...when you should be updating your blog on a regular basis? I know I've said this before, but I really am quite poor at this, and I do have every intention of updating this thing once if not a couple of times a week.I think the single biggest problem in my desire to be the most cutting, witty, informative social columnist/blogger in the known world, is the fact that I seem to be surrounded by those far better at it than me!
As mentioned previously, when I want to be all anti media and knocking the daily Mail outrage brigade, there's Charlie Brooker doing it far better than me!
If I want to be all funny and satirical there's "The Daily mash", for all things nerdy there's "Topless Robot"
When I want to talk about my beloved Manchester City there's a particularly good blog I read - "The Lonesome Death of Roy Carroll"
I suppose the one area not fully covered yet (or that I've managed to stumble across yet) is a good blog knocking all things Man U****d.
I know they are pretty good at doing it themselves, but the recent Green and Yellow scarf "protest" at their owners is making me chuckle even more than normal. That along with their current and past players lining up to point out how they would never play for City no matter how much money we were to throw at them.
I think it's also worth pointing out , Mr Neville and Mr Beckham... errrmm we don't want to sign you, and by the mere fact that you both work for the minimum wage and live in housing association flats proves that you are not in it for the money.
Oh no, that's right you've spent the bulk of your careers playing for the richest clubs in the world! - I guess they must pay you peanuts. (okay, maybe they do in Neville's case...)
I was drawn to the following comments on the Mail on Sunday website within a column by Piers Morgan -
"Beckham’s been a treacherous, money-grabbing, club-hopping, fame-hungry, egotistical little weasel"
I would like to point out how disgraceful the above comment is and totally out of order, to the point of being completely offensive...to weasels, never mind the fact of Piers Morgan calling someone else a weasel!
Everything else seems okay though.
The above comment was in response to "Becks" wearing a Green and Yellow (sorry Gold) scarf at the end of the recent U****d, Milan match.
As touched on above the whole "protest" movement at Old Trafford is really quite comical, and if they really want to look at football clubs pulling themselves apart they couldn't do much worse than looking at their richer neighbours throughout the Swales era.
Anyway, the merits or otherwise of their protest will be far better documented elsewhere, but they only real point I want to raise, is the general stupidity of the fans.
These Green and Yellow(sorry Gold) scarves are being given away free? I don't think so. Other than some sweatshop knocking them out and Salford scallies selling them on, it would only be funnier if it was actually the Glaziers producing them.
(At least City's original batch of Blue and white scarves were a Free gift of Frank Shinawatra - okay the fact he's an international fugitive maybe waters this point down...)
(At least City's original batch of Blue and white scarves were a Free gift of Frank Shinawatra - okay the fact he's an international fugitive maybe waters this point down...)I actually saw someone (presumably on their way to OT for the game the other night) wearing a green and yellow (sorry gold) Hat, scarf, shirt (and presumably socks). Yes, he looked like a jester.
The Glaziers being consummate business men, I imagine U****d's away kit next year will be... Green and Yellow(sorry Gold) and they'll all be queuing up at the megastore to buy it!
The Green and Yellow (sorry.. this is getting tedious isn't it?) protest is in part in support of the Red Knights consortium of 70 leading business men looking to buy U****d back from the Evil Glaziers. I believe one of the 70 is a certain McManus - the same Irish racehorse owner - who sold his shares (for a massive profit) to the Americans in the first place!
You really couldn't make this up its like something out of Monty Python!
The choice of Green and Yellow, is showing how great the club was before it went Red, and turned it Manchester United from Newton Heath. The reason for that reformation? Because they were going out of business! Priceless.
Anyway, I'm going to put on my black and white Maltese cross scarf in celebration of St Marks Boys club in protest at the next City game... well, maybe not!
