Clive Palmer... Grow Up.
Ok, so this is purely an opinion piece, but Clive Palmer is the most bigoted pig to enter the football frame in Australia. And given the corruption-riddled Soccer Australia, that’s a pretty big call.
Now I’m happy for the Gold Coast, they have a great team and Clive’s dollars have gone a long way, but do we really need this guy commenting on everything?
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer a club owner to be a lot more centrally focused. He’s built his team, but now he’s bored and needs something to spread his opinion on.
Every week is something new. Before the season his now famous quote of going undefeated the whole year took everybody by surprise. Miron didn’t want a bar of it, the players played it down as much as possible, it’s just tough talk from a man who from the look of him doesn’t play many sports.
Only a handful of teams in history have gone undefeated through a whole domestic season, regardless of the competition, let alone in their inaugural season. There’s confidence and there’s blind stupidity, this must be an example of the latter.
And then in the build up to Round 1 he called for a boycott of the Brisbane-Gold Coast game by his new supporters to make a statement to the FFA. Chucking a tanty like a four year old because he didn’t get a home game as first cab off the rank, saying he’d be watching the game from the comfort of his house and Gold Coast residents should do the same.
Of course, this was the dumbest bluff possible, I doubt a single person thought it was a great idea, including himself who caved and was spotted by the cameras in a corporate box at Suncorp.
And the latest outburst of unknowledgeable threats levelled at the FFA has been the threat of legal action against the A-League judicial system after one of his players was suspended.
What. The. Hell. Surely you can’t be serious. He was, but don’t call him Shirley.
A judicial system is standard practice in every code in every sport in every country. His problem was imposing a penalty before the hearing. That’s kind of the point of the hearing.
Sure, it is a bit of a guilt before innocence system, but that’s how it is best worked in sports. If the penalty is a small fine you aren’t going to waste your legal teams time fighting it are you? It saves the FFA and the clubs time and money. Think things through Clive…
So amillionaire billionaire buys a licence and we have to be subjected to his uninformed, over zealous remarks on the game and the running of it in the country? He needs to learn chucking money at something doesn’t make it go your way. The most expensive players will still get red cards. Away fixtures will happen.
I don’t want complete pacifism. I want someone who knows what they’re talking about and has constructive not destructive comments. As my mother always said, if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all. And I’ve completely ignored that with this blog. But he started it.
Now I’m happy for the Gold Coast, they have a great team and Clive’s dollars have gone a long way, but do we really need this guy commenting on everything?
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer a club owner to be a lot more centrally focused. He’s built his team, but now he’s bored and needs something to spread his opinion on.
Every week is something new. Before the season his now famous quote of going undefeated the whole year took everybody by surprise. Miron didn’t want a bar of it, the players played it down as much as possible, it’s just tough talk from a man who from the look of him doesn’t play many sports.
Only a handful of teams in history have gone undefeated through a whole domestic season, regardless of the competition, let alone in their inaugural season. There’s confidence and there’s blind stupidity, this must be an example of the latter.
And then in the build up to Round 1 he called for a boycott of the Brisbane-Gold Coast game by his new supporters to make a statement to the FFA. Chucking a tanty like a four year old because he didn’t get a home game as first cab off the rank, saying he’d be watching the game from the comfort of his house and Gold Coast residents should do the same.
Of course, this was the dumbest bluff possible, I doubt a single person thought it was a great idea, including himself who caved and was spotted by the cameras in a corporate box at Suncorp.
And the latest outburst of unknowledgeable threats levelled at the FFA has been the threat of legal action against the A-League judicial system after one of his players was suspended.
What. The. Hell. Surely you can’t be serious. He was, but don’t call him Shirley.
A judicial system is standard practice in every code in every sport in every country. His problem was imposing a penalty before the hearing. That’s kind of the point of the hearing.
Sure, it is a bit of a guilt before innocence system, but that’s how it is best worked in sports. If the penalty is a small fine you aren’t going to waste your legal teams time fighting it are you? It saves the FFA and the clubs time and money. Think things through Clive…
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I don’t want complete pacifism. I want someone who knows what they’re talking about and has constructive not destructive comments. As my mother always said, if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all. And I’ve completely ignored that with this blog. But he started it.
