BRENT A GOB: This week, Harry Brent’s taking swipes at Manchester City ace Rayan Cherki and Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis over their behaviour
Is anyone else getting fed up with Rayan Cherki?
He’s got this nauseating, Richard Keys-esque blend of unearned arrogance and performative vanity. For a fella who’s managed just four league goals all season, that’s pathetic – Liam-Delap-at-Chelsea levels of pathetic.
That static, stone-faced goal celebration against Arsenal on Sunday was the most self-indulgent pile of pretentious tripe since Eni Aluko last looked in a mirror. Then there were the keepie-uppies in the League Cup final – a display of peacocking so petulant it even rattled Pep Guardiola. The guy clearly thinks more of himself than Mikel Arteta does of corners.
Take Erling’s advice, Rayan, and stay humble… not that you have any idea what that word means.
Gen Z-ero logic
Don’t get me wrong, modern football can sometimes be harder to look at than Sam Allardyce in latex. But that doesn’t mean we should pull a Todd Boehly and butcher something that works perfectly fine, then insist it’s “progress”.
Last week, Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis called for football to switch to 25-minute halves – all because the “younger generation” have the attention span of Trent Alexander-Arnold trying to mark someone.
Sorry, Aurelio, but that’s the daftest footballing idea since someone decided Jamie O’Hara should be paid to be a pundit. If Gen Z fans can’t sit through 90 minutes of football – if they’re as allergic to focus as Cristiano Ronaldo is to passing to his team-mates – then that’s their problem.
Sky Sports discounted Premier League and EFL package
Sky has slashed the price of its Essential TV and Sky Sports bundle ahead of the 2025/26 season, saving members £192 and offering more than 1,400 live matches across the Premier League, EFL and more.
Sky will show at least 215 live Premier League games next season, an increase of up to 100 more.
Why should the sport bend over backwards for the people who don’t even like it? What’s next, mid-match bingo breaks to lure in the pensioners? Half time hummus tastings for the Waitrose mums?
This obsession with pandering to uninterested, entitled, TikTok-brained youngsters is as counterproductive as Chelsea’s goalkeeping recruitment.
Football isn’t supposed to be bite-sized. Nor is it “content” that needs a rebrand. It’s a 160-year-old cultural juggernaut that, like Roy Keane on holiday, needs to be left the f*** alone.