The Footy Mumble: Ronnie's fetishes?!

Today’s Footy Mumble is a bit thoughtful. Have the WAGs lost control on the players considering so many are moving to the very un-glamorous city of Manchester? Also, Rafa is surprised while Ronaldo is sad. Read the previous edition here.

Manchester the new Barcelona

So, apparently Sir Alex Ferguson has finally realised that his midfield doesn’t have enough gum to stick together, what with the team needing Scholes to bail them out against the Saints. Perhaps he took RvP to literally be a one man team? You never know. But reports have emerged that Fergie is looking at Cesc Fabregas after it became known that he’s upset that Mr. Vilanova is not giving him more game time. If it does happen, then we would be one step closer to making a team of 11 that moved from Arsenal to Manchester. Not too long ago, Arsenal got Barcelona to fund their stadium. Looks like it is now the turn of the city of Manchester to foot the remaining bill.

Rafa is surprised

Apparently Benitez is pulling his hair out, or whatever’s left of it, wondering why FSG did not approach him after sacking Kenny Dalglish. While Rafa has indeed been successful for the club, we believe that FSG might have felt going back to him would only increase the number of jokes on Liverpool‘s attachment to their cherished history. After all, if Kenny Dalglish’s pixie dust couldn’t get back to their glory days, one can hardly believe that Rafa would have made any significant difference. Not that Rodgers is doing any better, but hey, at least the embarrassing memes are lesser. That has to already count as a success this season!

Why is Ronaldo sad?

Is it because Madrid may not have any mirrors in the dressing room? According to Rooney, part of Ronaldo’s pre-match routine was to kit up and look at himself in the mirror and admire the sight. True story. But then again, Perez, still looking for another Champions League, may have banned mirrors to make sure that there is no chance of any bad luck. After all, if the Special One can’t deliver the Champions League, then you ought to resort to such superstitions. In reality though, Ronaldo’s sadness may be due to the fact that he now needs to pay 28% more tax than what he has been doing so far. But with Real Madrid willing to foot the bill, we are hoping this sadness madness won’t bother him anymore.

It’s not just Arsenal

In what we consider a disturbing, players seem to be preferring the industrial city of Manchester over the more glamorous London. And its not just Arsenal who seem to be suffering because of this. Apparently Chelsea had made a bid for Maicon but he rejected them to sign for Manchester City. Roman may not have backed out because of wage concerns, so we are led to believe that it is because of some very pro active travel agent who is being paid by the Manchester clubs to make sure foreigners believe that this is the new happening place in England. Of course, the passionate of you lot may argue that is because of the opportunity to win trophies, but our explanation looks more fun and we’ll stick to it.

Poor old Rooney

With Rooney’s leg close to having a fatal injury when he clashed with Hugo Rodallega, there have been calls that there should be more safety when it comes to the boots that players are allowed to wear. Apparently, they are not safe even though they help out the wingers a lot. While we do understand that such a serious injury is no laughing matter and fully side with the fact that more research needs to be done, it is a bit rich that there were no calls for more stringent actions to be taken when career threatening tackles were made on the likes of Diaby, Eduardo and Ramsey. All we could hear was that he was not that kind of a player. Well, if you are the only hope of the English international team, then you would have a lot of people fawning over you. Hey, at least more safety would be given to the players, and that is the important thing.