Footballers and the national anthem, some common sense.

The press, well okay The Daily Mail has worked itself up about over paid footballers not joining in the national anthem.

Footballer Kim Little and another Scottish player, Ifeoma Dieke, had stood silently before Great Britain women’s opening match on Wednesday

Welsh footballers Ryan Giggs and Craig Bellamy were both criticised for failing to sing at the first British men’s football match of the Olympics

Now one of the Jockinese sports folk chose not to sing and sulked about how there should be a Jockinese team - sorry your not independent yet - at the Olympics, I shall however leave that one and concern myself with the footballers. Thats real footballers not the pretend Jockinese ladies team.

There have been calls for them to be punished etc etc.

Look its quite simple, Mr Giggs and the other chap are footballers, dim witted creatures that are not known in the main for their intellect. Give a footballer a bar and they will drink it dry and then attempt to trash it and get into a fight with other customers.

Give them a hotel and they will spitroast a young lady all night with their mates, destroy the hotel room and said young lady will complain about how badly she was treated whilst selling her tale of woe to the tabloids. Indeed its been alledged that a certain player isn't that fussy and even old ladies will do, but I shall leave Wayne out of this.

Indeed they also possess great acting skills and should a moth pass within ten feet of them they fall to the ground cluching their leg and acting so well, one expects a nomination at the Oscars to be given. Then amazingly 2 minutes later they are up and running about again.

Another skill is there ability to go a running to their highly paid legal staff to get an injunction to cover up their alledged bedroom antics and other naughty deeds. 

When doing their job, if you can call kicking a bag of wind to kick about for 90 mins a job then they are fine. Sure not good enough to win world cups, or anything else of note but still.

In short they I firmly believe - excluding the porridge wog as I stated earlier who threw a sulk, hell maybe it was PMT? - that footballers do not in the main have the intellect to remember the words to the national anthem.

Maybe we could liven our anthem up, or dumb it down if you like into some naughty poem about a man from Kent and throw in a few sweary words and the problem will resolve itself.
 
But credit where its due at least they did not get caught pretending to sing along like John Redwood(inset). Who was caught mimeing along to the Welsh anthem.