Who said that ‘One thing we learned about history is that nobody learns from it? I think I saw it in the Godfather? It was in a different scene from ”Keep your friends close but your enemies closer”. Well is that going on at Liverpool where on a night Luis Suarez was nailing PSG in the Champions League his old club were wondering what was going on with their new star player Rasheem Sterling? Well, to me it is suspiciously obvious that his Agents or Advisers were using the same underhanded tactics as the ones who led Suarez into the ‘Biting Gate’ where it was one of the only ways that the tiny Uruguayan could leave Anfield. Gone are the days when people can be straight and honest. Not that clubs were otherwise, but players were pushed about like they were lambs to the slaughter, and then ‘Bingo along came Bosman. But that was far too late for the likes of me and all of those wonderful players of both my day and years prior. We were, by then, all washed up and those clubs we graced had raped us. As for me, I left a home in Southfields behind that is now worth nearly a million pounds all because I had to sell it and move to Stoke-on-Trent, whereas today a player will simply buy another home, some having homes all over the palce, or the ‘world’ more like it. Just look at Frank Lampard, a beautiful home in Chelsea and one, I can only imagine in the plushest area of New York, oh how I envy Frank, if ony for my love for the USA. After giving my all I have a bedsit at the other end of where Frank resides, some of the time, and I was the one who was behind his move more than anyone else.

Anyway, this latest ‘joke’ about Sterling taking laughing gas, something that Suarez migt have used to pull his teeth out, just maybe, or did he need them? I think he needed them to get his move to Barcelona, as it was the only way that he could fly out of Heathrow or John Lennon Airport without those wonderful Scouse supporters calling for more than his high teeth. Now we have Sterling, just a few days after a contract dispute, going into another sphere by being filmed going into space with a team-mate, and if I said suspicious earlier, I better rethink. I mean, who in the right mind would do such a thing? I know that footballers are supposed to be brainless, but this time, I think the Agents and Advisers must take the blame and the FA must do something about the way they advise their clients. The only time I felt like taking laughing gas was when I met Tony Waddington, and then again Jack Daley, when I overlooking Seattle from the Space Needle with the General Mamager on my very first visit. Waddington was the only thing missing in my times ‘Sleepless’ there, and I will take that thought to my grave, which although is a wonderful thought, still something that is in the stars. The stars today are mindboggling ******. I mean, laughing gas, for as I see it when you have a life mapped out for you like they have today, who the hell needs laughing gas?

Now, does this mean Liverpool will get stung twice and lose this player? The worm that I just told you about has turned into the playes favour more than anyone could ever have expected, and it is making the game far too Hollywood, or is it better this way? The only problem I have is that where do the supporters, who spend their hard earned cash traveling to watch these people come into the equation? The answer is that they are being treated like the players of yesteryear, and that is painful, and I for one am still hurting from it, along with a lot of my old playing pals. Who said, ‘That’s Entertainment’? Whoever it was never told the true story, for the entertainers were getting the short straw and now they’re sniffing it, smoking it, but that’s only if there’s no laughing gas….