We started reading Piers Morgan’s column on Love Island, Ronaldo and Manchester United in The Sun and didn’t get any further…
Piers Morgan’s UNCENSORED Sun column begins in predictably ludicrous fashion:
‘If you had a choice of role models for your children, who would you choose between Cristiano Ronaldo and a Love Island contestant?’
Why the f*** would you be choosing? That’s the first question. There are a whole plethora of potential role models in this world – Greta Thunberg, Beyonce, the bassist from HAIM, pretty much everybody who works in the public sector – so why would you be choosing between a hard-working but ego-driven athlete and some reality show contestants?
‘One is the greatest footballer in history and a supremely dedicated athlete with an astonishingly intensive work ethic and health regime.’
Apropos of nothing, Piers Morgan and Ronaldo are friends.
‘The other, and I’m talking generally, but I fear accurately, here, is a lazy, spoiled, deluded halfwit who thinks – sadly, with some justification these days – that success and fame can be achieved by behaving like a brain-dead lecherous tool on TV.’
Does somebody want to tell Morgan about the suicides of two former contestants as well as host Caroline Flack? Or does he know and not give a shit? We suspect the latter.
‘Yet, horrifyingly, many young people are gravitating towards Love Island lifestyle choices, sensing it’s a damn sight easier than actually working for a living, or developing and nurturing a genuine talent.
‘To them, racking up social media ‘likes’ for their vacuous antics is the only validation they need to think they’ve ‘made it.’
‘I thought of this depressing reality when I heard the entirely unsurprising news that Ronaldo wants to quit Manchester United because he doesn’t think the club shares his ferocious ambition.’
That’s some world-class conflation, right there.
‘Ronaldo still has incredible hunger, desire, ambition and will to win raging inside his soul like a spewing volcano, which is staggering for someone who is now 37 and has already achieved so much in the game.
‘But there are numerous ‘stars’ wearing the shirt at the club now, and banking huge cheques each week for rankly mediocre performances, whose only real passion, hunger and desire seems to be for self-promotional off-field activities, Twitter/Instagram affirmation, and partying – not putting in the hard yards that it takes to be…
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