In an age of 24/7, worldwide television coverage, man’s successes and failures are documented in double quick fashion which means football gaffes are now not the reserve of rubbish DVDs fronted by Danny Dyer at Christmas time, but are viewed all year round on YouTube.
They say that deception is underhand and devious and wrong, but they, whoever “they” are, very wrong. Apart from on the subject of diving when they are right.
Some misses in football seem to defy all laws of conventionality; the cliched “it was easier to score than miss” kind of situation.
Dynasties can begin in the most inauspicious and initially underwhelming circumstances, but all great oaks once began as small acorns of course.
Like everything in modern day football, there is always something of a double standard employed when teams field so-called ‘weakened’ line-ups in cup competitions.
If there is one thing that the whole world needs, its Cristiano Ronaldo ballsing up more often. Just to put a smile on people’s faces really.
If there’s one man you can never accuse of taking himself too seriously, it is of course Jose Mourinho. Oh wait, no, I mean the other thing. Unless he is being dreadfully ironic in this clip.
Perhaps it all comes from being a fan of a supposedly ‘smaller’ club and the associated mentality, but it really hacks me off when pundits and commentators talk about how some clubs “should” be in the Premier League.