Friday, January 4, 2008

New year resolutions

Happy new year to you all and thanks for being ardent followers of my blog. I have decided to leave football today and talk about the season. The new year is a time people think of as a time to start anew and rebuild on their lives or build on what they have accomplished in the previous year. Many people start by making resolutions on what they aim to accomplish come the year end. I, in the past have always been a part of this ritual on this year. I have decided to stop making resolutions because I have noticed that resolutions sometimes are not the solutions to resolves but atimes are even a problem starter as many people aim so high with them and when they do not achieve, it makes them worse as they think they have underachieved. Many people start the year adhereing to their resolutions and as the weeks and sometimes months roll by, they stop the adherent. This has led me to stop this ritual and take each inadequacy at a time and work towards a solution. This is only what I think,what do you think?

Foreigners Solving the English Problem

It is funny how the English started the game of football and yet find themselves in a position where they are known as modern day failures. The only thing they do quite well is pronoucing their pride-From the way the overpraise their young talents, to the way they talk about the premierleague and even the press; Having finally realised the incapabilities of every single English man to take the mantle at Soho Square, they have turned to a complete outsider, to one who differs from the English way, to a man who is fierce in his ways and this man is no one but Fabio Capello. A italian with a grit for taking no nonsense and turning uptown boys who play football like fooseball and turning them to no nonsense players. Ask Real Madrid. They have come to realise that to achieve their dream of winning major tournaments they will need a fierce, unbiased hand of some gritty italian enemy. A complete foreigner.
To this end, I remember my blog on foreign quotas and also the F.A blabbing about how English clubs have too many foreign players. It is funny how the solution to this problem is not obvious and has to be solved my some 19 spanish immigrant who came to England to find greener pastures for himself. This young man is Cesc Fabregas. He made a comment saying that he had to come to England to make himself better and English players should follow suit. English players are the least travelled. Check any foreign league and see how many English players are there? Almost none and even the ones who left England have almost all returned home-Owen Hargreaves, Michael Owen, Jonathan Woodgate, Michael Ball............
In my pursuit for a better future, I had to leave my own country, Nigeria, to come to Canada. What is hindering English players from leaving. Even politically, the greatest nations are known to be the multicultural ones, ask America, Canada, France.....and even the Asians. There for me seem to be little wrong with the English game if only they can open their eyes and lessen their pride and ask for help. On this account, I shall talk no more
Happy new year