The forgotten Pharaoh

Has everyone forgotten about Stephen El Sharawaay?? People are all praising Mario Balotelli and claiming that he is the only reason why Milan are doing well, don't get me wrong, he is a true gem and has done wonders for the club ever since his return, but it was the young Pharaoh that got Milan out of the relegation spots at the start of the season, Balo came in January.

El Sharawaay is just 20 years old and he was asked to carry the team, not an easy feat for such a young lad, but he did it and did it well! His 16 goal helped Milan shoot up the table and because of this "wonderkid" they are competing for a Champions League spot.

He didn't let the media attention early on get to his head, he just kept on working hard and banging in the goals, he has a tremendous work rate and you would often see him helping in defence and running up and down the pitch, his energy is a positive sign for Italian football, but Milan are also getting this kind of work rate out of Balo, the player that the English media used to call "lazy" and a " troublemaker".

Something had to be said about the media, both English and Italian, they can be extremely fickle and see rifts where their are none. Soon after Mario returned to Milan, the rumours of trouble between Balotelli and him began to surface especially when El Sharawaay was having difficulty scoring. Now, when a player is going through a "sticky" patch either leave him alone or try to encourage him.

The media's response is to exploit him, for God's sake, he's only 20! This kid will only get better with the support of Milan, I mean look what they did for Mario..once known as a bad boy, now he is scoring goals and working hard for his teammates. If Milan could do that for him, just imagine what support and a little encouragement can do for The Little Pharaoh?!

Carpe Diem

Taking time to enjoy the simple things in life…

Not enough people do this and it is a saddening trend, don’t get me wrong I’m all about good honest work, I just think you shouldn’t have to face constant abuse from your employer and peers and that you should be given a decent wage. People nowadays are just working till they die and for wages that you can barely live on.

People are like little children, they believe in these “fairy stories” that there is a better world waiting for you and that if you suffer in this world you will be rewarded in the next. I hate to burst your bubble, but you simply can’t prove that, and also, its one thing for children to believe it, but for educated adults to believe it so completely is slightly disturbing.

What if this is all that we’ve got and that when you’re gone there is nothing waiting for you, are you going to regret no working more??? No, you’re going to wish you had done more things you actually enjoy. And let’s face, most people hate their work and that’s why they need to get so pissed- to try and forget how mind numbingly boring work is.

Work is started to take away when it used to enrich your life. Not only that, but permanent work is dangerous for the mind, you’ll start to take on a “sheep” mentality and doing things that other people are doing and you will most definitely lose your ability to think critically or creatively. I have spoken to many people who work full time and once they come home from the salt mines they just switch on the television, and it’s not as though they watch shows that stimulate the mind in any way, it’s usually “reality” shows or pointless celebrity gossip!

And also if they do watch news, it will be from the mainstream media and they’re hardly objective or even accurate! They are mostly reports on such trivial and useless subjects, that they distract you from any real news. If they don’t distract you, they will get you hot and bothered about issue that normally wouldn’t matter so much, but they make sure that’s all you see and the “red mist” takes over.

People wake up and realise that it’s only a job, but I realise that with cost of living continuing to rise you have no choice but to work yourself to death, but like the famous American activist Noam Chomsky said: “The difference between work and slavery is that work is temporary”.

Well, it’s not temporary anymore, so what does that tell you.

Ignoring the problem won't help!

Oblivious Britain

The sheer amount of denial in this society particular is astonishing!  It simply blows my mind when I hear some  “ people” talk about the economic crisis.I  put the word people in inverted commas, because they’re not really people.. are they? Would a person let people starve, would a person take away the little money you, would a person stand by and watch while the elderly and the most vulnerable people in society live on so little while they are living in luxury, would people let people get evicted and pushed onto the street just because they missed one payment because the job they have paid peanuts or they were recently the victims of the company “ downsizing”?? If you said yes to any of these I urge you to get some professional help, because you’re clearly a sociopath.

People are so quick to blame immigrants and benefit moochers’ for the dire straights they are in, do they not remember that it was the Financial industry that caused the crisis, and how I hear you ask, because we let them get away with murder! No rules or regulation for them, so they thought this was the perfect opportunity to play Russian roulette with our savings. The gambling industry and the financial sector are the same thing, the house always wins. People don’t understand that the game is rigged for them to lose everything. People are living in a fairytale if they believe the banker will behave and regulate themselves… Don’t make me laugh!!!  All you’ve done is you’ve given the mental patients the keys to the asylum.

Immigrants have done more good than these psycho bankers, they work hard and are willing to do the thing the arrogant brits won’t, do you think it’s an easy job cleaning up after everyone else, and many carers are foreigners, because people who live here don’t believe there’s any point in taking care of the sick and elderly. Who does more for the people, the nurses, social workers etc or the toffs in their Chelsea apartments?! People have seriously got their priorities mixed up, the former is helping society while the latter is getting richer due to the fact they just screwed us out of everything.

People on benefit are so often demonised, and for what?? It’s not as though they’re living in mansions driving a new Ferrari every day. These people get the basic amount and if you do get housing it’s only after you jump though all these hoops and then you have to wait for on average of ten years! And what you get in the end is a dump to say the lest! It will be basic and more often than not, it will be in a seedy neighbourhood, now is this really where you put the most vulnerable people in you society? And not only that… if you dare save up some money for a rainy day, you benefits will be either taken away or seriously cut.. it’s not as though you were getting enough to be with!!

The biggest benefit moochers are the royals, people don’t understand that their security, trips and a billion estates are all funded by the taxpayer! Our taxes should go to public transport, infrastructure and schools, you know, things that can improve the fortunes of us all and make life a little easier. What has me befuddled, is how people don’t see it, it’s like people in this country want to be slaves and have just been brainwashed into thinking that they are less than. People are the real backbone of the bloody economy, keep taking advantage and things will only get worse.

Things will only change if they are met with enough resistance; unfortunately the people in this country are so pissed out of their heads that they won’t notice if they’re living in a cardboard box!

 

Neil Lennon

I have always had great respect for the Scottish yet it is getting rather hard to when Lennon is acting like a child. His complaints over the tackling by Juve is becoming a joke! Like Antonio Conte said in his press conference, if a player is blocking the goalkeeper like his was, he is committing a foul according to the rulebook.
This is a brutish tactic and it is used only by the British, as I was watching the Real Madrid  V Man Utd match yesterday and Wellbeck was all over the keeper and was looking at the referee as though he was doing nothing wrong! As the match continued, I noticed as none of the Madrid players felt the need to block off De Gea. This behaviour may be allowed in the EPL/SPL, where you can break the opponent's leg and only get a yellow, but in the civilised world it is not tolerated.
After all this is the EUROPEAN Champions League, and with the spirit of the respect campaign, should you respect that things may be different elsewhere?!!
If Lennon doesn't want his players to be pulled and shoved than maybe they should learn to adapt the way they play the game. But that's just it... they don't have the ability to adapt.

Like I said at the start, I have tremendous respect for Celtic, but the time of brute force is over, maybe he should convey that to his team. And does anyone remember that Andrea Pirlo was getting constantly battered in mid field, or is that all just conveniently forgotten.

Food for thought.

The horse meat scandal may have been just what was needed to wake everyone up and snap them out of this “zombie state” that they have been in for so long. People have somehow put food low down on their list of priorities when it should be their number one priority. Food is needed to fuel our bodies, and just like our cars, if we use a cheap substitute instead of the good stuff, it will run badly. Now why is it we’re willing to break the bank for our cars but not for our health?

The government is supposed to be looking out for its people, if they did their jobs to begin with and properly regulated and inspected the meat industry then it is less likely this would have happened, God only knows what they have been feeding us all these years, I mean what else has the meat industry been getting away with… rats?!!!

I’m just so glad that I’m a vegetarian. The way that they treat animals is just barbaric, they treat them like shit! People believe they are so much better than animals, but I don’t believe animals have been responsible for things like genocide, global warming and are so close to extinction but are still not doing anything to try and prevent it.

Animals have feelings, they mourn the loss of a child the same way we would, they get depressed like we do and have mood swings like we do, so maybe we’re not that different after all. One thing that animals are great at doing that we still have to master, is that the never over hunt, they know if they do they will starve and so they make sure that the prey is always flourishing.

Why do people think that horse meat has been found in our food?? Because  we are over consuming meat, and if you keep consuming at the rate that we are and not give them the time needed to replenish, we’ll be lucky if we don’t find bit’s of people in our meat!!

In the States they factory farm their meat and if anyone has seen Food Inc, they will know how inhumane this is. They treat animals like they treat their workforce, like slaves, that their only purpose in life is to be meat for us- it’s beyond arrogant!

And the truly disturbing thing is that kind of factory farming is coming over here and are going to infect parts of Europe!!  The horror!! How is this going to help? They are treating the symptoms and not they actual problem, the problem is that we consume too much and not to forget waste so much food, that perhaps we need a change in the way we think about food. 

People need to sort out their priorities, do they want cheap food and then enormous cost to their health, or are they will to go that extra mile for the good stuff. If everyone went for the good stuff it will put all these junk food place out of business and not make any financial sense for them to continues the way they are, because money and profit is all these companies care about, so if they can't make a profit then we don't have to deal with all the litter left behind! And least we forget about the environmental cost, where do you think they get the room for these massive slaughterhouses?? By chopping down the forests!!!

  

Battle at the San Poalo

Napoli V Juventus

This was a the fixture to keep your eyes on, it was the chance for Juve to get a breakaway lead at the top or for Napoli to prove that they are title contenders, it ended with them sharing the spoils and the lead at the top remaining six points. This game did have a bit of bad blood, made more by comments made earlier this year by Claudio Marchisio. The bad blood was felt before the game when the Juve bus was attacked with eggs, stones and even a brick thrown through the window!

The game started with an opportunity falling to the home side, Goran Pandev had a chance with just 13 seconds on the clock, but it went just wide but it did give Gianluigi Buffon something to think about,it clearly showed that Napoli intended to take the three points. However it was Juventus that got on the score sheet with 10 minutes. Giorgio Chiellini jumped ahead of Britos to reach the ball and give Juve the lead.

Despite Napoli having more shots on goal, 8 compare to Juventus’ 5, they didn’t seem to cause much trouble upfront, and many of the shots that they did have were from a distance. Edinson Cavani and Marek Hamsik seemed a little of their game, especially Cavani, with hm missing chances that he would have easily put away.

Through the first half Chiellini and Cavani git in their fair share of battles, the usual shirt tugging from Chiellini and what looked like an elbow to the face by Cavani- but by the end of the game there were hugs all around.

Cavani may not have been the goal threat that he used to be, but Gokhan Inler made sure that it wasn’t a big miss with his long range shot to level the scoring on 43 minutes.  The first half ended with a goal apiece. The second half was more of the same, but with a notable fired up Napoli side, yet by the end of the game it ended with both sides sharing the spoils, with Juve the happier as it means their lead at the top remain intact.

Now Juve will be looking to their game against Celtic, and I hope Antonio Conte has a few words with his team- mainly to Lichtsteiner and Chiellini on grabbing in the box, it’s okay anywhere else on the pitch but in the box you can’t, and if you do that’s all you’ll hear from Neil Lennon!