Not one but two Premiership footballers are under arrest for rape. And other charges. Which makes you wonder whether it is actually true that ‘all men are rapists’ and the other 847 top-flight footballers just haven’t been caught yet, or whether there’s something in football which engenders, empowers, corrupts or predisposes men towards a path of abuse, control and violence. Only men. There are no current women footballers under any rape allegations at all. Possibly that will come when the football standards improve.

This epidemic is currently only affecting the greater Manchester area as Benjamin Mendy plays for City and Mason Greenwood for United. But I don’t think its a regional problem. I think the problem lies with paying ‘kids’ (Greenwood is 20 and earns 75k a week!!!) ridiculous amounts of money. Giving them a sense of entitlement way in excess of their intelligence. They live like kings and assume that gives them ultimate power. Well, newsflash: it don’t. They could ask Jeffrey Epstein for confirmation but he’s no longer with us.

Power corrupted Boris Johnson too, but in a different way. So everyone hates him. Yet no matter how much I hate him, (and I do, I do, I do), I almost hate Kier Starmer more for sounding like the proverbial broken record. “He’s a disgrace and must resign”, “he’s done bad things and must resign”, “he’s not fit to run the country and must resign”. You know what, Mr Super-Advocate, I think you need a new song.

To ‘retaliate’, but in a really Boris way, the PM accused Starmer of child abuse. Well, not directly, but accused him of leniency towards known child abuser Jimmy Savile. Also, fortunately, dead. The problem is that Starmer was not Director of Public Prosecutions at the time of the Savile inquiry and Boris’s ‘intel’ comes from a hard-right conspiracy theory and virtually nowhere else. So some Number 10 researcher found this ‘juicy slur’ on the leader of the opposition but failed to check its validity. Understandable as it probably appeared next to articles calling for a whiter Britain, how the vaccinations are a ploy by Pakistani immigrants to take over the country and that Covid was invented by communists. Which is possibly the only true fact on the site.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx