Well the year is one week young blog readers and there already are some bizarre and disturbing things that have occurred that quite frankly i never want to witness in a sporting arena again. With 51 weeks of the year remaining i face the eternal debate, do i really want to see this?
1. Premiership footballers with mohican style haircuts.
What is it with Premiership footballers and mohican haircuts this season? Everytime i watch a match i think i've travelled back in time and am watching an episode of the A-Team with Mr T! Is it new fashion i clearly know nothing about or are players clearly under some delusion that it makes them look "tough"? Whatever the case, it's putting me off watching the game gentlemen! Sort it before i think Hannibal is going to turn up in goal!
2. Synchronised Swimming at the London Olympics
Yours truly has actually seen Synchronised Swimming at the Sydney Olympics and although any street cred i had is just about to go out of the window, i actually quite enjoyed watching it. The discipline it takes for eight girls to be in a pool at the same and be in perfect synchronisation for however many minutes under water most of the time is astonishing. I find it difficult to assemble eight of my colleagues in the same room let alone play Simon Says with them! A few months ago hundreds of the Great British public were probably delighted to have obtained tickets to the Synchronised Swimming, seeing as the tickets they really wanted were not available. Yet thanks to an almighty seating cock up by LOCOG, it appears hundreds of fans will actually get tickets for sports they actually wanted to see in the first place. Blog readers, despite its subtle athletic qualities, it actually pays not to see Synchronised Swimming.
3. Premiership footballers bemoaning the fact they lose half their players to the African Nations Cup
Over the Christmas period the beloved football commentators of this world have kindly reminded myself and the Great British public that the African Nations Cup will commence in January and that half the teams in the Premiership are going to lose important players, approximately 500 times. Apparently Manchester City requested permission from the Ivory Coast Football Federation to delay their departure of the Toure brothers for the African Nations Cup until the conclusion of the FA Cup derby match with United. The Ivory Coast refused. Good! Premiership teams if you chose to employ the services of an African player, you do so with the knowledge that they make a bi-annual trip for the African football jamboree at the same time of year. It's not as if the African Football federations think, i know let's have an international football tournament just to annoy Roberto Mancini. So Roberto if you and your gazillion pound squad don't beat United and blame it on the fact Yaya Toure wasn't there to bulldoze his way through the United defence, i will switch my TV over to the Eastenders omnibus edition in protest.
I guess watching sport can excite the hell out of you, like a fan who realises he has tickets to watch the Men's Olympic 100 metres final, and depress you like listening to a football player manage to fit the comment "you know" 47 times in midst of a two minute conversation. There will be things that fill you with trepidation, but the thought you could witness some of the most amazing achievements by sportsmen and women is most definitely enough to keep you watching.
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