We live in grim times.
Everyone is outraged everyone is so upset and disturbed by the appalling behaviour of everyone else.
You stop someone in the street to ask them for the correct time and the next thing you know, you’re explaining to the police why you tried to steal someone’s wristwatch.
I take a view in all of these instances of distraught being suffered, what prompted the action that was so devastating?
Neil Custis (curiously at a quarter to three in the morning) Tweeted that Louis van Gaal had acted ‘so badly’ in his post FA Cup win press conference.
If you watch the tape, the Dutchman walks into a press room with an atmosphere like a funeral parlour.
If you had been listening to Van Gaal walk in on the radio, you could have been forgiven for thinking that the McCann’s had brought the cup in.
The football press in this country split their time between making things up and trying to ridicule.
David Moyes was portrayed as a clueless oaf. Yet his record at Man Utd was in fact a credible one.
Our boy Villas-Boas was painted as a Chelsea reject. Another complete lie.
Of course Custis has previous with Van Gaal.
Custis was one of sneering hyenas that asked the 64 year old each week if he had been sacked yet.
The fact the the sainted Slur Alex left Manchester United in a condition similar to that of a burnt out car was never factored in by the mob.
A mob with a pack mentality very similar to the lads in the warehouse in the UK version of The Office.
Van Gaal previously referred to Custis as ‘the fat man‘, in a press conference.
Picture a man who looks as if he survives on petrol station mini mart food, cheap lager and Rennies.
Custis is in no position to complain. He earned that jibe. He looks like a Tardis of custard.
Whereas Van Gaal has every right to expect some slight contrition from the press, given that despite their best efforts, he delivered the first piece of post Slur Alex silverware.
