WORLD CUP FINAL WAS A BLOODY DISGRACE

Well the World Cup is finally over and for a final epic spectacle what we got to witness today was tension filled physically played and riveting 120 minutes of football that in the end could best be described as disgrace to the great game. Today two things won out, cynicism and pragmatism. A game that was truly brutal in style and barbaric in its approach as well as afraid of it’s own shadow.

Some Mellow Thoughts and Hopes For Manchester United

I guess I am in a mellow mood or I'm just feeling relaxed but I think it's time to write a few optimistic thoughts now that I feel this way before the anger and frustration of being a Manchester United fan returns.

Pragmatism Takes a Dumper at the World Cup…….Thank God

Today I am glad to report that the evil philosophy of pragmatism has taken a royal damper and has exited its usual perch at the top of the football world. For those who are unaware or who just don’t care, Brazil was knocked out of the 2010 World Cup today by the Dutch which, for me, spells a definite hiatus of sorts for those who have reduced the game to such boring and predictable standards and who prey on the game with such pragmatic values that they have for years tortured and crippled it’s entertainment value and freedom of expression.

Spot the Ball!

Can you spot the ball?

It’s Time For Mutiny or Walking the Plank

So David Silva has signed with Man City. Actually that's a big surprise because I still think City is going to have to settle for second tier talent as long as they are out of Champions League contention. And seeing as they are Man City, that should be forever because they are and always will be a second-class organization regardless of the money they have.

England vs Germany Player Ratings

England

David James - 5/10 A low score because he let four goals past him but the fact is he is really only at partial fault for Mueller’s first which he let in on the short side. Other than he had no chance on the others and actually made handful of big saves.

I Remember When the Beautiful Game was Indeed Beautiful

Having just watched the boring and irritating garbage that has been presented to all of us at this year’s World Cup in South Africa, I was miraculously taken back to an era and region in football history where the game used to be played with all the greatest of positive intentions.

I remember a time when the game was less cynical and less corrupted by greed, politics and big money. I was reminded of a time when the game was all about entertainment and above all, outscoring the opposition.

Peter Jackson to Direct "The Hobbit"?

For all of you out there who don’t know me, I would like it known that I am a massive Lord of the Rings and J.R.R. Tolkien fan, and even more so a Peter Jackson fan. So you can imagine my elation at finding out the news that Peter Jackson appears very close to signing on officially to direct both of the upcoming ‘Hobbit’ films for MGM.

TEUTONIC KNIGHTS SLAY 3 LIONS

WARNING! WARNING!  To all England supporters.  This rant may be a hard pill to swallow so I offer you a friendly warning that what is to follow is definitely not kind to the team formerly known as England.

England Put to the Sword By Prolific German Youth Brigade.

Germany Put the Boots to the Backsides of England as they Crash Out of the World Cup

England Taken Out Back to the Woodshed and Fed to the Wood Chipper.

Hunting Season Over as Germans Bag Three Dead Lions.

Germany Avenges 1966 in Very Eerie Style

Deutschland Uber England as the destroy Three lions 4-1

And the headlines could go on and on and on.  Fact is, Sunday’s epic Germany vs England match turned out to be one of the most exciting yet one sided matches between two heavyweights since perhaps the 1970 final when Brazil laid the same kind whoop ass beating on Italy.

Political Talking Heads.. Just Who the Hell are These Clowns Anyway?

Having just finished watching another episode of MSNBC Countdown with Keith Obermann I just felt it was time now that I have a blog to spew more venom and ask anyone out there reading this important question.  Just who are all these talking heads that American news shows pay to come on to their broadcasts to offer their verbal diarrhea and further infuriate and frustrate the millions at home who wonder if these individuals possess real jobs yet alone real lives?  Just who the Hell are all these pseudo intellectual no it alls who do more damage to the American psyche than anything George W. Bush and his clown shoes regime could have pulled off over two days of torture at Guantanamo.

The State of the English Game and United’s Future Role in it

So it has come to this.

Over the past several seasons Manchester United supporters worldwide like myself have had much to celebrate and be content with. We have won three straight Premier League titles as well as the highly coveted Champions League trophy that signified us as kings of Europe for a third time. To most this period in our team’s rich history has been the greatest times indeed.

This season has been a slight blow to the team standards set the previous campaigns and yet we were still in a strong position to repeat our success of last three seasons while also adding our second straight League Cup and with a little luck and efficient officiating, we could have gone further in Europe than the Quarter-Finals.

England vs Germany: Ten Reasons Why Either Will Win the Game

Ten Reasons Why England Will Beat Germany:

1. Frankly, they are due.  After so many heartbreaks in tournament play, the law of averages eventually has to lean for them and not against them.  Besides, a good omen has already occurred, the Germans have already missed a penalty in this World Cup.
2. Like England, Germany has struggled in their last few games.  True they dismantled the Aussies but the lost to the Serbs and barely beat Ghana.  Certainly not the machine they led us all to believe after the first game.
3. Germany is littered with young inexperienced youth who although potentially great, are not yet experienced enough to handle a veteran team littered with international stars.
4. England is ready for a goal explosion.  They are due to break out of their funk simply because the attacking talent is there. 
5. Fabio Capello’s decades of experience preparing for big games in club finals will lend itself here as he will surely have some tactical tricks up his sleeve that will perplex the Germans inexperienced lineup.
6. Schweinsteiger’s injury could be a killer for German chances.  He is the master talisman of their midfield and as he goes so goes the German machine.  If he doesn’t play, there is no real replacement for him and if he does play, will he be at 100%?
7. Wayne Rooney is overdue for a massive goal breakout.  I mean how long can one of the world’s five best players go without scoring a goal or really making his extreme presence in a game?
8. Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer’s cutting words of England’s play and Capello’s tactics will be all the motivation that the England players and Capello will need to beat the Germans.
9. Apparently England have been working extra hard on penalty kicks and this practice may prove very useful indeed.
10. England will win because nearly every expert and every cynic is picking Germany.

Ten Reasons Why Germany Will Beat England:

1. Manuel Neuer is simply superior to David James.  Neuer is one of the world’s best young keepers while David James has been forever labeled with the most infamous of nicknames, “Calamity James”.  Nuff said really
2. Germany’s young players are just too good, to fast, too cool under pressure and too German to fear England or any team for that matter.  As Sir Alex once put it, they are  “Typical Germans).
3. Bastien Schweinsteiger’s injury is not so bad that he cannot recover fully in 4 days time.  He will take his usual place in the center of the German midfield and guide them expertly to victory.
4. Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer was dead on with the criticism he leveled on the English team and especially on Capello’s archaic tactics.  Sometimes the truth hurts.
5. Wayne Rooney’s lingering ankle problem has simply made him a shadow of his former self and it might be some time before we see the real Wayne Rooney again.
6. Joachim Low is a great young manager with bright inventive ideas and will completely out manage the old and stale ideas of Fabio Capello who will then exit in the manner that his other Italian compatriot with old ideas did, Marcello Lippi.
7. The game will go to penalties and despite England’s hard work, they will never in a million years beat the Germans in a penalty shootout.  It takes more than skill and practice to win a penalty shootout.  It takes confidence and arrogance, which is something the Germans have, and the English are in sad need of.
8. The ghosts of failures past will continue to haunt the English.  1990, 1996 and all those other losses to the Mannschaft will linger on the minds of a frail and already poor England side.
9. Rooney will receive a red card because Thomas Muller winked at him and that will be that.  Rooney will lose his cool due to some kind of incident, and it will be curtains for him as he returns to England with his beaten compatriots in disgrace.
10. Germany will win because they are playing England.  England, the team that wears the Union Jack like a choke collar anytime they make it to the knockout round of a tournament and especially if they have to face the Germans, the Argentines or the Portuguese.

Oil Field of Dreams

Hats of to one of my favorite actors Kevin Costner for having the vision and putting his money and environmental concern where his mouth is by coming up with a centrifuge machine that is probably going to be the savior of the Gulf Coast if BP and Congress wake the Hell up and smell the oil.

The Day After Tomorrow: Economics & the Future of English Football

My how drastically things can change in one year. A little over two years ago another edition of England’s highly successful and thriving Barclay’s Premier League began the 2007-08 campaign with loads of potential and promises of excitement, tension and thrills to last a lifetime. And it certainly delivered in spades. From the very beginning we witnessed a resurgent and very young Arsenal squad jump out of the starting gate and spend almost three quarters of the season looking behind and laughing at it’s pursuers. Chelsea the financial kings of football received a shocking jolt within weeks of the new campaign when their highly successful and very controversial manager, the self proclaimed “Special One” Jose Mourinho up and quit the team. Or was he fired? Nevertheless, taking his place was the highly controversial and inexperienced enigma known as Avram Grant. Stamford Bridge and the millions of Chelsea supporters were in uproar and threatening anarchy.

Ciao to Italy or Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

OK let me warn anyone who is Italian that this rant is not for you.  It will only offend and infuriate you.  But here’s the thing it has long been overdue.  You see I am a confirmed hater of Italian football and especially their overhyped, overrated and disgusting national team known as the ‘Azurri”.

One of the most successful soccer playing nations and a country that has lifted the World Cup high four times, today they got a lesson in humility and humiliation crashing out o the 2010 World Cup being held in South Africa by losing a must win game to lowly Slovakia 3-2.  HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!  Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! Oh Ecstasy!

Best of Hitler Rants

Hitler Bets The Farm On England In World Cup


Hitler Finds Out He was Not Accepted into Hogwarts


Hitler Wants The World Cup Horns To Stop 

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Hitler and the vuvuzela at the 2010 Fifa World Cup

BBC Panorama Exposes the Glazer's Crimes Against United

NO TOLERANCE FOR THE INTOLERANT?

These days I just can’t help but feel that something has gone wrong with mankind and I honestly don’t know if it’s fixable. My jaw drops as I look around me at the examples of sheer stupidity, greed and selfishness of many people in our society. But today I am going to point my stern finger and shake my fist at one group in particular. The right wing fascist Neo-cons who also go buy the name of conservatives or Republicans in the United States of America.

Fergie's Heir Must Indeed be a Special One

The day is fast coming upon us. That inevitable day of gloom and doom that Manchester United fans have dreaded for over twenty years is coming. The day most members of the media, all referees and members of the FA have fantasized about is close at hand. No I'm not talking about a foreign takeover of all teams, a financial disaster that causes the greatest of all British sports institutions to crumble. I am talking simply of the impending retirement of a Man Utd legend and institution by the name of Sir Alex Ferguson.

On December 31st, 2011 Sir Alex will turn 70 years of age. And age where most people are retired to the garden or to the television set in between bridge games and cups of tea and biscuits. But for Sir Alex Ferguson there is no such mundane program planned for him--or is there. At 68 he is coming ever so close to that dreaded D-Day that most of us have stuck our heads in the sand over and surrendered to denial. But it is coming friends, whether Fergie wants it or not, he isn't getting older and this job is getting more and more demanding by the year for him. Thank God he loves it so or he would have retired back in 2001, when he originally promised he would.

Now United is going through a serious crisis period with the instability and blatant extortion of it's owners, the Glazer's, and it's evident decline on the pitch as the club looks to be getting much older amongst it's starting squad and too young, inexperienced and lacking in true skill with it's youth brigade. The club has kind of lost it's 20 somethings of great players who are just at the right age to contribute their very best. Sure we have Rooney, Fletcher, Nani and a few others, but clearly, this club has counted on the old guard for far too long. And part of that old guard is indeed the manager himself, Sir Alex.

The time is coming for a radical change and redirection of the club's fortunes both in ownership as well as leadership of the team. There is little doubt that the vast majority of United supporters are demanding the sale of the club in order to be rid of the Glazer's. But would such a move also mean the end of Sir Alex's reign of the team, which began back in 1986? Well here's me going out on a critical limb saying I CERTAINLY HOPE SO.

SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO NOW

At this point with the season now officially over I am not going to jump on the bandwagon and give a player report card or ratings list of my own. Instead I will give my list of players who should stay and players who should go and why. Keep in mind that this is a radical list of choices and in no way do I expect such wholesale changes to be made. Finally, I will include a list of players at certain positions that we should be looking at if we are to become a better team and knock Chelsea off their perch next season.

Saving Soccer from the Feebs

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/14/world-cup-soccer-hockey-opinions-columnists-richard-epstein.html

That makes too much sense and is so North American in it's inventiveness that Europe would automatically shit all over it.The English especially hate any ideas that come from North American sports.  To them we are all Bush and Cheney.

South Africa – Where the Great Game Went to Die

I thought it might be a good time to rant a little about the World Cup of soccer (football to those who know better) presently being played and laid to rest in the nation of South Africa. Simply put, where is Al-Qaeda when we need them. If ever something needed some explosive energy and some anarchy to kick-start it is this joke of a tournament and the great game which can now officially be known as the Great Shame.

I Have Seen the Green Hornet Trailer, and I am Not Pleased!

I am not happy about this movie. For me, it should be as much a comedy as the Dark Knight. It's not supposed to be a comedy unless the man making it thinks it was such a ludicrous idea that he could only make it as a comedy, and for that, I feel insulted.

I grew up on the Green Hornet and for me he was a cool super hero like Batman because he didn't trapse around with fucking super powers. He was human, vulnerable and used his fighting skills and intellect to thwart villains. The 60's were not about having super heroes but more about overcoming the system and being heroic. Batman and The Green Hornet epitomized everything that was good and heroic about an action hero. It was their style and mystique that made them interesting—not their sense of humour. But then came the Batman tv series and it seems to me that Rogen wants to do to the Hornet what Dozier did to Batman. Difference is that Batman was campy homage to the original.