A one-month break before the next football season gets underway will fly by, and we can all immerse ourselves in the soap opera that is the Premier League. Thank heavens that Suarez will not be featuring, and if ever there was a time to say, or basis for saying, "I told you so", it's now, in respect of Liverpool's silly endorsement of their star in the last couple of years. Now the club has dispensed with the 'services' of Suarez, there's a subtle claim that he was not suitable to be associated with Liverpool FC. How hypocritical, after earlier clamouring to defend the indefensible. As for Barcelona, I've lost any respect that might have existed beforehand.
Come the start of the season, we will still have to put up with players whose abilities do not stretch beyond "limited". I am surprised there's not been a mass influx of medical attention, to try to deal with the many deficiencies clearly present in the minds and bodies of footballers. Is there a doctor in the league?
Few players can manage to cope with the rules about throw-ins, and 10% of them are foul throws. Then there's the taking of corners, and the inability of most to put the ball in the fucking quadrant. The groundsman takes ages to mark out the pitch, and yet the players steadfastly refuse to put the ball inside the 90 degree section. It used to be the case that the ball had to be inside the thing, but these days, there's been a move to accept a slight overhang of the ball on the line. This twisting of logic and of common sense is still not enough for some, whose intent on taking a corner kick is to get away with placing the ball just outside the line, when it's on the side the linesman is not patrolling.
Then there is the inability of players to count to ten. This can be the only explanation for referees now having to spend so much time and take weird measures, in order to enforce the 10-yard gap between the ball and a defending player. The World Cup was the first we'd seen of the spray canister, and it's reported that the Premiership will 'benefit' from this approach this season, or at latest, next season. Anything to help the players, eh? What's wrong with the proper approach of expecting them to retreat ten yards, and showing the Yellow Card to any cunt who acts like more of a cunt, and encroaches?
I wonder what the corrective action will be to help players not to kick a moving ball, when taking a free kick? Clearly we cannot expect our star players to know when a ball is moving before thumping it up the pitch. There has to be some sort of aid for them to know it's safe and legal to kick a ball, aside from looking at the fucking thing to see if it's moving!
Finally, it's a well known thing that no player can be trusted, and that integrity is not an integral part of the game. Why else would there be so much appealing by players who are being twats? We see them kick the ball out and then appeal for the throw to go their way. The constant appealing and pestering of referees is like a playground squabble. I suggest that rugby referees are brought in to manage the Premiership matches. There is a level of respect and gentlemanly conduct in rugby that footballers simply do not recognise, let alone want to adopt. I believe that the best system to improve things would be to introduce penalty points into each game, whereby there is a financial cost to being a cunt. Every dodgy appeal, feigned injury, dive, and any general cuntishness leads to a deduction of money. So, if a player dives and the evidence shows it, then £10,000 to charity. That would sort the fuckers!
Finally, it seems there is a place as 'Number 2' for Ryan Giggs, because Louis van Gaal clearly cannot manage on his own, having only got third place in the World Cup. I questioned earlier (above) whether there was a doctor in the league, and it seems there now is. I reckon the honorary doctorate from Bolton University swung things for Ryan, and Mr van Gaal was impressed enough to ask Ryan to carry the plasters and the magic sponge.
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