Bugger this. Time to deal with the big issues. Is it just me or has there been an explosion of photos of sportsmen in cafes over the last few years?
It seems weird that every Saturday I find myself in a café staring at a photo of an athlete in café. It’s like one of those head wrecking pieces of modern art.
The café seems to be the setting for the “I’m on the straight and narrow now” tale. It’s the setting which shouts out, “Look at me, I’m up early and smashing back a few orange juices and happy to pay $18 for two eggs and two pieces of toast. Don’t worry about these huge sunglasses, they are there for effect not to hide any blood shots eyes!”
Sure enough, Willie Mason was on the front page of The Australian last weekend talking about his move north, just as he was on the Herald talking about his new homebody lifestyle last year.
I genuinely hope the big man has switched to de-café, such is his frequency to be in a café.
But its not just players.
Last season, the Bulldogs turn around apparently all started with coach Kevin Moore meeting the ‘leadership group’ for a few coffees. What?!
This is rugby league. Whatever happened to everything outside training being discussed over a Chinese meal. Bulldog patriarch Peter Moore would have turned in his grave if he knew tactics were being discussed without a spring roll in sight.
Surely it would have been a lot simpler for Brett Kimmorley to explain to Michael Ennis how he wanted him to draw the ‘A’ defender if he could have used the soy sauce bottle and two chop sticks.
But maybe sugar packets do the job these days.
Mark my words, the first interviews with Mark Gasnier, Tim Cahill and Lote Tuqiri when they first get back to Australia will be set in a café, like they haven’t had their fill of them in Europe and are stinging to get back to an RSL and fire up a schooner and a fisherman’s basket.
Is it an attempt to attract more women to sport or are players just a sucker for a Panini?
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February 13th 2010 @ 8:57pm
John said | February 13th 2010 @ 8:57pm | Report comment
No mystery. They are big boys with big appetites.