Greater Manchester police arrest 31 y o player for child sex . Well if it is a Manchester player and that is a big if, the only 31 year old playing for either City or United is Kyle Walker as far as I can make out. Hope not, although he's always been a bit of a loose cannon.
Unconfirmed but apparently it’s Gylfi Siggurdson. Everton have suspended a player pending a police investigation.
The only other player it could be is Delph, as he’s 31 too. Apparently Sigurdsson has blocked comments on his Instagram and his missus has shut her social media down. It’s not looking good…
Fact: there were more UFO sightings in Florida 2020 than the rest of the world which proves aliens must have a love of over priced sweet stodgy food
No just hang on, they're just learning the language at preliminary level before they land in a real place.
Been watching Olympics and thought I'd put into words something I've been thinking for... well decades really. It's about the swimming, and how it compares to athletics for example. So I get why you would have events for the fastest person to travel a certain distance. Both athletics and swimming do this. The difference is that swimming also award people for going the same distance in different ways. I don't get that. It's even worse because they are clearly not the fastest way of getting to the end, nor ways that people normally swim. If they were to do this you would probably have front crawl, backstroke and doggie paddle. But perhaps the name "freestyle" is a give away - presumably (does anyone know this), you can do it in whatever stroke you want, but everyone does front crawl because it's fastest. So why not leave it at that? Isn't it also the case that swimmers cover distance quicker under water than doing some of these strokes - so people train their push off so they don't actually have to do the stroke for as long! (I think that's the case anyway, and doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose.) It's like (and this sounds like a joke but isn't), the athletics giving medals for 100m hopping, or 100m running backwards. Seriously, they are about as legitimate ways of going the distance as butterfly. The only athletic event I can think of is marathon and the "walk" (which again isn't the way that anyone would walk, so perhaps shouldn't exist either). Maybe the hurdles too? And thus we've got some American swimmer who has a chance of getting seven golds this games (different strokes plus relays). Yet a track athlete in the most extreme case might get four (though is far less likely than a swimmer), and the legend that is Daley Thompson (why isn't he knighted?) could of course only get one despite being awesome in several events. Happy to hear someones defence of all the swimming medals.
Good post, but this was my favourite quote! lol "It's like (and this sounds like a joke but isn't), the athletics giving medals for 100m hopping, or 100m running backwards."
Good stuff and thought provoking. Why do we mark some 'sports' for style and not others? Isn't gymnastics about style more than actually getting over a horse or swinging on rings? Talking of horses we have the quite weird dressage. Which is marking for control. Why not have two athletes do a wheelbarrow race with marks for control and style. And extra marks for football teams who play with style. Of course in reality all 'sport' is contrived and apart from getting from a - b in the fastest possible time or just killing your opponent it's all 'invented' . Actually this is one of the attractions of boxing that people who hate it don't get. Boxing is more real and less contrived than most sports although unless it's a knockout win there is still a lot of points for style. Much of sport is phoney and what is a sport anyway? Grouse shooting is described as a sport and the first sportsmen were the landed gentry and their killing of various animals. Good sport old chap!
Isn't there a move for the most physically demanding of all activities to be included in the Olympics? Chess? Ffs!!! Nothing against the activity itself but a sport? Such a rigorous training regime. And yet squash doesn't get in.
Thinking further, I suppose sport is contrived because it comes out of war and battle. Football started as a fight between two villages trying to get a 'ball' to a specific point in the opponents village, there were no rules apart from that and people died. Houses were boarded up and people not playing stayed indoors. 6 Kings of England banned football but each time the populace ignored the King and kept playing Over the years more and more rules were introduced mainly for safety and we still do this today so the sport changes and become more stylized and contrived. Think how much time we spend arguing over the rules here for example. In the first world war a lot started by the upper classes as some kind of sport. 'I say German fellow get your people of the boat we are about to sink it.' Or the first flyers and their codes of practice when killing each other.
Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps both demonstrate that there's far too many swimming events considering they have to send their luggage home in a shipping container because they're over their weight limit to put it on the plane home For me the most ridiculous swimming event (other than the butterfly stroke, as nobody ever uses the butterfly stroke in real life) is the 50m, because a significant percentage of that event is covered either by the push-off or diving in the pool, as well as the fact they have to stop after half a length (or a single length of the pool in the Purley Leisure Centre...)
