"Well , has he left or not ? " . This was the opening comment from an RTE presenter this AM . Not being a sports buff it took me some time to find out that the presenter and her sports-reporter colleague were discussing the movenent or non movement of Kevin Keegan form his position as a team manager . For the past week or so all the most of the sports reporting seems to revolve around some thing called the 'window' . Apparently at this time of year all transfers of players (and apparently managers as well ) in English soccer , and lets face it that seems to be the only game that REALLY matters , must take place within certain defined dates .
Although I'm definitely not a football fanatic I am prepared to suffer the drawn out second by second , and in GAA blow by blow reporting and analyses of football matches , provided they are reasonably important , but the interviews at the moment are all about MONEY.
The sports presenters , and RTE in particular , seem to have this fixation on the salaries , wives (and girlfriends ) , homes , cars , and lifestyle of these players .Not much is being said about actually kicking a ball . What is a football managers job anyway ? Their faces seem to be more prominant than the actual players .They appear on television against a now-compulsary background of sports logos , muttering the same inane garbage concerning a game that most of the viewers had already spent over 90 minutes watching and telling them all over again what they had just witnessed.The same scenario after each game ad infinitum , ad nauseum.
Suggestions ....why don't they use real four-letter words if they are unhappy with the result ?
Why don't they have the REAL fans standing behind them , instead of those silly logos , the youngsters .....who are the ones to whom all this stuff should be directed . Why don't the managers sometimes have a spitoon and chew 'baccy during the interview , occasionally lobbing a 'gob' into the spitoon to emphasise a point and to get people really animated ? Why don't these guys appear in their underwear wearing silly hats ? And why oh why do we not have WOMEN managers , as apparently there are so many incompetant managers out there whose teams cannot do better than one in a row? What do managers do ? What is the players job?
Please STOP talking money and start kicking the ball royghly in the direction of the opponents goalmouth. Bring back Matt Busby !
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If I had my way, the whole game would be decided on number of corners any way...
Oh, and guess what? That Fas prognosticator was wrong. The Irish Times quoting a stock broker about the latest unemployment report:
“It remains to be seen whether outward migration will ease the situation later in the year. So far, it appears that non-nationals are staying on the Register for the time being.”
The outlook is for further rises with the rate heading towards 8 per cent late next year, he added.'
Looks like Fas will have to rethink their labor-market projections. The problem is not taking care of itself as they hoped.
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