At first I chuckled when I read the comments by Mick McCarthy, the Manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves), a football team in the Barclay's Premier League, on the recent twitter accusation by a Queens Park Ranger's newly acquired bad boy a.k.a Joey Barton, but then again after a while I realized that it makes perfect sense and are indeed wise comments and shouldn't be taken lightly and brushed aside, in fact it is a general statement and valid across the board , in fact quite appropriate for the Malaysian so called experts and analyst in the political and current affairs(including yours truly!) who keep shooting out words without thinking, blinking or evaluating.
His first comment when a reporter asked for his opinion of Joey's tweet was:
"Opinion's are like backsides-we've all got them but it's not always wise to air them in public"
OMG! How true it is. Do you realize that how people in Malaysia especially, voicing out their opinions on certain matters, or people, without even an ounce of knowledge or any inkling on the subject matter?. have you realized that some of them simply jumps on the bandwagon and starts criticizing without even evaluating it? I will give you two great examples, the first, a few years back when they ridiculed the book by Shahnon Ahmad aptly titled..."SHIT!".....the worst part is the majority of the commentators didn't even bother to browse the book....let alone reading it.
The second example is when all quarters start ridiculing and condemning Mat Sabu for his speech or statement or whatsoever you call it...and again....majority of them doesn't even have a clue on what he actually said.....flabbergasted would be a understatement...disgusted...would be close...but still...I can't find a perfect word to explain it....
The second reply from Mick McCarthy was better....he further said...."With grey hair comes a bit of wisdom and with age comes a bit more common sense...."
Spot on Mick, you certainly have class (hey....I am still an ardent Fan of Man Utd...and admirer of sir Alex...)......
How I wish all of us could have the same dignity..and wisdom of Mick....
Adios........ciao..............a.h.baharom.
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