tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post2041560404982014431..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: THIS SPORTING LIFE.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-82646802692006529512014-06-20T19:06:39.836+01:002014-06-20T19:06:39.836+01:00I think it should really be known as "Sucker&...I think it should really be known as "Sucker"Alphonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81717123836185230492014-06-20T15:55:10.189+01:002014-06-20T15:55:10.189+01:00Aye, grace, they could neither spell nor comprehen...Aye, grace, they could neither spell nor comprehend it. Best, on scoring, would simply raise and wave his hand in quiet salute, none of this revolting, gangbanging manlove bollocks; no kneslides, demanding acclaim from equally braindead fans.<br /><br />I saw that neadnerthal fuckpig, Shearer, when he was playing for England, he dived and writhed in the penalty area and the ref just looked at him like he was a piece of shit, which he is. Later, being pundited, he said, all hurt, the big fairy, Aye, Ah were just trying to do something fer me country, Ah done me best, like, but it never come off. As though his country expected him to cheat for it; revolting piece of shit. It was great hearing him berate some Johhny Foreigner, the other night, for doing the same thing. I wonder how much we are paying him for his commentary. call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-3749765971682669332014-06-20T14:35:59.314+01:002014-06-20T14:35:59.314+01:00What pisses me off most about most modern players ...What pisses me off most about most modern players is the lack of grace. Best had it; so did the wonderful Cruyff (try tube-googling "best Cruyff goals" or some such formulation.) In the last couple of weeks, you could see it in Robin van Persie's header against Spain, but apart from that...<br /><br />(I hope Chile fuck off all the rest and win it.) <br /><br />verge//Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-69223649725392035052014-06-20T09:31:48.376+01:002014-06-20T09:31:48.376+01:00I didn’t hear about the Chelsea owner getting his ...I didn’t hear about the Chelsea owner getting his assets frozen when the government announced that Russian businessmen were going to get it in the neck because of Putins’ referendum….sorry invasion of Crimea.<br />Funny that.<br />Was it not Scotland who pioneered the hypothetical mathematical improbability that would see them through to the next round?<br />Alan Hanson 1.4 million?...Fuck me sideways.<br /><br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48920102539912417032014-06-20T00:22:33.181+01:002014-06-20T00:22:33.181+01:00Seems self-evident that if someone, especially a r...Seems self-evident that if someone, especially a rags-to-riches football urchin, is paid fifty thousand pounds a day -two Aston Martins a week - they will swiftly become good for fuck all. It is true that other nations pay their top players equivalent amounts and they still manage to beat ours but the whole thing must prove unltimately corrosive of the sport.<br /><br />The corporatising, the monetising of sport is almost complete, as well as football, tennis is the preserve of manic millionaires, Nadal, Federer and Jabberwocky have earned eighty million dollars apiece in prize money and probably tripled that in sponsorship, motor racing is in the greedy pockets of that wetched dwarf, wotsisname, Ecclestone, currently on trial for bribery; Hamilton and Co can't leave the house unless swaddled, like a Moslem woman, head to foot, in the sacred schmutter of Santander; snooker is played by Sinophile, jetsetting automata; I dunno about cricket but it seems to be people by moneygrubbing, laddish gabshites and the home football teams are corrupted and polluted by arseholes like Ferguson and Wenger and their respective owners, by Russian gangsters, sorry, investors.<br /><br />What we watch now is not the sport, the joie de vivre of Best's period, it is organised crime, Tony Blair may as well be in there. John Reid, let us not forget, Lord Reid of Afghanistan, now chairs the ghastly, sectarian Glasgow Celtic FC. Amongst many other things.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-64414808970208258062014-06-19T23:40:12.750+01:002014-06-19T23:40:12.750+01:00Perhaps Mr Hodgson could be our new peace envoy an...Perhaps Mr Hodgson could be our new peace envoy and Mr Tony Maniac could take on the next World Cup which is in Russia. That would sort it all out for the best.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-6261937883537099062014-06-19T22:47:11.548+01:002014-06-19T22:47:11.548+01:00Terminal hideousness. Bit likeThe MiddlecEast, rea...Terminal hideousness. Bit likeThe MiddlecEast, really.Oldrightiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192587284458430556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-50985177977289764632014-06-19T22:40:08.741+01:002014-06-19T22:40:08.741+01:00And so the sick parade passes away once more. Some...And so the sick parade passes away once more. Some Bach would be good at your leisure. I saw someone playing the Britten cello suites in a church on one of those BBC4 programmes recently and found it very moving, full of grief and guilt and entirely human. I have no idea why the terminal hideousness of the english football circus should make me think of music but there we are. Mr Best was some sort of musician too.Bungalow BIllnoreply@blogger.com