Vidic: “I Don’t Like Rainy Manchester!” Manutdblogger: “What A Big Girl’s Blouse!”
August 27, 2008
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If the Ronaldo and Berbatov sagas this summer have taught us anything, it’s that footballers are self-obsessed, spoilt brats utterly detached from the realities of the lives of those people who ultimately pay their wages each week - us, the fans, the season ticket holders, the shirt buyers, the satellite subscribers.
Footballers have never been renowned for being the smartest of people but you could - historically at least - expect them to show some modicum of tact towards their club, the town or city they play in and the country as a whole.
It’s just plain common sense.
As a high-profile sports star dependent on the good-will of the fans, you couldn’t reasonably expect to publicly slag off the place you ply your trade with impunity could you? Especially if you’re a foreigner.
Do it behind close doors, write a diary about it, tell your friends and family - “You know what? This place is a dump, the women are dogs, the weather sucks and the food is terrible”. Do all of that in private - fair enough. Do it in public - even in a language we don’t understand first off - and you’ll be rightly vilified for your lack of manners.
We expect this kind of adolescent, ungrateful nonsense from certain kinds of players - the showy, the flashy, the permatanned Iberians. We can vaguely forgive the self-pitying, mid-winter diatribes of a frozen Spaniard or a shivering Brazilian as he contends with the icy downpours of a gloom-laden Saturday afternoon in one of our post-industrial wastelands.
What we don’t expect is the same kind of girly whimpering from big butch blokes from the Balkans.
So when Nemanja Vidic pours out his distress to some Russian rag over the state of the Manchester weather, we are entitled to scoff.
Vidic apparently finds the weather in Manchester so depressing that he is considering curtailing his stay in England:
“I will never stay to live in England, that’s for sure…The climate here is something special. You get only a brief glimpse of sunlight before it’s all cloudy again. The winters are mild but in summer the temperatures seldom go higher than 20 degrees, and it rains, rains, rains.”
“In England they say that Manchester is the city of rain. Its main attraction is considered to be the timetable at the railway station where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.”
“In future I would like to test myself in another top league. I’m thinking of Spain. At least there will be no reason to complain about the weather.”
Vidic then turns social anthropologist and comments on the state of contemporary British society:
“But it’s not only the weather I’m not happy about here. They just don’t have time to feel the joy of life. Throughout the week they all work so hard. They only talk to people at lunch break. Then in the evening they come home and watch the telly so they can get up early for work the next day.”
“The joy of life”, Nemanja? Try paying a mortgage, feeding your kids and scrimping everything you can for a couple of season tickets to watch mugs like you week in week out….
Ultimately, we can’t disagree with the accuracy of those last observations - England is a sh*thole full of brain-dead automatons gorging themselves on TV dinners in front of the latest reality pap as the drizzle falls interminably outside the windows of their ugly, boxy houses.
Yes it’s true - but I’m allowed to say that: I’m English. You’re not, Nemanja.
How do you think you would feel if I made public my thoughts on your piffling Balkan nation? Serbia - it’s just full of gypsy-mudering thugs, genocidal militias, prostitutes and turnip-munching peasants. Ok - so that’s not true (they munch onions too…) But how would you feel if I said that about your country while picking up a weekly salary more than three times the average annual salary?
Yes Nemanja - you’d feel pretty pissed off.
What’s most surprising about Vidic’s comments is not so much the lack of tact he displays as the revelation of what a big wuss he is.
“He comes from Serbia, he’ll effing murder ya?”
More like: “He comes from Serbia, he needs an umbrella!”
Nemanja you messed up pal. Time to say sorry.
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Maybe it revenge for us doing Borat?
You’re absolutey right. I read this at 3 in the morning last night just before I went to bed. I thought I was in freakin bed - having an awful nightmare. How can he criticise England after everything we’ve done for him. Does he really think he can just walk in to this country without a freakin Green Card for s start and then gets over a million a year and then just blame everything on the people and the weather. That’s just low, just low. He’s like a 7 year old girl being home sick in a summer camp “oh, I don’t like the food, people are cruel.” What a little babey you are Nemanja. I hope Brown will replace you until you apologise to the public
kiss my… !!!
And life in Serbia is like in California. …. Most of the population there are on the breadline.
The git should be grateful for having the chance to play at the best club in the world. Perhaps he would have been happier to have been left to rot in the Moscows lovely wheather.
Erm, you might want to delete this article ManutdBlogger because those quotes are fabricated.
FFS people believe anything thats in the rags nowadays. Vidic has already denied it on Manutd.com.
And CJ, please piss off you WUM.
who knows whether it was fabricated or not - its not just this site that’s running the story - the times, the guardian, the telegraph - all the big players.
the denial of the united site is probably just a damage limitation excercise. ultimately the player can deny he ever said those words or was misconstrued.
who do we believe?
Quite a rotten article I must say….. I think with Nemanja saying that these comments are fabricated, you will now be feeling like a sore loser but hey you asked for it!!
Vidic is a hero for all Manchester United fans because of all he takes for the club and for putting his heart and soul into each game!
Saad you simpleton - so you question the validity of one media outlet’s reporting over another>? Vidic could well have said that - and regretted it of course, but is was obvious the united press people would try to make the situation less explosive…