Category Archives: Sports

The sale of Chelsea FC – a referendum on what doesn’t matter

Posted on 31/03/2022 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Forest Gump winning the Best Picture Oscar in 1995 over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption seemed scandalous at the time, and it becomes more perplexing as time passes. Despite being nauseatingly sentimental, it has moments, and lines that have attained … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Sports | Tagged "Honest" American billionaires, Abu Dhabi, Boris selling his arse for oil, Brexit, British millionaires in the 90's seems a world away, Cabbage Patch Kid faced despot, Chelsea, Forest Gump, Geopolitical hypocrisy, Gesture politics, Manchester City, Newcastle United, NFT’s are a con, Oligarch, Premier League, Pulp Fiction, Roman Abramovich, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shawshank Redemption, Sportswashing, Vlad Putin's facelift | Leave a comment

My manifesto to save football from itself

Posted on 31/01/2022 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It’s fitting that a significant section of society and its institutions should begin to emulate the behaviour of the government it elected. Still, while too many did, most didn’t vote for Boris Johnson. And no wonder, even before being elected … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged Alexandre Gaydamak is a thief, An optimist pessimist and fatalist walk in to a bar, Arsenal, Aston Villa, before acting impulsively. Take Everton, Boris Johnnson, Brucie Bonus, Bundesliga, Cheating, Chelsea, Chris Wood £25m!, Commie, Coronavirus, Derby County, European Super League, Everton, Farhad Moshiri is clueless, FIFA, HMRC, Journalese clichés, Juventus, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Mike Ashley is a fat bastard, Newcastle United, Omricon, Premier League, Professional sycophant Mike Riley, Shredding your prostate, Siriacha sauce, Spurs being Spurs, Sugar daddies, Sustainability, Trophy for finishing fourth in The Championship, VAR | Leave a comment

By ratifying the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United the Premier League has lost control over its future

Posted on 31/10/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Back in August I wrote that the Premier League’s blocking of the Newcastle takeover was arbitrary, cruel and inconsistent, given they’d already let another sovereign wealth fund belonging to a country with a questionable human rights record buy Manchester City … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged 1992, Abu Dhabi, beIN (lower case b you heathens), Bradford fire, Champions League, European Super League, Financial Fair Play failure, Gary Neville needs to take a break and we need a break from him, Get back on telly Delia, Greedy cunts, Hillsborough, Iraq, Jamal Khashoggi, Leonard Cohen, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Mike Ashley is also fat, Newcastle United, Premier League, Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Roman Abramovich, Saudi Arabia, Sky's homogenisation of football, Stalinist purge, The Future, UEFA, Whataboutery cunts, Yes Kim Jong-un is fat | Leave a comment

The Premier League Preview 2021/22

Posted on 31/07/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

The European Championships are over. Mercifully no more players collapsed with cardiac issues and Italy saved us from a tidal wave of insufferable English triumphalism, which, with a win, would finally be liberated from the embarrassment of perpetual failure. The … Continue reading →

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Black Mirror’s jumped the shark with Euro 2020

Posted on 30/06/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

During the group stages of the European championships I was only half watching. Thanks to a slew of games compromised by negative tactics (even adopted by the likes of the Netherlands and France), a ridiculously bloated and therefore watered down … Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged BBC, Black Mirror, Budapest, Charlie Brooker, Christian Eriksen, CPR, David Icke’s Lizard-people illuminati theories, Denmark, Diana, editorial opportunism to appease the new diseased populism, Euro 2020, Finland, France, Fucking England, Germany, Gonzo, Hungary, Hungary are the equivalent of inviting your local paedophile to a street party, Islamic State execution channel, Jimmy Saville fingering the arsehole of a decomposing horse, Jonathan Pearce, Kennedy assassination level event, Lockdown, Martin Keown, Mute button, necrophilia, North Wales, OJ fleeing in his Bronco, Police chases, Rubber necking, Scotland are shite, The Netherlands, UEFA greed | Leave a comment