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As Football gets serious... Alpha corners the men who hold season 2010 in their hands. We have an exclusive interview with STEVE JOHNSON, the Geelong star that sees things others don’t. Mark Thompson (and others) tell why. ROBBIE FARAH, the tough yet creative Tigers skipper tells why his team should…
Does Togo Have To Go?
As one of its New Year’s resolutions, alongside “get off the sofa occasionally’” and “do something about the situation in Afghanistan”, the Bucket sucked his pencil and wrote down “less sarcasm”. Because, as he’s found out to bitter cost in arguments with Mrs Bucket, sarcasm can be cruel. And, really, does it help?
Sometimes, though, you have to. You just have to. If, for example, we met the genius (see? It’s working already) in charge of the Confederation of African Football, we might say, “No, mate, no: banning Togo from the next two African Cup of Nations tournies was your best idea yet. What that poor football team really needed, after being shot up by political terrorists, was some ham-fisted bureaucrat quoting the regulation book at it, dumping it from all competitive play for four years, then, on top of all that, fining Togo Football $50 grand. Yeah, old Togo was just asking for that, eh? Why don’t you just go round and insult all their wives, as well?
Oh, that feels good. That’ll show them.
“It won’t work in England, it won’t work anywhere. It’s a waste of time.”
Rodney Hogg gets all defeatist on day-night Tests. If you look at it from one point of view, isn’t sport supposed to be a waste of time? Just a really good one.
Who says the A-League lacks passion? And who says Kevin Muscat’s lost his edge? Actually, no-one has been saying these things: we just wanted to stir things up a bit before confirming that, yes, Gold Coast and Melbourne kicked seven shades of agricultural lumps out of each other at the weekend and that Muscat is still acting like Sylvester Stallone in Cobra. Oh, yeah, takin’ out the trash…
Other, better people than us, are already lining up to condemn the “37-year-old Perth resident” (we’ll track him down!) who ran onto the field and livened up the last ODI by crash-tackling Pakistan’s Khalid Latif to the floor. But why did he do it? I’ve drunk a fair amount of mid-strength in the past, but at no point did I think sprinting 50m and assaulting a player would be my next logical move. Maybe he had it planned for weeks and needed the beer for courage. Imagine what he’d have done on full-strength…
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