Originally Published December 23rd 2023 for For Green Fields clients
Barabas from Christopher Marlowe's 'The Jew Of Malta' : "From little unto more, from more to most"
John Colquhoun - a tacky souvenir of a sport living in the end times. The organised crime of the century; nothing to pay until the four horsemen of the apocalypse arrive... save pounds while integrity lasts. Get your exclusive, pull-out, pop-up, E-free, free-E, ecologically sound, colourful, full colour, sensational, unique, unmissable, corruption... now 0% finance; free bet offer. It's so easy. Corrupt now; worry later.
Living in the end times. The cruel circus is in town. Designer disasters. Comics for newspapers. Crime as PR. Spectacular psychopathic pride. Crimewatch. Homewatch. Bio-degradable integrity. Ozone-friendly private jets. Charity as a corruption accessory. Early morning gymnasium. Wasserman man. Guardian of the game. A happy go lucky ray of sunshine shining out of his arse. Tomorrow's another day. Matchfixing mania. Televised scams. Trade via catalysts into the dark pools and into the dark web. Media-endorsed disguised homophobia. Offshore banking. Client bonking. PR religion. John Stones clones. Junkie punk-poets peddling commentaries and opinions. Computer created outcomes. 'Acceptable' corruption accepted by the fan. The ultimate criminalisation of all that is most obviously of beauty.
Living in the end times. Karen Carney is Queen; Jordan Henderson is King; Fame is everything. Ask the man who smashed every window in the high street thinking he was on Good Morning Britain. Yet there's worse still. Hyped-up, honed-down, heavily marketed pseudo-competitions from mafia who think they are the Ndrangheta of the Premier League.
Like us and this? NO WAY!
If we wanted to dig our own graves we'd be out there shovelling... not wasting our last moments publishing Football Is Fixed, a whistleblowing and direct action travel agent offering tour guides to the abyss of abnormality
And systemic corruption? Merely a forerunner of what is to come from this inspirational sociopath hiding on the shady side of the valley.
Living in the end times. The beautiful game to a winter of discontent. And now John Colquhoun. Another disposable tacky souvenir of our culturally-imperialistic Premier League / Champions League / Championship age. John Colquhoun claims neither to start a revolution nor end one. Simply he organises organised crime in the football grounds and studios and press rooms of London, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle and Liverpool!
John Colquhoun, a tacky souvenir of a sport living in the end times. The corruption of the century; nothing to pay until Europol come calling.
[adapted from Sarah Champion's 'Freak Beats']
But let's end with some Christmas cheer.
Having watched the club slip without the 0.30 goal per home game edge provided by the Green Brigade, the PLC Board at Celtic have backed down and allowed the ultras to return.
The club thought that they could turn the fanbase against the North Curve but, as usual, they misread the situation and, after Joe Hart's self-harming underperformance versus Hearts last week, it was Lawwell's head that the stadium were calling for.
Great to see that Lawwell has brought in his halfwit offspring into the club in an act of unbridled nepotism.
But let's celebrate the Green Brigade.
The ultras raised £20,000 to support medical help for the victims of genocide in Palestine...
... meanwhile the PLC Board bury deep their market booty as Diplock Gold.
The PLC Board are a wunch of bankers.
And.
Manchester City fans began singing: "City! City! The best team in the land and all the world" half a century ago.
They sung it at Macclesfield and York.
And now they are the best team in the land and all the world.
Mancunian bliss!
Happy Christmas to all.
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