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After all the talk of racism and racist abuse surrounding Liverpool FC, you’d think everyone connected to the club wouldn’t do anything that could be construed as racist behaviour. Cue the FA Cup game against Oldham, where someone in the Kop, allegedly shouted a racist slur against Tom Adeyemi, Oldham’s black right back. Under normal circumstances you’d be considered an idiot to do that, but after what has recently happened you’d have to be a proper idiot or a proper racist. Some would say the two are not mutually exclusive.
Away from racist abuse, and on to Spurs after Tottenham beat Everton, I kept hearing pundits asking, ‘Are Spurs now genuine title contenders’. There was also talk of how Spurs have got to the top the right way, i.e. without spending huge sums of money, unlike Man City, to be fair that was just from Harry Redknapp. So after almost a week of the media bigging up Spurs, I found it funny that their next game, at home to Wolves, ended in a …. draw.
I very rarely talk about Scotish football, mainly because I don’t know much about the minor leagues of Europe but I was watching BBC Breakfast Sports news and they mentioned how Hearts face being fined by the SPL for not paying their players on time for the last 4 months. I don’t know the ins and outs, and I do think you should pay people on time but I do think it a little odd, to fine an organisation if they are quite clearly struggling financially. That concept seems so wrong, it could almost be a Coalition policy. (a little bit of politics)
On to a good news story, well I think it is, the return to Arsenal of Thierry Henry, who made a scoring debut against Leeds. His deal came about after he was training at Arsenal during the MLS close season. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened in recent times at Arsenal. Jens Lehmann re-signed for the club after he was doing some work towards his coaching badges at Arsenal and Sol Campbell re-signed after he was training with Arsenal after he left Notts County after his one game there. So expect to see Perry Groves at the Arsenal training ground, anytime soon.
There can’t be many players, if any, who are playing at a club where there is a statue of them outside the ground. I don’t think Michael Jackson was still playing at Fulham, when they erected the statue of him. Apparently Thierry’s move to Arsenal, took longer than expected due to a problem with insuring him. It made me imagine Arsene Wenger on Confused.com, looking for the best deal available. (There are other insurance comparison websites)
With the whole Suarez saga, I didn’t get the chance to mention Joey Barton threatening to sue refs or players who play act to get an opposition player sent off, after his sending off against Norwich. My first thought on this, is that Joey more than most footballers must realise that the courts are for serious incidents not because one idiot footballer decides to put his head into another footballers head. And secondly, has too much Twitter use affected Joey’s memory, as he seems to have forgotten how he got Gervinho sent off in the opening game of the season, erm … play acting.
And Finally… Like Mr Barton, I’ve joined the Twitter revolution, you can follow me @anunknowncomic.
Til next time, stay safe!
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