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.
Of course, the expertise required for repeatedly putting the boot into an inflated concoction of synthetic leather, polyurethane and latex for $90 mil per annum does not compare with the deftness and skill required of the life-saving sweep of the underpaid surgeon’s scalpel.
And as for who and who should not deserve canonisation, it’s a no brainer.
Well Carl, if the medical profession wasn’t so far up itself and at least tried to appeal to the common boofhead couch potato by promoting ” World Championship Kidney Transplanting ” etc, then they too might reap such rewards.
So much wasted talent. Imagine the gripping interest of the Australian Stent Placement Fours team going for the record up against the highly fancied Irish Four.
Hushed excitable commentary. ” Oh sh*t, just overreached there, O’Leary has carked him! Theres a red card, yes the referee has sent O’Leary off. They don’t like it but the Irish are down to three men and it will be a hard road back from here with Australia leading twenty to seventeen with just 10 minutes and extra time to go.”
Am sure we are all following the Cave Rescue of the 12 Thai boys and their Coach, Mr Insider. We can only pray for a top class result as we see 4 crack UK Divers will try and get them out.
https://tinyurl.com/ycq4ruvh
Frankie report for Bella, little chap is back on the diuretics, fluid accumulation in his lungs so we think his medication has had all the tweaks we can do.
He’s lost most of that extra fluid weight overnight, have to weigh him daily and then weekly when he’s back to his normal weight just to keep tabs. Vet now thinks it is a neurological problem (signals from brain to tail getting scrambled) as to why his legs aren’t working, they respond to stimulation but he can’t use them as he should even though there has been slight improvement.
He’s happy, eating well, hauls himself around at a rate of knots so we keep doing what we are until his condition says otherwise.
Of course he’s happy mate, he’s with a family that loves him.
Note to Frankie: Keep punching on little sweetie..❤
In my previous to Boa I failed to note that this was the obvious team song for the Tassie Cann….you know. Can’t you just imagine the boys belting this out when they’ve just won the second preliminary final?:
So that night we made fires out of twigs and out of bark
And our stomachs they were grumbling all through the night so dark
It was a messy job but it was one we had to do
But when the sun came up next morning (guess what) the three had turned to two
No doubt keen observers have noticed the Chelsea class shining through in the Belgium team!
btw excellent refereeing today, hence the reduced histrionics. And what a goal via Lukaku and de Bruyne.
No, but I’ve noticed the Belgian class shining through Chelsea!
A promise of $25million from Bill yesterday – for a Tasmanian AFL team.
I wonder why the sudden inteerest? – oh, that’s right, Braddon is in Tasmania! Oh the joys of having a marginal seat.
PS: What’s a ”bot” error? Can’t post to the blog from my smartphone any more. Anyone know what that is?
I honestly don’t know. Can you try to post with another browser on your phone and let me know?
OK this is a test using Safari instead of Google Chrome.
Some internet research mentioned deactivating Mojo Marketplace on a host site whatever that is
I don’t have Mijo activated but I’m hearing there may be some problems. Your comment came through but I’ll have my tech look into it on Monday. Cheers.
I had the same problem, Mr Insider, with 2 Browsers so tried IE in “Private Mode” and all went thru. Not tech savvy enough to know why this worked? Cheers
Ok. Hmmm.
I say bring it on (seriously)! Give them a green uniform too. But what nickname? They can’t be just any old animal. The obvious ones like Tigers and Devils are pretty much taken. Thylacines will be too hard for Hawthorn supporters to pronounce. Go for history/culture instead. Could be the Old-Growth-Loggers (doesn’t roll off the tongue but); the Wallaby-Cullers? Exterminators? Hmmm…oh, wait what about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nWdUl-F4dw
😁
“Bruvver” Bills promises not worth the air they are uttered into imho, Boadicea. Chhers and gooooooooo Russia in the QF!
What type of phone B?
Samsung 8
Now browsing on my phone with MS Edge browser .
Laptop seems to be okay – using good old Internet Explorer.
God all too techo for me – lying here in front of a nice fire e uh th a glass of red.
I wonder if this will get through……
Thanks, Boa but all this seems to be a bit of a pain for you and others. I’ll get it fixed.
MS Edge seems to be okay. Really didn’t like Google Chrome for some reason. No drama! I prefer MS Edge now that I’ve tried it!
Goodness me, Russia got beaten.
I have a Samsung 10.1 note and the browser is CRAP…it gets no Samsung support or updates and will not let me get into important sites e.g. banking. That said, the tablet is fantastic except for the crap browser. Much more user friendly than the bride’s Apple though.
Although I pay $350 for my 6yr old to play weekend soccer (a riporrff!) and I take him to training/games etc religiously, it is a game I will not embrace. Who wants to watch an effing World Cup that could be decided on something as ridiculous as a penalty shoot-out? What is the point? May as well just have a World Cup based on penalty shootouts! Who wants to watch a game for 90 minutes when a goal may not even be scored or at the most a couple?
Bman, if he can kick the round ball he can paly any of the oblong, egg shaped ball games down track and he will have better foot skills both right and left due to the round ball training.
Bah!
well he can go outside run into the shed run back 10 yards and run into the shed again and call it rugby?
Through goes France and Belgium in the Quarters, Mr Insider. Out went Uruguay and Brazil. Its sudden death time in the World Cup!
https://tinyurl.com/y8jq4s7n
Man that was an exciting game. A big worry that Belgium couldn’t hold possession in the 2nd half and rode their luck a bit. though with some great goalkeeping.
Bella – here’s something I thought may like:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/lions-attack-kill-rhino-poachers-broke-reserve-213626411.html
Saw that yesterday Milton & yes great news.
In the war sub-humans wage against other species, finally a small win.
Good riddance too.
I have to regurgitate this – did the lions discuss whether they should fry them or poach them?
Dead men tell no tales nor shoot more lions. 😊
Still perilous conditions for the football team and their rescuers in Thailand. Eventually got to see a cross section (?) of their location and it’s pretty dire as they are about 4.5 klms from the cave opening!