DePRESSing

I’ve always known that the press in this country are a bunch of scandalous cads. I’ve some personal experience as one of these creatures (from the ‘Screws of the World’) slim-ed his way into our school after hearing a sixth former had got one of the teachers pregnant. By the way, back then this was a big story! There was no code of conduct or etiquette that you may expect from a man representing such a fine national institution. His tie was halfway down his undone shirt as he appeared from the back of the school where we were playing football. He asked us whether we knew anything before he was shepherded away by one of the teachers. There is one thing that has only become more apparent in recent years though, how bloody hypocritical they are!

Front Page – “Pubs ban England Shirts – Outrage”
Back Page – “What’s your game, Fabio? – Capello signs up for online game”

Front Page – “Triesman fix claims”
Back Page – “Remember the war England”

Front Page – “Terry Scandal”
Back Page – “Do it for Sir Bobby”

You get the picture. These papers claim to be ‘behind our boys’ but I’ve never heard such nonsense. If I’m fully behind something I don’t try my utmost to undermine it at every possible opportunity. I’m fed up with hearing the defense ‘Oh, that’s our press they’ve always been like that’. We can stop it now by just not buying their papers. No one is cleaner than clean in the world, so I don’t expect the England football team to be any different. The Daily Mail set up Lord Triesdman by getting his personal assistant involved in the sting. Nice one! Don’t want to host the World Cup then. So come on Fleet street, stop playing silly buggers at least for a couple of months!