King of Pain
A strange and unwelcome state of affairs has occurred as a result of riding my bike. I had one of those days where boxer shorts and 'roomy' trousers resulted in little or no support for my nether regions. As my legs pumped up and down, my 'manhood' jigged from side to side. This resulted in a bad case of that little-known affliction: 'jogger's foreskin'.Virtually unknown in the circumcised areas of the world, this condition can bring even the most macho to his knees.
Vaseline anybody?
So Ron Atkinson' true colours are nailed high for all to see today. I heard his sorry excuse that he didn't even realise he'd said what he had said until they played it back to him. As today's Guardian attests though, Big Ron has displayed a less than edifying approach to the issue in the recent past.
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But despite praise from black players he has worked with throughout his career, including some of the first black stars of the game that emerged during his tenure at West Brom at a time when overt racism was rife on the terraces, Atkinson has displayed signs of casual racism in the past.
"It was a great time. I think there's more racial prejudice now than there was then, though we used to make them sit on the back of the bus going to away games. We all used to laugh and joke about it. Cyrille [Regis] would say, 'If you don't stop giving me stick I'm going to buy a house next door to you'," he said in a recent interview.
S'funny ol' world ain't it?
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