THRILLER AT THE VILLA
With the bin workers of Birmingham having been on strike for more than a month, we can but wonder what the players of Paris Saint-Germain made of the stuffed polythene sacks of stinking rubbish piled high and lining the streets as their coach wended its way towards Villa Park last night. After going 2-0 down on the night to trail 5-1 on aggregate with little over an hour to play, the players of Aston Villa might have been excused for downing tools too, withdrawing their labour from this season’s Bigger Cup in order to focus on qualifying for next season’s by expending as little energy as possible before Saturday’s qualification six-pointer against Newcastle in the Premier League.
“It was rather sickening to see yet another entitled billionaire throwing their weight around in public, this time by publicly berating and lecturing Birmingham City’s players (yesterday’s email edition), probably enacting his tough guy routine for the accompanying Amazon Prime documentary cameras. If I was one of those demoralised and humiliated players, I’d be very tempted to tell Tom Wagner exactly where to shove his patronising and disrespectful rant. Then in the inevitable unfair dismissal hearing, also filmed by Amazon, use this guy for the statutory staff support representation” – Steve Malone.
“Re: Noble Francis’ letter (yesterday’s Daily): I shall be one of 1,057 pedants to point out that David Moyes’s Premier League win rate at West Ham was 37% of 198 games. Perhaps more pertinently, he managed only two wins from the first 10 games of his second spell before Covid intervened. Could it be that Graham Potter (three wins from 12 games) needs more time before being compared to the marvellous Moyesiah?” – David Moy Paul Billyard (and no others).
“Further to Tom Fleuriot’s excellent World Cup idea (yesterday’s letters), why not let the game’s global stars play for both club AND country. That’s the way to properly knacker folks. Who doesn’t want to see, say, Mo Salah play for Egypt and Liverpool in the same tournament, switching his shirt at half-time if they play one another?” – Mike Wilner.
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