Fern9do
05-09-2008, 10:08 AM
In the West of Wales this week, two bulls, said to be "aggressive and irate", escaped from a trailer and ran amok in a nearby town. Chaos ensued as the beasts lurched at anything and everything in sight. They were eventually shot by marksmen.
A worthy parallel with these beasts thrashing around desperately would be English Premiership soccer this past week. Talk of desperate creatures doing desperate things.
Newcastle United go behind their manager's back and quietly make every player on their books available for transfer. James Milner, one of their most promising youngsters, is snapped up by Aston Villa for ?12-million (R167-million).
This news, of course, completely undermines the position of their manager Kevin Keegan, whose position at the club has been made untenable.
A few hundred kilometres away, something similar happened at West Ham. Players were sold on deadline day without the knowledge of another manager, Alan Curbishley. The sale of Anton Ferdinand and George McCartney, both to Sunderland, left Curbishley standing on a trapdoor. He duly dropped through it, 24 hours later.
Meanwhile, members of the Abu Dhabi royal family rushed in to buy Manchester City, and immediately sanctioned a ?32,5-million transfer fee to bring Brazilian striker Robinho from Real Madrid.
City offered the Brazilian a whopping ?160 000 a week. Desperate men in desperate times.
Furthermore, the new front man for the Abu Dhabi connection announced publicly that the club might now turn their attention to recruiting Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester rivals United. The transfer fee?
"I would think ?135-million, but why not? We are going to be the biggest club in the world, bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United," said Sulaiman Al-Fahim.
Reality, if it ever existed, finally went flying out of the window of English football this week.
The Abu Dhabi deal confirms that the world of English football is truly living in a fool's paradise. What does a transfer fee of ?32,5 million and a salary of ?160 000 a week for a so-so Brazilian footballer who has scored just 25 goals in 101 league games for Real Madrid, have to do with the real world? Nothing at all.
So perhaps those marksmen in Wales ought to cross the border and get busy in the world of English football.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_Soccer&set_id=1&click_id=19&art_id=vn20080905070338924C928326
A worthy parallel with these beasts thrashing around desperately would be English Premiership soccer this past week. Talk of desperate creatures doing desperate things.
Newcastle United go behind their manager's back and quietly make every player on their books available for transfer. James Milner, one of their most promising youngsters, is snapped up by Aston Villa for ?12-million (R167-million).
This news, of course, completely undermines the position of their manager Kevin Keegan, whose position at the club has been made untenable.
A few hundred kilometres away, something similar happened at West Ham. Players were sold on deadline day without the knowledge of another manager, Alan Curbishley. The sale of Anton Ferdinand and George McCartney, both to Sunderland, left Curbishley standing on a trapdoor. He duly dropped through it, 24 hours later.
Meanwhile, members of the Abu Dhabi royal family rushed in to buy Manchester City, and immediately sanctioned a ?32,5-million transfer fee to bring Brazilian striker Robinho from Real Madrid.
City offered the Brazilian a whopping ?160 000 a week. Desperate men in desperate times.
Furthermore, the new front man for the Abu Dhabi connection announced publicly that the club might now turn their attention to recruiting Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester rivals United. The transfer fee?
"I would think ?135-million, but why not? We are going to be the biggest club in the world, bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United," said Sulaiman Al-Fahim.
Reality, if it ever existed, finally went flying out of the window of English football this week.
The Abu Dhabi deal confirms that the world of English football is truly living in a fool's paradise. What does a transfer fee of ?32,5 million and a salary of ?160 000 a week for a so-so Brazilian footballer who has scored just 25 goals in 101 league games for Real Madrid, have to do with the real world? Nothing at all.
So perhaps those marksmen in Wales ought to cross the border and get busy in the world of English football.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_Soccer&set_id=1&click_id=19&art_id=vn20080905070338924C928326