Rant Blog: [24/3/2011]
‘England, oh England’ Blog
Firstly, I know it has been over two months since I last posted a blog but I’ve had other stuff to do. I will try to do this more often but, just like when I’ve said this many other times, I’m not promising that. Anyway, whilst I’m here onto this week’s [or more like this month’s, knowing in me] blog...
What a week it has been if you’re an England fan. John Terry, yeah you know the name, is the permanent England captain. Me, and others, have quite a bit of gripe with this. Firstly, why? What has John Terry done that has made him deserved of this title? He is a back stabbing, cheeky, annoying bastard, to put it politely.
Now, I may be biased by saying I want Steven Gerrard to be, but my reasons for this aren’t because I support Liverpool. The reasons for this are that he is a true leader, something we really lack in the England squad, and doesn’t go to the press and backstab his team mates.
Let us go back to the World Cup last year in South Africa and remember [painfully] after the game against Algeria where we drew 0-0. A certain Mr John Terry came out to the press, he weren’t even captain nor vice captain, and said nine players had huddled in a corner and spoke about how bad the team were and said that they thought the management of the team was awful, he said this to the world’s press.
There are a few problems I have with this:
1) These allegations were completely false; the players accused came out and said they were speaking about how their performances hadn’t been good and how they can improve, none of what John Terry had said.
2) Why would you reveal this to the world’s press anyway? If it was that bad, talk to them yourself and keep it in-house, don’t reveal it to the press and other countries.
A few days ago, when Terry was handed over the armband, he came out and said he was sorry about what he had done several months ago but said he would do that again but not to the press, which leaves you to wonder who he’d say it to then, Wayne Bridge’s girlfriend?
That is another problem with him, going out with Bridge’s girlfriend [at the time, I don’t think they’re still together after that are they? If anyone can correct me on this, it would be good]. Now why cheat on your wife? What is that going to gain you, other than a bit of sex and then the whole world and its wife rains down on you in the press. Wayne Bridge then decided to temporarily retire whilst John Terry was still playing for England.
Now, I’m not saying Wayne Bridge is better than John Terry, but I’d rather he be in the England team than Terry. I hope John Terry never ever players for England again, never mind being the captain. After everything he has done, he does not deserve the privilege of representing our country.
That also reminds me of another story from the World Cup of him and Frank Lampard having a go at Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher over the captain’s armband. The tensions built between the two groups as it seems Terry was jealous about Gerrard being captain and Lampard was probably gutted he was only vice-captain. They should remember they’re a select few of 23 players representing their country at a World Cup, they should be proud, not taking it for granted.
One final piece about John Terry was about what he said in the paper, namely the Daily Mirror, yesterday and I quote: “He was wrong to sack me”. What, wrong to sack you? If it were me, I’d have kicked you out the team and you’d have never been seen again. Just for that, Capello should take the armband off him. What is Terry trying to say? That none of the other team can lead a team? Absolute nonsense! John Terry is a disgrace and I hope this backfires on him so much.
Just a quick note about the England team, it has been reported that Frank Lampard will be dropped from the first team for the first time in seven years. It seems like this “London mafia” of players are finally being put in order. I’ve always said to drop Lampard anyway as he is greedy and is not better than Gerrard, both of whom can’t play together. Get a five man midfield with Gerrard and Wilshere in the middle, with Barry playing behind them, protecting the back four. That way, both Gerrard and Wilshere can get forward whilst Barry protects the back.
Moving on from John Terry and onto the subject about what channels England should be shown on. I saw the adverts for Sky Sports showing they’re broadcasting the Wales vs England game on their channel. Now there is a problem with this, why?
I’m sure everyone knows of the prices for the Sky Sports package, most will get it if they have Sky TV but it isn’t cheap, and if you have Virgin Media, it isn’t any cheaper, £20 more per month if you want the Sky Sports package with Virgin Media.
Why are all England games not on terrestrial TV [a.k.a. the free channels]? Why are they on pay-per-view TV? This should be a protected sports program so the whole nation can see their football team represent them, no matter how big or small the nation they’re playing are.
All England games should be kept on either the BBC channels [like they used to be] or ITV, who have the rights to all England home games. It really is disgusting that you have to pay more for something that should be free, give me back my country’s team on normal TV! They better not expect me to pay more for it on TV either, I’d rather use streams. Going to the match is not cheap either, but that is another discussion about ticket prices which I’ve covered once before so I won’t go on about it again despite the disgusting prices for tickets to Wembley for the UEFA Champions League final.
FIFA tried to make England [and other countries who broadcast the World Cup and EURO competitions on free TV] broadcast the two competitions mentioned on pay-per-view TV, other than their own nation’s games which, they say, can stay on “free TV”. Oh, how nice of them.
Now what gives them the right to say they plan on what we do with our TV? I suppose it’s so they can get more money to line their pockets. The European courts quickly dismissed this as “absurd” [and rightly so] and said this would be an illegal move by FIFA.
Finally, I hope Mr Anti-England, Sepp Blatter, doesn’t get another 4 years in control of FIFA. He and the rest of them are corrupt and should leave as soon as possible. I also hope the Qatar candidate, Mohamed Bin Hammam does not get it either, he wants more international friendly matches during the year to improve the national game and improve finances for FIFA.
a) As if we haven’t got enough international games through the year to distract from domestic campaigns.
b) This just proves he is as greedy as the rest of them as far as finances are concerned, FIFA don’t fund anything other than their own offices so what do they need money for?
I hope the American journalist, Grant Wahl, gets the job as he seems the best candidate and has promised a complete overhaul of FIFA, including a investigation to all bid campaigns to host World Cups to see if anything “suspicious” was going on, he also will bring in goal-line technology something he, and I, say is needed.
He also wants to abolish the quota for referees being at the World Cup, saying that having only 1 referee from each country at maximum is ridiculous and means more “amateur” refs have to be chosen to fill in the gaps, which is true.
He also wants to scrap yellow cards for celebrations when scoring, which was a ridiculous rule in the first place. Finally he will appoint a woman as FIFA general secretary. He has said FIFA needs a “wiki leaks” type clean out of documents to show what has gone on.
He also believes that Bin Hammam's candidacy would change little, arguing that the Qatari is a Fifa insider.
Anyway, that is my blog for this week [month], I hope you enjoyed it. No idea when my next blog will be, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
Thursday 24 March 2011
Saturday 15 January 2011
New Year! Old Blog!
Rant Blog: [15/1/2011]
‘New Year! Old Blog!’ Blog
Yes, yes Happy New Year and all the rest of the crap people say after that. People making the same promises they broke last year, people thinking this year will be much better than last year but then realising by the end of January that it is actually still as shit as it was last year and then hoping for 2012, which will be the same case as I’ve just mentioned. Anyway, to this year’s, I mean week’s blog...
So then, 2010... What happened, apart from fuck all?
Well, England was humiliated... Not once, not twice, but three times! First, we humiliated by ourselves in the World Cup, then we were humiliated by two linesman about balls crossing the line, the first where the ball did go over the line against Germany and the second where the ball did not go over the line for Hungary but was allowed anyway. Finally, we were humiliated by the French... In our own back garden... So much for sport. At least we won the Ashes.
The Conservatives won the general election [helped by the Liberal Democrats turning into their bitches] and now the country is going downhill, doing too much too fast, basically trying to run before we can walk and then backstabbed by the Lib Democrats on the tuition fees vote. So much for politics, England humiliated again...
Not a good year for England, but whenever is it? Moving on from England and I am now going to take the piss, for fun, and do my own awards ceremony, cringe if you must.
The “I am an idiot” award:
This award is for, as it says, the idiot of the year for any reasons. So many candidates for this one, including John Terry, Rafa Benitez, Tom Hicks and George Gillett and all the people involved with EA [Electronic Arts] Inc.
I was close to saying EA for this one, their idea of making you pay £40 for a game filled with bugs, some game-breaking, some just annoying, yet people still thought it was the best football game ever, far from. Plus, they have brought out this “EA Pass” for all of their games, basically making their games void online if they’re second hand unless you’re willing to hand over another £5 to get a new code.
Just then, though, I thought fuck it, John Terry wins this one because he, and not Fabio Capello, pissed up the World Cup, by making up rumours that there was disruptions in the camp with nine players after the draw against Algeria and then thinking he was still captain and taking on the press conference bringing out these made up rumours, and then him and Lampard having a go at Gerrard and Carragher over who should be captain, it just makes him easily the winner of this award.
The “I would like your money now, please” award:
This award is for the people that have gone for something simply because of the money and not the public interest. The candidates for this are Hicks and Gillett [again], EA [again] and Qatar [aga.. Oh wait; I haven’t been bribed, yet...].
I was thinking H&G for this because of their obvious milking of Liverpool FC, but then things turned out ok at the end of three years and a Spanish waiter who’s line up [and food menu] changed weekly.
The winner of this, though, has to be Qatar [and to some extent Russia] with their obvious bribing of FIFA to bring one of the biggest competitions in the world to a country which is half the size of Wales and a population 5x smaller than London. A country which doesn’t care about the sport [as proven by their current national team in the Asian Cup at the moment where 8 of the 11 players playing against China were African and 1 of them was even Uruguayan] has been given this tournament and not even one of their stadiums is built. How are they going to house 31 other nations [as well as their own, if they have one], the press [especially England’s ever-growing press], the sponsors, FIFA and, most importantly, the fans? On a final note, before I ramble on too much is, did they bid for the women’s World Cup? I wonder...
“Twat of the year” award:
This award is for exactly what it says on the tin. So many for candidates for this award which include America, the Islam extremists [don’t come to me moaning about racial hate, I’m allowed, freedom of speech, so put your bayonets away] and David Cameron.
As this award isn’t real, I can split it into three, so they all win this award.
Firstly, America because of their blind arrogance that they think they’re God’s gift and that they’re never done bad things. Wikileaks revealing that the American’s thought we’d never take Helmand in Afghanistan, although we did, and Barack Obama saying America has the best army in the world, despite asking for our help in every war they’ve ever been to and also, America have never won a war that they have started or were involved in from the start, apart from one war which they won... And lost technically, the war against themselves, the north vs south. Otherwise, they’ve been done over by the Cubans, the Vietnamese and even Iraq and Afghanistan. If they’re so good, why is a country that big always begging for help from a country the size of Britain? Tells you the whole story.
Secondly, the Islam extremists [need I say more] bombing places, threatening war, putting posters up about “the evils of Christmas” [yet forgetting the evils of the beliefs [not religion] they fight so hard for] and the general idiocy of their own beliefs.
Finally, Cameron just because, as mentioned above, he is pushing this country too far too fast, making big cuts too quick, there won’t be a country soon the way this is going on and I can see 2011 being a big year for the people vs politics [not like I’m an expert or anything, I just think this] because of petrol prices going up again in April [after the VAT rise we’ve just had pushing the price up], NHS funding being cut, tuition fees and other stuff taking it’s toll.
The “I am blonde” award:
The award given simply for being blonde, the candidates are Johanna, Johanna and Johanna.
The winner is this woman trying to park her car [not from 2010, but oh well]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTKFaBvW6oc [advised to mute the video, bad music].
The “funniest moment of the year” award:
This is for exactly what it says, the funniest moment of the year. The candidates are me [I had to be in here somewhere, not because I was funny but because something happened to me which was funny], Tymoshchuk and Olic, and Landon Donovan.
I want this award just because, back in January of last year, I fell on my arse outside subway in town and slid down the hill and stopped at the railing next to the road, much to the amusement of everyone else.
The “I hope I don’t get caught” award:
Only one candidate and, therefore, winner for this award and it has to be the German manager, Joachim Löw, who was caught picking his nose on camera at the World Cup, despite his best attempts at disguising what he was doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nDfJFIafY
“The best moment of the year” award:
Awarded for, ofcourse, the best moment of the year and the candidates for this are Rafa Benitez and, later H&G, leaving Liverpool, a student that was on my college course falling on his arse on camera [thanks to me] and well that’s it really, has to be one of them two.
The winner is the both of them, as both of them have their positive moments, Rafa leaving after 6 years and utter disappointment for the main part of it [I have an earlier blog about it so I digress about it now]and H&G going and a classmate falling over on camera was the funniest thing I’ve ever saw for myself and, if I ever get the chance to put that on YouTube, it will be on their quicker than Wayne Rooney chasing your Nan.
Finally, “the worst moment of the year” award:
Another obvious award, the candidates being the England team, FIFA and the World Cup voting, and the Conservatives winning the general election, I have other things but I don’t want to them on here as people may moan they’re personal to me and them and all that kind of nonsense.
The winner for this has to be the scandalous FIFA voting process after Russia and Qatar, somehow, won the vote to host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022. Firstly, we’d be going to a World Cup in one of the coldest countries in the world which has a below standard transport system, which is very bad for a country of that size, and a country who’s president didn’t bother turning up at the voting, instead deciding to stay home and not even bothering to look at the result, sounds a bit weird if you ask me, and then, for the next World Cup, you come to the other end of the scale, Qatar, who’s country [as mentioned above] is half the size of Wales and has 5x less the population of London, which has no stadiums for the World Cup yet, has basically used this chance to bribe their way to it and saying “we’re giving countries money to improve this and that” is basically a way of bribing if you ask me.
A list of how they won it is on here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/8261139/World-Cup-2022-revealed-the-extraordinary-campaign-that-brought-World-Cup-to-Qatar.html#dsq-content
Both are corrupt countries full of oil and the sooner we find newer and better ways of producing resources, the quicker we can tell these countries where to go.
The World Cup is about a country having already developed their country to the standard that they deserve to host football’s biggest tournament, not a toy you can use to help a country develop, that’s madness. The quicker FIFA is disbanded or changed to a better, more fair, company, the better, and the voting system must change so we can see what is going on.
That’s your lot for now but my next blog is on Monday. If you have any other awards you want me to give out, please ask me. If you’re offended/angry about something above, oh well, it’s my blog, get over it, freedom of speech.
Hope you enjoyed my first of many [I hope] blogs in 2011.
‘New Year! Old Blog!’ Blog
Yes, yes Happy New Year and all the rest of the crap people say after that. People making the same promises they broke last year, people thinking this year will be much better than last year but then realising by the end of January that it is actually still as shit as it was last year and then hoping for 2012, which will be the same case as I’ve just mentioned. Anyway, to this year’s, I mean week’s blog...
So then, 2010... What happened, apart from fuck all?
Well, England was humiliated... Not once, not twice, but three times! First, we humiliated by ourselves in the World Cup, then we were humiliated by two linesman about balls crossing the line, the first where the ball did go over the line against Germany and the second where the ball did not go over the line for Hungary but was allowed anyway. Finally, we were humiliated by the French... In our own back garden... So much for sport. At least we won the Ashes.
The Conservatives won the general election [helped by the Liberal Democrats turning into their bitches] and now the country is going downhill, doing too much too fast, basically trying to run before we can walk and then backstabbed by the Lib Democrats on the tuition fees vote. So much for politics, England humiliated again...
Not a good year for England, but whenever is it? Moving on from England and I am now going to take the piss, for fun, and do my own awards ceremony, cringe if you must.
The “I am an idiot” award:
This award is for, as it says, the idiot of the year for any reasons. So many candidates for this one, including John Terry, Rafa Benitez, Tom Hicks and George Gillett and all the people involved with EA [Electronic Arts] Inc.
I was close to saying EA for this one, their idea of making you pay £40 for a game filled with bugs, some game-breaking, some just annoying, yet people still thought it was the best football game ever, far from. Plus, they have brought out this “EA Pass” for all of their games, basically making their games void online if they’re second hand unless you’re willing to hand over another £5 to get a new code.
Just then, though, I thought fuck it, John Terry wins this one because he, and not Fabio Capello, pissed up the World Cup, by making up rumours that there was disruptions in the camp with nine players after the draw against Algeria and then thinking he was still captain and taking on the press conference bringing out these made up rumours, and then him and Lampard having a go at Gerrard and Carragher over who should be captain, it just makes him easily the winner of this award.
The “I would like your money now, please” award:
This award is for the people that have gone for something simply because of the money and not the public interest. The candidates for this are Hicks and Gillett [again], EA [again] and Qatar [aga.. Oh wait; I haven’t been bribed, yet...].
I was thinking H&G for this because of their obvious milking of Liverpool FC, but then things turned out ok at the end of three years and a Spanish waiter who’s line up [and food menu] changed weekly.
The winner of this, though, has to be Qatar [and to some extent Russia] with their obvious bribing of FIFA to bring one of the biggest competitions in the world to a country which is half the size of Wales and a population 5x smaller than London. A country which doesn’t care about the sport [as proven by their current national team in the Asian Cup at the moment where 8 of the 11 players playing against China were African and 1 of them was even Uruguayan] has been given this tournament and not even one of their stadiums is built. How are they going to house 31 other nations [as well as their own, if they have one], the press [especially England’s ever-growing press], the sponsors, FIFA and, most importantly, the fans? On a final note, before I ramble on too much is, did they bid for the women’s World Cup? I wonder...
“Twat of the year” award:
This award is for exactly what it says on the tin. So many for candidates for this award which include America, the Islam extremists [don’t come to me moaning about racial hate, I’m allowed, freedom of speech, so put your bayonets away] and David Cameron.
As this award isn’t real, I can split it into three, so they all win this award.
Firstly, America because of their blind arrogance that they think they’re God’s gift and that they’re never done bad things. Wikileaks revealing that the American’s thought we’d never take Helmand in Afghanistan, although we did, and Barack Obama saying America has the best army in the world, despite asking for our help in every war they’ve ever been to and also, America have never won a war that they have started or were involved in from the start, apart from one war which they won... And lost technically, the war against themselves, the north vs south. Otherwise, they’ve been done over by the Cubans, the Vietnamese and even Iraq and Afghanistan. If they’re so good, why is a country that big always begging for help from a country the size of Britain? Tells you the whole story.
Secondly, the Islam extremists [need I say more] bombing places, threatening war, putting posters up about “the evils of Christmas” [yet forgetting the evils of the beliefs [not religion] they fight so hard for] and the general idiocy of their own beliefs.
Finally, Cameron just because, as mentioned above, he is pushing this country too far too fast, making big cuts too quick, there won’t be a country soon the way this is going on and I can see 2011 being a big year for the people vs politics [not like I’m an expert or anything, I just think this] because of petrol prices going up again in April [after the VAT rise we’ve just had pushing the price up], NHS funding being cut, tuition fees and other stuff taking it’s toll.
The “I am blonde” award:
The award given simply for being blonde, the candidates are Johanna, Johanna and Johanna.
The winner is this woman trying to park her car [not from 2010, but oh well]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTKFaBvW6oc [advised to mute the video, bad music].
The “funniest moment of the year” award:
This is for exactly what it says, the funniest moment of the year. The candidates are me [I had to be in here somewhere, not because I was funny but because something happened to me which was funny], Tymoshchuk and Olic, and Landon Donovan.
I want this award just because, back in January of last year, I fell on my arse outside subway in town and slid down the hill and stopped at the railing next to the road, much to the amusement of everyone else.
The “I hope I don’t get caught” award:
Only one candidate and, therefore, winner for this award and it has to be the German manager, Joachim Löw, who was caught picking his nose on camera at the World Cup, despite his best attempts at disguising what he was doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nDfJFIafY
“The best moment of the year” award:
Awarded for, ofcourse, the best moment of the year and the candidates for this are Rafa Benitez and, later H&G, leaving Liverpool, a student that was on my college course falling on his arse on camera [thanks to me] and well that’s it really, has to be one of them two.
The winner is the both of them, as both of them have their positive moments, Rafa leaving after 6 years and utter disappointment for the main part of it [I have an earlier blog about it so I digress about it now]and H&G going and a classmate falling over on camera was the funniest thing I’ve ever saw for myself and, if I ever get the chance to put that on YouTube, it will be on their quicker than Wayne Rooney chasing your Nan.
Finally, “the worst moment of the year” award:
Another obvious award, the candidates being the England team, FIFA and the World Cup voting, and the Conservatives winning the general election, I have other things but I don’t want to them on here as people may moan they’re personal to me and them and all that kind of nonsense.
The winner for this has to be the scandalous FIFA voting process after Russia and Qatar, somehow, won the vote to host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022. Firstly, we’d be going to a World Cup in one of the coldest countries in the world which has a below standard transport system, which is very bad for a country of that size, and a country who’s president didn’t bother turning up at the voting, instead deciding to stay home and not even bothering to look at the result, sounds a bit weird if you ask me, and then, for the next World Cup, you come to the other end of the scale, Qatar, who’s country [as mentioned above] is half the size of Wales and has 5x less the population of London, which has no stadiums for the World Cup yet, has basically used this chance to bribe their way to it and saying “we’re giving countries money to improve this and that” is basically a way of bribing if you ask me.
A list of how they won it is on here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/8261139/World-Cup-2022-revealed-the-extraordinary-campaign-that-brought-World-Cup-to-Qatar.html#dsq-content
Both are corrupt countries full of oil and the sooner we find newer and better ways of producing resources, the quicker we can tell these countries where to go.
The World Cup is about a country having already developed their country to the standard that they deserve to host football’s biggest tournament, not a toy you can use to help a country develop, that’s madness. The quicker FIFA is disbanded or changed to a better, more fair, company, the better, and the voting system must change so we can see what is going on.
That’s your lot for now but my next blog is on Monday. If you have any other awards you want me to give out, please ask me. If you’re offended/angry about something above, oh well, it’s my blog, get over it, freedom of speech.
Hope you enjoyed my first of many [I hope] blogs in 2011.
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