From Brendan : thanks
Hi Myles,
Thanks for that Eisenhower link.
I’ve never heard it properly. I think I’ve definitely heard the speech sampled in hip-hop records, but not listened from the start to the end.
It’s sobering to know that there was a time when the United States of America didn’t have these absolutely ground in interest groups controlling everything.
And it puts things in perspective.
Today I read in the Standard about the transfer gossip – Napoli set to outbid Arsenal for Higuain.
You know what? I just feel physically repulsed by it all.
I have vowed to myself that I will not read one more article about football (not inc. ANR and maybe one or two other blogs) until the season starts. It now comes back to me that I read an absolutely hilarious, risible, pathetic and ridiculous article in which Jose Mourinho talks of how “visionary” Abramovich has been in preparing for Financial Fair Play, buying those three youngsters (one of whom is Lukaku, sorry, can’t remember the others..).
You’re right, Myles, about Wenger’s shameless and Machiavellian manipulation of the media.
But Wenger’s not quite as ridiculous as Mourinho and Abramovich.
Mourinho and Abramovich are like the mechanicals in a Shakespeare play. I mean, Abramovich “visionary” in FFP?
That’s like saying George W Bush was “visionary” in finding a solution to the problems of Islamic extremism.
It’s the exact opposite of the truth.
My English teacher, a fiery-tempered Israeli immigrant who probably had the biggest influence on my way of thinking of anyone, said to us – to understand the nature of evil, you have to understand that people will say one thing, and mean the precise opposite.
I know ‘evil’ is not a popular concept these days. It’s too absolute, too categorical. But he was not a fan of relativism of any kind.
Yes, Wenger’s at it too.
But that from Mourinho takes some beating.
Good night, sir.