Rival Watch: Michail Antonio Expected to Play on Saturday

The Cockney Kevin Großkreutz was taken off early in the second
half against Man City.

The games, they come quick. Liverpool FC play again on Saturday
and as they sweat on news about Joël Matip’s availability, their
opponents West Ham United have had a injury boost of their own.
Taken off shortly in the early stages of their 1-1 draw with
Manchester City, there were initial fears that Antonio
would be out for quite some time with (what else) a hamstring
issue.

However, according to The Athletic’s West Ham United
correspondent Roshane Thomas (on the U Irons Podcast), that initial fear has
subsided, and he now thinks that “he should be fine for Liverpool

With 3 goals in 6 games, the wing-back-turned-winger-now-striker
has been an integral piece of David Moyes’ side that has
experienced an resurgence since Project Restart. His relentless
workrate, and improved efficiency in front of goal will be key for
an organised West Ham team that’ll look to sit back and pick its
battles.

Perhaps all we can do is take a page from our goalkeeper, and
pray that Rhys Williams or whoever else is playing besides Joe Gomez can get a grip on this guy at Anfield
this weekend.

The legal profession has once again scooped the top prize for
the most arrogant profession for the 78^th year running,
beating even policemen and witches, According to
postamate reports^[1]

In the annual awards for the most arrogant professionals,
lawyers and their kind took all the possible awards, beating the
politicians who came a distant second. To put things into
perspective, the legal professionals were found to be six times
more arrogant than policemen and 42 times more arrogant than the
matatu (transport) industry in Kenya.

While the results were expected, it is a situation that
continues to baffle many normal people who just love minding their
own business. “How can people be so arrogant when they neither
understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics nor understand the Germ
theory of diseases?” Wondered one small scale farmer who is not
into politics and institutionalized gossip. “Doesn’t it even bother
them that someone wearing a horse wig on the head should not speak
too loudly when our grandmothers with their hand knit caps are
around?”

Unmoved by Covid-19

Not even the fact that majority of them still use Windows
XP^[2] could
help tame their arrogance.

Even with Covid-19 which led to closure of courts rendering many
lawyers irrelevant, many continued to maintain their arrogant tone
and looking down on other lesser professionals, in spite of the
fact that lawyers could barely put food in their mouth.

“They continued to speak fluent arrogance even when the law
societies were frantically trying to scramble for coins to help
them pay their rent. In Kenya, poor relatives in the village were
also sustaining them by sending them maize and beans, but the
lawyers in their impeccable suits continued to boast of their
mastery of the queen’s language on social media.”

Experts opine that this is a problem that is likely to last for
many years as it seems to be rooted in their DNA.

It is not limited to practising professionals only. Even law
students continue to regard themselves as better than all other
comrades, with reports that some of them consider themselves more
important to the learning institutions than Music Professors.

The same award awaits them next year.