Ballon d’Or For Bent and New Signings
Hello. Is it me you’re looking for? No? Oh well, you’ve made it this far you might as well stick around and see if I accidently say something interesting. As I replied to the question whether Sunderland’s Asamoah Gyan would make the nominees list for the Ballon d’Or this week: stranger things have happened. And would you look at that. Quite how he managed to get himself ahead of the likes of Tevez, Diego Milito and, dare I say it, Ashley Cole in the minds of FIFA brass is anyone’s guess. But I dare say his underwhelming start to life in the Premiership has little to do with it. I sh*t you not, in the comments section of a Sky Sports article yesterday, one Sunderland fan questioned why Darren Bent didn’t get a mention. Clearly one potential World Player of the Year isn’t enough for some people.
Closer to home, we’ve bought South African centre-back Bongani Khumalo. As the esteemed RioSpurs remarked on here a day or two ago: ‘I don’t know anything about him but it’s a signing. Signings are exciting so therefore I am excited.’ Quite. It doesn’t matter too much who the fella is; he sounds exotic, looks the business and that ought to be plenty for any man. Digging a little deeper, our resident Yidette, KayBee, has managed to find quotes that assert to him being ‘quick and strong’ and ‘a bit like Lucas Radebe’. Although, this was coming from a Liverpool fan, whose idea of a competent defender is Glen Johnson. So forgive us if we make our own minds up on that one. Still. Yippee.
Other than that there’s not an awful lot shaking. Old Trafford is the next port of call. An annual event, which, due its previous episodes of disappointment has had some asking whether it might be worth putting a call into the F.A and propose we just take the weekend off instead. Give them the points, save us the heartache. Let’s get on with our lives. I daren’t tempt fate, but there’s a feeling this year, of all years, it might be a different kettle of carp altogether. United are looking far from impermeable of late. But keep it on the down-low, eh? We all know that before long there’ll be a whole caboodle of provocative headlines doing the rounds: Jenas says: We Can Beat United! or King in Ferguson Taunt. The media are just waiting for one of our lot open their mouths and let off some blithering sound-byte, just so anything other than a Spurs win will make us look like pwopa mugs. Don’t give them the ammo, I say. Keep it tight-lipped and let all your hot air out on the pitch. Only instead of hot air we want delicious chunks of mad skills and clinical finishing. About three goals to the good at half-time would be a start.
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