L’imbécile D’avril
It’s been an eventful day today, not so much involving me but of events elsewhere.
April Fools Day – Plenty of jokes have appeared around the internet. The Guardian started things off by claiming that they will be the first newspaper to publish exclusively on Twitter, YouTube has made all their videos and comments and everything else appear upside down, Google have launched “CADIE” which probably requires you to look for yourself… And Opera have launced a browser which incudes face-gesture recognition. All worthy a look and a chuckle.
G20 – I’m not really interested in this to be honest, but it’s become newsworthy today purely for the arrival of President Obama. He can do no wrong with the british press it seems, everyone (including Gordon Brown) seem only to happy to be seen with this guy. Even the Queen seemed overjoyed to be meeting him. Is he the messiah? Nah, just a naughty boy!
Also linked to the G20 conference is the ‘riot‘ in London. Not much of a riot to be honest, a few broken windows outside the Royal Bank of Scotland in London’s City, and a few bloodied heads of protesters that really should know better, hardly compares to some of the great riots of the past – the Poll Tax ones for example! Daily Mail favourite Russell Brand also made an appearance at the protests, before things started to go wrong of course. Here’s hoping that some fires are started later tonight. 
Alan Shearer – Newcastle pick the worst day to announce their new manager, but announce it they do. Alan Shearer has finally given in and accepted the post of manager until the end of the season. He has nothing to lose really, he succeeds and he’s a hero, he fails and he can bail out in the summer. What annoys is the reaction seen on Sky Sports News. We’ve heard all this before when Kevin Keegan returned to the club. The “messiah”, the influx of Newcastle shirts emblazoned with some sort of reference to that fact. “King Kev” could easily be something like “Sir Alan”.
The reaction of fans to Shearer’s return is severe optimism, the like not seen since the ill fated return of ‘King Kev’. If I was a Newcastle fan, i’d be a little concerned as to his lack of experience in such an important part of a season where they look in real danger of getting relegated. My workmate claimed that Newcastle won’t go down because they’re ‘too big a club’. So Leeds and Man City were two-bit clubs then? Don’t get me wrong I hope Shearer succeeds, but Newcastle fans ought to be wary of how devastating relegation can be.
