Ronaldo bag-packing, Erik Ten Hag’s wardrobe and dream shirt numbers. It’s a fashion-based edition of Mediawatch today…
PACK YOUR BAGS
Easy to forget sometimes, but there are other sports beside football. And some of those other silly little pursuits are having some of their bigger events at the moment, bless them. There was something called the British Grand Prix, for instance, which is a car race. Although that sounds interminably dull, everybody was suddenly very interested in it because there was the perfect outcome of a really dramatic and massive crash but in which nobody was hurt which means it can be enjoyed guilt-free. There is also the annual celebration of Englishness that is Wimbledon, where the latest great British hope Cameron Norrie – born in South Africa, raised in New Zealand, educated in Texas – is through to the quarter-finals as Henman Hill becomes Norrie Knoll.
There’s even a Test match where Jonny Bairstow has scored one of those hundreds he scores all the time now.
We are, in essence, slap bang in the middle of what must by tabloid law be referred to at all times as the Great British Summer of Sport. A wild and confusing fortnight or so when football, in the absence of any actual football, has to fight for back-page space.
Everywhere, that is, except the Daily Star. Not for them the thrills of crashing cars or plucky Brits in SW19. Not when there’s some spurious spaff about Ronaldo to tuck in to.
And what a job they’ve done with it, luring us in like the clever sausages they are with a headline that declares “United tell Ronaldo to pack his bags”. Hang on, this is fair enough as a back page. We happen to think this is precisely what United should be doing, but all other reports suggest that they are determined to dig their heels in and continue to insist that the fading superstar is not for sale. If they’ve told him to bugger off, then that really is something.
Let’s read on.
“Cristiano Ronaldo has been told by Manchester United to be on their pre-season tour this week – despite his desire to leave the club.”
Oh, for fu…
United front
Manchester United continue to be the only game in town and in The Sun we find the traditional “new manager has really made an impression in training” puff piece built entirely on information from a “source”. Has there ever been one of these stories a week into a high-profile managerial reign saying the opposite? “The players are all miserable and bored…
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