Bile and invective

Down here at the fag end of the footy season things are starting to warm up – and we don’t mean Watford’s vital game against Hull tonight (come on you Horns!) or indeed Rangers UEFA cup clash with Zenit St Petersburg.

No, when we mention warm up, we’re actually talking about the bubbling primal rage and our blood literally boiling at the news that new BBC pundit Steve McLaren will make his commentary debut tonight, prior to being one of the analysts on this summer’s Euro 2008 duties.

Now when McLaren led England, if it can be called led, we didn’t exactly blame him. Yup he was shit, tactically inept, allegedly in the thrall of his senior players and one of the worst England managers ever, but if we’d been offered that role on those terms even we’d have snapped it up.

Nope we were content to vent our bile and invective on the blazers at the FA for making such a hash of hiring big Phil and eventually settling for the second, third or fifth best, god knows whatever number McLaren actually was on the list.

However now we feel we’ve got a legitimate beef. Surely that huge payoff was enough and McLaren should have disappeared quietly for a while to contemplate his future, not suddenly popping up as a rent-a-quote for the very tournament for which he failed to qualify.

And, we have to ask what BBC fucktard hired him? What insights will he have into the teams which did actually qualify for Europe? Wouldn’t they have been more useful at the time?

This is not so much rubbing salt into a very raw wound but tipping buckets of the stuff into a bloody seeping gash.

Sometimes our wrists just seem to slit themselves.