Brazilian striker Neymar has become a global joke, a somersaulting clown, a diver and a prima donna.
In a sport where being in the vertical should be a distinct advantage, Neymar, sometimes Neymar Junior (full name, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior), has accumulated a reported 14 minutes in the World Cup competition thus far, writhing about on the deck in horrible pain, before getting lightly to his feet, sprinting off and scoring yet another goal.
Certainly, if Neymar, was an AFL player, he’d be dragged, forced to sit on the pine and think about what he did. In rugby, he’d be stomped mercilessly at the breakdown. In NRL, he’d almost certainly be killed. In soccer, or football at the insistence of my editor, he’s a gun and may one day become the greatest of all time.
SBS commentator, Craig Foster, declared him “a genius”, albeit a flawed one. Mozart was a genius. Michelangelo, too. No doubt. Unless Neymar is scribbling down a piano concerto in A Major or resolving the intrinsic paradox of transcendental bijection in the spacetime continuum before banging the ball into the back of the net, I suspect he comes up short in the genius stakes.
Full column here.
Check this out.
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Is it me or does Putin look like the proverbial cat with the cream?
Or with the unfertilised salt-cured fish eggs? Beluga, of course.
Beluga Carl?
He played Trump like a violin Tracy. I wonder if this might be the beginning of the end- especially after his performance in Europe.
His treatment of the dear old Queen was appalling too
PS: I got Jacksprats details in my reply box. First time this has happened for me.
Why wouldn’t he? Can’t believe his luck.
JTI this morning I had 321 comments on Neymarbut last night I had 347 & sent two posts. Site is not updating at all today so if you get this, it’ll be a miracle.
Is it me?
No. There are problems with one of the plug ins to the server, I believe. We’ll get it sorted. Be patient folks.
Yep, I had the same as Bella. Just sent a comment which has disappeared.
No problems Jack, sure you have other stuff to do
Coal workers only?? Sheesh. Every new pilbara enterprise sees less people employed thanks to automation
http://www.tai.org.au/content/adani-s-automated-mine-risks-just-transition-coal-workers
https://www.afr.com/business/mining/iron-ore/rio-tinto-makes-australias-first-driverless-heavy-haul-train-journey-20171002-gyslss
Is ‘awaiting moderation” turned on Jack looks like posts just go into thin air.
Yes, it is but I know that’s been a problem. My tech is having a bit of a fiddle now and will do a bit more over the weekend. A redesign is in the offing to.
the same day “The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released visitor arrivals and departures data for the month of May, which again posted turbo-charged net annual permanent and long-term arrivals. In the year to May 2018, there were 803,030 permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia – up 4% from May 2017 . the government actually claims to have reduced migration, strange they have been secretively quiet about their use of Taiwan for critically ill people from Nauru “the arrangement between Australia and Taiwan seems to acknowledge Taiwan as an independent state; the Migration Act provides that agreements of this kind can only be made with other countries. To maintain a hard line against seriously unwell asylum seekers, Australia is risking its diplomatic relationship with China and contradicting its own stated policy that it abides by a “one China” policy and does not recognise Taiwan as a country”. Most corrupt government in Nations history.
Have people stopped listening to Shorten? Did they ever listen to Shorten? Would the cumbersome procedures make a challenge unlikely? Is another dismal legacy of Rudd the inability of labor to adapt quickly? So many questions.
I posted a reply to yrs about the sharp division that has emerged in the tipping comp, but the post evaporated. I’m tipping so poorly this year, I should ask Gryzly if I can play a misere.
You hang in there Wiss, you and JacktI and a few others [who have retired!] are helping me look respectable.
has anyone heard anything from Milton for the last decade or so?
Nothing sensible, no. Sounds like the name of one of those computers doesn’t it. What do they call them “Yabba Yabba” machines?
It’s better than the pastel blue they went around in a few years back.
(This belongs in the Carlton strip discussion, should it end up elsewhere)
I don’t reckon. I can’t even tell what colour the current one is meant to be. I saw it described as “Wolf grey” on one website. They should have chosen one of the other 49 shades. Worst footy guernsey I’ve seen.
Pretty ordinary when your team is all about blue!
Have just noticed one strange going on with the Blog mechanic Mr. Insider. You can log on to the blog and see many new posts and do replies then later go back on and only older posts showing with none of the newer ones seen b4? Over to you. Cheers
Turnbull Government racks up the 36th Consecutive Negative Newspoll, Mr. Insider. Yes 36 Barry Crockers in a row, ex-ousted PM Abbott is green with envy!
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