What will the media coverage be like with England not in the euros?

Its going to be indifferent this summer during the European championships as the creators of football are not in the tournament. Below are my top 5 things that you will and won’t see or hear during the tournament

What we’ll hear and see from the media

1. That the Italian player Simone Perotta, was born in Aston-under-Lyne, just outside Manchester
2. That an English player may win the cup (Perotta again)
3. Lacklustre coverage and/or commentary (England not there who cares)
4. Drop in viewing numbers
5. England players on holiday (Should probably be training together…you know, to play in these tournaments)

What we won’t hear or see from the media

1. Images of England’s previous tournament heroics (1966 cup win…. That’s it!)
2. England’s near misses (Missed penalties, scored penalties, lost games etc)
3. The countries gone “England mad” (no St Georges flags will be around)
4. Drunken brawls in Austria
5. England inspired songs. 3 lions will get dusty over this summer!!!

Any thing else i've missed? Let me know!!

Pro “Wii”voloution (My best blog title to date, what word play)

Saw the Nintendo Wii advert for pro evolution soccer the other day and I though “how un-fun does that look”. All you could see was shapes flying around and I couldn’t understand what was going on! With the sports pack on the Wii you have to actually swing like your playing tennis, block and punch on the boxing and baseball swing for the baseball (obviously). Saying that it does look like one of them that you’ll love it when you play it but it doesn’t look to have that “fun” Wii factor for me.

Im no games engineer but why not make it like that with the football game to. The equivalents to that would be strapping something to your leg and swinging your leg to kick. That would defiantly affect the lack of physical activity by our video game playing youth. Think Nintendo should give me a job!!!

Football is fickled

Gary Megson:

Liverpool are going to have a massive say in which teams go down. We would hope that Rafa Benitez will retain the integrity of the Premier League with his squad selection

From the man who lost all his by playing a Sunday league strength Bolton side in the UEFA cup. tut tut

More bad press for italian football

I’ve jus had a quick read of this article from ex Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi. Football does have a very manly stance where strength is everything, such as players shouldn’t dive (Unless your name is Drogba), "it's a mans game" and so on but these comments have raised the bar in discrimination. Have a read of the article here.

I find these comments incredible and disturbing. These points of view are in the same vein of comments were once directed at Black players discouraging them from playing and now these mindsets are deterring more social groups from playing, next there going to say boys with unisex names shouldn’t play!

Italy has had enough problems and this in my opinion is the reason why. Italian clubs have had extensive links with far right leaders, fascist groups, violent fans and all round bad stuff, so should he really be showing himself and his country with these caveman sounding comments. Regardless if gay footballers do or don’t exist no one should be castigated from playing.

However

“homosexuals are very intelligent people"

so they’ll probably forgive him

When football and their public relations goes wrong

Liverpool’s stories leaked about the board meeting with Jurgen Klinsmann to take Rafa’s job - think they need to read some Maslow articles. Job security goes a long way!

Football is live on... not sky!

Did you know that it is possible to watch football as well as other sports online? I’m not telling you where or how but by having a good internet connection and a laptop you can watch all the Saturday 3 o’clock kick-offs whilst still in bed and without having to pay a penny (apart from the laptop and internet fee). Obviously it isn’t as clear as watching it on TV but I’m not complaining…

Club communications

After every football match I receive an email from Arsene Wenger (The Arsenal manager) declaring his opinions on the previous game. Is this really from him though or is it the work of Arsenals communications department? And in addition why do this? Like all organisations do they want to make the receiver feel like they are part of the organisation and I does make you feel important….in a way!

Wish they’d win instead though