Roy Keane and Karen Carney’s clueless Harry Kane take show TV punditry is down the pan
BRENT A GOB: This week, Harry’s going after Karen Carney and Roy Keane for not doing their research on Harry Kane, and at FIFA for their controversial water bottle ban
Our man Harry Brent is raging in his latest column
Most TV pundits clearly watch as much football as Wayne Rooney watches his waistline. After England’s 1-0 win over New Zealand, we had Karen Carney on ITV droning on about how Harry Kane dropping deep was a massive problem, and how Thomas Tuchel won’t like him doing it.
Eh? Where has Karen been these last few years? Hiding down a well next to Steven Gerrard’s managerial career? Kane dropping deep isn’t a problem. His playmaking abilities help him stand out more than Cole Palmer would at a bodybuilding expo.
To suggest – as she bloody well did – he’d be better off as a static, 1980s target man waiting in the box for crosses demonstrates a level of football IQ that rivals Chelsea’s decision to spaff 73 million actual human pounds up the wall on Kepa Arrizabalaga.
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It wasn’t just Carney either. Sat right next to her was Roy Keane, who nodded along like a grumpy dashboard ornament before claiming defenders would be “delighted” to see Kane dropping deep.
Right, Roy. Spot on, mate. I’m sure centre backs absolutely love getting dragged 30 yards out of position and stretched like Reece James’ hamstrings all night.
It’s completely brain-melting. These people are paid top dollar to analyse the modern game, yet they seem to understand it about as well as a golden retriever understands the intricacies of tax evasion.
FIF-or crying out loud
FIFA are a lot like Leicester City. Just when you think they can’t sink any lower, they find a spectacular new way to be absolutely awful.
Their latest masterstroke? Banning World Cup fans from bringing refillable water bottles into stadiums – an act of pure, shameless greed that makes Cristiano Ronaldo lunging to steal a goal-line tap-in off his team-mate look selfless.
Forcing dehydrated fans to buy overpriced water in the blistering heat is like forcing people to listen to Meghan Markle’s podcast – it just goes against common decency. But what did anyone expect? FIFA’s knack for landing good PR is about as sharp as Liam Delap’s finishing.
Not content with charging 10 grand a pop for once-in-a-lifetime blockbusters like Qatar vs Switzerland and Jordan vs Algeria, they figured they’d try to fleece ordinary working stiffs out of a basic human right. It’s Prince-Andrew-with-his-top-off levels of yuck.
Luckily, the backlash was as instant and brutal as Liam Rosenior’s collapse at Chelsea, so they aborted the plan.
Everyone keeps whining that this World Cup has far too much of a Donald Trump flavour about it. But for my money? There’s way too much Keir Starmer on display – just an endless, exhausting cycle of terrible ideas and screeching U-turns.
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