Football fans are notorious in their lack of perspective. As a Tottenham support right now I am seeing that more than ever. We’ve lost our first two league games of the season and it’s widely being hailed as an absolute disaster. We’re already six points behind Liverpool who we were hoping to beat to fourth place and subsequently a place in the Champions League.
Now Berbatov doesn’t want to play for us anymore. This is just catastrophic. He wants to go and play for a rival club and no doubt will score against us when Spurs venture north to Manchester or Alex Ferguson’s men make the reverse trip to White Hart Lane. The image of him walking out onto the pitch wearing red instead of white is heartbreaking in itself.
A team getting relegated will often be met with TV shots of fans crying their eyes out while effigies have been burnt of players in the past for daring to play for someone else. This weekend will see Paul Ince return to Blackburn will no doubt see a repeat of this disgusting practice.
This is all nothing new but seeing a story reported this morning showed that even supposed journalists are catching the same disease.
A BBC football commentator is facing the sack after making an `inappropriate remark’ about the Spanish air disaster during a match.
Radio Manchester’s Chris Price was doing a live update from the Bradford versus Rochdale match when he said Dale `were making more holes in the Bradford defence than in a Spanish aircraft’.
The best bit about this story, and the only element that raised a smile, was the journalist’s defence of his actions.
“It wasn’t meant to be funny; it was just a descriptive phrase.
“If people are offended by what I said, then of course I apologise but I never intended to offend anyone
“From the reaction there has been, if I could take it back then I would.”
So judging by the last sentence, the only reason he’s now apologising is because there has been a furore over his comments. He clearly still doesn’t see why they were offensive in the first place.
