Call A Plumber - Dodgy Tap Warning
It looks like being a summer of goings and a couple of comings at THOF pre and post World Cup. Rumour control has Sol Campbell leaving for pastures new to get "his head sorted" whilst Chelsea have announced that they will use official channels to try and sign Ashley Cole without resorting to tapping him up again. Whilst this is admirable and will save them having three points deducted, I am not too sure that the authorities will agree that using un-named sources in The Sun consitutes using official channels to approach the club. Perhaps the FA's Disciplinary Committee may want to review this story should any transfer go ahead.
Barcelona have apparently agreed a weekly wage of £140k per week with Thierry Henry which has made Arsenal very cross indeed. So angry are they that Wenger is intent on signing Fran Merida, a 16 year old on Barcelona's books after the Catalans forgot to give the lad a contract. Well, that's a fair exchange then. No doubt the lad has looked at Theo Walcott who today gets a tidy little pay rise from £90 to £4k per week as he has turned 17.
An old favourite is continuing to rear its head with the future of Mr Ed van Nistelrooy, earlier this week he would chewing the cud in the San Siro, Bernabeu or Dell'Alpi but today he's off to become a pit pony by signing for Newcastle. Fabio Capello has let the FA know he's interested in the England job but this comes in a week when Martin O'Neill starting as favourite to be the new manager only to be relegated by Monday to a benchwarmer in the job queue only to be favourite again by Tuesday morning.
At which point you have to question where the stories come from. Personally, if it's in The Mirror, The Star, The Sport, The People and either of The Express / Sunday Express then it's unmitigated bollocks that they must have made up as they are so wide of the mark generally speaking that they make Peter Crouch look like a master goal - getter by comparison. Which leaves The Mail and The Sun. The former is positioning itself as "the thinking mans tabloid" trying desperately to rival The Times but knowing that it's natural constitutency are readers of The Sun, which itself has no pretentions other than to be the most widely read newspaper in the country. Which it is. And as far as football gossip goes, it probably hits the target more often than any other rag. Whether it is because of better sources or they choose their targets more carefully is open to debate. What this country desparately needs is a football daily or a sports daily at the very least. There was an attempt in the 1980's to launch one but that foundered in a wave of apathy but the commercialism that is so rampant in The Premiership today was not even a twinkle in the eye in those days.
Still my favourite that I have read in the last few days is Ryan Giggs is going to Real Madrid in the summer. Presumably they think he is marginally less of an ageing pie eater than Ronaldo who is going to Old Trafford in return.
Todays Tunes are the start of a week of Peel Sessions. The first is a couple of tracks from The Smiths from1983 and 1984. This Charming Man, recorded in September 1983, was their second single but the first to garner major media attention culminating in an appearance on Top Of The Pops with Morrissey sporting a bunch of daffodils in his jeans pocket and a National Health Issue Hearing Aid. Comments from my parents at the time, I being a mere whippersnapper, were along the lines of "Dear God, what is this crap" which enabled this smart mouthed teenager to quip "Gee Dad, you are getting old". Which he was.
This Charming Man
Rusholme Ruffians
Barcelona have apparently agreed a weekly wage of £140k per week with Thierry Henry which has made Arsenal very cross indeed. So angry are they that Wenger is intent on signing Fran Merida, a 16 year old on Barcelona's books after the Catalans forgot to give the lad a contract. Well, that's a fair exchange then. No doubt the lad has looked at Theo Walcott who today gets a tidy little pay rise from £90 to £4k per week as he has turned 17.
An old favourite is continuing to rear its head with the future of Mr Ed van Nistelrooy, earlier this week he would chewing the cud in the San Siro, Bernabeu or Dell'Alpi but today he's off to become a pit pony by signing for Newcastle. Fabio Capello has let the FA know he's interested in the England job but this comes in a week when Martin O'Neill starting as favourite to be the new manager only to be relegated by Monday to a benchwarmer in the job queue only to be favourite again by Tuesday morning.
At which point you have to question where the stories come from. Personally, if it's in The Mirror, The Star, The Sport, The People and either of The Express / Sunday Express then it's unmitigated bollocks that they must have made up as they are so wide of the mark generally speaking that they make Peter Crouch look like a master goal - getter by comparison. Which leaves The Mail and The Sun. The former is positioning itself as "the thinking mans tabloid" trying desperately to rival The Times but knowing that it's natural constitutency are readers of The Sun, which itself has no pretentions other than to be the most widely read newspaper in the country. Which it is. And as far as football gossip goes, it probably hits the target more often than any other rag. Whether it is because of better sources or they choose their targets more carefully is open to debate. What this country desparately needs is a football daily or a sports daily at the very least. There was an attempt in the 1980's to launch one but that foundered in a wave of apathy but the commercialism that is so rampant in The Premiership today was not even a twinkle in the eye in those days.
Still my favourite that I have read in the last few days is Ryan Giggs is going to Real Madrid in the summer. Presumably they think he is marginally less of an ageing pie eater than Ronaldo who is going to Old Trafford in return.
Todays Tunes are the start of a week of Peel Sessions. The first is a couple of tracks from The Smiths from1983 and 1984. This Charming Man, recorded in September 1983, was their second single but the first to garner major media attention culminating in an appearance on Top Of The Pops with Morrissey sporting a bunch of daffodils in his jeans pocket and a National Health Issue Hearing Aid. Comments from my parents at the time, I being a mere whippersnapper, were along the lines of "Dear God, what is this crap" which enabled this smart mouthed teenager to quip "Gee Dad, you are getting old". Which he was.
This Charming Man
Rusholme Ruffians
posted by Yogi's Warrior at 10:37 am
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