Which is only fair, given the fact everything else is mad right now too...

1. Players are being bought for more than £30m each.
2. Man City have talked about paying £135m for one footballer.
3. Kevin Keegan worked with Mike Ashley and Dennis Wise for several months before walking out.
4. Fifty-thousand people turn up to watch Newcastle United play.
5. As I write, Hull City are in a Champions League qualification place.
6. Sir Alex Ferguson, known by some as 'old bacon nose', wanted to buy Dimitar Berbatov so much that he drove to the airport to pick him up.
7. Spurs lost to Middlesbrough and Sunderland, but drew away at Chelsea!
8. Dean Ashton of West Ham has time to choose only one more hair colour before it all falls out.
9. West Ham have had three shirt sponsors go bust. There will be a mad rush to sign a deal there, then. Perhaps they should partner with a firm of insolvency practitioners. They never go bust.
10. We pay huge amounts for tickets, then subscribe to Sky and Setanta to watch a bunch of overpaid halfwits mishitting passes, cheating, feigning injury and shouting abuse at the referee. Then we do the same next season and the season after that and...

 
It could be worse.

Last week we watched men and women hitting yellow balls over a long piece of cloth to men and women standing on the other side. Next week, we can look forward to seeing twelve European men trying to hit a ball 500 yards into a small hole on a very well kept lawn better than twelve American men.  For some reason, we seem to find it all rather exciting.

Don’t you just love sport?

Here Is The Writer : Peter Haines

Peter Haines has more than 20 years of experience in regulation and compliance, which he now offers through his consultancy firm. Peter has the misfortune to support Tottenham Hotspur, Kent CCC and England or Great Britain in most competitive sports. Fortunately, he enjoys a full and happy family life with his wife and two children in Suffolk, which compensates for the sporting trauma associated with supporting Spurs and England. Anybody who knows Peter well will confirm that he has the ideal physical profile of an armchair supporter.

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