Football is a game. It involves a group of men in shorts kicking a bag of wind from one end of a field to the other, with the objective to kick it into an area marked off by posts and a net. That is football.
For reasons which I cannot fathom, in England, this game is treated with a fanaticism which would draw scorn from the likes of the EDL if those who followed it were also Muslim. However, as the lunatics who devote their spare time and money to watching half-dressed men prancing up and down a field, are not exclusively of any one religion, the fanatical devotion of the fans of the game escapes the attention of the EDL bigots. Many EDL activists are football fanatics, and will attack anyone who doesn’t support their chosen team, or who doesn’t share their adoration of the over-paid football kickers, with a level of zeal a Wahhabi or Ultra-Orthodox preacher would be jealous of.
In England there is currently a furore over one overpaid windbag-kicker saying rude words to another such prima donna. The man accused of the alleged abuse (John Terry) is White and the recipient of his childish words (Anton Ferdinand) is Black. The abuse was along the lines of calling the other player a Black Bastard. For this childish name-calling the man who was Captain of the England football team has been sacked, and will be tried in court for racially aggravated assault!
This sad tale has taken another turn. The manager of the England team (Fabio Capello) made a statement saying that the Captain should not have been sacked at least until it is determined in court whether he is guilty of the alleged ‘crime’. The boss of the England Football Association (David Bernstein) insisted that Terry could not remain as Captain due to the heinous nature of his racist crime. Capello has now resigned in disgust of this ‘guilty before proven innocent’ stance of the politically correct Football Association.
Get a grip England! If Terry was a childish naughty boy, then surely not being allowed to eat his half-time oranges should have been punishment enough before being allowed to go and play with the other boys.
It is good to see that the British police are looking after the country and not getting involved in petty cases of name-calling. Oh how the rapists, heroin-dealers, murderers etc must be laughing that at the will of Kommissar Bernstein, the streets are short of a few uniformed thugs who may just have for once done their job and enforced real, not political, laws.
Oy Vey indeed!
1 comment:
sport is war by other means!
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