Transfer heartbreak

This is the time I like to call " the silly season", players come and go it's just part pf the game and we have to accept it or so you are led to believe. Paulo Dybala has previously been labelled as " the next Del Peiro" yet it seems Juventus are done with him. Dybala joined Juve in 2015 and at just 25 one would believe they would let him prove himself, but not in the world of football, if you have a bad-ish season your neck is on the chopping board.

After bringing in Ronaldo last season who is 34 by the way, La Joya was going to struggle a bit.... but that doesn't mean he's a bad player and we should get rid of him. Juve have also gotten rid of Kean who at 19 was the future, it does make you question the thinking behind this all... getting rid of youth and potential??

This transfer policy reminds me of AC Milan a few years ago when they were selling of there youth for "has beens" and just look at what has become of a once great club, I'm not saying that the current management have lost it but it does make you question things.

All being said they have done some good things like bring in Ajax sensation Matthijs De  Ligt at 19.the centre-back is a wise addition to a steller defence and should learn a lot from Chiellini, Bonnuci and Buffon, the later has returned after a year in Paris. I like most fans am overjoyed yet I do feel for Perin who has been sent away. Anyway if De Ligt is given the time he should be a great addition.

With a new manager in Mauricio Sarri everything looks like it migt change and change can be a good thing... sometimes!
#HANDSOFFLAJOYA #

Greetings!!

I know I haven't written for a while, ever since I was diagnosed with Ataxia I have just been spiralling into depression... not that anyone would know!  Not a lot is known about the disease and there in lies part of the problem. Not knowing a lot means uncertainty and that in turns creates a fear of what may happen. All that I know with certainty is that the worse is to come and that there is no getting better. Not only that but it is not that well known

, some GPs don't even know about it so there is little support out there

Ataxia can best be described as a mixture of MS and Parkinsons, it is a horrible progressive disease that robs you of your independence, every second of the day is a struggle not to fall flat on your face and it gets worse everyday. A few years ago I could walk with my cane but with no extra help, now I cant even walk down the street on my own, my confidence is down the toilet!!

What really scares me is not being able to do or see things I could before, for example I want to see The Basilica Di Superga in Turin Italy but it's not as if I can go myself while I still have my legs and can walk a little, I have to wait around for other people to be free... and I fear that by the time they decide they can go, my legs will decide they cant and I'll be stuck here in my room forever just waiting for things to get worse.

I guess what I'm trying to say is... I fear lost opportunities. 

The Cave-man rears its ugly head.

Society has begun to eat itself. The things that make us human are being driven out, things like compassion and empathy have all but left us and have been replaced b celebrity gossip  and narcissism and looking out for number one. It starts with the top, politicians are more heartless, I mean the PM wants to get rid of free school lunches! The Government is also prone to knee jerk reactions and scape- goating without any real facts. It also doesn't help when the UK's media is extremely right-wing. This has meant that rather being a check on power, the media has become somewhat of an " echo- chamber" just repeating and agreeing with the "powers that be".

This has led to a huge swathe of people who are ill informed, and when you get leaders that like to fan the flame of hate, suspicion and mistrust you will often get violence and even fatalities. How did it get this way?? Well Fascism doesn't just occur overnight, it happens in stages... and we are all guilty of ignoring it.  The following are the early warning signs which are taken from the Holocaust museum:
1. Powerful and continuing nationalism

2. Disdain for Human Rights

3. Identifiction of enemies as a unifying cause

4. Supremacy of the military

5, Rampant sexism

6. Obsession with national security

7. Religion and Government intertwined

8. Corporate power protected

9. Labour power surpressed

10. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts

11. Obsession with crime and punisment

12. Controlled mass media

13, Rampant cronyism and corruption

14. Fraudulent elections

Now one simply has to have there eyes open to realize that nearly all the boxes are ticked. Mrs May has already shown her hatred of Human Right as she's planning to criminalize protesting and as soon as we leave the EU she plan to remove us from EU human Rights. The Tory party may not call themselves Fascists but if you just pay attention to what they do and say.... it's pretty damm close they do value profits over the people.Also the treatment of workers now is as close to slavery without calling it slavery. The worker is exploited to breaking point and has very little to show for it. Nurses have to work long hours while using food banks to survive and apparently this is acceptable by the PM!!

 Like I said before the media in this country is glaringly right- wing and so agrees with the Government  but if a news organisation dares to think about things another way they get bad mouthed and then shut down. This has already happened to the Iranian Press TV and know they are attempting to do the same with Russian Today, One of the steps of  a closing society is to make dissenting voices feel like criminal, which they have begun to do especially after the referendum to leave the EU by calling the opposition " remoaners" and how they should stop complaining and accept it.

If I were to list how this country is corrupt, I would never finish but let me just remind you that the PM's husband hasn't paid any corporation tax for the last eight years and Osborne and Cameron are to make a huge windfall when we leave the EU!

This country should rename itself as Mediocre Britain because a great country doesn't treat its citizenry like this.... But I forget, we aren't citizens we are mere subjects!

With countries like the US Italy being seduced by the rhetoric of blame everything on the other and Italy for Italians, it does make me fearful of the future but also curious at how future historian will judge us all for letting it happen again.

It's here....

Solidarity- It's not a bad thing

In simple terms, solidarity is about caring about each other and having sympathy for another persons plight. Caring about people and having empathy/ sympathy are all part of being human, but slowly this very human part of you is being driven out, we are actively being encouraged to screw each other over so that we can get ahead in life at the expense of everyone else.

The mentality of thinking about yourself and no one else didn't just happen overnight. It has been cultivated over decades , from early school to the business world, you are taught to look out for number one and helping others is a weakness or a negative attribute to have. This way of thinking is in our tv shows, films, our working life to politics.

Any time there is a strike or protest the media will do its utmost to frame the story in a negative was, such as: how much it is costing the taxpayer and the negative effects it will have on the economy. They will spend a small fraction of the time on WHY they are protesting or on strike, could it be that they are in dangerous working conditions, being constantly exploited or being paid peanuts for working 12 hour shifts?!! None of this will be the focus of conversation.

The PM is trying to shut down protest by making it illegal and if she gets her way we will have become equal to regimes like Saudi Arabia, China and North Korea(!) Is this perhaps the real reason she wants to leave the EU, her cronies have all but admitted that they want to get rid of Human Rights!

To prove to you even further how heartless this society has become not only do they place Homeless Spikes in London but a homeless man was found dead near Westminster! Tell me... where was the outrage??!!  To prove my point even further Windsor Council have decided to fine homeless people £100! Where are they meant to get that sort of money and also how cold- hearted do you have to be to demand that kind of money from people that are obviously struggling? But the right- wing media will be doing over-time portraying these people as thieve, drug addicts or pedophiles- which I'm sure is the current government.

Why is this country called Great Britain, it should be called Mediocre Britain by of the way it dares to treat the most vulnerable in society. The population has the ability to change things they just have to open there eyes and speak up to all the injustice around them.