Rant Blog: [14/10/2010]
No Name Blog
Time for this week’s blog, I’m tired but I’ll stroll on regardless after such a cracking day in college. I usually have something to explain or to talk about quickly in the intro part but not this week, so onto this week’s blog.
Well to start with the obvious, it seems like Liverpool’s sale to NESV will go ahead after all, after two court hearings in the space of 3 days. I mentioned last week about the takeover and a lot has happened in the last few days, after it was announced that the NESV offer had been accepted, twit and twat weren’t going to have any of it and so they took it to court because the offer “undermined” the value of the club. How much were they expecting to get for a team who finished 7th in the league last season and is 18th in the league this year? Oh wait, in the region of £600m actually. They were also, presumably, fuming because they were/are about to make no profit from the sale whatsoever. They took it to court after Hicks tried to change the board just a few minutes before the meeting with NESV, in an ‘RBS [Royal Bank of Scotland] and Liverpool FC board vs Hicks and Gillet’ battle royal! Ofcourse, they [H&G] were going to lose this case as they’re not allowed to change any of the board, only Broughton can do that, and as soon as he said he had that on paper, they had no leg to stand on in that court case.
With that down the drain, they went to Texas to get an injunction on the sale of the club there, the court gave it and it begs the question: “What authority do they have on granting requests on an English asset? Especially one as huge as Liverpool FC”. They were never going to beat the high court in England anyway and the American’s have until 4pm tomorrow to comply with the selling of Liverpool FC.
Once again, I raise the question on whether or not England should start Wayne Rooney. I reckon they shouldn’t as his heart doesn’t seem to be in it for England. Also, Rio Ferdinand should not be captain as his performance against Montenegro the other night was no better than average and he never played or acted like a captain, failing to inspire any confidence or urge into the team, instead he sat at the back fiddling with his fat bottom lip. Surely Capello sees that Steven Gerrard should be captain as he made that game his own and controlled the game from midfield, carving out chances for the strikers.
Anyway, moving on from football [as I’m actually tired of hearing about it this week (but, ofcourse, you can comment about it below)], two new [awesome] demo’s have came out in the last week on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 [PSN and Xbox Live respectively]. The first being Star Wars: Force Unleashed II and, having just played the demo today, I can honestly say it’s a brilliant game with fantastic graphics and hugely impressive combat fighting [dual sabers being a fantastic addition]. The second being Dragonball: Raging Blast 2 being the second, with brilliant graphics for an anime game and brilliant combat moves, really addictive, just a shame only 4 characters can be chosen [the final game will have 90], 2 arenas can be chosen in the demo [the full game having 13 arenas] and the final game will have a new, reanimated, 30 minute movie.
Also, it’s great news to hear that the 33 Chilean miners have been lifted out of that mining hole. 17 days passed without them being noticed and then they had to spend another 52 days before anyone could be managed to be lifted out [69 days in total before the first person was lifted out]. Only one question, are they going to be paid overtime?
Not much really to speak about this week. I know Liverpool’s takeover and the Chile miners are big news but I’m not going to rattle on about stuff which people keep hearing about. Looking forward to seeing Lee Evans Roadrunner tour next year, if George decides to get his arse in gear and book some. Oh and also, comments are now monitored [by me] so if your comment doesn’t appear below, don’t worry, it’ll mean it’s in moderation and I’ll work as quick as I can to put them on the blog’s comment section. Abuse of any kind won’t be tolerated!
Thursday 14 October 2010
Thursday 7 October 2010
Suggestions For The Name Of This Blog Please Blog
Rant Blog: [07/10/2010]
Suggestions For The Name Of This Blog Please Blog
Wow, it seems so long since I last done a blog and I promise it will be back to schedule weekly now, I had personal reasons why there was no blog last week, ranging from my laptop charger dying so I couldn’t use my laptop till I bought a new one, me feeling tired last Thursday night, no Microsoft Word thanks to the reformat of my laptop and even a trip to hospital [weren’t me in there, it was someone else]. It was a pretty fucked week in all honesty, but now times should get better and I can crack on with this weekly. Enough of last week’s crap, let’s move onto this week’s crap.
As you may have noticed, the name of this blog is ‘Suggestions for the Name of This Blog Please Blog’, I say this as I wish for some people to perhaps come up with a name for this blog as I think having a permanent name, instead of the random bullshit headings, would look a lot better, suggestions to the usual places, either the comment section below or to my Facebook page, thanks.
We move on now to the obvious news of the potential takeover of Liverpool, by company New England Sports Venture [NESV], led by self-made millionaire John Henry, purchasing the club for £300m, £200m going towards clearing the club debts. If the NESV deal goes through, Hicks and co-owner George Gillett stand to lose a total of £144m, though, not surprisingly, they have decided to take the case to court as they’re not happy with the deal [due to the lack of profit].
The interesting thing about John Henry is the philosophy he has. He likes using reams of statistics to build a winning team based on the theory that lesser-known players who perform consistently are more important than big-money superstars.
There is one thing that is pissing me off more than Tom & Jerry [Hicks & Gillett] hanging on for dear life at Liverpool, and that is the spokesperson of the Spirit of Shankly group, James McKenna. Whether it be the BBC, Sky Sports News or the Daily Mirror, he’s been there as if he was part of the Anfield boardroom. He is speaking as if he owns the club and makes the decisions and that whatever he demands has to be listened to. It was annoying to hear a woman on the radio yesterday morning stating the new potential owners “must speak to the SoS [Spirit of Shankly] group before making a deal”. No, not at all, he has nothing to do with this and shouldn’t really be poking his nose into stuff, ok be part of it, voice your concern, put banners up about your disgust against the current regime but don’t act like you are god of Liverpool FC, it’s up to the board to get rid of the yanks now, we’ve sent emails to the banks that Hicks tried to get money from, it worked, now we have two potential new buyers let the board make the decision and sit back in peace, it’s not his position to be butting in and telling a self-made millionaire what he must and mustn’t do, he wouldn’t be a self-made millionaire of a successful baseball club if he never knew how to run a business/sports team.
Another thing that is really bothering me about Liverpool is the terrible on-the-pitch performances as well as the ones off it. I will not accept the pathetic excuse that the players will be affected by the board room issues, that’s a crap cover up for players who get paid mega money for what they do. This also says to me that they’re unprofessional, easily distracted and not determined enough. What Uncle Woy should be drilling into them is that this is nothing to do with them and they should be going out on the pitch each week giving 100%, the better the performances on the pitch, the better the investors come in to try and buy the club, would you prefer to buy a club who were amongst the top 4 each season or buy a club in the bottom 3 of the Premier League if you could. Ofcourse it would be the first option. Also, they should be reminded of who they’re playing for, they’re playing for the most decorated club in Britain [forget Rangers, you can’t really boast winning a Scottish Premier League title, it’s a piss poor copper cup league compared to the likes of the Barclays Premier League, the Spanish La Liga and the Italian Serie A] and they should be made to give their all or not be paid, like I’d have done to Mascherano for the way he treated the club.
If we’re to start pushing up the league, we need much better performances week in, week out and they need to be of the highest quality every match and we MUST drop the 4-2-3-1 for the 4-4-2, I mentioned this on a recent blog. We must start by winning the Merseyside derby, if we lose that, then heads will start turning as they already have [Christian Poulsen (a victim of being a very poor performer this season) revealing the whole team is in crisis over recent performances and the board room being as it is].
Moving on from this, I have a question for people, should Jamie Carragher finally take a place on the bench? I don’t mean this as a disrespectful comment towards Carragher, he has served the club tremendously, but every player has his day and Carragher has certainly seen that, being 32 now and not looking a year younger and has had a lot of mixed form, I believe we should start looking to an Agger - Skrtel partnership as the new Hyypia – Hechoz combination [centre back pairing of the year at one point] as they’re young and are very effective and are far quicker than Carragher. Carragher’s lack of pace and speed has been pointed out time and time again with him giving away needless fouls in and around the penalty area. What bugs me most about him is the way he pumps the ball long 90% of the time, why can’t he pass it along the floor instead of pumping it forward and always giving possession away to the opposition. So that’s the question, should we let Carragher have his day and let the younger generation take over?
Tomorrow is the day the new Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 game comes out and, believe me, it’s one million times better than FIFA 11. The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League both return, as well as the addition of the UEFA Super Cup and the Copa Libertadores [the posh way of saying the South American Champions League]. The game is completely revamped from last year and far different, and will take a lot of getting used to, even to the experienced PES player. If you wish to see any screenshots of the game, either Google them or look at the screenshots I have made myself of the Champions League, player faces and Master League in the link below.
Moving on from sport related things, I was listening to a late night radio phone in [on TalkSPORT [a British radio station]] and it was about 2 or 3 things but mainly the way our army soldiers are treated once they leave the army, and I think it’s disgraceful. During the army, they’re treated like kings and queens, which is how it should be [they’re putting their lives on the line for us] but once they come out the army, they’re left to fend for themselves like animals. When they leave the army [and ex-army soldiers were phoning in the show which confirms this], they’re technically classed as homeless. This means they can’t get benefits, they can’t get a job and they have no home [ofcourse], and having no benefits and/or job[s] means they can’t get money which means they can’t live. They’re forced to stay on friend’s couches and, according to one or two people phoning in, this is truly demoralising as most friends have kids and a wife and a happy family, yet they don’t have a home themselves. One caller said when they did finally get onto the property ladder, they would have had to wait 9-13 years for a home and they were getting no benefits from the council as the council didn’t want to help them. Is this the way we treat our army soldiers? Yet these illegal immigrants who come in get a job, benefits, a house and food all paid for them by us, why not our own? Our own, especially people who fight for our freedom and risk their own lives for us, should be treated much better than they are and be given priority [as all British should] over these immigrants. It is a disgrace to the nation and a disgrace on the government for not allowing the councils to help them.
The next discussion I’d like to bring to the table is the question of whether or not British people have lost their unique sense of humour. This all stems from a Facebook status I had last week which had an old British joke on which read:
‘Why did Hitler cry when he got to Heaven?’
‘God gave him his gas bill.’
Providing Hitler gets to Heaven, ofcourse, but anyway, I see no problem with this joke but I was later informed it was “hurtful against the Jews”, bollocks! It’s an attack against Hitler against what he done, and who wouldn’t want to attack Hitler for what he tried to do [and utterly failed at]? If this was a joke against a British person then no one would be arsed but it’s because it’s against someone else that it is. Imagine this scenario, have a look at this joke.
‘How do you starve a British drug addict?’
‘Hide his food vouchers in his work boots’.
Not offensive, ay? Now, let’s put it this way:
‘How do you starve an immigrant?’
‘Hide his food vouchers in his work boots’.
Now try this:
‘What have sperm and North England’s people got in common?’
‘Only one in one million actually work’.
Now this:
‘What have sperm and immigrants got in common?’
‘Only one in one million actually work’.
The first one would not be considered offensive, but the second one would. Why? Most of the times, jokes tell the truth in a comical way, sometimes it’s a stereotype, sometimes it’s just plainly a joke, would you consider an “Englishman, Irishman, Scottishman” joke to be offensive? I wouldn’t, so why anything else should be considered offensive, I’ll never know. It’s pretty pathetic from the Political Correctness brigade, let us have our Britishness back! It’s what makes us British, our humour.
The government are pissing about again we can see, with David Cameron’s laughable ‘Big Society’ campaign where he is basically telling us to do public sector jobs [Police, NHS [National Health Service], Fireman, even charity work] for free. No thanks, I wouldn’t want to do a full job, which is very hard work, for free. A quote from yesterday’s comedy club, I mean, er, Tory jungle club from Cameron was:
“So that great project in your community — go and lead it. The waste in government — go and find it. The new school in your neighbourhood — go and demand it. The beat meeting on your street — sign up. The neighbourhood group — join up. That business you always dreamed of — start up … Society is not a spectator sport. This is your country. It's time to believe it. It's time to step up and own it.”
We can’t do this, Cameron, as you won’t let us have the money to do it, you’re too busy attacking the poor and protecting the rich to think about this, benefits being cut for the poor and nothing happening against the rich, as we all knew would happen. When he said this, none of is ball licking crew stood up with him and cheered with him for it, the only time they did was when he attacked labour in saying they done a poor job, if that was poor, then he is doing terrible.
Finally this week, the Commonwealth have kicked off in rather comical and seriously bad fashion. Not only was the games started with stadiums which weren’t finished, they were rushing for the two days before the tournament to get them finished, something which, ofcourse, never happened. The opening ceremony was comical as women were falling over and ruining routines [a woman falling off a guys shoulders when he was picking her up was something I was fortunate to see], the opening day of events saw 15,000 seater stadiums only being filled by about 100 people. All through the early hours of yesterday morning, the athletics track had to have its pot holes filled in, which had been created from the opening ceremony in time for the 100m sprint and 5000m race, I’m not talking small pot holes either, I’m talking very big ones. Today, no less than 15 British and Australian swimmers caught the “Delhi Belly” bug, the causes are unknown, and there are moths flying everywhere and the swimming pool was covered in them, these games are going downhill very slowly.
That’s your lot for this week, and it’s been a hell of a lot this week. The blog will be back to a weekly schedule from next week and I still wish to hear suggestions for the name of the blog and suggestions for what you want me to talk about and/or answer. Comments below are welcome. Thanks.
Suggestions For The Name Of This Blog Please Blog
Wow, it seems so long since I last done a blog and I promise it will be back to schedule weekly now, I had personal reasons why there was no blog last week, ranging from my laptop charger dying so I couldn’t use my laptop till I bought a new one, me feeling tired last Thursday night, no Microsoft Word thanks to the reformat of my laptop and even a trip to hospital [weren’t me in there, it was someone else]. It was a pretty fucked week in all honesty, but now times should get better and I can crack on with this weekly. Enough of last week’s crap, let’s move onto this week’s crap.
As you may have noticed, the name of this blog is ‘Suggestions for the Name of This Blog Please Blog’, I say this as I wish for some people to perhaps come up with a name for this blog as I think having a permanent name, instead of the random bullshit headings, would look a lot better, suggestions to the usual places, either the comment section below or to my Facebook page, thanks.
We move on now to the obvious news of the potential takeover of Liverpool, by company New England Sports Venture [NESV], led by self-made millionaire John Henry, purchasing the club for £300m, £200m going towards clearing the club debts. If the NESV deal goes through, Hicks and co-owner George Gillett stand to lose a total of £144m, though, not surprisingly, they have decided to take the case to court as they’re not happy with the deal [due to the lack of profit].
The interesting thing about John Henry is the philosophy he has. He likes using reams of statistics to build a winning team based on the theory that lesser-known players who perform consistently are more important than big-money superstars.
There is one thing that is pissing me off more than Tom & Jerry [Hicks & Gillett] hanging on for dear life at Liverpool, and that is the spokesperson of the Spirit of Shankly group, James McKenna. Whether it be the BBC, Sky Sports News or the Daily Mirror, he’s been there as if he was part of the Anfield boardroom. He is speaking as if he owns the club and makes the decisions and that whatever he demands has to be listened to. It was annoying to hear a woman on the radio yesterday morning stating the new potential owners “must speak to the SoS [Spirit of Shankly] group before making a deal”. No, not at all, he has nothing to do with this and shouldn’t really be poking his nose into stuff, ok be part of it, voice your concern, put banners up about your disgust against the current regime but don’t act like you are god of Liverpool FC, it’s up to the board to get rid of the yanks now, we’ve sent emails to the banks that Hicks tried to get money from, it worked, now we have two potential new buyers let the board make the decision and sit back in peace, it’s not his position to be butting in and telling a self-made millionaire what he must and mustn’t do, he wouldn’t be a self-made millionaire of a successful baseball club if he never knew how to run a business/sports team.
Another thing that is really bothering me about Liverpool is the terrible on-the-pitch performances as well as the ones off it. I will not accept the pathetic excuse that the players will be affected by the board room issues, that’s a crap cover up for players who get paid mega money for what they do. This also says to me that they’re unprofessional, easily distracted and not determined enough. What Uncle Woy should be drilling into them is that this is nothing to do with them and they should be going out on the pitch each week giving 100%, the better the performances on the pitch, the better the investors come in to try and buy the club, would you prefer to buy a club who were amongst the top 4 each season or buy a club in the bottom 3 of the Premier League if you could. Ofcourse it would be the first option. Also, they should be reminded of who they’re playing for, they’re playing for the most decorated club in Britain [forget Rangers, you can’t really boast winning a Scottish Premier League title, it’s a piss poor copper cup league compared to the likes of the Barclays Premier League, the Spanish La Liga and the Italian Serie A] and they should be made to give their all or not be paid, like I’d have done to Mascherano for the way he treated the club.
If we’re to start pushing up the league, we need much better performances week in, week out and they need to be of the highest quality every match and we MUST drop the 4-2-3-1 for the 4-4-2, I mentioned this on a recent blog. We must start by winning the Merseyside derby, if we lose that, then heads will start turning as they already have [Christian Poulsen (a victim of being a very poor performer this season) revealing the whole team is in crisis over recent performances and the board room being as it is].
Moving on from this, I have a question for people, should Jamie Carragher finally take a place on the bench? I don’t mean this as a disrespectful comment towards Carragher, he has served the club tremendously, but every player has his day and Carragher has certainly seen that, being 32 now and not looking a year younger and has had a lot of mixed form, I believe we should start looking to an Agger - Skrtel partnership as the new Hyypia – Hechoz combination [centre back pairing of the year at one point] as they’re young and are very effective and are far quicker than Carragher. Carragher’s lack of pace and speed has been pointed out time and time again with him giving away needless fouls in and around the penalty area. What bugs me most about him is the way he pumps the ball long 90% of the time, why can’t he pass it along the floor instead of pumping it forward and always giving possession away to the opposition. So that’s the question, should we let Carragher have his day and let the younger generation take over?
Tomorrow is the day the new Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 game comes out and, believe me, it’s one million times better than FIFA 11. The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League both return, as well as the addition of the UEFA Super Cup and the Copa Libertadores [the posh way of saying the South American Champions League]. The game is completely revamped from last year and far different, and will take a lot of getting used to, even to the experienced PES player. If you wish to see any screenshots of the game, either Google them or look at the screenshots I have made myself of the Champions League, player faces and Master League in the link below.
Moving on from sport related things, I was listening to a late night radio phone in [on TalkSPORT [a British radio station]] and it was about 2 or 3 things but mainly the way our army soldiers are treated once they leave the army, and I think it’s disgraceful. During the army, they’re treated like kings and queens, which is how it should be [they’re putting their lives on the line for us] but once they come out the army, they’re left to fend for themselves like animals. When they leave the army [and ex-army soldiers were phoning in the show which confirms this], they’re technically classed as homeless. This means they can’t get benefits, they can’t get a job and they have no home [ofcourse], and having no benefits and/or job[s] means they can’t get money which means they can’t live. They’re forced to stay on friend’s couches and, according to one or two people phoning in, this is truly demoralising as most friends have kids and a wife and a happy family, yet they don’t have a home themselves. One caller said when they did finally get onto the property ladder, they would have had to wait 9-13 years for a home and they were getting no benefits from the council as the council didn’t want to help them. Is this the way we treat our army soldiers? Yet these illegal immigrants who come in get a job, benefits, a house and food all paid for them by us, why not our own? Our own, especially people who fight for our freedom and risk their own lives for us, should be treated much better than they are and be given priority [as all British should] over these immigrants. It is a disgrace to the nation and a disgrace on the government for not allowing the councils to help them.
The next discussion I’d like to bring to the table is the question of whether or not British people have lost their unique sense of humour. This all stems from a Facebook status I had last week which had an old British joke on which read:
‘Why did Hitler cry when he got to Heaven?’
‘God gave him his gas bill.’
Providing Hitler gets to Heaven, ofcourse, but anyway, I see no problem with this joke but I was later informed it was “hurtful against the Jews”, bollocks! It’s an attack against Hitler against what he done, and who wouldn’t want to attack Hitler for what he tried to do [and utterly failed at]? If this was a joke against a British person then no one would be arsed but it’s because it’s against someone else that it is. Imagine this scenario, have a look at this joke.
‘How do you starve a British drug addict?’
‘Hide his food vouchers in his work boots’.
Not offensive, ay? Now, let’s put it this way:
‘How do you starve an immigrant?’
‘Hide his food vouchers in his work boots’.
Now try this:
‘What have sperm and North England’s people got in common?’
‘Only one in one million actually work’.
Now this:
‘What have sperm and immigrants got in common?’
‘Only one in one million actually work’.
The first one would not be considered offensive, but the second one would. Why? Most of the times, jokes tell the truth in a comical way, sometimes it’s a stereotype, sometimes it’s just plainly a joke, would you consider an “Englishman, Irishman, Scottishman” joke to be offensive? I wouldn’t, so why anything else should be considered offensive, I’ll never know. It’s pretty pathetic from the Political Correctness brigade, let us have our Britishness back! It’s what makes us British, our humour.
The government are pissing about again we can see, with David Cameron’s laughable ‘Big Society’ campaign where he is basically telling us to do public sector jobs [Police, NHS [National Health Service], Fireman, even charity work] for free. No thanks, I wouldn’t want to do a full job, which is very hard work, for free. A quote from yesterday’s comedy club, I mean, er, Tory jungle club from Cameron was:
“So that great project in your community — go and lead it. The waste in government — go and find it. The new school in your neighbourhood — go and demand it. The beat meeting on your street — sign up. The neighbourhood group — join up. That business you always dreamed of — start up … Society is not a spectator sport. This is your country. It's time to believe it. It's time to step up and own it.”
We can’t do this, Cameron, as you won’t let us have the money to do it, you’re too busy attacking the poor and protecting the rich to think about this, benefits being cut for the poor and nothing happening against the rich, as we all knew would happen. When he said this, none of is ball licking crew stood up with him and cheered with him for it, the only time they did was when he attacked labour in saying they done a poor job, if that was poor, then he is doing terrible.
Finally this week, the Commonwealth have kicked off in rather comical and seriously bad fashion. Not only was the games started with stadiums which weren’t finished, they were rushing for the two days before the tournament to get them finished, something which, ofcourse, never happened. The opening ceremony was comical as women were falling over and ruining routines [a woman falling off a guys shoulders when he was picking her up was something I was fortunate to see], the opening day of events saw 15,000 seater stadiums only being filled by about 100 people. All through the early hours of yesterday morning, the athletics track had to have its pot holes filled in, which had been created from the opening ceremony in time for the 100m sprint and 5000m race, I’m not talking small pot holes either, I’m talking very big ones. Today, no less than 15 British and Australian swimmers caught the “Delhi Belly” bug, the causes are unknown, and there are moths flying everywhere and the swimming pool was covered in them, these games are going downhill very slowly.
That’s your lot for this week, and it’s been a hell of a lot this week. The blog will be back to a weekly schedule from next week and I still wish to hear suggestions for the name of the blog and suggestions for what you want me to talk about and/or answer. Comments below are welcome. Thanks.
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