We live in a time when we demand success instantly and when we don't get it we demand a blood
sacrifice. Marketeers like to say this is because we are getting more sophisticated but to me
that's bollocks. We're impatient and when we don't get what we want we need to know why and whose
fault it is.
Take Thailand last night against Malaysia.
I've refrained from bigging up players so far this season because I've been on a jinxing run of
epic proportions. Theo Walcott and Cesc Fabregas got banjaxed by my black, cursed tongue when I
sought to praise them, and Sam Allardyce started winning games when I sought to banjax him.
It comes as no surprise that Sir Alex Ferguson has started the mind games already ahead of Sunday's
game by digging the knife in about our poor form in recent weeks.
Fergie is quoted as saying the following:
"Ballack's contract came to an end. Belletti's contract came to an end.
I see the Sunday papers are reporting en masse that Tottenham Hotspur are set to launch a January
bid for Andy Carroll. There are even reports suggesting that David Bentley and Peter Crouch could
be used as makeweights in any potential new deal. It's all bollocks of course and is just the
latest in a long line [.
