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Yes, we’re doing this again, but I finally have it figured out…
Ok, so this thing with Fabio Capello is getting out of hand. Now Alex Ferguson is in the middle of this mayhem because Rooney hurt himself again in the English friendly with Egypt.
Now, here’s where I think we have some seriously backwards thinking. Fergie says that Fabio Capello isn’t to blame for Rooney’s injury because Rooney should have “taken care of it himself”. Ok, so what was Rooney supposed to do? Tell Capello–a maniac–that:
“I’m sorry you gave me this unique opportunity to play for England but I’m not going to do as you say and jeopardize my chances of playing in the World Cup.”
I don’t think so.
Moreover, didn’t Fergie know that Capello didn’t even really think Rooney was hurt to begin with? This is Capello’s fault.
However, Fergie has been bitching about the turf at Wembley for some time now and he LET Rooney go play for England. So, somewhere in here I think we’ve figured out a few things.
1. Managers, for some reason, seem to lack a general sense of reason.
2. Managers are in it for themselves.
3. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.
What ever happened to the guy in charge saying “It’s all me. Blame me. I’m in charge, and I need to take care of this”. Where did that era go? Where did responsibility go? Wayne Rooney is 24. When I was 24 there was no way in hell I was going to tell some fruitcake like Capello that I wasn’t playing. Would you? Even if you knew you were hurt?
I have to push the blame all around and enact a new policy:
If you are an manager of a Soccer team then you no longer get the benefit of the doubt. I don’t think I realized how selfish and self-centered these people are. You can say that they get results–some of them–but those results possess no character at all.
Like a Conductorless Orchestra I think we need to have Managerless leagues. These players know better than these phonies who are pretending to care about somebody other than themselves.
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