foreigners nicking jobs and women... the need for a ****ing big wall and heavily armed redneck **** wits to keep them out?
I remember reading somewhere (can't remember now and can't find the link) some American nutter..... sorry columnist....... stating that Scrooge was the hero pre the spirits visit as he had amassed vast wealth and was actually too charitable in employing Bob Cratchett who was a whiny, pathetic excuse of a man. His successful business was a fine example of a self-made man doing robust business in a time of poverty. Once converted, he succumbed to the weak minded ideal of giving to charity to help those less fortunate rather than letting capitalism take it's natural course (i.e. letting the impoverished to starve to death). Yeah, that's the true meaning of christmas!
Reminds me of the Harry Enfield "Politicians" Xmas sketch, where the Labour guy claimed Jesus was a socialist because he was a carpenter, and the Tory guy riposte was No, no, no. Jesus was a self-employed small businessman.
"If people call it Frankenstein's monster, that means it's the villain...right?" Sort of like how the shark was the hero of Jaws...
The shark was the hero. The number of sea drunk drownings by promiscuous teens went right down on Amity island thanks to it. < moral crusader >
So with us out of the Champions League, the vultures were really busy this morning... Poch to be new PSG manager (RMC, churnalised by Sky) Poch to Los Ladrones (Yahoo Sport...which people use, apparently) Alderweireld to Barca (TeamTALK, CaughtOffside) Lamela to Inter (various, for the past three years, so it's obviously a March tradition now) How will Salah be headed to the Santiago Burgerbun with all this chatter preventing his head being turned?
The Sun and Fail were particularly industrious on the topic today (no surprises there though) . As I said, I love the fact that Spurs make them wait so long and infrequently in the season for any chance to vent their sore/swelling spleens.
Pochettino having a hard time of it today in the press conference. He has at least tried to nail the hacks with their "you have to be in Europe" Narrative (TM) .
On youtube the Fail have been putting clips of Pochettino press conferences from way back when, onto their channel today. Which means when you order by upload date as I do, they are now top of page 1. This is the first time I have ever seen this as far as vid clips from the Fail go. EDIT : they are dumping a lot of vid clips for everyone and everything (including football stuff) .
So in the space of two days Don Balon have talked a Harry Kane transfer to Los Ladrones into being...and then followed it up with a story stating why it won't happen as the Oily Rat doesn't want to be upstaged and certainly doesn't want his good mate Karim Benzema getting marginalised, and instead wants a replacement winger. Sadly, the report resists the urge to suggest a Premier League winger who is having a great season who would obviously fulfil that role, who Marca are already tapping-up with the assistance of his national team coach... In other news, there's headlines saying that Man Utd and Chelsea are both looking at Sokratis Papastathopoulos as an Alderweireld alternative. Errm...shouldn't we be looking at him as an Alderweireld alternative considering we're the team that supposedly needs to replace him? Or is that too logical for the average hack to comprehend?
From Sky Sports... Harry Kane might be set for an extended spell on the sidelines - we're still awaiting the prognosis for his ankle injury - but Tottenham are still planning to let Fernando Llorente go this summer, according to the Evening Standard. FFS What ****ing relevance does Harry twisting his ankle in March, have to us selling Llorente in June, July or August?
Joined-up journalism at its finest. That would be like a weather forecast saying that, as there's drizzle forecast for this evening, we can expect gale force winds in July.
Ofcom are to investigate RT to see whether they are fit and proper to broadcast media in this country. On a completely different subject, this morning the BBC reported how the Universities and College Union had accepted the pension offer and the strikes would cease. This evening the UCU announced they had rejected that offer and the strikes would continue. Can't think why I brought that up...
In the past the same injury has ruled him out for 3-4 weeks, meaning he'd potentially be back for the match with City. All the "He missed X-many games last time" headlines" are including England friendlies and Season Killer Cup matches.
