Anything, Anywhere But Under Sufferance

It's generally rare that FIFA get anything right. In truth, whether it was Sepp Blatter and his dodgy dealings or not, the organisation is so corrupt, insidious and woeful that I am genuinely surprise that anybody would trust them to organise Boris Johnson's hair, let alone a World Cup or two. This week, FIFA announced their best player and team of the year and all that malarkey and of course, we are told that football is a game of opinions. Only, I am baffled by some of them. I'm not going to go into manager of the year, suffice to say that Jurgen Klopp won, Mauricio Pochettino was second and Pep Guardiola was third. As much as I love Klopp, Guardiola should have won and as for Pochettino beating Guardiola, well that makes about as much sense as Cantona's recent speech. Player of the year, Ok, Messi got it and I understand he had a great year so I'll go with that. Van Dijk I feel was unlucky as for me, he had the biggest impact, but he's a defender, so t...

How have we got to this? Brexit has seen off two Tory Prime Ministers to the point where it seems Britain is now desperate to 'out-stupid' America by 160,000 people (out of 60-odd million) electing a lying, fascist, over-privileged, misogynistic anglophobe with the social graces of eel shit and the intelligence of an anal bead. It's like America has gone "Look! We've elected an Orange Vegetable as President! Nobody can out stupid us!" and Britain has said "Hold My Beer..." We're going to leave on October 31st, no matter what has or has not been agreed, nobody has a clue what is going to happen, but more to the point, the wealthy that will engineer this brutalisation of the majority of the country, won't be impacted, or stand to make a shed load of cash from it. We've empowered the far right and emboldened them to the point where people are being openly challenged about their heritage and 'right' to be in society because the...