Monday, December 22, 2003
Intro of the YEar!!
For those of you interested in the sporting press, which you probably are if you find yourself here, then here is a choice example of Broadsheet overkill.
Ok, not completely, but it does have a certain aura of self-indulgence, ironic given the tone of attack in the article.
Anyhow, I had to post the intro to this piece as a masterpiece of analogy, fantasy and pure imagination.
The Rio Ferdinand drug-test failure case has seen many forests downed to fulfill the comments pages of papers but no amoutn of inches will compare with this nugget...
Simon Barnes is the author... enjoy.
United in their vile arrogance
ON July 14, 1789, Louis XVI wrote in his diary a single word: "Rien." No doubt on September 23, 2003, Alex Ferguson wrote the word "nothing" in his own diary. On the first of those dates, the Parisians stormed the Bastille, started the French Revolution and set in process the events that took Louis to the guillotine.
On the second, Rio Ferdinand failed to take a drugs test. What the two events have in common is that neither of the two nothing-men had the remotest idea that such events could affect them. They were above such things. They could not be touched. They were of such eminence that the doings of these futile little beings were nothing to them. Not so much beneath contempt as beneath consideration.
"Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?" As the Baron de Charlus rages at the Narrator in Proust, so Ferguson and the rest of the inhabitants of the Faubourg Old Trafford are now raging at the rest of the world.
Le Rio de France ( free registration)
Ok, not completely, but it does have a certain aura of self-indulgence, ironic given the tone of attack in the article.
Anyhow, I had to post the intro to this piece as a masterpiece of analogy, fantasy and pure imagination.
The Rio Ferdinand drug-test failure case has seen many forests downed to fulfill the comments pages of papers but no amoutn of inches will compare with this nugget...
Simon Barnes is the author... enjoy.
United in their vile arrogance
ON July 14, 1789, Louis XVI wrote in his diary a single word: "Rien." No doubt on September 23, 2003, Alex Ferguson wrote the word "nothing" in his own diary. On the first of those dates, the Parisians stormed the Bastille, started the French Revolution and set in process the events that took Louis to the guillotine.
On the second, Rio Ferdinand failed to take a drugs test. What the two events have in common is that neither of the two nothing-men had the remotest idea that such events could affect them. They were above such things. They could not be touched. They were of such eminence that the doings of these futile little beings were nothing to them. Not so much beneath contempt as beneath consideration.
"Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?" As the Baron de Charlus rages at the Narrator in Proust, so Ferguson and the rest of the inhabitants of the Faubourg Old Trafford are now raging at the rest of the world.
Le Rio de France ( free registration)
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
oy Keane Interview: Exclusive Hold the Phone
Sorry I Can't complete my touchdown pass, I'm on the phone!
America has been going a little sports crazy in the past few days. Footballers have been making the headlines in a big way, but many are not happy about it - including their managers and fellow players.
The reason? - Post-touchdown celebrations.
Being a fan of European soccer, where a new celebration is seen and celebrated almosty every weekend, this is a little bizarre, but the NFL and it's ultra-strict coaches have no intention of letting up.
fines between $5,000 - $15,000 are common and even on-field punishments in the shape of a 15-yard bonus to the opposition are common.
THe latest big deal surrounds the celebration of another NFL star, who, after scoring, grabbed a hidden mobile Phone from the padded goal post - to the ire of his manager and opposition teammates.
Imagine the uproar were Robbie Fowler's 'snorting' celebration to be perpetrated along a pristine NFL astroturf pitchline!
Celebrate good goals come on!
America has been going a little sports crazy in the past few days. Footballers have been making the headlines in a big way, but many are not happy about it - including their managers and fellow players.
The reason? - Post-touchdown celebrations.
Being a fan of European soccer, where a new celebration is seen and celebrated almosty every weekend, this is a little bizarre, but the NFL and it's ultra-strict coaches have no intention of letting up.
fines between $5,000 - $15,000 are common and even on-field punishments in the shape of a 15-yard bonus to the opposition are common.
THe latest big deal surrounds the celebration of another NFL star, who, after scoring, grabbed a hidden mobile Phone from the padded goal post - to the ire of his manager and opposition teammates.
Imagine the uproar were Robbie Fowler's 'snorting' celebration to be perpetrated along a pristine NFL astroturf pitchline!
Celebrate good goals come on!
Thursday, December 04, 2003
Sun in geographical correctness shocker!
I can;t belibve they finally get it right! but they did so i must commend Shaun Custis for the one time it is correct ..
Ireland can face England, Scotland, Wales and the bastard state in the upcoming WC qulaifying campaign and the SUn have correclty left Ireland out of the clichéd 'Home nations' tag for once..
Home nations AND!!
Ireland can face England, Scotland, Wales and the bastard state in the upcoming WC qulaifying campaign and the SUn have correclty left Ireland out of the clichéd 'Home nations' tag for once..
Home nations AND!!
