Ruthie was amused by the complaint by Wigan Athletic, that referee Phil Dowd verbally abused players “in an aggressive and menacing manner” during their recent 2-1 defeat by Arsenal. Ruthie finds it hard to imagine that such a complaint would ever be made by a rugby team. At least not one that didn’t want to be laughed off the pitch. Imagine… 6 Nations Match, England v France, Johnny Wilkinson flouncing off the field because the ref swore.
The complaint simply confirms Ruthie’s long held view that football players are a bunch of unintelligent and overpaid prima donnas.
Wigan Athletic ought to spend a week in front of some of Ruthie’s least favourite Judges. Ruthie gets “verbally abused in an aggressive and menacing manner” routinely. When it comes from the “Ref” one has to simply grit ones teeth. When it comes from the representative of the other team a witty reposte should suffice. If not you can always get them afterwards in the dressing room.
Todays Rugby player is a bit namby pamby compared to those of the pre-professional era.
JPR Williams was once famously sent back on the pitch after having a cut stiched on the sideline by his own father as the Match Doctor.
Is this protectionism to be encouraged at all levels of sport?
In my own world of sport they introduced some prissy rule about not putting any part of the body in front of a rifle, just because some silly Ambassador put a bullet through his shoe whilst his foot was still in it.
In my day……….
Yet another thing Ruthie and I can agree on: football players are a bunch of overpaid coiffed dim poofters.
Am I the only one who looks at Rio Ferdinand, and his drooping lower lip & glazed eyes, and thinks “good grief: how the fuck does a man labouring under an astonishingly obvious learning difficulty earn £2 million a year?” (and why hasn’t Ruthie had him yet since he is so obvious an easy and vulnerable target
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OMG…I had images of Footballers’ Wives.
Yeah, tempting…but that would be exploitation which Ruthie finds ugly. She does have some principles. No Ruthie much prefers to play with the big clever ones. The standard of conversation is better and if parted from their cash they play a fully informed and consenting role in the process…
I know that you may find this surprising - but ‘young Charon’ played for Real Madrid 30 years ago….. (when he was asked to spend a bit of time away from the UK because of an unfortunate incident with a spliff which a friend at Eton had given him.)
Scored five goals against Manchester United one night and then… but two days later - put a goal into the back of the net against München-Gladbach - unfortunately I was a bit juiced up on Weissbier and only realised that it was our own goal when General Franco ran onto the pitch and asked me to leave. It was shortly after this bizarre evening that I made the decision to drink Rioja…
Ahhh…. the life and times of Charon…..
My football claim to fame is far less impressive than Charon’s; my uncle used to play for Arsenal. Still, the odd free ticket to Highbury/Emirates is not to be sniffed at.
I love the game of rugby. Though, I’m not from a country that takes as seriously as others. Seems to be quite a passion in some commonwealth countries.
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