Where does it all go wrong?
From Politics to Football we appear to be digging ever deeper holes for ourselves.
Surely the best advice is: If you are in a hole stop digging.
NHS Reforms? Stop Digging.
Tax Breaks for the wealthy: Stop Digging.
Demonising those on benefits? Stop digging.
As for football? That should be stop tweeting.
Millionaire players and Millionaire managers and little or nothing to show for it.
An old friend of mine played professionally in the 1950's for a Northern Football Club.
On match days he used to cycle the ten miles from his home to the ground and then play for ninety minutes, there were no substitutes, and then cycle home.
For away games he would still cycle to the ground, but there would be a charabanc to wherever the game was to be played, when he got back to the ground, at whatever time that was, he would cycle the ten miles home.
And all for a wage slightly better than the average wage at the time.
Of course I remember 1966, I watched the matches on TV, and the immortal words, They thinks it's all over, It is Now!
But that was 46 years ago, and World Cups have come and gone quite a few times, and with them the disappointments.
That was why it became clear that we needed a foreign manager, now apparently it is equally clear that we need an English Manager.
And when asked David Cameron said that it would be a bad day for English Football if the Prime Minister chose the Manager.
Well that is true, but then it would offer him an opportunity to reshuffle his cabinet, Mr Duncan Smith or Mr Hague could take on the National Team?
There would be no scroungers if IDS had his way, people would have to play where he told them, it would be good work experience and get them job ready for when they were substituted.
Mr Hague's rather gravelly Yorkshire tones would reverberate around Wembley and after the game he could sink several pints with the players.
Mr Lansley of course would keep substituting one player for another, he might even decide that the Chairmen of Premiership Clubs should commission the players? (Asking the fans would be too dangerously socialist!)
I guess that Mr Osborne would be comfortable with the Champagne lifestyle of the premiership player but Mr Pickles might decide to reduce their Grants if they didn't reduce the admission prices?
Of course I will still be watching my team play on Saturday and I will be rooting for them to win and then go on to win the Premiership, Champions for the twentieth time, just as on the 6th February I paused for a minutes silence to recall the Munich Disaster fifty four years ago.
At that time Manchester United were chasing their third successive English League title.
Now Manchester United offers two models, whilst FC United of Manchester has become a Co-operative, Manchester United have been bought by American businessmen, the Glazer family, who have taken the club forward as a significant commercial enterprise with remarkable international support.
From Politics to Football we appear to be digging ever deeper holes for ourselves.
Surely the best advice is: If you are in a hole stop digging.
NHS Reforms? Stop Digging.
Tax Breaks for the wealthy: Stop Digging.
Demonising those on benefits? Stop digging.
As for football? That should be stop tweeting.
Millionaire players and Millionaire managers and little or nothing to show for it.
An old friend of mine played professionally in the 1950's for a Northern Football Club.
On match days he used to cycle the ten miles from his home to the ground and then play for ninety minutes, there were no substitutes, and then cycle home.
For away games he would still cycle to the ground, but there would be a charabanc to wherever the game was to be played, when he got back to the ground, at whatever time that was, he would cycle the ten miles home.
And all for a wage slightly better than the average wage at the time.
Of course I remember 1966, I watched the matches on TV, and the immortal words, They thinks it's all over, It is Now!
But that was 46 years ago, and World Cups have come and gone quite a few times, and with them the disappointments.
That was why it became clear that we needed a foreign manager, now apparently it is equally clear that we need an English Manager.
And when asked David Cameron said that it would be a bad day for English Football if the Prime Minister chose the Manager.
Well that is true, but then it would offer him an opportunity to reshuffle his cabinet, Mr Duncan Smith or Mr Hague could take on the National Team?
There would be no scroungers if IDS had his way, people would have to play where he told them, it would be good work experience and get them job ready for when they were substituted.
Mr Hague's rather gravelly Yorkshire tones would reverberate around Wembley and after the game he could sink several pints with the players.
Mr Lansley of course would keep substituting one player for another, he might even decide that the Chairmen of Premiership Clubs should commission the players? (Asking the fans would be too dangerously socialist!)
I guess that Mr Osborne would be comfortable with the Champagne lifestyle of the premiership player but Mr Pickles might decide to reduce their Grants if they didn't reduce the admission prices?
Of course I will still be watching my team play on Saturday and I will be rooting for them to win and then go on to win the Premiership, Champions for the twentieth time, just as on the 6th February I paused for a minutes silence to recall the Munich Disaster fifty four years ago.
At that time Manchester United were chasing their third successive English League title.
Now Manchester United offers two models, whilst FC United of Manchester has become a Co-operative, Manchester United have been bought by American businessmen, the Glazer family, who have taken the club forward as a significant commercial enterprise with remarkable international support.
The Green and Gold of Newton Heath the club which became Manchester United is a symbol of supporters unhappiness with the Glazer's business model but on the field the club continues to perform successfully.
So maybe the FA should assess their options, turn themselves into a Co-op owned by the supporters or advertise for a wealthy American sugar daddy to invest in future success ....
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