I logged onto Facebook several hours after the Man City victory over QPR to win the Premier League title for the first time in decades.
I watched the whole match and was a little disappointed when City won. But I certainly wasn't cut up about it. I'll explain the situation in a minute.
But loading up Facebook I was caught off guard with the number of statuses proclaiming that this was the greatest football league in the world and that it was an epic end to the season.
OK, I'm sorry but did you watch the match? I did. It was this:
11 of the world's best and most highly-paid players held the ball and continuously, and rather ineptly, attempted to score goals. The 11 QPR players sat in their back third and just blocked every shot and defended well.
City got a lucky ricochet goal. Then QPR against the odds, and against the grain of the game, scored a breakaway goal. Revert back to the original style of City hammering them with any actual skill or talent just force of numbers. No incisive dribbling. No beautiful silky skills. Just a team of better players trying to score goals against a team of lesser.
Imagine if at school all the best players had got together and played aginst the worst players... well that's what it was like.
Joey Barton, QPR's captain, elbowed City's Carlos Tevez in the face and got sent off. I kinda wish that QPR had been facing relegation if they had lost, maybe then the stupidity and pointlessness of Barton's action might have had a consequence he could appreciate. But anyway.
Now it was 11 of the world's best players against 10 lesser players. Same thing happened. Boring. Tedious.
Then a breakaway and Manchester City's overpaid defenders were once again exposed. 2-1 to QPR and City's inconsistency (a consequence of being a team of players who played for the highest bidder) looked like it might be thier undoing.
Revet to the same thing as before. Frustrated City and QPR sitting 10-men behind the ball. It was nerve-wracking but boy was it boring.
Eventually it became too much for QPR. The news had reached them that Stoke had equalised against Bolton, meaning that the result of the match become inconsequential to them. Man City scored two goals, one in the last minute.
Surprisng? No, not really. It should have all happened much earlier in the match.
A brilliant example of football? No, it was 95 minutes of last-ditch defending punctuated by a few instances of luck.
That's what constitutes the best league in the world?
Think before you fucking speak. And definitely think before you post idiotic stuff on Facebook.
