Spot on and at the time the fee we paid for Jimmy Bullard was the average fee paid for a Premier League player that season. To put it simply it was no big deal. The hysteria that followed cost us Charlie Austin. The club dare not take the gamble again because of all the flak they received over the Bullard signing.
We've never got over the Wayne Jacobs saga! People have used the Bullard business as a stick to beat Duffen/ Bartlett with. At the time they were portrayed as incompetent crooks. Now they seem positively expert and transparent!
Jimmy Bullard was easily one of the best players to have worn a City shirt. One of the ironies of life is how such a **** could be so good a footballer.
He isn't unique in being good at something whilst being an absolute arsehole. Plenty of footballers are, sportsmen in general, film stars, singers...If I was influenced by what they were like as people .I wouldn't watch some of my favourite films and wouldn't be listening to a fair few of my favourite singers.
They are also run under some sort of trust set up that their journalists condemn others for using. Quite funny a bit ago when some Guardian journalists discovered they were not actually employed as they thought they were and were to all intents and purposes on the sort of contracts they had been criticising other firms for using.
I always read the laughably misnamed 'Independent' when I have time. It long since gave up trying to sell any hard copies, and exists only as a shrill online studenty extreme version of the Guardian.
It is interesting to see the posts deleted and the articles which aren't open to comment. Not to mention what isn't reported that is elsewhere. Though articles in other papers, to be fair, have comments on articles about certain groups and their activities blocked.Though the Guardian has more people on there knocking what their journalists write than agreeing with them nowadays. Had my account blocked on the Guardian. Don't know if was what I said to and about Polly or a complaint about my user name, just told it was following a complaint Bit harsh for any other Anton Drexler about.
Reminds me of a story a friend of the late Paul Dixon told me the other day. Paul once wrote to John Humber, a columnist in the HDM, claiming to be a Hungarian refugee thanking the generous people of Hull City council for giving him a house full of furniture and money to spend every week when he was left homeless and jobless after been released from jail for robbery in his own country. He signed the letter Mybolx Sritchin. It was printed in full.
