That august publication The Mirror sent a correspondent, as you would
well expect, to last weekend's dustup between Newcastle and Manchester
City at St James' Park. It is not a newspaper for delicate tastes with
its lurid spreads of teen pop stars and picture specials of reality
television people getting out of taxis without putting their knees
together first, but the football coverage occasionally pleases and, a
little less frequently, also informs.
It was with fleeting interest that my eyes fell to the bottom of the
page devoted to the match in question, where the learned scribe in
question put his mind to awarding marks - out of 10 - for the day's
performers. This is always a scene of carnage and disagreement, where
folks are either one-eyed or "weren't watching the same match as me".
It is done, I imagine, for reader entertainment and to provoke argument
and discussion. Good old-fashioned harmless fun, I was busy thinking to myself, as I perused the inoffensive little numbers.
Sergio Aguero, for his darting, slightly directionless performance
had been awarded a man-of-the-match nine, followed swiftly by compatriot
Carlos Tevez and the little magician David Silva on eight. I had
already subconsciously made the Spaniard my own outstanding performer - I
am a sucker for his eye-catching diagonal passes, unexpected pirouettes
and deft how-did-he-do-that through passes - but was in no mood to quibble anyway. Both the Argentinian dynamos up front had been excellent too, I thought.
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