Champions League

Comment of the night from my daughter:

Drogba scores for Chelsea.
Immediately, commentator says, "Game on!"

Minutes later, Park scores for United.
Daughter quips, "Game off!"

…led by donkeys

Living in France, I watch the news on U.K. television channels with utter bewilderment. I gave up on the government (irrespective of their politics) long ago. They appear incapable of running the proverbial ‘p*** up in a brewery, let alone a once major western democracy.

Now I see that those other people in an all-powerful clandestine authority, the Football Association, are bringing charges against a footballer for swearing. Are they going to charge every footballer who swears at all the games each week? Is this some ingenious way of funding the cost of the new Wembley stadium? I find it bizarre that another footballer can bring his gun to the training ground, shoot and hospitalise someone with no action taken by the F.A.

Apparently, according to the grey suits of the F.A., it is acceptable to shoot someone but not to swear at them. Has British society finally lost the plot?