Ballon D'or 2013

This award is supposed to go to the player who has had the best performance of the last year, not the last five minutes! If they give this award to Ronaldo it will be just that, don't get me wrong, he's a great player ( but a bigger ass hole!) but what has he really achieve last year, I mean where was he for the big games? It's not as if he won La Liga , The Champions League or win Euro 2012- if I remember correctly he didn't even get to take a penalty against Spain.

On the other hand Ribery was vital in the Champions League and helped Bayern Munich win it and also the League and he has also helped France qualify for the Word Cup. We all know why Ronaldo really wants this. it's because Messi won it more than once and he's jealous, well, in my humble opinion I don't really think Messi deserves it this year.

I don't claim to be as wise as " the powers that be", all I'm saying is that if they decide such awards on the basis of who has is the " hot property" of the last week- they might as well hand them out every week because they will become meaningless. By the way has everyone forgotten about Andrea Pirlo?!! A lifetime achievement award perhaps.

30 and Over the Hill!

Music by Bear Mc Creary- Battlestar Galactica

Such beauty....

The forgotten past

Everyone wants to be remembered and everyone searches for some kind of meaning to their existence, and a large part of that meaning come from what  you have done in the past- your history. That is why I feel that  UNESCO World Heritage is an important organisation to be a part of. This program  is basically a catalog of sites that are considered to be of cultural or natural importance to humanity, which could by the UK  has only 28 and the USA only 21.

The country with the most UNESCO world heritage sites is not surprising, it's Italy with a whopping 49 sites. China has 45, Spain 44, France and Germany have 38. It is important to preserve the past, that is how we learn from our mistakes after all. Now it comes as no surprise that the UK has so little, it just goes to show where their priorities lie! They don't care beauty, knowledge or culture unless you can make a lot of money from it straight away. What legacy are we leaving behind for the future?? A whole bunch of debt!

UNESCO is all about the about preserving such things like forest, mountains, lakes, islands, deserts, monuments, buildings and even whole cities like the city of Verona in Italy or Venice that is also in Italy for the common heritage of humanity. You may be wondering why things like mountains or forests are on this list, they are at threat from corporations who would want to blow the tops of mountains to get to the minerals, and the very real threat of deforestation.

Some people are just so short sighted and selfish that all they think about is how much money they can make in their lifetime, they don't spare a thought for future generations- that's why we should be grateful to UNESCO for helping to preserve what really matters.

Conditioned to forget..

It troubles me deeply when  I look back at this year that is now coming to a close. Isn't that what usually happens around this time, people take the time to reflect? But what kinds of things will people remember? There's no doubt that people will recall the devastation in the Philippines, after all, that has just happened and is still in the media, but do people remember the hundreds that died in Bangladesh when the factory collapsed due to the fact they have no health and safety because that might mean that the dress you got from Primark might cost a pound more?!! Or perhaps the earthquake in Pakistan that killed over 500 souls? How about the fact that after 10 years, Iraq and Afghanistan are just hellish if not more before the so called democracy that was supposed to arrive.

Does anyone pay attention to what's happening to their food- GMO's anyone? It isn't going to benefit anyone but the big corporations, no matter what BS they are chucking around it's not going to solve world hunger!! Do you really want to be like the States where having bloody diarrhea and anal leakage is a common occurrence??  How about the whole spying thing? I brought up this issue in a conversation with a friend and her reply was that of a person who doesn't care, and that is disturbing. People have become so distracted by things like the x factor or the royal baby that they are completely blind to what's going on, and what's going on is that this society is closing because we have stopped paying attention.

Just earlier this year the whole Frakking "debate came up, well, it wasn't really a debate as the companies just brushed aside the protesters and did it anyway. The UK is going in the wrong direction, instead of listening to the concerns of the people who " elected" them into their plush offices, they would rather listen to the money hungry corporations. A lot like the States, what this shit hole of a country should do is is try and use some common sense, I know that maybe difficult but I'm begging you, try! Across the pond you have some of the most unhealthiest and some of the poorest people in the western world, that is not progress, what that is is a society regressing!

Also I hear a lot of Euro bashing and I got to say I don't like it! When I see them protesting or striking, you know what I see... Intelligence, because those people know the injustice of bailing out the banks while letting the people suffer. Europe is still full of so much beauty and culture that is worth fighting for, what culture is there her??? Being a drunk and pissing in the street.

This country has its priorities all wrong and that is what happens when you allow big money into politics? People have to realize how far from "democracy" that is.

Who are real slackers,the people who will risk everything to see that people know the truth like Mr Snowden and the people protesting all across Europe or you, the people who are just oblivious to the fact that you are modern day slaves??

How can people still not see what's happening?!

Fino alla Fine Forza Juve

I have been following my beloved Juventus for nearly half my life so I've seen them at their best and worse, what's troubling is that from all reports I could find, they seem to be playing great football yet they are rooted to the bottom of their Champion League group. I watch every Serie A game that comes on TV and have done so for years, so I know how great they can be, but not everyone watches Serie A like me so the Champions Leagues is all they see of Italian football.

After last season when they went further then expected, I was hoping they would be able to go further this year without giving me a panic attack! But it is starting to look like their fate may not be up to them and they made need a bit of good fortune regarding the other teams. From watching them in Serie A, I know they can achieve whatever they set their minds to, but not everyone will think that. There are some people ( who will remain anonymous) believe that Italian football is boring and slow and that it is heavily focused on tactics- well, coming from a fan of the EPL that doesn't really surprise me! All they focus on is pace, which is fine

, don't get me wrong, but you also have to know how to use that pace to the best advantage, there's no point being really fast with the ball and then not knowing what to do while you have it.

Antonio Conte has made sure that his team has speed but also tactical knowledge, they just need that little bit of luck. Do Italian football proud and show them how it's done! I mean you've won two back to back titles which is no easy feat, so I believe you can hold your own in Europe!

Slave nation?

How have we actually improved?

Just think about it for one moment, we’re unhealthy –in more ways than one!, the gap between the rich and poor are increasing by the second, unemployment seems to only be heading in one direction, and that’s up, the i.q of the population looks to be freefalling  and there is a lot more anger out there, usually directed at anyone who is different. Whether we want to admit it or not we’re living in a “slave society”.

What I mean by this is quite simple; we live only to work and what we get in return for our work is barely enough to live on. Why have we let it get so bad?  People here are guilty of one major thing… arrogance. They believe that’s what’s happening in the rest of Europe can never happen here, what, because this is such a great country! Give me a break!! The city if London is the heartland of most of the corruption.

People are still naïve enough to believe that  this is a democracy. I mean really!! Did the people want the bank to gamble away all our savings and did the people want to give the banks a bailout which they then used to pay themselves huge bonuses? Do the people want to pay extortionate prices for the energy required to heat up their home and when did they ask to pay triple towards student fees? Now why would a democratically elected government still do all this even when the people protest against it, it’s simple really, they are more concerned with the big businesses and bank than they are for you.  And in my humble opinion all of these shouldn’t be dealt like a business, we can’t survive without heating and gas, they’re vital to our way of life and shouldn’t be treated as a business, because let’s face it a business has one objective and that is to make a profit, they don’t give a dam about the people. Also what kind of Government would make it so difficult to have access to higher education?

This is starting to sound an awful lot like fascism to me, a corporation by its very nature is totalitarian, power is top-down and the people below have to just do what they’re told. Is this what we want? Workers have already lost their pension due to the banksters, and many of the benefits have slowly been eroded away, and through the destruction of trade unions, the ir voices have been silenced. Why is all this happening? It’s quite simple really- corporation have infected each area and all they care about is making a profit and reducing the costs and if they have to cut a few hundred jobs or cut back on health and safety, they will. The rate that wages are heading it soon will be slavery pure and simple, they’ll obviously call it something less offensive but that is where we are headed… soon we’ll be the third world.   

A country cannot be run like a business, the decision they make affect lives, not mere numbers on a computer screen that you can just erase without a seconds hesitation.

Llorente to Arsenal?

It seem as an awful lot like Arsene Wenger has just realised the benefits of spending a little cash. He was forced to spend some cash as Arsenal had started to become somewhat of a joke, always being the "nearly club". People claimed the played attractive football yet I failed to see it, being able to pass the ball is a general requirement of the game and shouldn't be such a surprise when a team does this. But what I do find hilarious is when the English commentator ( usually from itv) start comparing them to Barcelona!! Just the sheer arrogance of the English commentary is infuriating, and then they act all shocked when the team doesn't live up to all this hype.

Anyway, back to my main point. Mr Wenger has finally loosened the purse strings and surprise surprise that has yielded some results, but this rumour that he has his eyes fixed on Fernando is enraging. Juventus got him on a Bosman from Athletic Bilbao after his contract run out and he didn't renew, Juve were the team that believed in Llorente eventhough he hadn't played for about six months due to some club dispute. Eventhough they knew he would be rusty, they believed that he could do well in Turin. And now that he is doing well after a rocky start, Arsenal are looking at him- the cheek! But thankfully there has been a club statement firmly stating that he is not for sale, hopefully that will put the Frenchmen in his place, after all he has his own giant in Olivier Giroud, maybe he should have some faith in his own players instead of trying to steal others!