Don't they love to do this. There was Carney, in the Canadian locker room after the win over Qatar, acting like he had just kicked the winning ball, wearing one of those hideous body-contoured Canada jerseys that look like someone's Magic Bullet blew up while they were making a vanilla shake.
"Sitting alongside Carney, Gianni Infantino was sucked and tucked into a sublimely tailored blue suit, looking like he had brought his kid along to the game," wrote Cathal Kelly.
People like Carney should resist the urge to become one of the boys in the locker room. But he won't. He'll be spending another $50K to go to the next game in Houston. Don't be one of the clusters of politicians launching themselves from a great distance at the bandwagon. Why do politicians devote themselves to this sports thing, instead of figuring out the housing crunch? The latter should be their only focus.
There is something offensive about parliament taking a three-month vacation so members can devote themselves to things like soccer. National problems should be their only job.
But if you're going to get involved in sports, do it with unparalleled panache like the late, great Montreal Mayor Camillien Houde did, when he said, "Tank (his deliberate pronunciation of a fake Quebec accent) you Toronto. I hope you invite me many times to kick off your balls again."
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| The peerless Camillien Houde |
Now, that was a quote! He had many. "Your Majesty, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and Madame Houde thanks you from her bottom too," he said to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their 1939 visit to Montreal.
Carney has neither the brains, nor imagination to utter anything similar.
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