Say What You See!

There was an OK thriller at the pictures a couple of years ago called "Vantage Point" about a public assassination viewed from the perspectives of several different characters. Each of them added a little more to the story, and each of the characters perception was coloured by their outlook.



You don't have to watch the film, and anyway, Matthew Fox was the baddie, so now I've ruined it for you even if you were considering popping down to Blockbuster.


You particularly don't need to rent this movie if you happened to be at Holker Street last Saturday, as a real, live version of "Vantage Point" was unfolding. The incident, as we all know, was JJ's tussle with Barrow striker Gregg Blundell which resulted in Blundell colliding with a wall and requiring hospital treatment. The same kind of wall that surrounds the Rocky Road pitch, which we were told to screen off with angled hoardings - I wonder why Barrow haven't been advised to do the same?



On the day, most Barrow fans saw JJ deliberately push their player into the wall. The Barrow Manager Dave Bayliss saw the incident as nothing less than attempted murder, and literally took the law into his own hands. Poppies supporters and officials saw the challenge as being a robust shoulder-to-shoulder clash. JJ himself feels hard done by that he was even booked! It seems that Blundell is on the mend, which is the important thing.



The confrontational, and adversarial nature of football means that we all see things differently.

For example, we Poppies fans saw the clash between Michael Wanking and John Dempster the other week, as a vicious elbow swung by the talentless York carthorse, whereas, I'm sure, the York fans merely saw their talentless carthorse getting away with swinging a vicious elbow......OK, bad example, but you know what I mean.