Wednesday, September 03, 2008

雜感

開學第二天。
前一晚睡得少,倦到不行。
班務處理得不算俐落,班主任時間仍沒有完全利用得好。
不過編排座位一環節,自己還算滿意,效果看來也不錯。
已收到數位同學的第一篇文,只是未有時間作回覆。
對這學年還是抱有期望。

下午教職員會冗長,差不多四小時裡聽到真正重要的竟不多,弄得我呵欠連連。


這是明報上的尊子漫畫。
無辜被人縱火燒死的動物叫人心傷。

回家時與友人通電,久無聯絡了,聽見那有活力的聽音已叫人高興。
兩個人各做「傻」事,大概是會不知「悔改」的了。

早上回校前,一直緊盯著英超球會的轉會消息。已是轉會期限屆滿的最後數小時了,阿仙奴仍沒任何動靜。槍迷大概都心焦不已,亦開始有預感這季雲加將不會再引入新兵。
最終,果然如此。
一部份槍迷開始情緒激動,大表失望之餘更指責雲加先前是欺騙、該當「被抄」,更認定球隊肯定再一次四大皆空。
其實球隊仍有機會簽下球員的,只要對方是自由身。某些網站更提及加納之隊長是不錯人選。也有些網站猜想會否球會已簽下球員只是未作正式公布。大概是不忍希望幻滅之心態吧!
如此反應我有點疑惑。就當雲加果然是會簽下球員,難道那些深感失望和哀傷之球迷便一下子變回歡天喜地?這不滑稽嗎?真正支持球隊傳統作風的,豈能如此隨風擺柳,因多一人或少一人便如此變臉?假如雲加真的多購入了兩名球員,可是質素並不比丹尼臣或戴亞比好,相信我會有點欣喜,卻不會因此便認為球隊實力已大增;現時沒引入新兵,我也不會就此相信奪標無望。
同日幾間豪門浪擲金錢,以天價買下球星。班主揮金如土,收支是否平衡在所不計,有關球員忠誠、球會傳統價值、球員與球隊之合約是否要被尊重等問題更不會被放在心上。相比之下,我仍慶幸阿仙奴雖貴為四大球會之一卻始終沒變化成如此這般。
Arseblog 這天的文章也是充斥質疑與失望,可是以下幾句,形容球員市場之敗壞,仍深得我心:

Overall though I thought it was a pretty weird day for football and not necessarily a good one. We've seen money talk yet again. Manchester United behaved despicably yet still landed their man Berbacunt in a £31m deal. And Manchester City? What the fuck? From being on the point of collapse a couple of weeks ago Arab investment has now seen them with ten times more spending power than Chelsea - and nothing illustrates just how powerful money is when a player like Robinho leaves Real Madrid for Man City. It's just mad.

It's just so utterly distasteful. Footballing sugar daddies come in all flavours. You have the guy at Villa who seems relatively decent then the likes of Abramovich whose finances make most people uneasy to the new consortium at Citeh who you just know are going to try and make the club the gold plated Rolls Royce of English football. It's obscene, grossly ostentatious and downright mercenary. It's not something I can relate to at all and while I do wish Arsene had spent a bit of money I'd rather be aligned with Arsenal's decency and temperance than that kind of thing.

I think yesterday will be the day people point to when football went completely crazy. Rules are ignored, ambition = money and bad behaviour and tantrums gets you what you want. It's the sporting equivalent of the spoiled child. Toys are thrown out of the pram and soon that's the way everyone will have to behave. In that case I'd rather not keep up with the Joneses, especially when the Joneses are such tawdry, vulgar cunts.

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