Monthly Archives: April 2010

A spectre is haunting football – the spectre of foolish administration. All the powers of old Europe have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: shameless football ‘fans’ and ‘citizens’ dedicated to ‘exposing’ the supposed ‘malpractice’ of their benevolent benefactors and much maligned manashers, French Radicals and German police-spies, Pope and Tsar. For far too long now, these scurrilous scribes have painted themselves in their immoral frames as the upholders of justice and, such is their arrogance, even as a beacon of truth, despite the fact that their cowardly pronouncements, which emanate from stuffy, badly lit rooms where they sit hunched over their only portal to the real world, their pathetic, life-sapping laptops, where they type with trembling, tobacco-stained fingers, are about as insightful and relevant as an afternoon with Louise Redknapp. It is high time that football administrators should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Foolish Admin with a strongly worded, nay passionate, press release. Continue reading →