You’re on fire today tinnion.
I would agree with that Tinnion as well apart from the respect given to Bobby Moore. What do we really know about him? Maybe he spat or missed a drug test or whatever back in the day but the English media have glossed over it much like the Ferdinand and Lionheart Terry incidents…
Well they didn’t gloss over his arrest for shoplifting in Columbia in 1970.
The Fivers take on the new captain
ENGLAND’S BRAVE FABIO CAPELLO
As if the Olympics haven’t already whipped up the entire nation into a
tediously transient jingoistic froth - come back and talk to the
Fiver about our 83 cycling gold medals in, say, November, and we’ll
discuss what went wrong in the madison then - it’s now time for the
first England match of the season, a totally unnecessary friendly
against the Czech Republic. Hurrah! What a glorious
natioAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHNNFFFF. Anyway, Fabio Capello has taken the
opportunity to announce his choice of permanent captain. But who
could it be? “I think everybody realises it means the world to me to
retain the armband,” says, for it is he, England’s Brave John Terry.
“For me to get it above the likes of Rio Ferdinand and the other
players in the squad is a great honour,” was his immediate unifying
cry.
A great honour, yes, but one richly deserved nonetheless. Capello,
like the Fiver, was obviously impressed at the way his alter ego Mr
Chelsea performed during the penalty shootout at this year’s Big Cup
final, where Mr Chelsea stood up to be counted when it really
mattered, at least for a while. Manchester United’s captain, on the
other hand, shied away from making a bolshie grab at all the glory
himself, Ferdinand quietly letting his attacking midfielders and
skilful strikers take (and score) all the crucial kicks instead.
Compare and contrast, contrast and compare, that’s all we’re saying.
“Rio, when he was captain, played very well, the same level as John,”
said Capello as he explained his decision to choose EBJT over
Ferdinand. “The big personality of John was the reason I chose John.”
A “big personality” last evident on a football pitch in the
aforementioned Big Cup final, when the player could be spotted
standing at the epicentre of a melee, chasing after a diminutive
Argentinian in order to shower him with abuse, and sitting on the
floor with his head between his knees crying. It’s the sort of calm,
distinguished leadership England simply can’t do without. Bobby Moore
would be so proud. What a glorious nation!