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Cheating Blues get bluer by the day .
They say cheats never prosper, but while it may be a very
fine adage to trot out when you have just been unfairly gypped
of something - it is also utter bull****.
Of course cheats prosper and continue to do so - until caught.
Take the late-departed sookyboy Pansie Cronje, he of cricket
cheating fame and loads of wet hankies. He got caught, blubbed
and then took a nose-dive into a mountain at a very high speed.
In rugby league circles the classic cheaters have to be the
Bulldogs, who consistently cheated on the player salary cap.
Their unsporting ways meant they were a powerful on-field
force and seemed headed for a premiership until the NRL got
hold of them, investigated their cheating and kicked them
out of last year's finals. Scratch one premiership Doggies
... woof, woof.
In Melbourne a similar thing has happened. Powerhouse club
Carlton, ooops, that should be former-powerhouse club Carlton,
has also consistently cheated on the salary cap.
For years some players earned under-the-table payments that
would have blown the Victorian state budget, let alone the
coffers of a football club.
Now the the Blues, as the Carlton club is nicknamed, have
been caught and named as cheats and last week lost prized
early picks at the player draft.
They were also slammed with almost $1 million in fines by
the AFL.
Consequently, their players may have to take a 25% cut in
payments over the next wee while to pay for it all.
This is good for football - anything that screws those arrogant
Carlton types is simply wonderful - however, it does make
you think.
You see, for all the cheating, lying and scullduggery that
went on at Carlton - the dopey buggas still finished the season
with the wooden spoon! That means stone-motherless last.
Hang on, maybe it should be incompetent cheats never prosper.
If there is something that has really got up your nose,
let Grumpy Old Coot know at grumpy@webwombat.com
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