Where Has My Passion Gone ? With no-one booked in to eat the other night, I sat down to watch the footy, Chelsea versus sombody or other. Now, usually I'm quite happy to watch just about any football that there is, Leeds, England and Stenhousemuir for preference of course, altough admittedly Stenhousemuir rarely if ever make it on to the telly. But the other night there was something missing. I've just sat through twenty or so days of the finest cricket known to man, two superb teams going up against each other and goin all out to win, it was quite wonderful. Now, watching England last week with our disgraceful striker swearing at the captain, watching various players from assorted teams on MOTD at the weekend getting booked for petulance and thuggery, watching millionaires diving, whining and whinging their way around the pitch, seeing blokes fall down and writh around because somebody breathed close to them, it's pathetic. Ricky Ponting got his face cut open in the first test, did he roll around on the floor clutiching himslef and begging the umpire the send off the responsible bowler ? Did he buggery, he got a couple of stitches put in and carried on. Do players complain when Jones, McGrath or Akhtar try to take their heads off ? No, they just get on with the job. I'm pig sick of complaining, foul mouthed, cheating footballers. Name me one player who won't take a dive if he gets close to a defender in the opposition penalty area, I bet you can't, they all do it, they even claim that going down is just part of the game. No it isn't, it's bloody cheating you overpaid, slackjawed dimwits. The thing I'm most sick of is this..... I would rather not have this particular ugly, aggressive, confrontational moron in the England team. I don't care how talented he is at the game, I don't care how much money he gets paid (too much by half though), I don't care how many goals he scores for us. Get rid, he's a small minded thug with the attitude of a pissed up sink estate mugger. There is so much wrong with football that I don't know where to start, or whether I should even bother. Are there any real heroes left in the game ? Is there anybody at all that I should look up to ?