Cole The Goal
‘JOE Cole, the sloppy-jawed Went Ham captain, was hailed as the boy wonder of English football a season or so back.
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| Joe Cole was still learning how to take his shirt off |
Since then his club have been relegated from the Premier League and he’s been at best on the fringes of the England team.
Last night, though, he came off the England bench to strike a terrific shot into the back of the net. His 25-yard freekick even triggers the Mirror to asks: ”Who needs Becks?”
The answer is simple: England. The national team need Beckham because without him the lack of cohesion and purpose has no-one to hide behind.
Too often Becks and not England is the story, a situation that makes displays without him especially awful to watch.
England did win the game against Serbia-Montenegro by two goals to one, a result that the Sun says is ”overshadowed” by the appearance of 43 different players – Serbia-Montenegro 22; England 21 – and no less that FOUR England captains.
There could have been five skippers on the night had David Seaman been playing, but the Arsenal and England goalkeeper has decided to call it day on competitive football and head for the Manchester City retirement village.
The Sun claims that the big guffawing Yorkshireman has agreed to sign for Kevin Keegan’s blues, seduced, no doubt, by their award-winning spirit of fair play and Premier League credentials.
And the small matter of a year-long contract that guarantees him what ageist Arsenal could not – first-team football.
Talking of not knowing when to quit, we now turn to the farce that is professional boxing.
In light of Audley Harrison’s challenge to Frank Bruno, the Sun hears reigning heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis offer the panto prince £50,000 to stay out of the ring.
”If Frank needs the money that badly I’ll give him £50,000 just to stay out of the ring so that he doesn’t get hurt too badly,” says Lewis.
And before you say anything, no, not hurt by Harrison – by Lewis, who might be called upon to fight a resurgent Bruno.
”If Bruno comes back into boxing and fights me I would not want to be charged with murder,” says Lewis.
Although, the promoters would make something of a killing…
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Posted: 4th, June 2003 | In: Back pages Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
