NOW THE SUITS KNOW HOW A SNUB FEELS

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Daily Sport07 Dec 2010

NOW THE SUITS KNOW HOW A SNUB FEELS
Daily Sport, December 7, 2010

SPARE a thought for those mega-salaried, suited-up “football” bods putting in all that effort to win England the World Cup only to have the sand kicked in their faces by a fat Swiss bloke.

It must have been hard for them, bless, to watch a man whose Wikipedia once said his middle name was “bellend” (it isn’t) play God and decide what goes where and when. What does Blatter know, they said, we had the best bid. Arr, how did they sleep when their electric gates clicked shut? Back to the real world, football no-marks in powerful positions pissing everyone off is nothing new to fans who have been brassed off with the modern game for years.
They’ve watched it warp into a money-obsessed parody of the sport they once loved.
They’ve been messed around by genius TV schedules which mean they drive through the night to see their team play Portsmouth at Saturday lunchtime.
They’ve watched competitions they love turn into a run out for stiffs, devalued by managers who couldn’t give a flying one about supporters.

And all the while the sport has burnt a bigger and bigger hole in their wallets.
So while England-lovers may have felt a tad put out that FIFA’s fatcats denied them a chance of watching the World Cup on home soil, there was little sympathy for the people who tried to win us the thing.
After all, who are the FA? Or the Premier League, or FIFA for that matter?
Did fans elect them? Did they bollocks, so why should they hold all the power?
Fed-up fans are getting organised and getting heard. The Fooball Supporters’ Federation is 180,000 strong and regularly meets government bigwigs.
They don’t like what they are seeing so they’re doing something about it.
Not for the first time, the FA would do well to follow the example of the fans.

LOONY TOON

JUST when you thought football had gone all sensible on us, Newcastle sack Chris Hughton.
What’s that about? A week or so ago, it seemed Avram Grant would get the chop at West Ham.
The majority of Liverpool fans would be happy if the underwhelming Roy Hodgson got the axe and some Everton supporters have amazingly called for the head of David Moyes.

But Hughton? What has he done to deserve such treatment? Apparently the Newcastle board want someone with “more managerial experience”.
Funny they didn’t mention that when they gave Hughton the job 13 months ago.
At the time the axe fell, Newcastle were above Liverpool in the Premier League with 19 points in the bag and a better away record than the Reds.
Not bad for a promoted club that didn’t shell out on big-name signings in the summer is it? Newcastle are held as an example of the wrong way to run a football club by most fans. And the fact they have had 24 full-time and five caretaker managers in their history is a bit of a giveaway, too. So who next? Serious talk says Alan Pardew but, knowing Newcastle, would you rule out Ant and Dec?