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Summer sports – is there really a point after all?
THIS summer I have been paying extra attention to the sports stories salvaging the column inches while philistine football fans, such as myself, are waiting for the new season to get fully underway.
I have to admit, I was amazed by just how much is still going on in the sporting world: Here’s my pick of the highlights.
In one of the most controversial weeks in English cricket Michael Vaughan surprised the masses when he announced his resignation from England’s top job.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it was a sad way for our most successful ever Test captain to end his five-year reign. But the truth is, his cowardly, towel-chucking tactics could have, and should have, waited until after England’s final encounter against South Africa.
Now even if his replacement, Kevin Pietersen, inspires his country to victory at the Oval, his career will always be blemished by the fact that his captaincy started with a Test series defeat.
Nice one Vaughany.
And for the record, I think all the Alf Garnett wannabes out there who are complaining that Pietersen shouldn’t have been selected as the new captain because he was born in South Africa should follow Vaughan into the wilderness.
In my own personal utopia, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini would be there waiting.
Meanwhile, ahead of the Ryder Cup, US captain Paul Azinger revealed he would still consider selecting Hunter Mahan after he said that golfers were treated like “slaves” during the tournament.
If I was Azinger, I would send him off with Vaughan, Blatter and Platini, and let the four of them go off and start their own boyband somewhere. They could be called Crying Shame and their first
single could be ‘We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are’.
Finally, this weekend finally sees the start of the Olympics in Beijing.
No sarcasm. No moaning. I just want to wish team GB good luck, make us proud.
That’s it for Match Point, folks I have a feeling it will be awhile before we see it again.
Next week the smugness that is Richard Osley returns to crowing about the
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