This all will be old hat if you have been keeping up with Our Man's pebble-dash Twitter flow, but just thought you old school blog readers might need something for the weekend.
2. Whoever is in charge of the Japan Times sports coverage needs re-educating in a News gulag. Our Man couldn't give a monkey's whether the JT thinks doing a proper World Cup wallchart is beneath them; that baseball or ice hockey is more worthy of their attention - YOU ARE WRONG. With a capital R. Yanks may be luke warm about the whole silly "soccer" thing. Fine. They are more than welcome to their interminable baseball stats and golf stories and ice skating and whatnot every day for the next four years, but please please find someone in the department with a clue about footy. If you can't find an American with the patience for it, just grab any Japanese/European/African/S. American off the street and get them to layout the sports pages for the next month. They couldn't do any worse.
3. Even the Daily Yomiuri understands the simple equation: World Cup pullouts sell ads and papers, keeping everyone in Otemachi in shochu.
4. Is the JT trying to drive everyone to their nearest iPhone free World Cup app?
5. Memo to JT: You are in a penalty shoot-out for your survival. So stop scuffing the ball up your own backside.
6. Something or other about Naoto Kan. Oh, another day.
And, yes Our Man shall be writing a strongly worded letter to the JT sports editor shortly.
Pic lifted from here.
6 comments:
'Whoever is in charge of the Japan Times sports coverage needs re-educating in a News gulag.'
great line.the BBC have a way with people who don't agree with them too.
I take it you're not completely satisfied with the JT soccer coverage?
On the positive side, it's still better than their editorial page.
Soccer....that's some type of sport, right?
Er, is this the sport where a few weeks back England beat Japan 2-0, but Japan scored the only goals?
As I write this, though, my husband is making me listen to a Brit and a Scot describe the S.Korea/Greece World Cup game. Like I care.
See, this is exactly what the rest of the world is up against. Our overlords know nothing, nor care a jot about what we the plebs of the world enjoy.
And the big one, ladies, is upon us. England vs USA in 5 hours. And the irony of it is, you guys don't even care. Sigh.
I though the England Goalie's blunder reminded me of a certain renegade Dr. who hails from your hometown ourmani,managing to snatch abject failure from the jaws of glory.
a life that promised so much,ends in acrimony,humiliation and interminable dejection at the hands of a public that no longer wants to know you.
Ring any bells Datsun?It must be hard when you do some navel gazing and all you can see in the reflection of your hairless beergut,is your tiny tadger and your shiny head.
never mind,saw your current belle yesterday,and she appears to have got below 120 kilos for the first time in a decade.well done!things are looking up.
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