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I am a bit of a bitter Everton fan, but you have to admit this verbal gem from Wayne Rooney takes the biscuit...
Wayne Rooney has said that he would never dive because “football doesn’t need it.”
"I'd never dive. I'd like to think of myself as an honest player,” the Manchester United youngster told FourFourTwo magazine.
Really?
Juat watching Newsnight, featuring the super Tory A-List. They profiles Jacob Rees-Mogg, who isn't on the A-List but was selected for a shoe-in seat anyway. When defending the fact that the A-List basically consists of people who might be a different colour or gender than the average tory, but have the same background (public school educated, Oxbridge graduates), he stated that the Conservatives had to form a government and couldn't do with having "potted plants" as ?\s simply to make up numbers.
Let me pick my jaw up. This guy, who have never had an overdraft, or a benefit claim gone wrong, or worried about whether they can afford to go to university, is exactly the problem the Tories still have. He clearly believed that the "best people" got into Oxbridge and by extension those who didn't are not the best people. Now, I've no problem with Oxbridge (I have friends who been there, and i'm glad we have such excellent universities) but the impression this guy has of who gets in is a little off.
Well Jacob, what about the kid who lives across the road from me in my Nottinghamshire home? Bright as a button, he's capable of anything, but he goes to a school that gets 35% a-c grades at GCSE, and will never, ever get into Oxford or Cambridge despite easily being clever enough. Jacob Rees-Mogg probably doesn't realise these people exist.
