products and i have been travelling the length and breadth of the country hardly seeing home during the week
Oh and Wolves are still out of the relegation places in the Premiership JUST
Thursday, 3. September 2009, 04:55:50
Last week a dear old freind of mine died although 30 years older than me Ivy was one o those people who spanned the generations and `made freinds with all irrespective of age She was also one of those people that make your life better for having known her a breath of fresh air who lightsup the room as soon as she walks in,I will miss that wicked sense of humour and the comments that put fools in their place but most of all I will miss the love that she exuded.
Farewell Ivy my love heaven is a better place now that you are there
Monday, 31. August 2009, 15:48:59
It was a fun life on Friday having been away on business for a whole week I was so looking forward to0 getting home,well the guy planning to commit suicide on the Avonmouth Bridge had other plans as a result of which the M5 was shut for 5 hours with me on it and what should have been a 2 and a half hout journey home turned into 8 and a half hours.
I was spitting feathers into Saturday morning when I found that the guy had actually jumped and was dead,whatever he was going through to do that rather put my problems into perspective
Sunday, 16. August 2009, 14:15:27
Yet another hilarious commenary by the Daily Mash
"MEN have won the right to watch two women have a sweaty fight as long as one of them gets to listen to her national anthem at the end.
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Just so's you know, they will not look like this
The International Olympic Committee agreed that women punching each other was 'more Olympic' than karate because the competitors would be wearing tight-fitting vests rather than baggy pyjamas.
Girl fights had previously been banned from the event amid claims that while two slim, toned, sweaty women going at each other was obviously worth watching, it was not necessarily a sport.
Advice is now being sought from rhythmic gymnastics experts on how to judge the all-women bouts while hiding a straining erection. A London 2012 spokesman said: "I think the main thing will be to make sure we can see the judges' hands at all times."
The IOC also said girl fights would help make the Olympics more relevant to the East End of London.
Training is already under way in the boroughs of Greenwich and Stratford, with the best medal prospects being told their opponents gave their boyfriends a hand-shandy behind the Odeon.
Meanwhile community activists stressed that if East End women were beating each other up, it would give local men more time to embellish their West Ham tattoos and hand out BNP leaflets.
Girl fight campaigner, Holly Turnbull, said "It's been a long and difficult battle, not least to stop the IOC using the words 'foxy' and 'Angel Delight' at every meeting.
"It's taken took two years for them to agree that we wouldn't have to wear six-inch stilletos and skimpy, leather hotpants."
She added: "Part of our strategy was to show them Million Dollar Baby, although obviously we switched it off before she gets crippled and Clint Eastwood kills her.
"What? You haven't? Oh, sorry about that."
Sunday, 16. August 2009, 08:14:19
And I feel like throwing up in disgust,this is one of the architects of the war who put forwrad the "Dodgy Dossier " and backed the lies about WMD that distracted our forces from the war againsy Al Quaida and into the joke that is Iraq.As a rwesult we are now stuck in Afghanistan with no hope of getting out ans still Brown talks about the fact that the Taliban are a threat to Britain,well only because of your foreign policies pal and as a result brave british soldiers are dying for no reason at all.
The real sadness is how we have failed to learn the lessons of historu,the British Empire failed in Afghanistan in the 19th century,the Soviet Empire failed in the 1980's and we will fail now because these people just dont know when they are beated
Tuesday, 4. August 2009, 16:23:03
I know I am getting old and dont really understand much of modern youth but the idea of taking an intimate photo of yourself on a mobile and sending it to your partner seems totally wierd,not however as totally barmy as this quote from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
"We can completely understand why young people want to post these images to each other"
Well you might be able to understand it pall but I'm buggered if I can and why are you not totally condemming minors for doing this,to PC are we
Sunday, 26. July 2009, 14:52:39
In all Church Of England churches this morning a letter was read out from the bishops of Canterbury and York basically bowing to the hysteria surrounding Swine Flue and stating that until further notice we could only take the bread and not the wine during Holy Communion.Now whilst I understand that some people may be concerned over the transmission of disease through the communal use of the calice surely an announcement that those who shared those concerns could just take the bread would be a common sense reaction.But no in these litigious days a blanket ban has been imposed denying those of us who do not share such concerns the right to take communion as we have for years,the real irritation in this is that the Priest still takes the bread and wine almost rubbing it in that the lay members of the church are lesser Christians who cannot be trusted to make a decision of their own.
I wonder if other churches have been as ludicrously paranoid
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