Political Correctness in Football doesn't work

So we have had yet another weekend of managers crying wolf over chants on the football terraces, we have pundits talking about what is correct and what is not, what is wrong with this country, is this the level we have dropped too because people don’t fight as often as they used too, hello but this isn’t new?

Being a Man United supporter and somebody who has been to hundreds of games in the past, I am used to being abused, being called a “Munich”, having aeroplane gestures directed towards me, but because people were fighting, or the gutter media had other things to report, and also because it was towards United, then it never got mentioned.

All of a sudden because some of the people who arse lick the media have mentioned it, or because it is not against United, or because talk sport has suddenly become a full on sports talk channel and need to fill the airways, and then it is a major issue. It isn’t when you go to football, you accept it, you pay your money to support your team, you sing songs to each other, you try to create an atmosphere, you cheer on your team and down the opposition, and you also let your main rivals know you are thinking of them.

This is what I have grown up and put up with for years, I packed in going in 2003 week in, week out; I now go to very few games, but the banter is still there, grown blokes who have had a few beers before the game, chanting to each other, when you go you know what to expect.

I am sick of pundits saying that so many people won’t go because of this, well I am afraid that the fans who put money into clubs, are the ones that go home and away, are there every game, home, away or abroad, if these fans are forgotten it will be at the clubs detriment. The football world is already one that TV has ruined, I mean just look at Monday night football this year, United v Spurs, QPR v Newcastle, Norwich v Sunderland, really fair to supporters who travel, yet the proper fans still do it, because they love their club, so if people now want to alienate them further, then so be it, but it will kill football.

I am not privy to the exact chants that people are on about, but surely we can’t start setting rules, I know a lad from United who loved making up songs, his name was Pete Boyle, an absolute legend and a very funny guy with some great lyrics, do people like this now have to sit with a book of accepted words, do they send off songs for approval? With the way player’s move these days, by the time the song about them gets approved, they won’t be at that club anymore.

Let’s get a grip on life here, instead of people who are paid by our national game, is there any chance of thoughts for the people who pump the most money into our game?

UK Road problems

As a Sameday courier driver at www.bksameday.co.uk, I get sick of jams and problems on the roads, the reason I get frustrated is not because of the road works, but because of us the public and the kids who operate the overhead signs like they are on a PlayStation.

Firstly onto us, the public, we are thick, we drive at such speeds and so close to each other, that instead of keeping a flow through of traffic, we drive so close that we continuously slap the anchors on, have you also noticed how the fast lane is always the busiest lane, always the first to stop, I tend to drive across all three lanes, when I would suggest 80% of the time, I could simply use two, but you get the middle lane hoggers, those who look at you strangely when you bip at them and ask them to move across, our motorways are three lanes for a reason you plonker!

Also when the signs say stay in lane, why do you always see in front people who believe this means change lanes because one may be quicker, the quickest thing to do is stay in lane so the flow in constant, for god sake you thick drivers!

Then there are the overhead signs, this must be the easiest job in the world, programme them once a week to read things at certain times, no matter about road conditions, I travel up and down motorways a lot of the time, and sometimes it takes me longer because I am looking for the congestion that is highlighted, or the reason why on a 70MPH zone, I am doing 40, or why when in a congestion, they tell me there is a queue ahead, guess what, I am in the queue that you profess to be ahead.

Do you really pay people to run these signs? Are you really wasting my tax money on monkeys switching these signs off and on? I know as a driver, we are the pits of the country, but without us paying so much tax that the rip off government take from us, the country would be bust, oh no, hold on, it almost is!

I have a suggestion to the stubborn transport department and the industry who run the motorways, GO ABROAD AND LEARN HOW TO RUN THE ROADS PROPERLY, also when you do road repairs try doing the repairs properly, rather than the poor standards you do now and then have to go back a while later.

Our roads are a disgrace, but who is regulating these Muppets, nobody that is why they get away with making us drivers the laughing stock of Britain.

Carlos Tevez Affair, the part of Gordon Taylor

There is no doubt that Carlos Tevez has disrespected English football as a whole, even as a Manchester United fan, I am pleased at City’s stance of suspended the spoilt brat, I just hope that he picked his dummy up in Munich, especially with today’s health and safety standards, although whilst he is acting like he is, I wouldn’t have blamed City for taking his airline ticket off him and telling him to find is own way home.

However the person that has taken the mick out of the public more than Tevez is Gordon Taylor, he clearly has a lack of understanding of us fans who pay for the game, and he seems to think the people in his union are something special, how dare he already be discussing compensation for Tevez, the little Argentinean brat deserves not one penny.

Does Gordon Taylor really think Tevez has a case, let’s put it like this, if I had told my boss I wanted to go elsewhere because of my family, and I had failed to get that move, but my boss welcomed me back, I would bend over backwards to earn my wages, I mean what more can they have done to help my life.

So for Greedy Tevez to then tell that boss that he doesn’t want to work for his money, is disgusting, and in employment law, amounts to gross misconduct and whatever court Gordon “Out of Touch with the public” Taylor wants to take the case, there is no defence, Tevez should be sacked, I would be.

Surely Gordon Taylor has bought the game into disrepute, isn’t it strange how the prat always comes out when there is problems with big stars or big clubs, yet at Plymouth, where I feel for every member of staff, he has been very quiet, as a courier driver, I spend a lot of time listening to talk sport, and the campaign they have had for Plymouth has been terrific, because they understand who pays their costs.

So Gordon Taylor, do not treat me, or any other football fan, as a mug, your involvement in our game is nothing short of lining your own pocket, you are a disgrace to your profession, and I hope that you get a FA charge, because believe it or not, you or Tevez are not above the law, as for the idiot from Buenos Aires, I hope City send you down the dole queue, or make you rot in the reserves, you dirty rat.

And as for Fergie, never doubt him, he knew Tevez was a “Bad Apple”

Help put Shropshire on the Map

Ruth Badger Event Sponsorship packages

Event: An Evening with Ruth Badger, ex Apprentice, Badger or Bust and the Big Idea from Sky One talks to the local Shropshire business community, compared by BBC Radio DJ Paul Shuttleworth.

When: October 13^th 2011, 7pm – 10pm

Where: Lecture Theatre, University of Wolverhampton, Telford, TF2 9FT

Tickets: http://ruthbadger.eventbrite.com/

Take advantage of our early bird half price offer now. 

Sponsorship Packages available:

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Packages include:

Advertisement in Theatre, Dining hall and reception

Display of products in Greet area on a stand

Mentions in all Press Releases

PR Work with Ruth Badger

Front page logo in event programme

Back page advert in event programme

Mentions by Paul Shuttleworth prior to show

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Up to 25 Tickets for event

Sponsorship of Ruth Badger: £2000

Advertisement in Theatre, Dining hall and reception

Display of products in Greet area on a stand

Mentions in Press Releases

PR Work with Ruth Badger

Front page logo in event programme

Full Page advert in event programme

Mentions by Paul Shuttleworth prior to show

Logo on crew team clothing for evening

Up to 10 Tickets for event

Sponsorship of Paul Shuttleworth: £250

Mentions in Press Releases

PR Work with Paul Shuttleworth

Front page logo in event programme

Full Page advert in event programme

Up to 2 Tickets for event

Programme advert: £150 – Only 12 left

Full page advert in the evening’s souvenir programme, 250 to be printed

Screen advertising: £75

Advert on the main theatre screen as people file in on the massive screen

Exhibition Stand: £100

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Why not supply a pop up banner for display in the reception area where all guests will filter through to go into the dining room and also from dining room to Theatre, and out at the end.

Please note all pricing is subject to VAT, all banners and adverts are to be supplied by yourself, pre booking of space for banners is essential due to limited areas and interest in the event.

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Sshh I was meant to be on the BBC

Well it seems like a radio interview with the BBC was a big secret, yes the fact that author, Brian Rowlands, advertised the fact that he was being interviewed on BBC Radio Cornwall to promote his book, the Life of a Single Parent, Brian, meant that Auntie Beeb cut the proposed interview.

In what is a shocking turn of events, the day before the interview, Brian sent out a message stating that he would be on radio the following day promoting his book, a book that is an honest piece of writing about a single parent who raised his kids single handily, a book that is from the heart and to promote the fact that there are many great single fathers out there.

Brian said “I was so proud of the fact the my local radio station had chosen me to be interviewed on BBC Radio Cornwall, that I felt I had to tell people, if you read the book you can tell that everything in life has been a struggle, and to gain this little bit of success was a huge honour for me, I felt that telling people would help station figures too, but then bang, the BBC shot me from the schedule, why? What had I done that had been so wrong?”

“I am an author that only has had very limited success, my book is more about people learning from my experience, enjoying the fact that I bought up kids on my own, the fact that I had been to the bottom and came back, this is a natural story of a parents ability, I pay my licence fee, as does everybody, so why do they feel the need to be like this, I am disgusted at the attitude of them”

“What grinds at me is the hypocrisy of the corporation that is the BBC, the fact that they advertise their schedules and who is on it well before shows are on, yet some small time author in Cornwall tells a few people that he is being interviewed on his local radio station and they axe me as if I didn’t exist”

The irony is that Brian cut short a family holiday to return to Cornwall a couple of days early so he could be interviewed, I am sure that this type of treatment by the BBC will reflect well to his children, the future licence payers of this country, the licence payers who pay the wages at the Corporation, yet are treated with contempt.

Brian was aiming to promote his book, http://www.thelifeofasingleparentbrian.co.uk/, Brian is available for further comments through his PR company, BK Business Solutions Ltd, Ben Coates, 07738 715038, ben@bkbusinesssolutions.co.uk

Please note this is a press release that was approved by Brian Rowlands and is not the views of Ben Coates or of BK Business Solutions Ltd. 

BK Sameday moves into new distribution centre

BK Sameday moves into new distribution centre

BK Sameday have done it; hard work does pay off, several months of pounding the UK motorway’s, driving in the lovely countryside, town to town, building the reputation by doing the job with professionalism.

Now the fledgling Sameday Courier company has moved into a new distribution centre, based in Trench Lock, the new facilities have moved BK onto the next level, the move enables them to stock items for other businesses and to hold the deliveries overnight or until shipment is due.

It also enables them to offer cheaper delivery for people who are looking at shipping items but aren’t in a rush, with BK vans visiting most parts of the UK over the week, they ensure they will deliver at the cheaper rates when in that area.

Managing Director, Ben Coates said “I am building the business on honesty and hard work, I have understood the need for a new distribution unit, but finances have taken a while to build to such a level to sustain it, I have been under pressure at home from the wife as my garage has been packed, however of course I have been unable to hold certain items due to room and security, but because of this new premise will we hope attract new customers, who need reassurance that their goods can be bought in or shipped out with care and trust”

“We value every customer who comes on board, from the public to the biggest or corporates, we have done an array of jobs, from Morrison’s meat for its Christmas photo shoot, to a rather expensive coffee table for a boat down to Cornwall, and we protect their goods and ensure swift delivery, we also delivery samples to major supermarkets, including Sainsbury’s, and no matter how tempting, we never eat the sample food”

The move into the premise has taken place over the August Bank Holiday weekend, the new address is BK Sameday, Unit 20, Trench Lock 3, Telford, TF1 5ST, to contact BK Sameday please call Ben on 07738 715038, or e-mail ben@bkbusinesssolutions.co.uk.

Athletics you should be ashamed

The IAAF is killing its own sport, today we, the paying public who contribute the money towards the sport, was robbed of seeing the show man that is Usain Bolt by what is a ridiculous rule, sprinters need a fast start, and at times that can be a mistake, but why take what people are paying to see out of the race, the sport really must re-evaluate this stupid one false start rule.

Surely we want to see the best, we want to pay to see history, how is kicking the man that everybody went to see, out of the greatest race that we all love, entertainment? Simple, it isn’t and the idiots who run the sport will cost itself money, it also is a worry for the forthcoming London Olympics, if you pay the prices for the main events, yet half of the top competitors are disqualified for a minor mistake, are you going to be happy and return to the sport? No!

Usain Bolt was clearly a false start, but even though I don’t think the bloke should be in the sport, Dwain Chambers was extremely unlucky, he never even left his blocks today when he was kicked out, but until sports ruling bodies understand that they are there to maintain the sport, rather than act like little Hitler’s who want to be centre of attention, then the financial rewards they could reap will never materialise.

The people in the stadium today must feel robbed, of course there has to be a limit, but was there really so much wrong with the old two start rule? Surely London’s organisers must lobby the plonkers at the IAAF and explain that the British public do not want to see half a field in the 100 metres final, or their own British stars watching the women’s 400m final because they made a slight mistake, we want and demand to see the best athletes in the best competitions, now take your pride, admit you had not foreseen it could affect things like it did today, and we, the public that put money in your pocket, will be happy, and maybe you will keep the major sponsors too.

STOP PRESS! – MUM GETS THE HOUSE, DAD GETS THE KIDS!

So what’s a guy do on finding himself suddenly and unexpectedly divorced, heartbroken and with two young and very demanding children to raise alone? Well, first he hits the bottle ‘big time’ and falls into the mother of all depressions! Then, little by little, he picks himself up, dusts himself down and starts to put the broken pieces of family life back together. Battling against life’s many adversities and trying to make sense of the ensuing chaos, he strives to give his children as normal a life as is possible and above all else, stability.

Single Parent Brian Rowlands, at the age of 36, found himself in this unenviable position. Not only did he rise to the challenge though, he wrote a book about it!

Charting a remarkable ten year journey of joy, heartbreak, despair, discovery and re-adjustment, his book, ‘The Life Of (A Single Parent) Brian!’ documents the surreal events in this single parent family’s life, taking the reader along for themselves on his family’s amazing rollercoaster ride of joy and pain, relationship disasters, medical problems and constant moving home, (to mention just a few things!). Told in an open and honest manner, Brian lays it on the line, baring his soul to the world in a true story that will leave the reader

gasping for breath and wanting to know just what happens next!

“It made me laugh, it made me cry, once I’d started reading it I couldn’t put it down"

What they went through in ten years is simply amazing!”:  Sheryl Miller-

Senior Nurse-Nottingham City Hospital.

Enjoying a March 2011 revised edition release and available in three formats, Hardback, Soft cover and downloadable eBook, I would be delighted to receive your enquiry for further information and, should you require, am available for  immediate interview.

In conjunction with the release of his debut book ‘The Life Of (A Single Parent) Brian!’ author Brian Rowlands has put together a website that not only backs up his book but offers parents of all types and standing the opportunity to discuss parent related topics in his Discussion Forum. Say’s Brian, “I strongly believe that any parenting problem can be overcome that much easier if we are prepared to seek out help and advice. My Forum offers any parent, single or in a partnership, the chance to talk things through with others in a similar position. Obviously I’m ultimately hoping to generate interest in my book, but this is a ‘side project’ that really excites me and I can’t wait to get involved.” 

Brian’s website is up and running and online now at www.thelifeofasingleparentbrian.co.uk