The Devil In Me

We all need to calm down a bit here. As I keep stressing the situation has not changed. Ronaldo gave an interview and said that he agreed with Sepp Blatter and it has been twisted into ‘Ronaldo Wants Out of Slavery Shocker’, by those stout chaps in Fleet Street who want to fill up a few more pages in their newspapers.

What Sepp Blatter said was in direct support of player power and freedom of movement. I think you will find that every single professional football player on the planet would agree with him. But if Ronaldo says he agrees with him we all read..’Ronaldo Wants Out of Slavery Shocker’ and are led to believe that it is gospel. It is not.

The man who decides who goes in and out the door at Old Trafford is Scottish, and probably in a very bad mood right now. I once met a sage old man in the pub who informed me with great confidence that Blatter was in fact a complete prat and that he should not be allowed to speak in public at all. I, of course, thoroughly disagreed with his opinion (it would be libelous not to), but thought his point of view was interesting.

Ronaldo has had his head turned by all of this interest and he stands nothing to lose by making a few cryptic comments here and there, it might make him a bit more money. He does have a wandering eye, now some people use this as reason character assassinate him, I think he’s a 23yr old bloke so be realistic and try to remember the 23yr old Giggs. Fergie will sort him out when he gets back. Besides, the guy has been out of the country for ages now and probably doesn’t even realise what a fuss he has stirred up.

Honestly, I can’t wait for the games to just get going. When we are subjected only to the ‘football machine’ and not the matches themselves I start to wonder if I enjoy football or just suffer from it. This saga is overwhelmingly disappointing and it is not going to end yet. Did we even get a full day to enjoy winning the European Cup before all of this started?