Weekly review 6/7/14

Posted on July 6, 2014 by The other Bob Wilson

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  1. Dai Woosnam says:
    July 6, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    Hello Paul,
    You are quite right to object to the selling of Jordon Mutch. Were I manager Ole, I might make him captain and build a team around him Gerrard-style.
    As for last night’s WC game: you say Krul was the hero.
    Not my sort of hero, that is for sure.
    The studio pundits lauded his sledging of his penalty-taking opponents. Shame on them! Mind you I don’t think I will ever seek moral guidance from a panel made up of drug-test avoiding cheats like Ferdinand, and Lennon-head kicking denier Shearer!
    Just like the egregious Joe Hart was once yellow-carded for screaming dementedly as the kicker ran up “You’re gonna miss it, you’re gonna miss it!”, so Krul should have had a yellow card after the first bit of his nonsense yesterday, and the second yellow – and resulting red – for the next kick (which as it was missed, should have been retaken).
    And seeing that Bryan Ruiz’s second effort would have been into an unguarded net – and all subsequent Costa Rican efforts, then Costa Rica would inevitably at some stage have been declared the winner. (Surely, unless you have Diana Ross of The Supremes in your line-up, everyone can score a penalty into an unguarded net?!)
    As for you thinking Brazil will win: I rather fancy Germany will take the title. Not that I want them to necessarily, thought that said, they are the country I least “want to fail” from the remaining four. I won’t bore you with the reasons why I am anti the other three.
    And the fact that I half want Germany to win is really something! It will be a first for me. To think that I will be uttering one and a half cheers for the country who killed my two beloved uncles!
    Mind you I can do without Angela Merkel flying at her tax payers’ expense to Brazil for the final.
    If I could have one wish granted it would be that all politicians be banned from major sporting events. And they do not have to behave like the idiot Alex Salmond slyly unfolding a saltire behind the back of the new champ Andy Murray at Wimbledon! Just being there is bad enough.
    I have been watching and recording all the FIFA official films shown on BBC2 at weekends in recent weeks. And the one on the 1966 World Cup Final was most illuminating. I always knew that Harold Wilson had been there, but closer inspection of the VIP area (by freezing the frame) showed me Jim Callaghan (despite being MP for Cardiff South East, he was a man always absent from Ninian Park unless his beloved Pompey were visiting) and George Brown (for once AT the Cup instead of IN his cups!)
    I bet the three of the parasites never paid for their tickets.
    Don’t even get me STARTED on the subject of complimentary tickets! Although the great John Charles once gave me a couple outside the George Hotel in Huddersfield for a game at Leeds Road later that day, I have otherwise paid for every soccer game I have attended in a long life.
    It makes me SPIT NAILS to hear millionaire ex-players/managers say on radio to another crony: “can you arrange to leave a couple of tickets at reception for me?” Unbelievable! It is a sort of unwritten rule that ex and current pros do not pay to watch the game!
    And until that is changed, I will not be mug enough to help sponsor these scoundrels.
    Kindest, as ever,
    Dai.
    PS Hope your health is not too bad. Me? I have just got a blue badge, as I cannot now walk more than 60 yards unaided.
    And now I can finally cross the Seven Bridge in my car for nowt.
    Mad logic, eh?
    Presumably the able-bodied are supposed to swim over, with their cars on their backs!?
    DW

  2. Dai Woosnam says:
    July 7, 2014 at 5:17 am

    Good morning, Paul,
    Apolos for my typo in my first para. It should of course be JordOn Mutch …though that said, I fancy the typo was really his parents’ one, and not mine.
    BTW, lest your readers think Krul did nothing wrong and the referee had no grounds on which to show him two yellow cards, let me remind them that the Brazilian captain is missing tomorrow’s semi final PRECISELY because he was guilty of the same offence, viz. “UNGENTLEMANLY CONDUCT”.
    Kindest,
    Dai.

  3. The other Bob Wilson says:
    July 7, 2014 at 9:04 am

    Morning Dai – I’ve made that change to your message you mentioned.
    I was only thinking in terms of the saves Tim Krul made when I mentioned him being a hero, but, you are right, it was the wrong choice of word given his blatant gamesmanship. Now that Krul’s got away with it (although I tend to prefer refs to show a common sense approach compared to the card happy “look at me, look at me” stuff we often seen in the Premier League, I do believe they’ve been too lenient in this World Cup), we can expect more of the same from goalkeepers in the same position – let’s hope the officials are more prepared to act the next time a keeper tries something similar.
    I’m not sure which of the remaining four teams I want to win the tournament (Argentina maybe), but I just think Brazil have such an advantage in playing at home and I don’t believe the other three are good enough to deny them.
    So many of today’s politicians make out they are football fans because, ever since Gazza’s tears in 1990, the game has become something to be seen at rather than something to be avoided at all costs – how many of them were prepared to “out themselves” when Thatcher was trying to introduce her membership scheme in the 80’s? To be fair to Harold Wilson, I think he was a genuine football fan and not a manufactured one, but, it’s news to me that Jim Callaghan used to watch Portsmouth and, as you say, the only reason I can think George Brown would have been at Wembley was because he would be able to get a drink when the pubs were shut!
    Sorry to hear about your restricted mobility – I hope and trust, it will not impinge on your globetrotting.

  4. Dai Woosnam says:
    July 9, 2014 at 5:07 am

    Good morning, Paul.
    Delighted with last night’s amazing score from Belo Horizonte.
    Not least because I forecast that the pressure would always get to Brazil.
    I see Fabio has been interviewed in Walesonline, and I could not resist a comment under the piece (under the guise of my Davina persona).
    But that is not why I write to you at 4.45 a.m.
    I am writing re the purchase of Ross McSpotkick for £11m.
    What a clever move by Mehmet!
    He places a bid for £9m so that Fulham, not knowing that Cardiff had a 15% sell-on clause, raise their bid to an amazing …eleven!
    That – after DJ’s STUPIDLY SELLING HIM FOR DRINK DRIVING – is good business. A cool £1,650.00 into the coffers!
    Kindest,
    Dai.

  5. The other Bob Wilson says:
    July 11, 2014 at 9:09 am

    Morning Dai, sorry for the late reply, but I only saw your message this morning. All I’ll say about Tuesday’s game is that just when you get to an age when you start to believe that there is nothing left in the world to surprise you, you get a result like Brazil 1 Germany 7 – I’ve not given this too much thought beforehand, but I wonder if there’s ever been a sporting result which has had a bigger effect on the loser’s national psyche than that?
    I don’t think there was ever a bid from us for Ross McCormack, but perhaps the stories from a few weeks ago about one might have come from “sources close to Cardiff City”. I’m a McCormack fan and would have sold Chopra and kept him if it was my decision to make, but £11 million strikes me as a ridiculous fee – I suppose if he gets 20 goals in the new season and Fulham go up, they’ll say it was money well spent.

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