Fat Like Your Mother

Not much around today.

Oliver Holt gets his knickers in a twist.  He's worryingly obsessed that Rio Ferdinand missed a drugs test in 2003.

2003

He also seems to think he owns the rule book for how to use Twitter. Direct messages aren't allowed in Holt's version of Twitter.

I'm not going to go through the whole thing criticising the piece (shooting fish in a barrel), just one criticism, he begins the article with lots of snide remarks about Rio, for instance:

“U got something to say about me missing a drugs test say it when u see me,” Ferdinand had written. “You have had many opportunities but said nothing.”

Many opportunities? That’s about as funny as saying Rio had many opportunities to tackle Lionel Messi in the Champions League Final.

And there's one on the England goal too.  Anyway he then goes on about why missing a test is important and suchlike, before  saying this:

None of this is anything personal against Ferdinand. It’s not about him.

It’s about a wider ­principle.

He can call me fat, hippy, Mancunian, whiney, dumb, ugly, spotty or whatever he wants. It isn’t going to make the slightest difference.

Which is rich, given how the first bit of the article does make it personal against Rio, the whole article tries to belittle him for his Twitter persona, his football ability, the fact he wasn't in a good mood after a poor performance for England, the whole article is a personal attack on Rio, so the talk of it's all about the wider principle?  Bullshit.  Anyway, one last word on Oliver Holt from Rio:

“You’re a cock,” he said.

Martin Samuel has a piece on Javier Hernandez, wondering why England players are always moaning about tiredness, while Hernandez still looks raring to go at the end of a long season:

perhaps the stamina levels of Javier Hernandez, a.k.a. Chicharito, a.k.a. Little Pea, make him unique in English football, much like having three names. Equally, successive England managers might be desperately unfortunate in so consistently cornering the market in players who develop chronic fatigue syndrome in June each year. 

For a strange thing happened at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, near Dallas, on Sunday. Hernandez turned up for Mexico, at the end of a long, hard, Premier League season, and looked, if you pardon the expression, full of beans.

Elsewhere there's not much, just the same old transfers speculated on. 

We're now favourites to sign Phil Jones from Blackburn according to the ever-unreliable Mirror.  Same place has some quotes from Harry Redknapp saying we're "dreaming" if we think £20 million can buy Modric.

And that's it.