Want an opinion on the state of the nation? Screw all that market research, voter sampling or high street polling, this week’s new approved method is simply ask a Premiership footballer...Not content with dominating our TV schedules these fine upstanding athletes are now appointing themselves as opinion formers too on issues as diverse as the weather, Brits enjoying themselves and even taxation.
Earlier in the week there was Nemanja Vidić’s shock revelation that there was ‘erm too much rain in Manchester’ and that we Brits didn’t know how to enjoy ourselves. Seriously has he never been out on the piss in Manchester of a Friday night?
Ahem anyway next comes Arsenal’s Emmanuel Adebayor stunning state of the nation address on the tax issue, saying if he were prime minister, "I would try to keep down the tax. In London I would like to change the congestion charge. And there’d be extra tax breaks for any strikers issuing come-and-get-me pleas to Barcelona or Milan.’
Okay maybe we made that last one up but whatever next? Dean Windass fronting a week in politics? John Terry heading a domestic policy forum or Rio Ferdinand becoming Foreign Office spokesman on the Russian-Georgian issue?
We await, as they say, developments.
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