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The Fergies of tomorrow
So Tony Adams is the latest in a long line of young managers to get the boot from managing a Premiership football club.
The thing with the young and inexperienced is that they should be given a chance, after all they are going to be the ones for the future, the ones who will hopefully manage again in years to come.
Roy Keane, Paul Ince and Tony Adams should be given a chance to manage at the highest level again, it’s a huge learning experience for them and I’m sure given another go they’d do well at it.
But is losing the manager a bit of a scapegoat? Surely a lack of decent results and form isn’t entirely down to them?
Give our youth a chance, they’re the Sir Alex Fergusons and Arsene Wengers of tomorrow.
There’s something about…
Jaffa Cakes that once you open a box and only intend on eating one or two then half an hour later the whole box is gone…
How about a new slogan for them: Once you start you seriously cannot stop?
Preachings from the Pulpit….A Weekend Sports review
Well Arsenal won….just. It’s quite lucky that our January shouldn’t be that taxing so we can make the additions to our squad before the deadline and hopefully not lose too much ground.
Chelsea could of played on until next Tuesday and still not scored. They REALLY need a striker.
Think Wenger boobed when he didn’t sign Palacios and Valencia when they were on trial and then he recommended them to Wigan.
Although I am looking forward to Spurs fans sending me postcards from the Championship, if only West Ham could join them…..
David Warner….Sehwagologist in disguise. England take note….brilliant knock, never would someone like Warner be able to do that for England.
Didn’t watch the Darts, by all accounts was very dramatic.
Preachings from the Pulpit
Ok, I’ve had 24 hours to mull over my thoughts and rage since the whole Pietersen/Moores thing started and although my rage has been slightly tempered by sniggering at Man Utd losing 1-0 to Derby, here we go.
First of all, I would like to say that Andrew Strauss should of been captain instead of Fred for the Ashes tour and maybe should of took over full time because you could see Virgil’s form dipping even then.
I’m amazed that in 2009, a organisation such as the ECB is still so inept as to let these spats become public knowledge, after the Ashes we got the Schofield report which led to the ECB adding 78 levels of management to their structure and no-one really knowing what the hell anyone else does.
Giles Clarke is a Idiot. I felt it needed saying.
Steve Harmison should shut the hell up and learn to bowl again.
The fundamental problem with English Cricket can be applied to every sport England compete in apart from Cycling and even then, It’s a Scot who is the talisman for that as well. Anyway, the problem is that England have a winning problem, they don’t look like they know how to or want to. The Ashes in 2005 were a blip I’m sorry to say.
The Aussies were below-par and even at a below-par status were still a pretty good match for England. There is too much of a “Old Boys Club” mentality involved, If your rubbish – your dropped. I’m really fed up with players like Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, James Anderson, Matt Prior, Tim Ambrose being feckign useless for prolonged periods of time but still keeping out players that are on form. What the hell does Owais Shah do to have to get a game. I’m even a bit fed-up of Ali Cook getting out for 52 every game. look at Gotham City Gambhir – gets 100’s. Katich – Gets scores. Graeme Smith – Best opening batsman at the moment. Joe Denly or Rob Key would be better opening batsman – hell I still yearn for Strauss & Trescothick opening up.
England need to learn how to win, The Aussies won with a severly depleted attack, but they still WON. Which is why I always thought that KP was the best captain, because he wanted to win, I know that Strauss was born in Jo’burg but all the Saffa has been drained out of him. I’m sad for Peter Moores but have no sympathy because he is a average coach with average ideas and also inspires no confidence, his team could lose by 750 runs and he would still find positives, he never once said ” We were Shit, I’ll bollock them”. This breeded complancency that however shit you played, you would still be picked, that is not the right attitude.
I would like to see Tom Moody or even Buchanan take over, but England will get someone like Graham Ford, who seems to like getting a really good ODI team but relegated at the longer form of the games.
Sounds perfect for the Ashes.
Until I get Wound up more……take care.
The Cardinal.
On the closing down of stores
My local Woolworths finally closed its doors on Monday, and even then the items left for sale were only 70% off.
It got me thinking about stores that haven’t been hit by the current recession filled credit crunch climate – there you go, all of the commonly used terms in one muddled go, I won’t use them again, I promise.
Electronics stores such as Currys, Comet and PC World all adopt a policy of “if you see it elsewhere cheaper then we’ll match that price”. Jessops do it too, I’ve got good bargains on camera stuff from there.
As a keen DVD fan, I do most of my shopping on websites such as Amazon and Play.com, both of whom have a healthy trade, in comparison to the likes of Zavvi and formerly Woolworths (I know Woolies sold more than DVDs and CDs etc).
Why don’t stores such as HMV, Zavvi and Borders also adopt the policy of matching the cheaper price? By doing that they may have got more people buying things from there rather than on the internet…
Blogging IS educational
Well I’ve started this blog with a cool new name and already I’m learning….first up “What on earth is a monitor lizard?”
Well according to Wikipedia :
Monitor lizards or biawak are members of the family Varanidae, a group of carnivorous lizards which includes the heaviest living lizard, the Komodo dragon, with the crocodile monitor being the longest in the world. Varanidae is monotypic, containing only the genus Varanus. Their closest living relatives are the anguid and helodermatid lizards.
Monitor lizards are generally large reptiles, although some can be as small as 12 centimetres in length. They have long necks, powerful tails and claws, and well-developed limbs. Most species are terrestrial, but arboreal and semi-aquatic monitors are also known. Almost all monitor lizards are carnivorous, although Varanus prasinus and Varanus olivaceus are also known to eat fruit. They are oviparous, laying from 7 to 37 eggs, which they often cover with soil or protect in a hollow tree stump.
So there you go!
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Thin Ice and Thick heads
Just heard a piece on one of our beloved radio stations which serves to indicate just how thick some people are…..
There was a condemnation of a young family for skating on a frozen pond in the last day or so. The pond in question was reported to be 15 to 20 feet deep and they were rightly in my opinion castigated for this.
However this led to the ‘health and safety’ crew coming out of their hole and coming out with a remark that you shouldn’t skate on ice even if the water below is only inches deep cause you might fall through and get trapped under the ice……
Is it just me or in that situation the rescue plan would be “stand up”……..
The Jinxed Tom Rees
Tom Rees of Wasps is missing yet another Six Nations campaign through injury with a medial knee ligament tear.
It’s a good job that Lewis Moody is back on fine form for Leicester. Okay so his sin-binning at Twickenham against Harlequins pretty much cost the Tigers the match but a superb display at home to Bath, including a brilliant charge down on a Butch James kick in the dying minutes has shown that “Mad Dog” is back on track and causing yet another selection headache for former team-mate Martin Johnson.
Michael Lipman and Steffan Armitage may feel hard done by as they are both decent players, but in the world of international rugby and the possibility of facing the likes of Martyn Williams and Mauro Bergasmasco during the tournament, Lewis Moody has to be my choice at openside flanker.
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon everyone, I’ve just started this new blog. It’s designed to be a little bit of light relief from the Finance Digest blog I also write. If I’m honest I enjoy blogging but the financial world is just too darn depressing at the moment.
This is intended to cover things that are a lot more fun or at least interesting. Basically everything I see from my monitor…so that means news, media, sport, culture, travel….anything!
Hope it goes well. Watch this space
