Football Inc’s new realism

In these particular times of the football market it is appropriate that 59-year-old George Best is heading for the big reserves team in the Sky. [Investigative journalist Michael Crick – a Red, natch – dropped critical faculties on Newsnight to praise Best for allowing his bedridden picture to be publicised last week – to warn of the dangers of hardcore boozing. Actually he sold the pics to the highest bidder to pay the hospital fees – booze had made him skint as well as killing him].

The genial but unrepentantly hedonistic, permanently Loaded Best was an icon of the laddish, carefree exuberance that accompanied football’s exponential expansion in the 90s. Now we have seen the game contract a little in its popularity – it’s only the skunks at NUFC and the MUFC rags that fill their grounds like sheep week in week out these days. Most other Prem places attract under-capacity crowds, reflecting the often low-quality fayre (also evident at St James’ and OT).

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nice musings around the Best Death over at It's All in Your Mind. Link below...

[ Muzz 28/11/2005 19:43:42 :: web]

re: mido

In larger case, the issues in front of us are very much about how we would like to see these ne'er do wells amongst the West Ham United supporters brought to book.

I personally favour a system of synchronised hamburgers, before 'kick off', at half time and at (very!) full time, so that these people are either to greedy or too envious to concentrate on isolating political
taboo for the purpose of ribald chanting and tribal point scoring.

This is not to characterise Mr Mido as 'a political taboo' but we are dealing with a section of our society that is inherently unstable and glories in that malevolent unpredictability. I say: Bring Back National
Service.

Yours in shitegeist,
Ceremony Peeps
Editor at Large
Disguising prejudice Inc.
Peter Oborne House
Belgravia

[ Creams74 28/11/2005 20:35:56]

How long before the ever increasingly annoying Motson inexplicably raises his voice to announce "it's a throw in!" or how long before Sol dons the lederhosen (or die tottenhosen) & decides to join the Stuttgart Oompa band in the crowd ?

[ Ribs 06/02/2006 23:53:22]

  Brushed chrome, semiconductors, splangets

… such horny modern objets   ¶ 6:13 PM

  This is already a classic plantain

Flame-haired editor Rebekah Wade has been released without charge following her arrest for allegedly assaulting slaphead hubby Ross Kemp. Sure can get a bit tense in that household. Ever since "E-Mail the Musical" things have not been right. What with the apparent downgrading to "come, if you must" status at number 10, Rebekkka has fumed in silence for many a year... Then Cross Hemp kept asking Becci to go "page 3" like in the paper she edits. Toss' inept return to EastEnd was apparently the final whore. Wade lashed out in the style advocated by her mentors Murdoch and Mackenzie - with brute violence. The couple were married in Las Vegas in 2002. Fans and wellwishers hope Wade's paper gives this story the coverage mormally associated with crap actors and jingoid hacks. Although a photo-story in the Sex Letters section will do...  ¶ 6:32 PM

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It should be added that Wade was out drinking with broadcasting fuhrer RuPert Murdoch and lying blind shagger David Blunkett before the events happen. The allegation that Ross was caught in bed with a young male is just despicable rumour

[ munz 08/11/2005 17:46:26]

"The couple were married in Las Vegas in 2002."
- enough said!

[ p 08/11/2005 19:22:18]