Footy, salutes and riots

21 January

Long time readers of this blog will be aware of my dislike of football. Normally day after day there's some sort of footie story in the news, and that leads me to the whole point of my dislike. We have 22 men running around a field kicking a ball about, so what's so special in that, and why do so many people actually worship the ball kickers? Yes, worship them. It's like the kickers are some sort of god, someone who will guarantee that their lives of the worshipers will be much more useful and blessed in their worship. The only God I know who can guarantee that is the God of the Christians.

What has actually got my back up today is that one kicker from West Brom has been filmed giving some sort of Nazi salute. Just where they got that idea from I don't know, but from the little I saw it didn't look like any sort of Nazi salute and I've never seen it before. Which brings up another issue with footie, that is racism. So many of these kicker worshipers are very racist. Although the footie authorities here in the UK have stamped down it hard, in various places in Eastern Europe and other places. Over all, the whole subject makes me more and more wish the whole thing could be banned everywhere.

Last year part of Dorktown was town centre was in the grips of a riot caused by kicker worshipers. The result was that a popular pub in the heart of it all was closed for the day and it took a long time to clean up after the riot. The financial cost to the pub in lost sales, and damaged was quite high but was increased by the rioters being locked in the pub. The beer pumps were switch off but all the bottled drinks were taken and drunk by those who were forced to remain in there.

At long last the last of the rioters have been sentenced and jailed. But here's the thing folks, although some of those jailed were in their 20s, most of the other men ranged in age from 31 to 51 years old. How sad, all this because of 22 grown men kicking a bag of air around a field!           

No footie photos folks but another sporty shot ... 

Two boats on Draycote Water.

A priest and a rabbi were sitting next to each other on an airplane.
After a while, the priest turned to the rabbi and asked, is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?
The rabbi responded, Yes, that is still one of our laws. The priest then asked, Have you ever eaten pork?
To which the rabbi replied, yes, on one occasion I did succumb to temptation and tasted a ham sandwich.
The priest nodded in understanding and went on with his reading.
A while later, the rabbi spoke up and asked the priest, Father, is it still a requirement of your church that you remain celibate?
The priest replied, Yes, that is still very much a part of our faith, the rabbi then asked him, Father, have you ever fallen to the temptations of the flesh?
The priest replied, yes, rabbi, on one occasion I was weak and broke my Faith.
The rabbi nodded understandingly and remained silent, and sat thinking, for about five minutes.
Finally, the rabbi said, beats a ham sandwich, doesn't it?