Joe Kinnear’s now infamous interview on TalkSport was truly a moment of comedic brilliance from the newly appointed director of football at Newcastle United but it is also symptomatic of the crazy bubble that football lives in.
Kinnear certainly didn’t cover himself in glory and made himself out to be something of a laughing stock by mispronouncing half of the player’s names who play for a club he is now currently director of. Given his track record, though, was this really much of a surprise?
This is the same man, after all, who having been made manager of Newcastle swore around 50 times during his opening press conference to mark his introduction to the Premier League ahead of the 2008-2009.
But the footballing world is a wild place and when I heard Kinnear’s interview I considered it to be par for the course.
The moment when I knew football was truly a mad environment was when AC Millan, having won Serie A, gave away Andrea Pirlo on a free transfer to direct rivals Juventus who subsequently won the last two Scudettos. Madness, eh?
It has desensitized me, though, because I did not bat an eyelid when Arsene Wenger signed a twenty year old unknown French player with dodgy knees. Why not add to that growing pile of exactly the same player at the club? Look, Yaya Sanogo may turn out to be the new Nicolas Anelka and Arsenal’s saviour (or something) but at face value the signing seems crazy. Has Wenger not learnt his lesson?
Anyway, like I said, football is insane and quicker we all fully acknowledge this fact the better.
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