Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))
04-23-2015, 12:10 PM
And if he keeps this up I don't think he will be one for much longer.. :yikes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/cristiano- ronaldo/11557215/Thierry-Henry-attack-on-Javier-Hernandez-wa s-churlish-sour-and-bad-punditry.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/cristiano-ronaldo/11557215/Thierry-Henry-attack-on-Javier-Hernandez-was-churlish-sour-and-bad-punditry.html)
If the reaction of Thierry Henry to Javier Hernandez’s celebrations after scoring the late winning goal that propelled Real Madrid into the Champions League semi-finals is anything to go by then we are sucking the joy out of football.
We are wrapping ourselves so far in the cult of personality that it is suffocating the sport. We are incapable of simply enjoying the moment and letting a good story be told.
Quite what possessed Henry, in his role as a pundit for Sky Sports, to turn on Hernandez was unfathomable. It was churlish and it looked sour – even if he will argue he was trying to make the point that it is the team that matters.
But it added very little to what he is being paid handsomely for: to be an analyst; to provide some worthwhile insight; to enjoy the game.
Henry’s point was that Hernandez should have celebrated his 88th-minute goal with Cristiano Ronaldo, who superbly provided the assist, rather than run off wildly in the opposition direction (even if his momentum evidently turned him that way) to celebrate on his own in front of the Real fans.
But, to be frank, that is some kind of sporting correctness gone mad.
“That’s Ronaldo’s goal,” Henry complained. He said it on more than one occasion. It sounded petulant. “It’s a tap-in,” the former striker added. “Turn around and celebrate with Ronaldo. Even the camera knew – the camera is on Ronaldo for a reason.”
The camera is always on Ronaldo, Thierry. Just as it was always on you. That is because he is Ronaldo, and because you are Thierry Henry.
Ronaldo is one of the two best players in the world and one of the all-time best players, just as Henry is; he is box office and was the star on the pitch in that semi-final against Atletico Madrid, just as he is in every game that he plays.
He is a far better player than Hernandez. He knows that. Hernandez knows that. We all know that.
But it was not Ronaldo’s goal. The spotlight does not always have to be on him. He has scored buckets of them for Real. Henry should have rightly analysed the role Ronaldo played in creating the goal – and the Portuguese can be a fantastic creator of goals and a selfless team player at times – and spoken about that. He should not have turned it into a criticism of Hernandez. It did not have to be negative.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/cristiano- ronaldo/11557215/Thierry-Henry-attack-on-Javier-Hernandez-wa s-churlish-sour-and-bad-punditry.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/cristiano-ronaldo/11557215/Thierry-Henry-attack-on-Javier-Hernandez-was-churlish-sour-and-bad-punditry.html)
If the reaction of Thierry Henry to Javier Hernandez’s celebrations after scoring the late winning goal that propelled Real Madrid into the Champions League semi-finals is anything to go by then we are sucking the joy out of football.
We are wrapping ourselves so far in the cult of personality that it is suffocating the sport. We are incapable of simply enjoying the moment and letting a good story be told.
Quite what possessed Henry, in his role as a pundit for Sky Sports, to turn on Hernandez was unfathomable. It was churlish and it looked sour – even if he will argue he was trying to make the point that it is the team that matters.
But it added very little to what he is being paid handsomely for: to be an analyst; to provide some worthwhile insight; to enjoy the game.
Henry’s point was that Hernandez should have celebrated his 88th-minute goal with Cristiano Ronaldo, who superbly provided the assist, rather than run off wildly in the opposition direction (even if his momentum evidently turned him that way) to celebrate on his own in front of the Real fans.
But, to be frank, that is some kind of sporting correctness gone mad.
“That’s Ronaldo’s goal,” Henry complained. He said it on more than one occasion. It sounded petulant. “It’s a tap-in,” the former striker added. “Turn around and celebrate with Ronaldo. Even the camera knew – the camera is on Ronaldo for a reason.”
The camera is always on Ronaldo, Thierry. Just as it was always on you. That is because he is Ronaldo, and because you are Thierry Henry.
Ronaldo is one of the two best players in the world and one of the all-time best players, just as Henry is; he is box office and was the star on the pitch in that semi-final against Atletico Madrid, just as he is in every game that he plays.
He is a far better player than Hernandez. He knows that. Hernandez knows that. We all know that.
But it was not Ronaldo’s goal. The spotlight does not always have to be on him. He has scored buckets of them for Real. Henry should have rightly analysed the role Ronaldo played in creating the goal – and the Portuguese can be a fantastic creator of goals and a selfless team player at times – and spoken about that. He should not have turned it into a criticism of Hernandez. It did not have to be negative.