About John Terry

February 8th, 2010 by Cliff No comments »

I’ve read so much about John Terry over the past number of days.

I’ve listened to just about everyone who claims to be a pundit on something pontificating about him.

I watched Football Focus and was shocked to hear a few very knowledgeable former footballers judge John Terry instead of leaving the subject alone.

If you notice, I’ve inserted this post under Business because that is exactly what John Terry is involved in, one of the biggest and most enjoyable businesses in the world for both players and fans.

John Terry won his way into a top football team because he excelled as a footballer and later became Captain because he was an excellent leader.

He was appointed as Captain of England because he was considered to be the most suitable player for the job and proved them right.

He subsequently lost his Captaincy because of his behaviour off the pitch.

If he was a Captain of Industry or a movie star and behaved as he did would he have been sacked by his Board of Directors or failed to get any further star roles?

Damned right he wouldn’t if he was delivering a high dividend to his shareholders and attracting a large viewing audience.

Nor would his life style have been a bad role model to any young people who were aspiring CEO’s or movie stars.

Look, John Terry is a professional footballer and is the ultimate role model on the pitch for every young person who aspires to football greatness.

So what if he has cheated on his Wife or got drunk and scrapped or wee’d in a pint pot. Have you never act like a prat when you’ve been pissed out of your head?

Like any other successful person he’s simply media fodder because he sells newspapers, magazines and entices everyone to watch News Channels.

His life style off the pitch will not discourage one single young person from aspiring to be another John Terry the footballer.

Fabio Capello was wrong to relieve John Terry of his duties as Manager because he judged him on his life style off the pitch, that is, frankly in my opinion, none of his business providing his life style doesn’t adversely affect his game on the pitch.

Mr Capello has proven himself to be either a hypocritical bigot or a coward if he took instructions from the FA who don’t, incidentally have a sufficiently clean moral track record to judge anyone elses moral standards.

Premier League Football is a Business based on sport, played by super rich young men who have a very short career.

If the success of the England team is to be reliant on players morals I fear a future England Squad will be regularly beaten rotten by most Blue Square teams!

You’ve been professionally bent over the table, Mr Terry by the FA, aided and abetted by a weak Manager who was recently singing your praises.

I sincerely hope you score so many goals for England that they beg you to resume your Captaincy again.

I’d strongly advise you to tell them to stuff it where the sun don’t shine.

Of course you’ve wronged your Wife and children but that’s entirely a personal thing between you and your family, so take a little private time, fix your personal life and choose your future friends wisely.

Incidentally although I don’t support Chelsea, I get a lot of pleasure watching them play – they’re a cracking team!

 

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Did Politicians help Promote Child Obesity?

February 8th, 2010 by Cliff No comments »

Things used to be better

When I was at infants school, with the exception of rainy days we could run around in the playground and play whatever games we wanted.

Teachers only interfered if things got rough or we decided to fight.

Health and Safety in this Granny State has gone too far.

Most children are no longer allowed to have snowball fights or play contact games in the playground because of the “inherent dangers.”

When I was at school, my friends always played out afterwards and ran themselves ragged while I got lots of exercise delivering fruit, vegetables and potatoes door to door because we were very poor.

My friends and I became “street wise” very quickly.

Unfortunately children can’t really play out now-a-days unless they have the protection of a garden because of increased traffic volume and fear of Child Predators.

The emergence of Child Predators

During the last 30 years parents’ awareness of Child Predators of all ages has increased at an alarming rate.

This started when the previous Tory Government’s lack of funding forced the removal of “the beat bobby” in all parts of the UK.

This lack of a Police presence triggered a new confidence amongst both the unruly and criminals and resulted in such a major explosion of lawlessness that the majority of parents considered the streets to be an unsafe place for their kids.

Children have gradually become accustomed to sitting at home, watching TV or playing computer games and snacking.

Despite successive Governments boasting of their increased funding of education, children have been deprived of the essential “street wisdom” they learn when playing with other kids outside their school environment.

Have any local MP’s demanded free local play centres where children can go to enjoy their chosen games with new friends and increase both their confidence and physical fitness?

It’s Easier to Pin the Blame on Parents

The cumulative effect of children having to stay indoors with little exercise has resulted in some gaining weight.

Your children haven’t become suddenly lazy; because it’s a fact that when unrelated kids get together they rarely stop running around.

They’ve always been this way and always will if the children I know are anything to go by.

Our “sound bite” Politicians aided and abetted by publicity seeking Pinhead Celebrities have blamed parents for not feeding their children properly.

Although there will always be parents who fail their children how dare anyone, Politicians or rich celebrities brand every parent with the same iron.

Children of all ages including young teenagers are bored silly because there aren’t any inviting local facilities for them to just go and chill.

What really winds me up are the Politicians who lacked the foresight to spot these consequences deciding to pin 100% of the blame on parents.

In truth, they were too preoccupied with their own careers

Are Children more badly behaved Today?

The accusation that some children are more badly behaved today than ever before is yet another consequence of having the time to watch too much television and learning more about bad behaviour than their parents will ever know.

Being a rebel is also a way by which they can impress their peers exactly the same as their parents did when they excelled in the school games that have more recently been declared unsafe by Health and Safety.

Incidentally there have always been bad kids, but then the Teachers, men and women used to be allowed to kick the odd backside or two before the Wet Liberals saw something else they could interfere with.

Meanwhile thousands of perfectly decent and loving parents are left feeling gutted when a visiting school nurse pronounces their child over weight.

Beware of Devious Politicians

One final thought: It isn’t a coincidence since food prices have once again started to rise and election time is looming that both Government and Opposition have stopped lecturing parents how to feed their children properly?

But then every vote will count this time particularly when almost 250 new inexperienced MP’s (all parties) are expected to join Parliament to replace those who have jumped ship.

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School Yard Politics

February 8th, 2010 by Cliff No comments »

Prime Minister’s Question Time

What a complete waste of Tax Payers’ money.

Do you remember when you were at school and two kids started arguing in the playground?

They stood a few feet apart and hurled verbal, often veminous abuse at each other for several minutes but never quite got round to fighting.

Of course they attracted a crowd that assembled to jeer and cheer then leave as quickly as they arrived culminating in a soon forgotten non-event that effectively achieved absolutely nothing

Have you ever considered that Prime Minister’s Question Time in its present form was derived by an immature Politician who yearned to re-run his or her former playground memories at least once a week?

The Prime Minister and main Opposition Leaders behave like 3 silly little boys for almost 45 minutes each week to the delight of hundreds of equally silly boys and girls who strangely wave pieces of paper about.

But just stop and think for a moment: When we elected all 647 of these urchins, we gave them permission to waste our money in this manner.

I move that it’s now time to withdraw our permission.

Let’s get rid of this abominable farce

I suggest we leave Mr Brown to continue to prove to the electorate that he really can, as he has promised, get our country out of the shit that the criminal behaviour of Dumb and Dumber (Regulators) and the Banksters created.

I further move that Messrs Cameron and Osborne immediately remove themselves from the school yard and tell us in detail what they intend to do to fix things if they’re elected.

How in the name of sanity can we place our’s, our children’s and grand children’s future in the hands of some inexperienced rich bods who won’t tell us, a potential employer of their future plans?

Every responsible employer must determine the suitability of any future employee(s) particularly when they claim they can steer our Business (the UK) back to profitability when we owe so much money.

Please don’t forget, whether you’re FOR or AGAINST it, we’re also at war and responsible for every service man and woman who volunteered to sacrifice their lives if necessary in the name of the UK.

Why not have a Public Debate?

Finally, let’s replace Prime Minister’s Question Time with a live monthly televised debate featuring the PM and all Opposition Leaders in front of a selected panel and an audience in different parts of the country.

We own the BBC so why shouldn’t we insist that it hosts this debate just before Thursday night’s Question Time to allow the panel and the audience to rate each performance.

Politicians are answerable to us.

Perhaps it’s time to insist they do as we ask.

It’s called People Power!

I should point out that to date, I’m still undecided who to vote for!

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I was so engrossed writing – I forgot about you

February 8th, 2010 by Cliff No comments »

I have to start off with an apology to you because I completely forgot about you over the weekend.

No I didn’t have a couple or 20 drinks – I didn’t even have the time to have one!

I’m writing a short book about weight loss based on my own endeavours of the past 11 weeks during which I really have won thousands of brownie points from my lovely Wife.

My problem is; when I start and I’m on a roll, I just don’t want to stop foe anything or anyone – in fact I become the most self centred and selfish sod I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting!

Anyway, I’m sorry – it won’t happen again – I want to address a couple of other things but will use another Post.

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I’ve lost 43 lbs in less than 11 weeks!

February 5th, 2010 by Cliff No comments »

I remember this time in 2009 when I visited the Doctor for my annual MOT – it wasn’t a good day.

As I started the car this morning to return for my 2010 MOT I thought that things would be a little better – after all I was a lot lighter so he wouldn’t have so much to complain about.

They always leave the weight until last, don’t they?

That was one aspect that I thought might put a smile on his usually stolid face.

I really did think something was wrong when he took my blood pressure and said: “That can’t be right, let’s try that again.”

When he took it the second time he looked at me grunted and said: “Right, jump on the scales please.”

His reaction was one of disbelief when he said:”Bloody hell, either my scales are broken or you’ve lost some weight!”

“Your blood pressure is almost normal and your weight loss is impressive.”

“Do me a favour Mr Hagen; bugger off and come back in a year.”

I swaggered out of that surgery feeling ten years younger – in fact I felt like a million quid.

I’d lost over 3 stone, 43 lbs to be correct and had achieved almost normal blood pressure in just under 11 weeks.

I’ll let you know when I loose 52 lbs – a full bag of potatoes.

Alternatively if you don’t want to know just tell me to shut up and I’ll keep it to myself!

Have a good day!

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