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This Bresnan's a right pain in the ass!

 

Oh Oh Oh, you wouldn't dare right a book about that finish. Roland-Jones, a hat-trick to finish. God, got to lie down. County Champions, bloody hell. I'm Middlesex-born by just 150 yds! Phew, what a game!

 

"Yaya Toure & Bastian Schweinsteiger could be paid £20m not to play".

Now, it begs the question, why in hell couldn't I have found a job like that? Sit on my ass getting God knows how much a week for doing sweet ****-all, watching the hoss races and trying to bust Laddies, PP and Willies, et al, with my pot full of lolly, etc., etc. Ah well, mainly because I was a lousy footballer.........

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37440137

.....and to think, when I was a nipper, I think it was the great Jimmy Logie of Scotland and Arsenal, who got 10 quid a week for playing, and, after his playing days were over, ran a newspaper kiosk in London. So bloody unfair can life be? Another slightly different example with a better outcome, Fred Perry who won 10 major tennis titles, including 3 consecutive Wimbledon championships, and duly received a green tie from the All England Club after his last Wimbledon triumph for his efforts. He left GB in disgust for the United States where he proceeded to make a fortune with the 'Fred Perry' brand of sports apparel.

Again begs the question, who took the money in those far-off days? Hundreds of thousands of people watched football then, that's for sure. Over to you, guys, for the answer please.

 

I suppose the owners had it all over the players. They were times when society at large allowed corporations **** all over the average worker. In those days it was very much into class differences. On clocking in, it was all, yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir, today it's more like. "How the hell are ya' fat ****?" Boy are we living the dream or what?

 

You don't have far to look! Compare the 'work' of the Bayern Munchen central defenders of the early seventies; Franz Beckenbauer and the great Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck who, after his playing career, stayed in Munich and took over ownership of a small shop selling newspapers, stationery etc. close to the site of the tri-annual 'Dults' in my favourite city.

 

I think there is so much more money involved today which enables clubs to pay these ridiculous wages. TV rights, advertising and merchandise being the prime examples that spring to mind. I'm sure I could have made it to some level at League football when I was young but the wages were so poor that I was under the impression (probably correctly) that if you had a brain, don't rely on football for a secure job. Therefore I went for a secure job with an excellent company and remained there until I retired. Can't say I ever regretted it. Football these days may still not be a secure job but **** me just a few years and you could be set up for life

 

... not to mention some of the other benefits of being a footballer

 

Very true Oddy. Hence my carefully chosen words "could be"

 

Not listening to the bulls*** on the commentary about them not being able to practise on the actual ground and that being the problem – they could pay me £50k a week and I would play on Blacktoft Sands! They still have to play half their matches on other teams’ grounds and this is a results business.

7/2 Slaven Bilic in the Sack Race is starting to look very tempting.

I think Dimitri Payet is going to disappear from my fantasy team as all he has managed so far this term is a booking.

 

Every now and then a legend is born. One such person was Arnold Palmer. He's passed away aged 87, after an ongoing illness.

Vale Arnold Daniel Palmer. 1929 - 2016.

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Here's a few things about the Oktoberfest for visitors. Sure did not know about the meaning of the position of the bow on the waistline of the ladies' Dirndls, and I've been a few times to the Wies'n. Wondering if BK ever screwed-up and made a pass at a beauty with the bow positioned on the right of her waist? That's dangerous! One always knows if the fellow is already 'taken', we're all as mean as hell!

http://www.dw.com/en/strange-oktoberfest-facts/av-19571840

 

Well f..k me you learn something everyday; will stick with the bow in the back!! A wealthy Bavarian widow in the 45 to 65 age range will suit me just fine!!

SH; remember 'Beer Tent Etiquette' - NO dancing on tables! That reminds me that I must pay my usual 02.30 visit to the Stardust ( www.stardust-tabledance.de ) in Koln this coming January!

 

My missus is Bavarian and a Müncherin born and bred, and she knows all about the right and left bows, but she wonders where the heck Deutsche Welle got the central front and back bow positions from? She has never heard of this and reckons it must be something fairly new. Certainly not known when we were younger.

 

On reading the opening comments on today's DT, before I turned-in that is, I wondered what on earth STH and Chaninbar were talking about. They were both remarkably well-informed. So, now I know:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ation-england-manager-sam-allardyce-for-sale/

What an unholy mess football is in. First FIFA itself, then Beckenbauer and pals, now Allardyce. The latter cannot possibly keep his job after this. Better try out a youngster like Eddie Howe. What a farce it all is.

 

what has gone wrong? Surely everyone knew Allardyce was dirty