Footballer Rashford Sends Government The Wrong Way And Scores

The UK’s Conservative Government was sold a dummy by 22 year old Marcus Rashford, a football (soccer) start who plays for Manchester United and England.

Showing more charisma that the entire government and opposition parties combined could muster, the young goalscorer successfully motivated public opinion and lobbied the government to reverse its plan to suspend the provision of supply free meals for children from poorer families during the traditional summer break. Under the coronavirus lockdown arrangements schools had remained open for children whose parents were working during lockdown and could not afford childcare, or whose incomes were not sufficient to cover the additional costs of providing extra food for children while laid off from their jobs.

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Marcus Rashford controls the ball

In the UK children eligible for free school meals because their families are unemployed or on low incomes, have received food during the coronavirus lockdown, in some cases by attending school dining rooms but  often in the form of vouchers to spend at supermarkets.

This scheme was scheduled to end at the time schools would normally have closed for the summer break, and been reviewed in accordance with prevailing circumstances before school terms resumed in September. In a letter “written from the heart,” Rashford pleaded in reasoned and articulate terms for the scheme to continue through the summer because it is now clear that although the lockdown has been eased to some extent, the situation will not return to anything like normal for several more months at least.

Rashford’s letter surprised many people because football players are not usually noted for their debating skills. However the star consolidated his newly earned reputation by successfully outmanoeuvreing the government.

In a string of tweets on Tuesday, the England star urged politicians: “When you wake up this morning and run your shower, take a second to think about parents who have had their water turned off during lockdown…

“And when you head to the fridge to grab the milk, stop and recognise that parents of at least 200,000 children across the country this morning are waking up to empty shelving.”

But the Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey hit back, tweeting: “Water cannot be disconnected though.”

Her short response indicated the campaign officially dismissed by the government but when it was backed publicly by two Conservative MPs prompted a speedy reply.

Rashford wrote back: “I’m concerned this is the only tweet of mine you acknowledged. Please, put rivalries aside for a second, and make a difference.” Social media picked up on the argument and spontaneously started a national campaign. Soon it was clear that public opinion was with Rashford.

Realising they had lost this one, The Prime Minister’s office announced on Tuesday that £3million will be providede to fund extending the free school meal voucher system in England over the summer holidays in a reversal of its previous pledge to end them. Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said that the government “fully understands” that the children and parents are facing an “unprecedented situation over the summer”.

“To reflect this, we will be providing a Covid summer food fund. This will provide food vouchers covering the six week holiday period”.

 “The scheme will not continue beyond the summer and those eligible will be those who already qualify for free school meals. As the PM has said it is our intention, to get all pupils back into school in September”, the spokesperson said.

Marcus Rashford declared victory by saying that this is what can be achieved when “we come together”.

​The opposition Labour Party, after itself calling for the funding for the provision of free school meals, supported the decision. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the move and praised Rashford for his work.

A Conservative cabinet minister praised Rashford’s interest in child welfare in the UK as “great.” In an interview this earlier today, Grant Shapps agreed with Sky News host Kay Burley that the government’s decisions had been put to shame by a footballer.

“I know he’s written to the PM who will doubtless write back to him as well”, the Transport Secretary said.

He explained that it is usually not the case that free school meals are provided over the school holidays.

“But we have actually unusually in this case, along with all the other billions, multi-billion pound package we’ve put in place to help families, also provided £63m exceptionally to help local authorities help children over this period”, he added.

Several Conservative MPs had called on Johnson to “do the right thing” and extend the school meal programme.

Commentators also questioned why the government was picking a fight over such an indefensible policy when it was already on the back foot over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Rashford, 22, earned praise from politicians, charities and mainstream media for his campaign. He said he was proud to have used his celebrity status to help “vulnerable parents”.

“There is still a long way to go but I am thankful to you all that we have given these families just one less thing to worry about tonight,” he added.

After writing to Boris Johndon and other MPs the prolific goalscorer wrote in The Times newspaper that he understood personally how much free school meals mattered to children receiving them.

“Ten years ago, I was one of them. I grew up in a low income family inn Manchester and know what it feels like to be hungry,” he wrote. Ahead of a parliamentary debate called by the main opposition Labour party, he urged MPs to put aside their political differences and back his campaign.

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Poor Little Snowflake, Gets Paid £100k A Week And has To Put Up With Abuse?

Snowflake of the month award goes to England and Tottenham defender Danny Rose who says he “can’t wait to see the back of football” and is frustrated at the lack of action taken against fans’ racism.

Racist chanting was directed at several England players, including Rose, during the Euro 2020 qualifier in Montenegro. Hmmm sounds a rough sort of place, can’t expect politically correct behaviour from a bunch of goat molesters. Still top footballers get paid more per minute than most of the spectators earn in a year, Mr. Rose should be able to shrug off a bit of racist abuse for what he gets paid (notice I didn’t say ‘earns’.)

Uefa has charged Montenegro with racist behaviour over abuse of England’s black players but Rose, 28, does not expect a significant punishment. The left-back said: “When countries get fined what I probably spend on a night out in London what do you expect?”

Well Danny – boy, when you go around making cuntish remarks like that maybe you deserve a bit of abuse.

Rose, who was also abused while on England Under-21 duty in Serbia in 2012, says he will play on but has “had enough” of racism in the game. Wow, he’s ben called monkey boy or whatever twice in seven years and he’s upset. I get called worse things than that everyday in comments on my internet posts, it doesn’t bother me.

However it bothers little Danny so much he’s looking forward to giving up his £2.5 million a year profession. He says, “How I programme myself is that I think I’ve got five or six more years left in football, and I just can’t wait to see the back of it”.

Ah, he’s so desperate to see the back of this disgusting game with its racist fans he’s only going to stick around picking up his big fat paycheques for another five years. Poor little mite.

If you feel that strongly Danny, why not grow a pair, announce your retirement and fuck off now, you will not be missed.

Who Says Terrorist Don’t Have A Sense Of Humour

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ISIS Puts Captured Roman Amphitheatre Back Into Use as Venue for Execution as Entertainment

Source: The Independent

Good to see the Judean Peoples’ Front still talking the talk down there (Image source)

A Roman ampitheatre has been returned to its original use as a venue for public execution of prisoners before an audience. For the first time in many centuries, killing people has become a form of popular entertainment after ISIS forces captured the classical ruins at Palmyra.

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If he hadn’t died he would still be alive

I learned that legendary sports commentator David Coleman, who commentated on major sporting events with his foot in his mouth for over forty years, had died when on opening my email today I found this compliation of classic Colemanballs. I don’t know where it originates from but guess it will be going viral over the weekend.

Let’s enjoy some memories of the inimitable and much imitated style of the man.

CLASSIC COLEMANBALLS

“That’s the fastest time ever run – but it’s not as fast as the world record.”

“A truly international field, no Britons involved.”

“The Republic of China – back in the Olympic Games for the first time.”

“And the line up for the final of the Women’s 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.”

“Don’t tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let’s just have another look at Italy’s winning goal.”

“He’s 31 this year – last year he was 30.”

“He just can’t believe what’s not happening to him.”

“In a moment we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.”

“He is accelerating all the time. The last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before that in 62.”

“The late start is due to the time.”

“It’s gold or nothing … and it’s nothing. He comes away with the silver medal.”

“There is Brendan Foster, by himself with 20,000 people.”

“Forest have now lost six matches without winning.”

“He’s even smaller in real life than he is on the track.”

“The front wheel crosses the finish line, closely followed by the back wheel.”

“And here’s Moses Kiptanui – the 19-year-old Kenyan who turned 20 a few weeks ago.”

“This could be a repeat of what will happen in the European games next week.”

“If that had gone in, it would have been a goal.”

“This evening is a very different evening from the morning we had this morning.”

“He’s seven seconds ahead and that’s a good question.”

“I think there is no doubt, she’ll probably qualify for the final.”

“I have the feeling she (Manuela Machado) is an athlete who likes to get away from the opposition.”

“Nobody has ever won the title twice before. He (Roger Black) has already done that.”

“He’s got his hands on his knees and holds his head in despair.”

“Both of the Villa scorers – Withe and Mortimer – were born in Liverpool as was the Villa manager Ron Saunders who was born in Birkenhead.”

OMFG – Tom Daly Is Gay

He only came out this morning and already I want to strangle Tom Daly. Not because he’s gay but because he’s given the gay lobby in mainstream media something with which they can annoy us until the next Olympics when another petulant, preening, posing, hissy fit throwing failure by this obnoxious little attention seeker at his chosen event, the world’s most boring non – sport exposes him for what he really is, a nonentity.

OK he’s the best diver we have had in fifty years but how hard is it to be a contender in a sport nobody else is intersted in?

Its always possible of course, given Daly’s track record for attention seeking and throwing hissy fits when he does not get his own way, that coming out is just a ploy to get himself in the papers because nobody is very interested in diving and he was feeling a bit ignored, what with Rebecca Adlington being on tele every day in I’m a celebrity..

Whatever, unfortunately it means we will have to put up with this Dunt (no, his name really is Dunt, going on about how wonderful it is that the most boring sports competitor in Britain is gay.

“Tom Daley just did more for gay culture by lying back on a couch than a thousands of hours of diligent campaign work could ever hope to achieve.

The Olympic diver’s statement, delivered through YouTube, that he was dating a guy will have probably surprised few people.

What was truly special about the announcement was the way in which it was made. There was no sombre, set-piece, media-event TV interview. There was none of the fevered, front page hysteria which would have greeted a newspaper exclusive.”

What? Gay culture? What gay culture? I’ve never heard anything about julian Clary or Elton John or Paul O’Grady or Clare Balding being into diving. (Actually scrub Clare Balding from the list, she’s probably done more than her share of diving). And what is Dunt on about when he says there was no staged media event. Tom Daly was lying back on a sofa (Oi, stupid Dunt, it’s sofa not couch, you ignorant, lower class moron) talking to nobody in particular about how great it is to be gay and someone who just happened to accidentally film the speech on a smartphone then happened to accidentally post it on You Tube? I think not.

Well if it’s any consolation to the gay culture bods, I don’t hate Tom Daly any more now than I did before. He’s still a pointless, irritating little twat and an attention seeker.

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Proof that the Football Authorities Are A Bunch Of C***s

“What have those FIFA loons done now Ian,” you might well ask as if any further proof of what is stated in the headline were needed.

Well, you know that the oil rich desert kingdom of Qatar (population 103) was selected to stage the 2022 World Football (or Soccer for the benefit of our American followers) World Cup?

And you know that Qatar did not have any football teams (apart from those playing in European leagues that have been bought by wealthy Quatari Sheiks)and consequently no football stadia?

For a lot of people in the traditional football playing nations the decision to stage the tournament in a tract of sand dunes was proof enough that the self important bureaucrats of the Federation Of International Football Associations were to a man, cupid stunts.

As if to underline that conclusion, in the design chosen for the Al Wakrah stadium which will host the World Cup final, the complex looks like a lady’s ………….. well, lady bits.

Picture source: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/18/1384790064345/Al-Wakrah-stadium-011.jpg

The fact that they are playing in what looks like a gigantic concrete and steel effigy of a minge may not affect most player (Wayne Rooney will not be playing in 2022 and the stadium would be brand new rather than over 50 years old). Such a faux pas does nothing for the credibility of a game which had little credibility left.

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Manager In The Theatre Of Nightmares

Saw an old frien of mine yesterday. He is a lifelong Manchester United fan so naturally a topic that came up in conversation was How long will Dave Moyes last as manager of Manchester United now fans have sussed out the man is a complete dickhead?

Until the end of the season or until the end of the year we speculated.

Having just seen the latest score from the United vas Stoke City match, as half time approaches with visitors Stoke leading 2 – 1 at Old Trafford I have now changed by bet.

I’ll be surprised if he lasts to the end of half time.

Which Sports Star Uses Cash For Bog Roll

Yes the pictures shows what one overpaid sport star uses to wipe his arse.

Yes, one overpaid ball juggler with the social sensibility of a sewer rat (sorry, that ws unfair ……………. to sewer rats) uses cash for toilet paper. Who is it do you think.

Hands up if you said Super Mario Balotelli. His was the first name that came to my mind, but we are wrong. The scumsucker responsible for this stunt is one Gilbert Arenas who was already one of the biggest stars in the NBA when he signed a six-year, £70 million contract with the Washington Wizards back in 2008.

To add insult to insult, a catalogue of injuries, loss of form, suspensions and legal difficulties mean he has hardly played. In fact Arenas has become become basketball’s answer to Chelsea’s Winston Bogarde.

Bogarde collected just £2 million a year by not playing for Chelsea, which is grotesque because most of us would be happy to pick up a grand a week for not playing football. Arenas however has collected over £10 million a year for barely touching a ball .

He’s not played a single minute in the NBA in over two years, but remains one of the biggest-earners in the sport; the Orlando Magic apparently owe him £15m for 2013 alone.

All in all he’s a total arse and a fine example of what is wrong in modern society.

Not to be outdone, The Premiership has its own totally overpaid arsewipe in West Brom’s Liam Ridgewell as this story from The Currant Bun illustrates.

Foul! Fowler’s girls upset the BBC football pansies

Top tabloid sensation this morning was the BBC’s ritual humiliation of former Premier league striker and not-the-brightest-light-on-the-Christmas-tree Robbie Fowler.

On Saturday the BBC made Fowler, a match pundit apologise on air for commenting that two footballers were “fighting like girls”. The tarts and ponces who run BBC sport these days were outraged though it was obvious to any viewer with more than one brain cell that Fowler’s comment, made about a tussle between Fernando Torres and Jan Vertonghen during the Tottenham-Chelsea game, was entirely innocent, intended only to condemn Torres and Vertonghen’s childish antics and not to slander the female sex in general or the fat ugly man-hating lezza’s who are always screaming about sexism in particular. BTW, it is a potential hate crime for me to write the phrase “fat ugly man – hating lezzas” but apparently not a hate crime for fat, ugly, man – hating lezzas to say that all men are rapists. how does that work?

Minutes after his “girls” comment Robbie Fowler was on his knees in front of the camera making all sane viewers cringe with a toe curlingly embarrassing apology, telling the nation he was “deeply sorry” for apparently offending womankind.

Womankind? So the politically correct idiots who run the show think all the women in the world were watching a Saturday afternoon sport programme? Did I comment on Robbie Fowler’s lack of intelligence? How unfair of me, next to the fuckwits who run the BBC these days he’s on a par with Einstein.

A forced public apology, especially when the only “crime” committed is that someone has phrased something slightly carelessly, is always cringeworthy and particularly so when the potentially offensive word or remark (potentially being the operative word in the case of Fowler’s unremarkable remark)has offended professional offence takers among the tribe of media luvvies who assume they exist to tell us all how to live our lives (Stephen fucking Fry please note).

That the BBC lead the field in professional offence taking is particularly ironic when we remember this is the organization that closed ranks to cover up the politically incorrect activities of Jimmy Savile for years. Hypocrites.

Still reeling from the Savile scandal one would think the BBC migh tell its moralising lefties to shit the fuck up as the moral outrage over trivialities could be interpreted as a front to cover up far more offensive things going on behind closed doors in the organization.ls”.

Having got that off my chest I was actually surprised the BBC still shows football.

To me it seems there simply aren’t enough disabled gay bipolar transgender lesbians on the teams to warrant as much prime time coverage as the game gets in Britain.

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