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RVP controversy: Has Ferguson gone too far?
Alex Ferguson is a master of the post-match interview, but you have to wonder if he has maybe overstepped the mark this time.
The veteran Manchester United manager furiously demanded that the English football authorities take action after his star striker Robin van Persie was hit on the head by a fiercely struck ball when he was lying prone on the pitch during Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Swansea.
“He could have been killed,” raged the Scot in an interview with British match broadcaster Sky Sports.
The subject of Fergie’s ire, Swansea’s Welsh defender Ashley Williams, was booked by the referee along with Van Persie after the Dutchman leapt angrily from the ground to confront his alleged attacker.
Ferguson called for Williams to be banned “for a long time” after committing “the most dangerous thing I've seen on a football field for many years.”
This accusation, from a man both feared and respected by journalists around the world, went unquestioned at the time – but Swansea’s kit man wasn’t having any of it.
Michael Eames took to Twitter after the match and pointed out that Ferguson – who famously hit his own player David Beckham in the face with a boot – should not be throwing stones from inside a glass house.
“Ferguson v Beckham (just a bruise) Cantona v fan (slight overreaction) Keane v Haaland (innocent mistake) Williams v RvP (attempted murder)” he wrote.
Eric Cantona, one of Ferguson’s most influential signings, was banned for nine months for launching a flying karate kick at a Crystal Palace fan after being sent off during a match in 1995.
Then there’s former United captain Roy Keane, who admitted that he purposefully tried to injure Manchester City opponent Alf-Inge Haaland in a match in 2001 as retaliation for comments the Norwegian made about him almost four years previously.
Williams insists that he did not intend to strike the ball at Van Persie’s head, that he was just kicking the ball away in frustration. Because the referee’s whistle had already blown, that in itself was a bookable offense.
United striker Wayne Rooney also played down the incident.
"I think it's one of those things," he said. "The whistle's gone, the defender has gone to clear and it's hit him in the head. I think probably the right decision from the referee."
Williams has copped abuse from angry United fans on Twitter – as has one woman in the U.S. who shares his name.
Ashley Williams, a lawyer who lives in Springfield, Missouri, went to the trouble of posting a split picture of their two faces.
“Yes, the resemblance is uncanny, really,” she wrote.
The incident has already split opinion among CNN readers.
“I think Ferguson's actions were right …If the ball wasn't there, he could have probably ended in the hospital!” wrote Eucamon.
Mark Milligan responded: “VP is a drama queen and so is Fergie.”
What do you think? Was Ferguson’s reaction justified? Or was he just trying to deflect attention from a disappointing result that meant his team was left with a four-point league lead rather than six?
One of Ferguson’s Premier League colleagues believes that the matter will blow over.
"He genuinely felt that, I should think, at the time. You do. If one of your players gets hurt or you think he was in danger, you are going to protect him,” said Alan Pardew, whose Newcastle team travel to United's Old Trafford on Wednesday.
"I think the one with Van Persie was perhaps not as bad as Alex at first imagined. Sometimes from the sideline, it looks a lot worse at the time.”
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Ronaldo inspires Real Madrid to rout at Valencia
CNN) -- If rumors that Cristiano Ronaldo might be dropped for Real Madrid's trip to Valencia were a ploy from coach Jose Mourinho to inspire his fellow Portuguese to greater heights, it was an unquestionable success.
The two were reported to have had a frank exchange of views after Real's midweek win over Valencia in the Spanish Cup, leading to stories that Ronaldo would be asked to sit on the substitutes bench.
But he wasn't. He started and demonstrated why he is lauded as one of the world's best players by helping himself to two goals and an assist as Real won 5-0 to claw back a little ground on runaway leaders Barcelona.
The damage was done in the first half, as Real raced into a five-goal lead inside the opening 45 minutes.
Argentina international Gonzalo Higuain opened the scoring on nine minutes as he polished off a swift Real counter attack from fellow countryman Angel Di Maria's cutback.
Valencia goalkeeper Diego Alves had to save twice from Germany midfielder Sami Khedira before Ronaldo made headway down the left and crossed for Di Maria to tap into an empty net.
A minute later it was 3-0 as Mesut Ozil released Ronaldo and he fired home at the near post to effectively end the contest.
Ronaldo grabbed his second and Real's fourth on 41 minutes when he again finished off a pass from Ozil and the German playmaker was the provider on the stroke of halftime as he sent Di Maria away to grab his second.
Valencia improved after the break and tested Real goalkeeper Iker Casillas -- recently dropped by Mourinho -- several times but Real held firm.
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Martin Luther King's dream is alive
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would hardly recognize America in 2013, the 50th anniversary year of his world-famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
The efforts of King and countless others have not only made it possible for Barack Obama to become the first black president of the United States, but also created unprecedented opportunities for the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and virtually anyone who had previously been given a check that has, as King put it, "come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
I personally cannot think of MLK Day without reflecting on my life as a product of post-civil rights America: I was conceived on the coattails of that movement to a single mother, absent father, horrific poverty, and despair and fear I would not wish upon anyone.
Yet here I am, a direct beneficiary of King's legacy. I do not take the opportunities given to me lightly. Especially since my mother, born in South Carolina in the Jim Crow-era, has sickening memories of the racial oppression back in those days. Her family had no electricity, no indoor running water and no television.
The day that King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, my mother turned 20. "We knew there was colored folks marching in Washington," my mother told me. "We just did not know what for exactly."
The what for had everything to do with democracy, freedom, voting and citizenship rights, for a group longed blocked from the doors of the American dream. It means the only way we could ever come to "a beautiful symphony of brotherhood" that King spoke of is for each of us, no matter our background, to honor and recognize who we are, including very uncomfortable parts of our history, like slavery, which was depicted in recent films like Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" and Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained." We cannot sit at the table of diversity and multiculturalism if we are not even clear what we are bringing to share.
In King's speeches and writings in the last years of his life, he wanted people, including black people, to embrace and appreciate their culture and heritage. But it was never an either or for him. King worked for and loved Black America, and he worked for and loved America.
From 1963 to the present, the United States has changed dramatically. When I attended integrated schools, I remember sitting elbow to elbow with children of different races, something my mother could not have fathomed in her childhood dominated by "Whites Only" and "Coloreds Only" signs everywhere.
But the work is far from over.
I think King would be saddened that the poverty and economic disparities he fought against at the end of his life are still here. He would be outraged by the kind of racism that routinely profiles young black and Latino males and fills our nation's prison system with black and brown bodies.
He would be awestruck and angered by the visionless black leadership that has come to dominate black communities nationwide, more concerned with media moments and money than solutions. He would wonder how black culture has deteriorated from Harry Belafonte, Motown and Nina Simone to Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, and reality TV shows that present utterly destructive black images.
I think he would be disheartened by the numerous wars that have occurred since Vietnam and by the fact that more than one million Americans have died by gun violence since he himself was shot and murdered in Memphis on April 4, 1968. And moreover, he would be very outspoken about how some Americans treat immigrants, and our inability to see their plights as great civil rights issues of our time.
But, King would smile broadly, in that way he did, as we witnessed the stunning rainbow coalition of Americans who voted Barack Obama into office in 2008, as a direct extension of King's prophetic dream.
Despite the historical significance of electing Barack Obama into the Oval Office twice, and the great victories we accomplished together as a nation in the past 50 years, King would urge us to continue his work since a lot more needs to be done.
The harsh reality is that Martin Luther King Jr. is never coming back. We have a federal holiday dedicated to him, we have the moral authority of his spoken and written words, and we have his mighty spirit hovering over our nation like an uninterrupted sheet of light. But I sincerely believe that if we are going to live up to the extraordinary vision of King, then we must open our hearts more to each other, as sisters and brothers, as part of the human family.
We know, as he knew, that love must be a living and breathing thing. In celebration of his legacy, let's keep in mind that service to others must become as natural to us as breathing, for the good of America and for the good of all of us.
Kevin Powell
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Please Take Me Deep
Please take me deep, melt me in love's crucible, pour my seed white hot and molten inside you, mold me to the shape that brings you pleasure, a perfect instrument to play sweet music of desire, so rich and pure the heavens shake and angels cry Please take me deep into your loving heart till fire flows through your gently trembling loins to wake your aching body to my lusty lover's call and fill your dreams with visions of carnal delights raised high to rival the celestial dance of eternity Please take me deep and never let go of me kiss me hard, and part my hungry lips with your tongue press your firm proud breasts to my face and suckle me grab hold of my hair, and guide my mouth down you to drink my fill from you till I am drunk with the divine
W. I. Boucher January 31, 2000
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I Want To Love You With Every Piece Of This Body
I want to love you with every piece of this body: I want these strong and simple hands to divine each delicate sound inside of you; I want these faithful legs to gallop at midnight through the sleeping orchards of your heart; I want these eyes, these singing eyes that have survived the brutal clocks, the days lost in daily space, to blossom in some high bed of human heaven; I want these feet that never sleep to wander in the deepest part of you, like ghosts unchained, ecstatic in this desert sea; I want this blood, this red tenderness, to be your blanket; I want this brown and peasant face to race through solitude and rock, until with you at last The Book of Moon is read; I want this tongue, that like some acrobat insane tumbles toward you with what little words I have, to sip some virgin secret that you hold; I want this heart, in time both infinite and now, to know the reason for the light in you that lifts me.
James Tipton
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