well, luton got the (much talked about) 200M for the premier promotion season and are talking about banking the parachute payments to pay for the promised new ground...am i the only one thinking there's a rabbit away?
If I was a Luton supporter I'd be wanting to know where the cash had gone mind. The plans are a thing of mythology up to now, sketches a youngun could do. Dodgy stuff. Also, if I was a Luton supporter, I'd give up foot I'm the same. The only ones I have ever really noticed saying something really interesting, something that would never have occured to me are some ex managers, usually the older ones. Venables, O'Neill, Robson, even Happy Harry, would often say something of that kind. There will be others, but Sky are obsessed with recently retired players. Now, most of them are too busy getting their turn to use the latest gadgets, showing heavenly lights shining down on players or fluorescent and fluid rhomboid shapes showing how a defender is useless because he is one and a half inches too deep. Or even worse, desperately trying to get the latest buzz word in. For me it's usually match on, telly on, half time kettle on, match over, telly off.
You're right as usual mate, you can always spot a rabbit. They were hardly paying massive wages in the PL, made a massive fortune and now this fabulous new ground is up in the air. I first went to their shiithole of a ground in the 70's and they were talking about the new stadium then! They were in the 'Premier League' then, made loads of money and have been up and down ever since. I've no idea how much they've creamed off but someone has been lining their pockets for years.
Generally because they're cheap. Most drift into punditry because they've not thought about what to do when their careers are over, so will take the gig because it's there and they need to pay the bills (or ex wife's divorce settlement). Add in some are too thick or lazy to do their coaching badges and you wouldn't trust some to manage a glass of water without setting it on fire, it's about all some can manage to do, and even then some can barely speak. Clinton Morrison has me convinced that's he's actually one of the malfunctioning robots from "Westworld" because of the way he speaks and his lack of anything remotely insightful, interesting or intelligent to say.
I actually believe TV companies employ pundits who are 'fick' to attract the younger element who can identify with them ... ... it's abysmal and embarrassing to hear.
Wish we could have pundits who could enlighten and educate the likes of me who haven't coached or played at any level. It's very dull mostly.
I think it's partly that as well, I remember a BBC executive about 20 years ago saying he didn't care what a middle aged white bloke thought because he was only interested in what the young Asian kid from Leicester thought. People like that move around media companies and bring that kind of attitude with them. It started with "yoof" culture and Janet Street Porter and gradually spread from there. Probably best summed up by the pillock Tim Westwood, the middle class son of the Bishop of Peterborough, who acted as though he was an inner city black lad and being employed by the BBC for years without them getting the joke that he inspired Ali G. All because they thought a section of society identified with him.
